The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163483   Message #3902708
Posted By: Steve Shaw
29-Jan-18 - 07:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Trump Station in Old Jerusalem
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Station in Old Jerusalem
ADL has, for many decades, obsessively collected mountains of information about any individual it sees as a threat, and that amounts to thousands of individuals. I wonder why. They bestowed great honour on Silvio Berlusconi, ignoring his totally corrupt character because he is such a stalwart friend of the Israeli state. Wow. Their claim that BDS has the aim of dismantling the state of Israel is utterly without foundation. To put it another way, Joe, it's a damned lie. But this is what they do. They pounce on any criticism of the actions or policies of the Israeli regime and, more or less automatically, condemn it as antisemitic. So yes, it is a highly disreputable organisation. That is not to say that they haven't done some good work to promote the cause of Jewish people, but they have routinely tarnished themselves as described. Even Mussolini made the bloody trains run on time.

Wiki: In 1989, the linguist and left-wing commentator and activist Noam Chomsky characterized the ADL as having lost entirely its focus on civil rights issues in order to become solely an advocate for Israeli policy; he held that the ADL cast all left-wing opposition to Israeli interests as antisemitism.

Wanna deny that?

Norman Finkelstein claims that organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League have brought forward charges of new anti-Semitism at various intervals since the 1970s, "not to fight antisemitism, but rather to exploit the historical suffering of Jews in order to immunize Israel against criticism".The Washington Post has noted that the ADL has repeatedly accused Finkelstein of being a "Holocaust denier", and that "these charges have proved baseless".

Just read their stuff!