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ADL Can’t Hide its Historical Racism

Blacks in America are well aware of the abuse and destruction perpetrated against Black freedom fighters Rev. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. The infamous Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), which Hoover ran for the United States government, carried out the illegal surveillance, harassment, sabotage, and even the murder of many Black leaders.[1] Less known is that private organizations participated in and carried out many of these actions for their own purposes—some while posing as friends of Black people.

[Note: Read the 17-page report by THE MAPPING PROJECT, “Dismantle the ADL: The Anti-Defamation League’s record of racist counterinsurgency and espionage”]

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is one of those private agencies that have targeted Black leaders and organizations while actively and publicly claiming—and with great success—that they are allies in the Black struggle.[2] Their motive is to keep Blacks in their place—economically dependent—and to stifle criticism of the rogue state of Israel at any cost. Through a vile strategy of economic intimidation, political pressure, and character assassination, the ADL keeps billions of American tax dollars supporting the genocidal Israeli regime that reminded 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu of “so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa.”[3]

Since their founding in 1913, a succession of their leaders engage in the spewing of misinformation targeting Black leadership, issued in the form of ADL “fact-finding reports,” which the sycophantic media dutifully regurgitate as literal truth. They specialize in the incessant application of the charge of “anti-Semitism,” which, through mass repetition, lost its original meaning of “one who hates Jews,” to become anyone (like Bishop Tutu) who criticizes Israel.

Here is a summary of the ADL’s chilling underworld résumé:

  • In 1913, the father of the ADL, Leo Frank, raped and murdered a Gentile child and then blamed the murder on two Black men.
  • In 1942, the ADL coordinated an attack on the Nation of Islam temple in Chicago where government agents arrested 80 Muslims.
  • In 1979, the ADL pressured Pres. Jimmy Carter to fire United Nations ambassador Andrew Young when he protested the one-sided U.S. policy that was biased against the Palestinians.
  • In 1983, the ADL launched a racist attack on Black presidential candidate Jesse Jackson when he pledged that his Middle East policy would be fair and balanced, with consideration of the plight of the Palestinians.
  • In 1984, the ADL, under Abraham Foxman, began a concerted campaign of slander and destruction on the Nation of Islam and The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan that continues to this very day.
  • In 1992, the ADL vigorously opposed the election of Nelson Mandela to the presidency of South Africa. They openly supported a man who was funded by the white apartheid government to undermine Mandela’s organization.
  • In 1993, the ADL was indicted for spying on 12,000 individuals and organizations and sharing their illegally obtained information with the white apartheid South African and Israeli intelligence agencies. The groups included the NAACP, the Mandela Welcoming Committee, the Rainbow Coalition, and anti-apartheid South African groups, as well as Black American citizens like Rep. Ron Dellums, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the Nation of Islam and Min. Louis Farrakhan.
  • In 1995, the ADL tried to disrupt and destroy the Million Man March, which was organized by The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam and attended by two million Black men. They portrayed Black men as too ignorant to decide their own leadership without the ADL’s assistance.
  • The ADL accused movie director Spike Lee and entertainer Michael Jackson of being “anti-Semites,” claiming that they portrayed Jews in unfavorable ways, even as Hollywood blatantly and routinely portrays Blacks as criminals and whores without an intra-tribal peep from the ADL.
  • The ADL has quietly attacked affirmative action for Blacks in many legal cases in America. In the early 1970s, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund began filing lawsuits challenging the racist hiring and promotion practices of many American institutions. The ADL filed briefs opposing the NAACP—which shocked the NAACP legal teams. In cases concerning school admission, inclusion programs for minority businesses, and job promotion quotas—all designed to correct obvious historical racial discrimination—the NAACP soon realized that the ADL was one of the “most vociferous opponents of affirmative action.” The ADL in court documents even likened affirmative action to the laws of Hitler’s Third Reich![4]

According to Jewish writer Lenni Brenner, “the ADL has been a fanatic opponent of Black liberation.” They are almost entirely focused on attacking authentic Black leaders, while buying off (euphemistically called “forming alliances” with) others. From their privileged lily-white vantage point in their Manhattan offices they vociferously attack respected members of the Black community, calling them “black extremists,” “haters,” “anti-Semites,” and worse. The ADL is appropriately based in New York, given that the first Black slaves in New York were brought in by Jewish slave traders.

For Blacks to believe that the ADL, a relentless stone wall of opposition to Black progress, “builds bridges of unity” between races, they would have to ignore all of the ADL’s sordid Hoover-esque history—and not a single self-respecting Black person ever would.

 

[1] See for example Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret War Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (Boston: South End Press, 1988); Tyrone Powers, Eyes to My Soul: The Rise or Decline of a Black FBI Agent (Dover, MA: The Majority Press, 1996).

[2] “Spy Net for Jewish Group Probed,” Los Angeles Times, February 26, 1993, 17; Bill Hughes, “Is the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith Spying on You?” Baltimore Sentinel, September 1993; Tony Martin, The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront (Dover, MA: The Majority Press, 1993), 46-48.

[3] Desmond Tutu, “Apartheid in the Holy Land,” The Guardian, April 28, 2002, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/29/comment. Bishop Tutu continued:

“I have seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about….My heart aches. I say why are our memories so short. Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon? Have they turned their backs on their profound and noble religious traditions? Have they forgotten that God cares deeply about the downtrodden?”

[4] Jonathan Kaufman, Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America (1988; reprint, New York: Touchstone, 1995), 117-18, 222; “National Director: Nathan Perlmutter,” ADL Bulletin, December 1978; and Jeffrey Sinensky, “The Supreme Court and Racial Quotas,” ADL Bulletin, November 1979.