ADL uses Farrakhan to raise funds: Past president admits anti-Blackism makes $
“The ADL, like the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, has built its financial appeal to Jews on its ability to portray the Jewish people as surrounded by enemies who are on the verge of launching threatening anti-Semitic campaigns. It has a professional stake in exaggerating the dangers, and sometimes allows existing racial or political prejudices in the Jewish world to influence how it will portray the potential dangers.”
This is Michael Lerner’s description of the deceitfully racist Anti Defamation League (ADL) in a newly released book feebly co-authored by Cornel West entitled Jews and Blacks: Let the healing begin. Lerner is not the first Jew to accuse the ADL of Black-baiting for money.
Former ADL directors have made similar charges. In its own publication, “Not the Work of a Day”: ADL of B’nai B’rith Oral Memoirs, Vol. 1, former ADL director Nathan Perlmutter reminisces:
“A few weeks ago I had an expose [sic] on Jesse Jackson. Quite, by coincidence, I wasn’t aware of it, we had one of those mass mailings going out for fund raising. It was one of those mailings to lists that were not our usual givers. The fund raising people tell me that in the several weeks following these were small gifts, $20.00, $100.00, but there were many of them we never had the response to a mailing that we had in our July, 1984 mailing.
“Why? I think there are several reasons. Probably, one that is far from being the last reason, is that in the last several weeks on matters that count to Jews, Jesse Jackson, Mr. Farrakhan, and the Democratic Party’s unresponsiveness, we were seen and heard from….I believe that one of the strongest things Jews have going for them is the anti-Semitic notion of Jewish power. It is the image of Jewish power that is, in fact, our strength not the reality of Jewish power…. Why is Jerry Falwell symbolically the devil, but not Jesse Jackson? Because we really have a greater animus against religion, re Falwell, than we do against blacks who by definition are underdogs. In this kind of racist thinking who will be forgiven or who will be blamed is determined by race. Jesse Jackson gets away with rhetorical murder.”
ADL Minstrel Show
Black female fundraiser at the New York office of the Anti Defamation League (ADL) witnessed a minstrel show at the ADL Fashion Accessories Torch of Liberty ceremonies in November of 1992. Cheryl Hamilton told the Amsterdam News that she was “shocked” when “blue-eyed teenagers were suddenly transformed into Black-faced modern minstrels. Then to add insult to injury, they passed out white gloves to members of the audience.”
The minstrel show was popularized by Jewish performers who mocked Black people by wearing black shoe polish on their faces to the enjoyment of their Jewish audiences. Hamilton, who has been employed as a temporary worker at the ADL reports hearing all sorts of racist remarks and innuendos from the White employees and supervisors, according to the report. She first reported the story to the New York Post which, after consultations with the ADL, squashed the story. Hamilton was unafraid of the consequences of making the story public. “I believe in speaking my mind and doing the right thing.”
Editors’ Note: Learn more about the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) by reading the Nation of Islam’s 2023 lawsuit.
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