Posted on 07/20/2015 1:05:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Over 28 years as head of the Anti-Defamation League, Abe Foxman emerged as a forceful torchbearer for American Jews. He counseled presidents and diplomats, CEOs and celebrities. He took on prominent figures over anti-Semitic remarks or representations—actor Mel Gibson among them—and accepted any ensuing apologies on behalf of an entire community. No other U.S. Jewish leader has wielded as much influence with policymakers, faith leaders and U.S. Jews.
On Monday, Foxman retires as national director, a major moment of transition in American Jewish life that raises questions about the future of the organization known as the ADL. […]
The ADL was founded in 1913 with a mandate to fight anti-Semitism and all bias. But the emphasis differed over time depending on who was in charge and the issues of the day.
Foxman has faced criticism that the ADL puts too many resources into non-Jewish issues. Under him, the organization built a formidable research arm into white supremacists and other extremists, advocated for immigrant and gay rights, conducted diversity training for law enforcement and developed programs for schools on issues ranging from the Holocaust to the 1964 Civil Rights Act to the impact of bullying.
And though Foxman opposed a planned mosque near ground zero in New York, his organization formed an interfaith coalition to defend mosque construction elsewhere in the U.S. …
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Maybe something good can come of this. Maybe that org will actually stop ignoring the anti-semitism of the left
but probably not
Good riddance!
As a Jew, it’s bothered me to be unable to donate to most Jewish charities, especially B’nai Brith, due to the ADL’s radical leftist politics, as well as their rabid anti-gun stances.
Maybe they’ll start to change.
Mark
Ouch! That’s going to leave a mark...
Foxman has faced criticism that the ADL puts too many resources into non-Jewish issues. Under him, the organization built a formidable research arm into white supremacists and other extremists, advocated for immigrant and gay rights, conducted diversity training for law enforcement and developed programs for schools on issues ranging from the Holocaust to the 1964 Civil Rights Act to the impact of bullying. And though Foxman opposed a planned mosque near ground zero in New York, his organization formed an interfaith coalition to defend mosque construction elsewhere in the U.S.Foxman turned the ADL into just another propaganda arm for the Demagogic Party. Now that Iran has Obama's imprimatur on its nuclear weapons and ICBM programs, Foxman's work is done.
The ADL became a liberal hit group... Shame on them.
No. Foxman’s replacement worked for Soros.
Well, there went that idea
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Given the hostility of the Obama administration toward Israel, it's interesting to see a member of the administration appointed to this post. As to whether the ADL confines itself to combatting antisemitism, it's job, or continues to wander off into topics like gay rights, immigration and gun control we'll have to see
It's about time! To the vast majority of Jewish conservatives, he has been pretty much irrelevant - or worse - for decades. I can sympathize with his plight as a Holocaust survivor as a youngster, but his work at ADL all too often had more to do with playing leftist politics rather than benefiting the Jewish people as a whole and the state of Israel. How fitting for Foxman that his last "blaze of glory" for the ADL would be getting involved in the recent SCOTUS "gay marriage" case on the side of the "gay" plaintiff.
No change for the ADL. The new ADL head comes from the Obama White House.
ADL useless, no help in discrimination defense. Makes a lot of noise, sometimes good - but when it comes to actually helping an injured person, forget it. IMHO a new organization is desperately needed (or maybe ADL can be repaired under new leadership now that there’s finally a vacsncy??). Dear ADL- publicity and press releases are fine, but if you aren’t going to help when actual discrimination occurs, please get out of the way so another organization can step up and do it)
As a Jew, he certainly didn’t speak for me.
Not exactly shocking, but depressing nonetheless. Seems as if the ADL wants to compete against J Street for the dishonor of being the furthest left Jewish organization in the U. S., despite the fact that last week the ADL said it had some "concerns" about the Obama administration's Iran deal.
It wouldn't be surprising if the two of them merge at some point.
I don't know where this "mandate" purportedly came from, but the founding of the ADL in 1913 was no historical accident. That was the year of the infamous Leo Frank case, probably the ugliest incident of anti-Semitism ever in the US, at least up to that time.
Frank was a Jewish pencil factory manager in Atlanta, who was, in a mass anti-Semitic local frenzy, wrongfully convicted by a jury of murdering a thirteen year old girl who worked there. Frank was sentenced to death; his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the Georgia governor, who was run out of the state by mobs. Eventually, a rabid anti-Semitic mob captured Frank from his state prison cell and lynched him. (He is believed to be the only Jew ever lynched in the US.) Many years later, the black janitor at the factory who had testified against Frank at the trial, when close to death, confessed to the murder of the girl. Unfortunately, it was much too late for the state of Georgia to right the injustice to Frank, but he was given a formal posthumous pardon.
That's obvious to anyone except leftist Jews like Foxman.
Same here. But the leftist MSM gave Foxman the exalted status as a spokesman for the American Jewish community that he in no way deserved.
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