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
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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.
As a Jew, he certainly didn’t speak for me.
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.
At one time Foxman was a good leader and fighter of anti-Semitism, but over time, he lost sight of who the real enemy was and blindly turned on patriotic Americans.
If he had left 15 years ago, he would have had a great legacy attached to his name. As it is now, it is only fair-to-good.
Re Jesse Jackson. The SOB had a KGB operative on his staff from the late 60’s and never got rid of him. In fact, Jack O’Dell was one of Jackson’s key foreign affairs advisors and contact with the old Assad regime in Syria, among other Moslem/leftist organizations.
O’Dell was the one who kept Jackson on the Marxist-left of politics and involved in pro-PLO affairs/fronts (Palestine Human Rights Campaign, and the united Marxist-Arabist “Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee”).
Sometimes Foxman got “out-foxed” by the left.
Pretty sure “The Who” had a song about this.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.....
I for one, won’t be fooled again.