Posted on 08/27/2007 6:07:17 AM PDT by Dan Calabrese
The Anti-Defamation League did its part to right a historical wrong this week. But was it too little, too late?
The ADL, probably the most influential group representing the Jewish community in the United States, announced in mid-August that its position is now to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. This comes as a reversal of the organization’s previous position, which was to take no position, and to argue that the question is best left to historians, not to Congress. It's yet another case of events from many decades ago having a profound effect on the debates of today.
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No it’s not enough. He should apologize to that kid he fired last week for calling it what it was—genocide.
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There was no vote in the American Jewish community to elect the ADL or Abe Foxman as its spokesperson. The problem is that the ADL under Foxman has gone off the deep end too many times, yet the MSM persists in placing them at the center of the Jewish universe in the US.
The fact is that the ADL has outlived the its usefulness as an organization whose original purpose was as its name implies: to counteract antisemitism in the US and around the world.
Contrary to the opinion of the writer of the posted article, Foxman is no centrist who sometimes comes down on the left side of an issue and sometimes the right. He is clearly on the left side of the political spectrum almost all the time. In pursuit of his agenda, he all too frequently causes or contributes to needless and counterproductive friction between the Jewish and conservative Christian communities.
IMO, the ADL would gain credence if they start investigating Hillary Clinton and other Liberals who are truly antisemitic.
In short, the man is an idiot..
That is precisely the reason they do it.
The ADL has always been liberal and was often engaged in very public opposition to anti-Communist groups (back when anti-Communism unfortunately often went hand-in-glove with anti-Semitism). But it's definitely jumped clear off the cliff with Foxman, whose loud forays into domestic issues with no Jewish connection whatsoever make the former leaders of the ADL seem like absolute moderates in comparison (though of course, "liberalism" back then didn't mean all the things it does today).
The writer is wrong on one issue. Foxman was wrong about The Passion. Yes, Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite. But Foxman predicted that there would be literal anti-Jewish violence in the country if it was shown. It was and there wasn't, and so far as I know he has yet to apologize for this idiocy. Gibson's own ravings have provided him cover.
The true and legitimate rulers of the `Am Yisra'el are the Torah Sages. The entire secular ABC-communal organizational structure of the American Jewish community is a gigantic imposture.
However, not all secular Jewish organizations in the US should be lumped into the same category as Foxman's ADL.
My point was simply that only the Gedolim are the authentic leaders of Israel.
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