Like so many other once revered institutions, the ADL has been taken over by progressives and has strayed from its original mission.
Professor Jacobson is quoted in this article from the New York Post:
Inside the fight for ADL, which some Jewish critics call a tool of DemocratsThe Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt has incited a considerable amount of heat — and hate — during his eight-year tenure as director of the Jewish lobbying group.And some of that hate is coming from an unexpected place: within the Jewish community.“The ADL has raised tens of millions by talking about anti-Semitism and how they’re focused on anti-Semitism,” Gerald Posner told The Post. “But in the last seven years, they’ve actually taken on a number of issues that are unrelated to their core mission — racism, Dreamers, criminal justice reform and more, all of which are all the same talking points of the most left and progressive wing of the Democratic Party.”Posner and his wife Patricia, both Jewish writer/journalists based in Miami Beach, have become so disillusioned with the current iteration of the ADL that they recently decided to form their own pro-Jewish organization.Called Antisemitism Watch, the Posners say their organization is non-partisan — unlike the ADL, which they feel has become indistinguishable from Democratic Party talking points.Critics have blasted Greenblatt — a one-time aide to President Obama who earned $575,716 in 2021 — for having what they claim is a zealous conservative-crushing and Democratic Party-loving agenda rather than focusing just on pro-Jewish issues.“No More ADL. When it comes to Jews, the organization now does more harm than good,” blared a headline in the Jewish online magazine The Tablet last fall…Last year, the ADL said it was “reviewing” its education content after a Fox News investigation found concepts from CRT as well as far-left ideas within ADL’s education wing. William Jacobson, founder of the conservative site Legal Insurrection, said the ADL’s lesson plans “reflect how ADL has lost its way.”An ADL spokesman denied that the organization was teaching CRT but added, “that said, we are far from perfect and clearly there is content among our curricular materials that is misaligned with ADL’s values and strategy. We intend to address this issue immediately and openly.”
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