The ADL gives Jews a bad name
By Brian Camenker
The recent outrage against the Anti-Defamation League may be the beginning of a lot more. This time they offended a group – the Armenian community – that isn’t intimidated by their wealth and power. Others may take notice.
Formally recognizing the Armenian genocide of 1915 posed a political problem for the ADL, so they chose to ignore it. It was an interesting dance for an organization that sells itself as a defender of human rights. The Armenian community finally got very angry and vocal, and forced the town of Watertown to boot the ADL out. After much waffling, the ADL was forced to back down. But it wasn’t about principle. It was shameful political calculus.
At the center of things is the ADL’s local “No Place For Hate” program, started in 1999 and now in dozens of towns across Massachusetts. It’s a brilliant scheme. The ADL and local liberals persuade a town that it needs to be “certified” to be hate-free by bringing the ADL’s anti-hate programs, particularly in the schools, and posting the ADL’s slogans and logo.
To many citizens, it’s quite insulting that an outside group determines that their community is (unbeknownst to its residents) such incubators of bigotry and hatred that they and their children need special training. It becomes laughable in towns like Newton.
But what’s really offensive is that what’s being marketed as “anti-hate” is actually a radical left-wing agenda: a saturation of anti-traditional values – militantly pro-homosexual, and fiercely anti-Christian – with a heavy dose of intimidation against anyone who disagrees.
School students sit through endless ADL diversity assemblies that drone on, pushing all the propaganda. Most kids find it boring, actually. Parents simply endure it.
Even more obnoxious is that the program’s local web of committees serves as yet another springboard for left-wing political activism (usually against local conservatives).
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Also See:
Senator Jack B. Tenney’s Disturbing ADL Report
