ADL head warns: U.S. at risk of ‘normalizing’ antisemitism

Greenblatt blames Trump, of course, while ignoring the open and violent Jew-hatred coming from the left. The ADL did good work once upon a time, fifty years ago. But its mission has morphed. Instead of protecting the Jewish people, they have aligned with the jihad force and have used their considerable influence and resources to go after proud Jews and Zionists (including me), while giving vicious Muslim antisemites sanction and cover. The ADL had a hand in norming Jew-hatred — attacking proud Jews and standing with anti-Semites. They cant wash the sins from their hands with platitudes now. For ignoring leftist Jew-hatred and even working in tandem with those who propagate it, Greenblatt, if there were any proud Jews left in the ADL. should be made to resign in disgrace. But he won’t be.

“ADL head warns: U.S. at risk of ‘normalizing’ antisemitism,” by Michael Wilner, Jerusalem Post, October 29, 2018 (thanks to Mark):

WASHINGTON – The head of the Anti-Defamation League is sounding an alarm that antisemitism has become normalized in America’s political discourse, following an historic massacre of Jews in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday.

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Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Jonathan Greenblatt, national director of the ADL, said that antisemitic dog whistles long held at the fringes of American political life have entered the mainstream at little cost.

“I worry that antisemitism has become normalized – literally. That too many people roll their eyes when certain politicians evoke George Soros – ‘the Jewish financier George Soros, or the Jewish financier Sheldon Adelson,’” Greenblatt said. “They just shake their head at it and dismiss it.”

On television programs and in the press, Greenblatt has provided guidance to a nation non-conversant in a growing crisis of antisemitism, tracked by his organization’s annual reports. That crisis hit an inflection point on Saturday as a 46 year-old man entered a synagogue yelling antisemitic epithets, shooting and killing 11 worshipers and wounding several others.

“We’re in an environment where a term like ‘globalists’ has moved from the corners of the internet to the Cabinet Room of the West Wing,” Greenblatt said, referring to a term used in antisemitic conspiracies claiming that Jews control various levers of world power.

“We can demand that leaders lead,” Greenblatt said. “We can demand that they do better.”

Each year, the ADL tracks incidents of vandalism, harassment and assaults documented by law enforcement, in media accounts and directly by victims themselves. In 2017, the organization found that assaults decreased from the prior years but that acts of vandalism and harassment spiked.

In total, the organization identified a 34% increase in incidents from 2015 to 2016 – and an increase in 2017 of 57% from the prior year. That amounts to the largest single-year increase since the organization began tracking incidents in 1979, and an explosive short-term trend.

Incidents were trending downward until the exceptionally divisive election year of 2016, when Donald Trump successfully campaigned for the presidency, the data shows.

“I think for us, we’re very focused on the data,” Greenblatt said. “The data doesn’t lie, and I think both the toxic political atmosphere, the access of social media and how its accelerated and amplified some of the worst voices.”…

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wjgo

5 years ago

replacing “anti-semitism” with “islam” is more accurate.

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Suresh

5 years ago

Agree. Even Liberal loon Clooney the Loony had to admit Trump was
Correct and he was wrong http://bit.ly/2u4CPfj

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Dan Knight

5 years ago

ADL … blaming the victim to hide the facts.

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Dan Knight

5 years ago

Newsflash: Anti-Semitism = Normal … on the LEFT.

It is normal in Left-wing Loony Amerikkka … where even using Amerikkka to refer to the party of the Klan and their allies is somehow a reference to the ANTI-KLAN.

Sorry – but my family has been ANTI-KLAN for at least 4 generations – not counting my own kids – but we are the ones the ADL blames for anti-Semitism.

The fact is that the Left has been anti-Semitic from day one. It goes with the conspiracy theories and all of the identity politics and the loony beliefs of the Left’s paranoid delusions.

The Left = BDS, anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, pro-Islam (which is automatically anti-Semitic), and pro-Black anti-Semitism.

The Right = pro-Israel and pro-individual rights and pro-tolerance … and always has been. It’s always been the Demokkkrats who cooked up reasons to violate the American Way and then blamed America for the crimes they committed.

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felix1999

5 years ago

The LEFT is trying to normalize it!
Are you as tired of opposites? Accusing OTHERS of what the LEFT is doing?
It’s becoming like gibberish out there and that is part of the plan too.
Will we be asking, what is truth soon too?

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tn_tea _ partyer_420

5 years ago

ADL supporters are the type of Jew that would of led other Jews into gas chambers in the 1930 and 40’s

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Cassandra

5 years ago

Greenblatt and the Neo ADL are helping by talking garbage about islamofauxbia. They should stick to standing up the Nazi antisemites!!

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

Anti-Semitism from ALL sources and parts of society should be strongly condemned!

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1984 George Orwellesque

5 years ago

ADL is an infected organization. It carries the virus of Leftisim.

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VTS

5 years ago

Reply to  1984 George Orwellesque

Greenblatt is not a “Jewish leader”. He is Obama’s appointee. What else do you expect?

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Pantalones

5 years ago

I heard the 72 virgins are goats…that explains a lot

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Janey Carter

5 years ago

Write to the ADL. I did. We must call them out.

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Michael Jacobs

5 years ago

I oppose Jew-hatred from BOTH the right AND the left. That’s why I’m here on Ms. Geller’s site — I agree with the fight against global jihad, and particularly the part which is virulently anti-Jew.

But the recent attacks that actually kiilled innocent Jews were clearly motivated by the far-right. So it would be nice to see a bit of self-reflection, a bit of toning down the excess rhetoric, from those whose fiery words enabled and gave permission for these crazies to crawl out from under their rocks. Instead, we get doubling down on attacks on the left?

I understand political necessity, and that there is an election coming up. But a little bit of self-awareness, of acceptance of even a tiny bit of responsibility, for these horrific events, would be nice to see from the right. Along with, say, a denunciation of ultra-right white nationalism and racism and Jew-hatred? Without walking it back (as the evil ones wink and nod their heads) by saying there are some “very fine people” out there marching with the neo-Nazis?

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