"Obscene and Outrageous": Isi Leibler blasts the ADL's association with J Street

In conversation with Rabbi Mark Golub, veteran world Jewish leader and Jerusalem Post columnist Isi Leibler delivers a sustained and stinging criticism of ADL national director Jonathan Greenblatt for cosying up to "pernicious" J Street, which is doing untold harm to the Jewish People and the State of Israel.

Leibler believes that Greenblatt has not spent sufficient time in Israel, and should do so, seeing what it is enduring for himself rather than choosing to associate with people and ideas that are "undermining" Israel and its national security.

"Israel is standing alone in a sea of barbarism", Leibler says, and if Jewish leaders in the Diaspora stand aside and fail to stick up for Israel against the leftist and Palestinian narrative, "history will condemn them."

 He is askance at the failure of American Jewish leaders strongly and unitedly to stress to Obama that Israel must have defensible borders, and fears that Obama might still give Israel an unacceptable "leaving present".

For more on Leibler versus Goldblatt see here and here and here

Israel's Ten Most Influential American Enemies:The ADL lists the groups most dangerous

American Muslims for Palestine ad at a NY railway station

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in New York has drawn up a list of what in its view are the ten organisations in the United States most toxic to the welfare and standing of Israel, something it has done every year since Operation Cast Lead.

In its press release the ADL explains that the list is based on

"various criteria, including the groups’ ability to organize, sponsor and endorse Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israel; their sponsorship of and participation in anti-Israel rallies, panel discussions or conferences; and their ability to pursue anti-Israel policy initiatives and lobbying efforts against Israel.....

In addition to their national impact and influence, many of the groups included in the list are known to employ rhetoric that is extremely hostile to Israel, Zionists and/or Jews.  Examples of this include:

Allegations that Israel or Jews control the U.S. government or the media;

Offensive parallels to the Holocaust by comparing Israeli leaders to Nazis or describing Gaza as the “new Auschwitz;”

Calls for the dismantlement of the state of Israel;

Expressions of support for terrorist groups that seek Israel’s destruction."

Explains the ADL's national director, Abe Foxman, the organisations listed are

"fixated on delegitimizing Israel and convincing the American public that Israel is an international villain that deserves to be ostracized and isolated. 

“The list represents the worst of the worst anti-Israel groups.  They lob any and every accusation against Israel, including charges of Nazi-like crimes, ‘apartheid’ policies, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and genocide. Their accusations are rarely, if ever, balanced with an acknowledgement of Israel’s repeated efforts to make peace with the Palestinians, or the legitimate terrorism concerns faced by Israeli citizens."

CodePink struts its stuff

The current roll of ignominy stands as follows (more about each of the groups can be found on the ADL's website):

   * ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)
   * American Muslims for Palestine
   * CODEPINK
   * Friends of Sabeel-North America
   * If Americans Knew/Council for the National Interest
   * Jewish Voice for Peace
   * Muslim Public Affairs Council
   * Neturei Karta
   * Students for Justice in Palestine
   * U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

Continues the press release:

"New to ADL’s list of the Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups are American Muslims for Palestine, CODEPINK, Neturei Karta and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). Despite MPAC’s positive role in the civil rights, counterterrorism and interfaith communities, the group’s involvement in anti-Israel campaigns and its leadership’s consistent use of anti-Israel rhetoric is extremely troubling.

Once again, the Jewish anti-Israel group “Jewish Voice for Peace” (JVP) made the ADL list.  The group’s leaders and members of its Rabbinical Council are regularly invited to major anti-Israel events and conferences, and the group claims that its Jewish nature gives it a “particular legitimacy in voicing an alternative view.”  ADL further noted in its report that JVP “intentionally exploits Jewish culture and rituals” in an effort to convince other Jews that opposition to Israel does not contradict, but is consistent with, Jewish values.

Anti-Israel groups no longer ranking in the Top 10 have, for various reasons, scaled down the type of activity that merited their inclusion in the original report. They include The International Solidarity Movement, Al-Awda, the Muslim American Society, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations."

As will be seen, J Street (no foe to JVP) is conspicuous by its absence!

Read more here

The ADL On American Muslims For Palestine

This billboard, making the "apartheid" libel and featuring, against the background of Israel's security barrier,  the silhouette of an Israeli soldier aiming a gun at a Palestinian child, is one of those which began appearing on the first day of Pesach at twenty-five Metro North train sta­tions in suburban New York.

The ad, sponsored by the Chicago-based organisation American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), is, as the ADL states,"indica­tive of [AMP's]the organization’s con­tin­u­ing efforts to pro­mote its extreme anti-Israel views to a wider Amer­i­can audience."

For the AMP, warns the ADL (which is often perceived as too sanguine regarding the presence of Islam in Western societies),

 'is the leading organization providing anti-Zionist training and education to students and Muslim community organizations in the country. Founded in 2005, AMP promotes extreme anti-Israel views and has at times provided a platform for anti-Semitism under the guise of educating Americans about "the just cause of Palestine and the rights of self-determination."

Although the size of its membership remains unclear, the Chicago-based non-profit organization operates several chapters across the country. While its educational efforts have been primarily geared toward providing the Muslim community with inflammatory rhetoric and false accusations against Israel to promote advocacy for Palestine, AMP has also placed a heavy emphasis on supporting and helping coordinate the activity of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the primary organizer of anti-Israel events on campus with dozens of chapters.

AMP seeks to delegitimize and demonize the Jewish state. Its materials are prominently featured at its events and conferences, in its publications and through materials available on its website....

AMP has its organizational roots in the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), an anti-Semitic group that served as the main propaganda arm for Hamas in the United States until it was dissolved in 2004. Since its creation in 2005, AMP continues to work closely with some former IAP leaders who currently hold positions as AMP board members.'

Read the ADL's comprehensive report on this menacing organisation here

Goldstone Retracts; Arab Antisemites React



From ADL website

 The Anti-Defamation League reports that Judge Richard Goldstone's retraction of core conclusions in his notorious eponymous report has led to a flurry of antisemitic conspiracy theories in the Arab world, as seen in a number of antisemitic cartoons depicting Jews with stereotypical features and attributes.

On the left, for instance, is a cartoon that appeared on 5 April in the Gaza newspaper Filastin.  Below is one that appeared on the same day in the Jordanian newspaper Ad Dustur.

Explains the ADL's National Director, Abe Foxman:

"Just as the original report was celebrated by Arab cartoonists as ‘proof’ of the evil nature of Israel and Jews, so too has the decision by Judge Richard Goldstone to reconsider his findings inspired another round of hateful caricatures and stereotypes in the Arab Media.  Newspapers across the Arab world have responded to the Goldstone developments with a series of hideous caricatures, many of them viciously anti-Semitic."

See http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASaw_14/6021_14.htm

The antisemitic cartoons can be viewed on the ADL's website: http://www.adl.org/main_Arab_World/arab_anti_semitism_cartoons_2011