Friday, January 22, 2010

Why the ADL has become dysfunctional

I will admit that I no longer contribute to the ADL because they have turned a blind eye to the real threat to Jews and Israel. They spend all their time focusing on the threats of the past and not present. They are in lockstep with the left and refuse to see that they are the real enemies of Israel and Jews.

Rush and the ADL [Michael Ledeen]
Norman Podhoretz quite properly takes Anti-Defamation League czar Abe Foxman to task for insinuating that Rush is somehow a Jew-hater for wondering if Jewish voters are having buyer's remorse regarding Obama. They certainly should, both because of Obama's striking nastiness to Israel and of his attacks on "greedy bankers" (which Rush mentioned), free broadcasting, and of course the crusade against American medicine, all enterprises in which Jews have long flourished.Rush should be a hero to Foxman and American Jews, but they are so blindly partisan that they can no longer distinguish between their friends and their enemies. Foxman has relentlessly attacked American Evangelicals — arguably the most pro-Jewish and pro-Israel people in America — but conveniently disappears when the government goes after real Jews for presumed "dual loyalty." Which, one might say, is the core principle of the ADL.Foxman wants Rush to apologize. Nuts. I want Foxman retired and replaced by somebody who fights for Jews and our friends.

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