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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In the U.S., scholars who contest the conventional wisdom about Israel all too often lose their reputations — and their jobs

By Salim Muwakkil
Norman Finkelstein Interview

DePaul University canceled courses taught by Norman Finkelstein, the controversial political science professor known for his forthright criticism of Israel, just a week before classes resumed in June. Finkelstein, who taught at DePaul for six years, was denied tenure at the Chicago school but permitted to teach for the one year remaining on his contract.

In late August, however, the university decided to axe him and pulled his required books from the school’s bookstore. This was a break from the academic tradition that grants a faculty member who is denied tenure one last year (the “terminal year”) in the classroom. Finkelstein initially vowed to protest his suspension, but later reached an agreement (including a monetary settlement) with DePaul to end his fight. However, even as he announced the agreement, Finkelstein charged his tenure denial was due “to external pressure resulting in a national hysteria.”

Finkelstein’s rough treatment followed a vigorous national campaign initiated by right-wing supporters of Israel to taint his name. They attacked Finkelstein for his scholarship, which has consistently excoriated the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the deceitful arguments of the Jewish state’s uncritical supporters. And Finkelstein is just one of many public figures currently under attack for contesting the conventional wisdom about Israel.

Harvard law professor and avid Zionist Alan Dershowitz mounted a relentless public campaign to have Finkelstein dismissed. Surely it is no coincidence that Finkelstein’s recent book, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, is a sustained, well-researched attack on Dershowitz and his ilk for their lurid distortions of history on behalf of Israel. (more…)