The ADL operates as a private intelligence agency, sending spies, infiltrators, disruptors, and\u00a0agents provocateurs<\/em>\u00a0into the camps \u2014 both Jewish and non-Jewish \u2014 of those who disagree with its radically pro-Israel and Jewish supremacist agenda. Also like an intelligence agency, it maintains a huge database containing personal information on politicians, writers, dissidents, activists, publishers, bloggers, and even unaffiliated private citizens so that \u2014 should any of these people \u201cget out of line,\u201d in the opinion of the ADL \u2014 they can be threatened, \u201cexposed,\u201d blackmailed, and thus silenced with maximum effectiveness.<\/p>\n In 1993, an ADL operative,\u00a0Roy Bullock<\/a>, was caught corrupting police officials and illegally obtaining police files to add to the ADL\u2019s dossiers on \u201cthought criminals\u201d Left and Right. Despite this, the ADL audaciously uses its money and influence to \u201ceducate\u201d law enforcement officials through a subsidiary called the \u201cLaw Enforcement Agency Resource Network\u201d (LEARN), which uses persuasive techniques to convince police authorities that individuals and groups that the ADL dislikes are dangerous criminals \u2014 and that the ADL and its allies are public-spirited, beneficial groups.<\/p>\n Ironically, considering its name, one of the main techniques used by the ADL, and for which its massive intelligence archive is most useful, is public\u00a0defamation<\/em>\u00a0of those who the ADL has declared are its enemies.<\/p>\n The ADL is headquartered in New York City and has 29 offices in major cities in the United States, one in Israel, and two known offices in other countries. Abraham Foxman has been \u201cnational director\u201d of the group since 1987. It has an admitted annual U.S. budget of $55 million, with listed assets in 2011 of $171 million.<\/p>\n The Bullock Case<\/strong><\/p>\n In 1993, an ADL agent named Roy Bullock, a San Francisco art dealer and fairly well-known in the homosexual community there, whose specialty was the infiltration of patriotic, Arab-American, and other organizations on behalf of the League, was found to have in his possession illegally obtained and highly private and personal data on his targets \u2014 data which could only have been obtained from police and other confidential government files; data\u00a0that was also discovered in the files of the ADL<\/em>\u00a0itself when police raided ADL headquarters in San Francisco and Los Angeles as result of Bullock\u2019s exposure.<\/p>\n According to the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0of 9th April, 1993, \u201cPolice on Thursday served search warrants on the Anti-Defamation League here and in Los Angeles, seizing evidence of a nationwide intelligence network accused of keeping files on more than 950 political groups, newspapers, and labor unions and as many as 12,000 people.<\/p>\n \u201cDescribing the spy operations in great detail, San Francisco authorities simultaneously released voluminous documents telling how operatives of the Anti-Defamation League searched through trash and infiltrated organizations to gather intelligence an Arab-American, right-wing, and what they called \u201cpinko\u201d organizations\u2026.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026Police allege that the organization maintains undercover operatives to gather political intelligence in at least seven cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco.<\/p>\n \u201cGroups that were the focus of the spy operation span the political spectrum, including such groups as the Ku Klux Klan, the White Aryan Resistance, Greenpeace, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the United Farm Workers, and the Jewish Defense League. Also on the list were Mills College, the board of directors of San Francisco public television station KQED, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople who were subjects of the spy operation included former Republican Representative Pete McCloskey, jailed political extremist Lyndon LaRouche and\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0correspondent Scott Kraft, who is based in South Africa\u2026.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026In addition to allegations of obtaining confidential information from police, the Anti-Defamation League could face a total of 48 felony counts for not properly reporting the employment of its chief West Coast spy, Roy Bullock, according to the affidavit filed to justify the search warrant.\u201d (\u201cADL Vows to Cooperate With Spy Investigation<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Los Angeles Times,<\/em>\u00a09 April, 1993)<\/p>\n I\u2019ll interrupt the article to inform you that those 48 felony counts were somehow suppressed and the ADL was never prosecuted. A sweetheart deal was worked out in 2000 under which the ADL admitted no wrongdoing, paid an out-of-court settlement \u2014 of under $200,000 \u2014 part of it for legal fees and the rest to \u201ccharitable groups\u201d which \u201cfight hate\u201d (in other words, the kind of groups the ADL would support anyway \u2014 one such group was the \u201cHate Crimes Reward Fund\u201d), issued a weak apology for dealing with \u201cfact finders\u201d who had violated the law, supposedly without the knowledge of the ADL, and then had the unbelievable audacity to reaffirm their \u201cright\u201d to spy on any group and anyone just as they always have!<\/p>\n Continuing:<\/p>\n \u201cThe Anti-Defamation League disguised payments to Bullock for more than 25 years by funneling $550 a week to Beverly Hills attorney Bruce I. Hochman, who then paid Bullock, according to the documents released in San Francisco. Hochman, a former president of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles and one of the state\u2019s leading tax attorneys, will be out of the city until late next week and could not be reached for comment, his office said.<\/p>\n \u201cUntil 1990, Hochman, a former U.S. prosecutor, also was a member of a panel appointed by then-Senator Pete Wilson to secretly make initial recommendations on new federal judges in California. Hochman is a former regional president of the Anti-Defamation League\u2026.<\/p>\n \u201cDavid Lehrer, executive director of the Los Angeles ADL office, said the organization has not violated the law\u2026.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026But in an affidavit filed to obtain warrants for Thursday\u2019s searches, San Francisco police allege that \u2018ADL employees were apparently less than truthful\u2019 in providing information in an earlier search conducted without a warrant\u2026.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026The police affidavit contends that Lehrer had sole control of a secret fund used to pay for \u2018fact-finding operations.\u2019 Lehrer, according to the documents, signed checks from the account under the name \u2018L. Patterson.\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026League officials will not confirm or deny whether Bullock was an employee and have said they simply traded information with police departments about people who might be involved in hate crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019ll add here that the category of crime called \u201chate crimes\u201d was virtually invented by the ADL. The purpose of such laws is to add extra penalties for acts which are already crimes under existing statutes \u2014 like murder, assault, etc. \u2014\u00a0if<\/em>\u00a0the perpetrator can be shown to have held prejudiced or \u201chateful\u201d views which might have motivated his actions. Under \u201chate crime\u201d laws, American citizens would receive\u00a0different<\/em>\u00a0sentences for the\u00a0same<\/em>\u00a0crime, depending on whether or not their thoughts are \u201cPolitically Correct\u201d on issues relating to homosexuality, race, nationality, and politics. That such laws might have a chilling effect on free speech \u2014 for a thoughtful person would now realize that his every utterance on \u201csensitive\u201d topics might someday be used against him in a court of law, should he be required to defend himself with force someday or even have an argument with a member of a \u201cprotected class\u201d \u2014 was probably the ADL\u2019s intention all along.<\/p>\n Enter Tom Gerard<\/strong><\/p>\n From the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>, 13th April, 1993:<\/p>\n \u201d To the outside world, Roy Bullock was a small-time art dealer who operated from his house in the Castro District. In reality, he was an undercover spy who picked through garbage and amassed secret files for the Anti-Defamation League for nearly 40 years.<\/p>\n \u201cHis code name at the prominent Jewish organization was Cal, and he was so successful at infiltrating political groups that he was once chosen to head an Arab-American delegation that visited Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) in her Washington, D.C. office.<\/p>\n \u201cFor a time, \u2018Cal\u2019 tapped into the phone message system of White Aryan Resistance\u2026 \u2026From police sources, he obtained privileged, personal information on at least 1,394 people. And he met surreptitiously with agents of the South African government to trade his knowledge for crisp, new $100 bills.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are among the secrets that Bullock and David Gurvitz, a former Los Angeles-based [ADL] operative, divulged in extensive interviews with police and the FBI in a growing scandal over the nationwide intelligence network operated by the Anti-Defamation League\u2026.<\/p>\n \u201cTranscripts of the interviews \u2014 among nearly 700 pages of documents released by San Francisco prosecutors last week \u2014 offer new details of the private spy operation that authorities allege crossed the line into illegal territory.<\/p>\n \u201cAt times, the intelligence activities took on a cloak-and-dagger air with laundered payments, shredded documents, hotel rendezvous with foreign agents and code names\u2026.<\/p>\n \u201cOn one occasion, Gurvitz recounts, he received a tip that a pro-Palestinian activist was about to board a plane bound for Haifa, Israel. Although the Anti-Defamation League publicly denies any ties to Israel, Gurvitz phoned an Israeli consular official to warn them. Shortly thereafter, another [Israeli government] official called Gurvitz back and debriefed him.<\/p>\n \u201cThe court papers also added to the mystery of Tom Gerard, a former CIA agent and San Francisco police officer accused of providing confidential material from police files to the Anti-Defamation League\u2026 \u2026Bullock said it was Gerard who sold official police intelligence. Bullock said he split about $16,000\u2026 evenly with Gerard, telling him at one point, \u2018I may be gay, but I\u2019m a straight arrow.\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cGerard fled to the Philippines last fall after he was interviewed by the FBI, but left behind a briefcase in his police locker. Its contents included passports, driver\u2019s licenses, and identification cards in 10 different names; identification cards in his own name for four different embassies in Central America; and a collection of blank birth certificates, Army discharge papers, and official stationery from various agencies.<\/p>\n \u201cAlso in the briefcase were extensive information on death squads, a black hood, apparently for use in interrogations, and photos of blindfolded and chained men.<\/p>\n \u201cInvestigators suspect that Gerard and other police sources gave the ADL confidential driver\u2019s license or vehicle registration information on a vast number of people, including as many as 4,500 members of one target group, the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee.<\/p>\n \u201cEach case of obtaining such data from a law enforcement officer could constitute a felony, San Francisco Police Inspector Ron Roth noted in an affidavit for a search warrant.\u201d (\u201cNew Details of Extensive ADL Spy Operation Emerge<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Los Angeles Times,<\/em>\u00a013 April, 1993)<\/p>\n Now we\u2019re up to 4,500 felonies. Was the ADL brought to justice for even one of them? No. And what was revealed in the Gerard case was just the work of\u00a0one<\/em>\u00a0ADL operative \u2014 and\u00a0one<\/em>\u00a0group which the ADL had targeted! Evidence seized from Bullock\u2019s computer indicate that the ADL was using him to compile data on individuals belonging to\u00a0over 950 groups<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 and Bullock is just\u00a0one<\/em>\u00a0agent. The rest of that iceberg must be most impressive.<\/p>\n As for Gerard himself \u2014 whom the ADL had sent on an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel two years before his arrest \u2014 he pleaded no contest to a\u00a0misdemeanor charge of unauthorized use of a police computer<\/em>\u00a0and was sentenced to three years\u2019 probation, 45 days in jail, and a $2,500 fine.<\/p>\n The\u00a0New York Daily News<\/em>\u00a0for 9th April, 1993 informs us that these were no \u201crogue\u201d agents \u2014 the illegal spying was controlled directly from the ADL\u2019s central office in New York City:<\/p>\n \u201cPolice in San Francisco and Los Angeles yesterday seized documents from a prominent Jewish-American organization accused of amassing confidential information \u2014 sometimes illegally \u2014 on thousands of people in the United States.<\/p>\n \u201cThe alleged operation was directed from the New York City offices of the Anti-Defamation League of B\u2019nai B\u2019rith, ABC News reported last night.<\/p>\n \u201cThe ADL has long been one of the most respected civil rights organizations in the country, tracking hate crimes and exposing prejudice.<\/p>\n \u201cBut ABC said that for several decades the spying operation has snooped into the records and activities of more than 10,000 people in the United States, including many who simply opposed the policies of Israel and South Africa\u2026.<\/p>\n \u201cThe report identified the leader of the intelligence ring as Irwin Suall.<\/p>\n \u201cSources told the\u00a0Daily News<\/em>\u00a0that Suall is one of about 15 people in the ADL\u2019s research department in Manhattan. Neither Suall or other ADL officials could be reached for comment.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018We\u2019re talking about the use of information from Department of Motor Vehicles files, other confidential files of state and local agencies, illegally furnished and illegally received by private agencies,\u2019 San Francisco District Attorney Arlo Smith told ABC.\u201d ( Mark Mooney,\u00a0New York Daily News<\/em>, 9 April, 1993)<\/p>\n Irwin Suall, the former National Secretary of the Socialist Party of America, was the chief of the \u201cfact-finding\u201d (that is, espoionage) division of the ADL from 1967 to 1997. According to the\u00a0Baltimore Sentinel<\/em>\u00a0for September, 1993 \u201cIn a memo dated July, 1992, Suall praised Roy Bullock as \u201cour number one investigator\u201d \u2014 just months before Bullock\u2019s illegal activities were exposed. (\u201cIs the Anti-Defamation League of B\u2019nai B\u2019rith Spying on You?\u201d, Bill Hughes,\u00a0Baltimore Sentinel<\/em>, September 1993)<\/p>\n According to the\u00a0Washington Report on Middle East Affairs<\/em>, the ADL offered money to corrupt law enforcement officers and officials in return for illegally-obtained personal information that was supposed to have been destroyed. How many of these corrupt officials were never prosecuted, and how many were recruited during the \u201ceducational\u201d conferences, and trips to Israel, arranged for them by the ADL\u2019s law enforcement liaison division? The\u00a0Report<\/em>\u00a0states:<\/p>\n \u201cAfter COINTELPRO, a still-controversial FBI operation to destabilize black nationalist and other groups in the \u201960s and \u201970s, the FBI, state and local law enforcement authorities were ordered out of the business of gathering information about legitimate political activity by American citizens. But in some major American cities, law enforcement files relating to legitimate and Constitutionally protected political activities that had been ordered destroyed\u00a0instead found their way to the offices of the ADL<\/em>, which quickly became a clearinghouse for such illegally obtained and illegally retained information.<\/p>\n \u201cThe absence of the FBI, state, and local police investigators in the field therefore created a void the ADL rushed to fill, with remarkable success, by increasing its in-house \u2018fact-finding\u2019 assets and capabilities and developing enhanced working relationships with \u2018official friends\u201d \u2014 government officials, investigators, and intelligence officers. Some of these were the officials who had not destroyed files of illegally obtained materials, or had made private copies of the official files before they were destroyed in compliance with the court order.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/b>The ADL favored many of its \u2018official friends\u2019 with expense-paid trips to Israel, where they met with and were entertained by friendly officers of Israel\u2019s espionage and counter-intelligence organizations, Mossad and Shin Bet, thus creating a major conduit for the flow of sensitive and useful U.S. domestic political intelligence to Israel\u2019s spymasters in Tel Aviv.\u201d (\u201cLos Angeles Court Hands Down Final Judgment in Anti-Defamation League Illegal Surveillance Case<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Washington Report on Middle East Affairs<\/em>, December 1999)<\/p>\n Despite its obvious \u2014 and admitted \u2014 ties with the state of Israel, and its agenda of advancing Israel\u2019s policy objectives, and gaining power to blackmail or otherwise intimidate perceived enemies of Israel, the ADL has never been required to register as a foreign agent as other, far more benign, organizations have been required to do.<\/p>\n ADL\u2019s former National Director Benjamin Epstein, in an internal letter disclosed during discovery proceedings in a lawsuit against the ADL in 1970, spoke with pride about the close cooperation that existed between the ADL and Israel\u2019s intelligence apparatus. In his 1988 autobiography, ADL general counsel Arnold Forster specifically named the Mossad as as having a close connection with the League . The Mossad routinely engages in political assassinations of those it deems to be \u201cIsrael\u2019s enemies\u201d around the world. (Square One,<\/i>\u00a0Arnold Forster. New York: Donald I. Fine, 1988)<\/p>\n More Than Just Spying?<\/strong><\/p>\n According to investigator William Norman Grigg, Bullock did much more than spy for his ADL bosses: \u201cIn 1993, it was discovered that Roy Bullock had been attempting to arrange a political marriage between the\u00a0Institute for Historical Review<\/a>, a holocaust revisionist organization, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (AADC) so the ADL could \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcout\u2019 [AADC] members as neo-Nazis.\u201d (William Norman Grigg, \u201cADL Campaign Against Tolerance,\u201d\u00a0New American<\/em>, September 19, 1994)<\/p>\n But it wasn\u2019t just Bullock, and it wasn\u2019t just setting victims up for bigger and better smears. One ADL\u00a0agent provocateur<\/em>\u00a0had a role as a leader and speaker for groups targeted by the ADL \u2014 doubtlessly steering the clueless radicals in directions helpful to the ADL agenda and against their own interests. And he also staged completely phony \u201cextremist incidents\u201d for the media to inflame fears of \u201cracism\u201d and \u201canti-Semitic\u201d violence.<\/p>\n Investigative journalist Laird Wilcox tells us: \u201cJames Mitchell Rosenberg, a career infiltrator for the Anti-Defamation League, regularly attended and was a speaker at Ku Klux Klan rallies and meetings of the Mountain Church in Cohoctah, MI, considered a gathering place for neo-Nazis of all kinds. For the benefit of television reporters, Rosenberg also posed as a leader of a para-military group called the \u2018Christian Patriot\u2019s Defense League\u2019 which was the subject of a breathless expos\u00c3\u00a9 entitled \u2018Armies of the Right.\u2019 In 1981, Rosenberg and an associate were arrested on a New York City rooftop and charged with carrying an unregistered rifle. The two were posing as paramilitary extremists for a photographic fabrication exaggerating the threat from the far right. The charges were subsequently dropped at the request [of] the ADL\u2019s Irwin Suall, Rosenberg\u2019s direct supervisor.\u201d (The Watchdogs<\/em>, Laird Wilcox, Editorial Research Service, Olathe, Kansas, 1998)<\/p>\n And these are just the ADL agents who have come to public attention and been exposed in the newspapers. Do you really believe that they were rare, exceptional cases? Or were they part of a much, much larger coordinated operation? With its multimillion-dollar budget and cozy relationship with corrupt law enforcement officials \u2014 and with murderous intelligence agencies and their unfathomably deep pockets \u2014 how many undiscovered agents does the ADL employ, and what might their functions be?<\/p>\n Seeing Anti-Semitism Where There Is None<\/strong><\/p>\n In Denver, Colorado in 1994, an argument over pets and garden plants betweeen two couples \u2014 next door neighbors \u2014 became the focus of ADL public relations and legal action because of the alleged \u201canti-Semitism\u201d of one of the couples toward the other, who were Jewish.<\/p>\n Candace and Mitchell Aronson were the Jewish neighbors of William and Dorothy Quigley.<\/p>\n The Aronsons used a VHF scanner radio to listen in on the cordless telephone conversations of the Quigleys. They heard Mrs. Quigley discuss with a friend \u2014 it turns out, in joking tones \u2014 a possible campaign to drive the Aronsons from the neighborhood by frightening them with \u201cpictures of ovens\u201d and throwing gas at one of the Aronson\u2019s children. Mrs. Quigley was also heard \u201cwishing that the Aronsons would be killed in a suicide bombing.\u201d Although the conversations were obviously facetious, and at one point Mrs. Quigley even said she was saying some \u201csick\u201d things, the Aronsons decided to contact the Denver office of the ADL.<\/p>\n Upon the advice of the ADL, the Aronsons began recording the Quigleys\u2019 private telephone conversations \u2014 an illegal act. Astoundingly, ADL attorneys then advised the Aronsons to use the illegal recordings as the basis for a federal civil lawsuit against the Quigleys for \u201cethnic intimidation.\u201d Meanwhile, the ADL defamation and PR machine geared up to \u201cexpose\u201d yet another \u201canti-Semitic incident\u201d and, not coincidentally, totally ruin the Quigleys\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n Saul Rosenthal, Regional Director of the ADL, appeared at a news conference describing the Quigleys as engaging in \u201ca vicious anti-Semitic campaign.\u201d Rosenthal also appeared in local media making the same claims, and succesfully urged local prosecutors to use the tape recordings in filing\u00a0criminal charges<\/em>\u00a0against the Quigleys.<\/p>\n The Quigleys became pariahs in their own community, receiving so many threats that they felt compelled to hire security guards. Animal feces was sent to their home. Mr. Quigley\u2019s lost his job at United Artists. The family had to drive long distances to shop in stores where they would not be recognized.<\/p>\n However, the cases against them quickly began to fall apart. The local prosecutor dropped the charges upon hearing the obviously non-threatening nature of the conversations. He even apologized to the Quigleys and publicly stated that the accusations against them were untrue. The federal case was dead because the recordings were themselves illegal and therefore inadmissible,<\/p>\n The Quigleys countersued the ADL, Rosenthal, the Aronsons, and two ADL volunteer attorneys. Ultimately the Quigleys received a judgement of some $12 million, including interest, in their favor for the devastation that the Aronsons and the ADL had caused in their lives. (By the way, the Quigleys employed a Jewish lawyer, Jay Horowitz, to argue their case.)<\/p>\n The ADL probably lost this one case only because they were not fully conversant with wiretap law. Had they not tripped up on that technicality, they, their well-funded attorneys, and their massive PR machine (aided by an ADL-friendly media) would have prevailed and the Quigleys would have been forgotten, impoverished, possibly imprisoned, and without recourse. How many other cases have there been? \u2014 how many unsung victims of the ADL have suffered that fate \u2014 or worse?<\/p>\n Crime Connections<\/strong><\/p>\n The ADL operates much like an organized crime gang, as their intimidation and in-your-face life-ruining tactics make clear. And that\u2019s not just a result of \u201coverzealousness\u201d or an unreasoning fear of persecution. The ADL has direct connections to numerous notorious crime figures:<\/p>\n Meyer Lansky<\/a>, one of the architects of modern organized crime<\/strong>\u00a0in the United States and connected woth \u201cMurder, Incorporated,\u201d was a strong supporter of and donor to the ADL. His granddaughter, Mira Lansky Boland, was an ADL official \u2014 ironically, her position is listed as \u201cliaison to law enforcement.\u201d She arranged expense-paid luxury tours to Israel, the world capital of sex trafficking, for certain key law enforcement officials who had \u201csomething to offer\u201d the ADL in return \u2014 among them Tom Gerard.<\/p>\n Moe Dalitz<\/a>, organized crime boss of Las Vegas<\/strong>, was a long-time supporter of the ADL and a close friend of Meyer Lansky. In 1982, Dalitz received the \u201cTorch of Liberty\u201d award from the ADL.<\/p>\n Theodore Silbert, mafia front man<\/strong>\u00a0worked simultaneously for the ADL and the Sterling National Bank (a mafia operation controlled by the Lansky syndicate).<\/p>\n Michael Milken<\/a>, convicted financial criminal<\/strong>\u00a0of \u201cjunk bond\u201d fame, was a major contributor to the ADL.<\/p>\n Marc Rich<\/a>, international fugitive and financial criminal<\/strong>\u00a0was hiding out in Switzerland to avoid prosecution for his crimes when he wrote a check for $100,000 to the ADL, who then proceeded to pull the necessary strings. He was then pardoned by President Bill Clinton on his last day in office. Rich later admitted he had worked with the ADL-linked Mossad for years, and Israeli officials also intervened on his behalf with Clinton.<\/p>\n Jewish Critiques<\/strong><\/p>\n The ADL routinely smears those who have criticized its goals and methods by calling them \u201canti-Semites\u201d \u2014 an amazing, invented word, by the way: No other ethnicity, so far as I know, has created a comparable neologism to demonize, isolate, and ostracize its critics. But so outrageous has been the behavior of the ADL that it has garnered much criticism from Jewish writers, activists, and dissenters from the \u201cmainstream\u201d Jewish establishment.<\/p>\n Noam Chomsky, leftist Jewish activist and Professor of Linguistics at MIT on the ADL:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c[O]ne of the ugliest, most powerful pressure groups in the U.S\u2026 Its primary commitment is to use any technique, however dishonest and disgraceful, in order to defame and silence and destroy anybody who dares to criticize the Holy State (\u2018Israel\u2019)\u2026\u201d \u201c[The ADL is] engaged in surveillance, blacklisting, compilation of FBI-style files circulated to adherents for the purpose of defamation, angry public responses to criticism of Israeli actions, and so on. These efforts, buttressed by insinuations of anti-Semitism or direct accusations, are intended to deflect or undermine opposition to Israeli policies\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Robert Friedman, liberal Jewish journalist, says of the ADL<\/strong>: \u201c[T]he largest private spy agency in America\u2026 Through its 31 offices across the country, the ADL monitors school curricula, library acquisition lists, and public conferences and symposiums, working behind the scenes to stifle intellectual freedom.\u201d (Robert I. Friedman, \u201cThe Jewish Thought Police\u201d,\u00a0Village Voice<\/em>, July 27, 1993)<\/p>\n Norman Finkelstein, Jewish author and academic<\/strong>, says of the ADL\u2019s long-time director Abraham Foxman that he is \u201ca hoodlum and a thug.\u201d (Defamation<\/em>, video documentary, 1999 \u2014 see link in references)<\/p>\n Monty Warner, conservative Jewish writer and director of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture<\/strong>, says that \u201cthe ADL has devolved into an opportunistic, intolerant, grief-grubbing stench\u201d and says of ADL boss Abraham Foxman that he is \u201ca disgrace to my religion.\u201d<\/p>\n Rabbi Daniel Lapin, president of Toward Traditio<\/strong>n, a Jewish religious group called ADL leader Abraham Foxman \u201cOur own worst enemy.\u201d Toward Tradition said it picked Foxman \u201cfrom among other representatives of the Anti-Semitism industry\u201d because of his pivotal role in former president Clinton\u2019s pardon of fugitive Jewish financial criminal Marc Rich: \u201cAfter the ADL received a $100,000 check from the Rich Foundation, Foxman wrote to Bill Clinton urging the pardon.\u201d<\/p>\n Midge Decter, Dennis Prager, and 75 prominent Jewish writers and leaders<\/strong>\u00a0issued a public statement in 1994 charging the ADL with \u201cengaging in defamation\u201d in the ADL\u2019s attacks on rightists and Christians, routinely using \u201csuch discreditable techniques as insinuation and guilt by association\u201d by finding and publicizing \u201clinks\u201d between its targets and allegedly more radical (read: already smeared) figures in its voluminous dossiers of personal information obtained largely through espionage.<\/p>\n Steve Zeltzer, Jewish labor activist<\/strong>\u00a0and himself a victim of ADL spying, states of the ADL: \u201cThey have always had enemies lists, and they have always wanted to control the flow of information.\u201d<\/p>\n The ADL and the post-9\/11 National Security State<\/strong><\/p>\n Post-9\/11 hysteria led Americans into illegal and unjustified wars in the Middle East and has brought us such unconstitutional erosions of our rights as the misnamed Patriot Act and its secret laws, secret courts, secret trials, and secret prisons; the massive illegal spying operations of the NSA and other agencies; and the maintenance of a \u201ckill list\u201d under which anyone on Earth can be marked for death by the President. Within months after the attacks, the ADL had already organized conferences to \u201chelp\u201d the secret police take advantage of their new ill-gotten powers \u2014 as this ADL press release makes clear:<\/p>\n ADL Press Release \u2013 June 6, 2002<\/p>\n More than 500 representatives of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies were briefed on extremist and terrorist threats during a daylong conference co-sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n The May 31 program, held at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA, was an outgrowth of ADL\u2019s longtime involvement in providing information and training to law enforcement on threats posed by extremists. The conference, \u201cExtremist and Terrorist Threats: Protecting America After 9\/11? included presentations from ADL, FBI and other nationally recognized experts on extremist groups, investigative techniques, counterterrorism strategies, domestic security and threat assessment.<\/p>\n \u201cNow more than ever, law enforcement must have the resources and know-how to prevent future acts of terrorism,\u201d said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. \u201cIn order to assess threats against the United States, law enforcement must have credible information about domestic and foreign extremists whose rhetoric promotes violence. Through our network of regional offices and our experts in the field, ADL is uniquely suited to aid in the war against terrorism. This conference was an opportunity for law enforcement and extremism watchdogs to compare notes and forge alliances.\u201d<\/p>\n Somehow I doubt that Roy Bullock\u2019s name was brought up at the meeting.<\/p>\n Rabbi Spitz\u2019s Vision<\/strong><\/p>\n It seems that the \u201cAnti-Defamation League\u201d has taken to heart the words of Rabbi Leon Spitz, writing in\u00a0The American Hebrew<\/em>\u00a0of March 1, 1946: \u201cAmerican Jews too must come to grips with our contemporary anti-Semites. We must fill our jails with anti-Semitic gangsters, we must fill our insane asylums with anti-Semitic lunatics, we must combat every alien Jew-hater, we must harass and prosecute our Jew baiters to the extreme limits of the laws, we must humble and shame our anti-Semitic hoodlums to such an extent that none will wish to dare to become \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfellow-travelers\u2019.\u201d (\u201cGlamorous Purim Formula,\u201d Rabbi Leon Spitz,\u00a0The American Hebrew<\/em>, March 1, 1946)<\/p>\n Spitz is speaking in coded language, but the veil is rather thin. He\u2019s not talking about prosecuting criminals\u00a0per se<\/em>, for the whole force of law enforcement was already doing that when he spoke.<\/p>\n He\u2019s calling for for especially intense scrutiny of perceived \u201canti-Semites\u201d by law enforcement, and the use of any and all technical violations that might be discovered to prosecute them. In our law-happy society, it\u2019s doubtful that anyone could escape such close scrutiny unscathed \u2014 Google the Internet meme \u201cthree felonies a day\u201d if you don\u2019t believe me.<\/p>\n He doesn\u2019t actually believe that gangsters are disproportionately \u201canti-Semitic\u201d \u2014 in fact, no one has ever alleged that. What he\u2019s saying is that the perceived enemies of the Jewish people should be criminalized in the public mind and in the minds of law enforcement officers so that they will be treated like gangsters. And that, in fact, is what the ADL has done, with their close liaisons with police (and secret police) authorities, alerting them to the \u201cdangers\u201d of patriot militia \u201chate groups,\u201d traditionalist religious groups, alleged \u201cneo-Nazis,\u201d and the like \u2014 those whom the ADL sees as vociferous critics of Israel or Jewish power. In fact, few of these groups have any desire to harm Jews in any way, though they may criticize the ADL, Israel, or other parts of the Jewish establishment.<\/p>\n Criticism of Jews\u00a0as<\/em>\u00a0Jews, or public doubt of their tales of suffering in World War 2, is a prosecutable offense in some countries today, in part due to the lobbying activities of the ADL and its allies.<\/p>\n Spitz doesn\u2019t actually believe that his perceived enemies are insane, and therefore belong in asylums. (Elsewhere in his article he credits them with only with avarice, jealousy, and hatred.) He is intimating, though, that they will by some means be redefined as insane and literally fill the asylums. The mass media, heavily influenced by the ADL and disproportionately staffed with Jews, do present caricatured portraits of \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d and \u201cracists\u201d who dislike Jews, and it is often implied that they are lunatics, \u201cevil geniuses,\u201d or some dangerous mix of the two. Critics of Jewish power today are never, to my knowledge, ever presented in a sympathetic manner by the media.<\/p>\n When Rabbi Spitz tells his fellows that \u201cwe must harass and prosecute our Jew baiters to the extreme limits of the laws, we must humble and shame our anti-Semitic hoodlums to such an extent that none will wish to dare to become \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfellow-travelers\u2019,\u201d he is telling us that the laws must be stretched to their \u201cextreme limits\u201d to prosecute \u2014 and harass! \u2014 those who criticize Jews in order to \u201chumble\u201d them and shame them \u2014 that is, ruin their reputations \u2014 so that\u00a0no one<\/em>\u00a0will dare to join them, publicly share their opinions, or value their friendship. This has nothing to do with enforcing the laws equally for all \u2014 and everything to do with destroying lives and suppressing the freedom to speak and organize through pure intimidation. Though\u00a0The American Hebrew<\/em>\u00a0was not an ADL publication, and I don\u2019t know if the good rabbi supported the ADL, I think it\u2019s fair to say that his view represented a significant and influential strain in American Jewish thought in the aftermath of World War 2, a strain eagerly taken up by the ADL. Spitz\u2019s hatefully poetic words are in the League\u2019s spirit, and, considering the League\u2019s ongoing, lavishly-funded, and largely successful defamation of those they label \u201canti-Semites,\u201d perhaps Rabbi Spitz should be regarded as a kind of latter-day prophet, with the ADL his Heavenly Host of Hate.<\/p>\n References<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c100 Reasons Leo Frank is Guilty<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0The American Mercury<\/em>, 26 April 2013<\/p>\n \u201cADL Vows to Cooperate With Spy Investigation<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Los Angeles Times,<\/em>\u00a09 April, 1993<\/p>\n \u201cNew Details of Extensive ADL Spy Operation Emerge<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Los Angeles Times,<\/em>\u00a013 April, 1993<\/p>\n \u201cPolice Seize Documents from Jewish Group,\u201d Mark Mooney,\u00a0New York Daily News<\/em>, 9 April, 1993<\/p>\n \u201cIs the Anti-Defamation League of B\u2019nai B\u2019rith Spying on You?\u201d, Bill Hughes,\u00a0Baltimore Sentinel<\/em>, September 1993<\/p>\n\n
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