Anti-Defamation League

Anti-Defamation League
Motto	To stop the defamation of the Jewish people... to secure justice and fair treatment to all.
Formation	1913
Founder	B'nai B'rith
Headquarters	New York City, New York, United States
Type	Civil rights law
Interests	“Antisemitism”, hate hate speech, prejudice
Interest of	PewDiePie
Sponsored by	Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Hewlett Foundation, Koch family foundations, Luminate, Omidyar Network
Exposed by	PewDiePie ADL controversy

The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) was founded in 1913 by B'nai B'rith International. It describes itself as "the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry."

Evolution

While it started out investigating "anti-Semitism", since the 1980s it infiltrated and spied on groups which criticised both Israel and the Apartheid government in South Africa. In 2018, it claimed that over 1 billion people harboured "antisemitic" attitudes.

ADL Spying case

Robert Friedman wrote in 1993:

The ADL was established in New York City in 1913 to defend Jews, and later other minority groups, from discrimination. It led the fight against racist and fascist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party, and in the 1960s championed the civil rights movement.

But there was also a darker side. In the late 1940s, the ADL spied on leftists and Communists, and shared investigative files with the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the FBI. The ADL swung sharply to the right during the Reagan administration, becoming a bastion of neoconservatism. To Irwin Suall, a repentant Trotskyite who heads the ADL's powerful Fact Finding Department, the real danger to Jews is posed not by the right — but by a coalition of leftists, blacks, and Arabs, who in his view threaten the fabric of democracy in America, as well as the state of Israel. In the tradition of his ideological soulmate William Casey, Suall directed the ADL's vast network of informants, who were given code names like "Scumbag," "Ironside," and — for a spy reportedly posing as a priest in Atlanta — "Flipper."

'In 1993', write Jeffrey Blankfort, Anne Poirier and Steve Zeltzer, 'the District of Attorney of San Francisco released 700 pages of documents implicating the Anti-Defamation League, an organization that claims to be a defender of civil rights, in a vast spying operation directed against American citizens who were opposed to Israel's policies in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza and to the apartheid policies of the government of South Africa and passing on information to both governments.'

Orientation

The ADL's original focus on attack on Jews and minority ethnic group gave way in the 1980s to an approach which involved the ADL spying on left and human rights groups. According to Robert Friedmann, writing in the Village Voice:

In the early 1980s, researchers Russ Bellant and Berlet asked to meet fact finding head Irwin Suall, to discuss their work on anti-Semite Lyndon LaRouche. "Our view then of Irwin Suall was that he was this really terrific investigator," says Berlet. "So we introduce ourselves, say what we are up to and Suall leans back in his chair and basically runs down a dossier on each of us: about what our political activities are, who we work with, what organizations we belong to. Obviously, he was just trying to blow us away and he succeeds admirably. We were just sitting there with our mouths open feeling very uncomfortable."

"And then he leans forward and says, 'The right-wing isn't the problem. The left-wing is the problem. The Soviet Union is the biggest problem in the world for Jews. It's the American left that is the biggest threat to American Jews. You're on the wrong track. You're part of the problem.' We were stunned. I was virtually in tears. This is not how I perceived myself. We basically stumbled out of there in a daze."

"Hate symbols"

Full article: “Hate symbols”

Since 2000 the ADL has maintained a lists of "hate symbols". The list on the group's website included icons, gestures and numbers (for example, 12, 13, 14 & 28). The ADL was criticised in 2019 after adding the American Sign language symbol for "OK" to its list. The ADL claimed that the gesture was "in some circles as a sincere expression of white supremacy".

People

Directors

• Howard P. Berkowitz, National Chair
• Abraham H. Foxman, National Director
• Regional Offices

others

Roy Bullock | Laura Kam, worked for ADL for 17 years as Press Officer and ran the Jerusalem office | Tom Gerard, SFPD Officer | Irwin Suall, head of Fact-Finding Dept, 1993 |

Publications

in 2016 the ADL labeled Christopher Bollyn an "Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theorist".

Resources and Notes

• Abdeen Jabara, (1993) 'The Anti-Defamation League: Civil Rights and Wrongs', Covert Action, No. 45, Summer.
• Matt Isaacs Spy vs Spite: The Clinton administration has praised the Anti-Defamation League for helping shield kids from Internet hate. But should a group that spied on thousands of Californians be allowed to police the Web?, SF Weekly Published on February 02, 2000
• Robert I. Friedman, The Enemy Within, The Village Voice, 11 May 1993, Vol. XXXVIII No. 19. Village Voice synopsis: How The Anti-Defamation League Turned the Notion of Human Rights on Its Head, Spying on Progressives and Funneling Information to Law Enforcement.
• Jeffrey Blankfort, Anne Poirier and Steve Zeltzer, The ADL Spying Case Is Over, But The Struggle Continues, Counterpunch, 25 February 2002.
• Were the Spies "Journalists"? The ADL Snoops, Counterpunch, accessed 4 March 2009

Films

• Defamation, Defamation, a film by Yoav Shamir, Channel 4OD, First Shown 12-January-2010, Accessed 21-January-2010

 

A Document by Anti-Defamation League

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Weekend Clashes Emblematic of Political Violence Around the Country	Article	16 October 2018	"Terrorism" "Extremism" "Far right" Proud Boys Gavin McInnes Antifa Michigan State University University of Florida "Alt-right" Brittany Venti Identity Evropa "Islamophobia" "Antisemitism" "Racism" Unite the Right rally 211 Bootboys Patriot Prayer Brigitte Gabriel Culture war Hate Violence Israel Rebel News Zionism Richard Spencer Oath Keepers Rise Above Movement	This ADL blog post from 2018 outlines instances of "terrorism", blamed mainly on the Proud Boys during first two years of the Presidency of Donald Trump. Since then, they were revealed to have links to FBI informants.

 

A Anti-Defamation League victim on Wikispooks

Title	Description
Mary Miller	Republican politician from Illinois. Target of the ADL.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Victor Ostrovsky	“When I was in the Mossad and we had a guy that gave us problems in the US, and he was speaking out, and he was talking like, like Pete talked once and said: "Israel is bombing Lebanon with cluster bombs". We say hey, who is that guy? Pete מקק we used to call him, which is Pete the cockroach. Because he makes a lot of noise and you can't get rid of him. So what you do is you get in touch with the guy in the station in New York, or in the station in Washington and you say: tell the guys at B'nai B'rith to label him. And of course the campaign starts and before you know it the guy is labelled .. and he is an anti-semite. Because that's what we say he is. And that's one stain that you can not wash.”	Victor Ostrovsky	1 September 1995
PewDiePie ADL controversy	“Reinstalled Twitter to talk about PewDiePie's betrayal by donating 50k to the ADL. The company working with places like Twitter to get rid of anything "Offensive" @pewdiepie You just supported a group that even ruined even YOUR deal to Disney. Wtf? PewDiePie literally paid $50,000 to not be called racist anymore. And in turn- he just got so many people in the future censored off of places like Twitter and YouTube. Anytime someone gets banned for now on, I'll be sure to say "Thanks Pewdiepie"”	Brittany Venti	11 September 2019

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Craig Newmark Philanthropies	Grantmaking organization by billionaire sugar daddy Craig Newmark to influence journalism, fight "disinformation" and create "cybersecurity" by among other things rebooting social media.
Hewlett Foundation	Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects.
Koch family foundations	Controlled by the billionaire Koch brothers, who finance the 'right' in US politics when they say the right things.
Luminate	Pierre Omidyar's foundation for financing global media and civil society groups. It is unknown how close it coordinates with certain deep state US government agencies.
Omidyar Network	Foundation owned by the the deep state-connected billionaire Pierre Omidyar, financing preferred NGOs

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
PewDiePie ADL controversy	September 2019	September 2019	UK US	The ADL's attempt to destroy the world's most recognised YouTuber. There are still a number of theories to what really happened behind the scenes.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Impressions of my two days with Gilad Atzmon	article	26 February 2014	Trevor La Bonte	Trevor La Bonte describes two days spent with Gilad Atzmon during their two duo-concert appearances in Austin and Houston, Texas, USA in February 2014. Revealing especially for the light it sheds on Jewish efforts to demonise Atzmon and the extent to which ordinary citizens (in this case La Bonte's father) are intimidated into silent complicity.
Document:Jews Boast of Owning Hollywood - But Slam Gentiles Who Say the Same Thing	article	6 July 2014	Editorial staff	Jewish control of Hollywood, Censorship by Google and the taboo on mentioning it by Gentiles
Document:Murdoch's Deeply Hidden Jewish Roots	Article	16 July 2011	Christopher Bollyn	“For some reason, Keith Rupert Murdoch has always tried to hide the fact that his pious mother, Elisabeth Joy Murdoch (née Greene), brought him up as a Jew.”
Document:PayPal Partnering With Anti-Defamation League to Share Info With Law Enforcement, Determine Who Can Use Their Services	Article	26 July 2021	Cassandra Fairbanks	The censorship industry colludes with law enforcement and financial services in order to censor more.

 

A document sourced from Anti-Defamation League

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Weekend Clashes Emblematic of Political Violence Around the Country	Article	"Terrorism" "Extremism" "Far right" Proud Boys Gavin McInnes Antifa Michigan State University University of Florida "Alt-right" Brittany Venti Identity Evropa "Islamophobia" "Antisemitism" "Racism" Unite the Right rally 211 Bootboys Patriot Prayer Brigitte Gabriel Culture war Hate Violence Israel Rebel News Zionism Richard Spencer Oath Keepers Rise Above Movement	16 October 2018	Anti-Defamation League	This ADL blog post from 2018 outlines instances of "terrorism", blamed mainly on the Proud Boys during first two years of the Presidency of Donald Trump. Since then, they were revealed to have links to FBI informants.

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