{"id":88280,"date":"2013-10-31T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=20aa7b125a7a5bfaf1354b30548293f1"},"modified":"2013-10-31T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T19:33:00","slug":"anti-defamation-leagues-top-10-anti-israeli-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/anti-defamation-leagues-top-10-anti-israeli-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s Top 10 Anti-Israeli Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\"><b>Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s Top 10 Anti-Israeli Groups<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">ADL fronts for Jewish supremacy. It supports Israeli rights over Arabs. It backs occupation harshness. It believes colonizing Palestine for dominance and exploitation is OK.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s one of 52 Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organization (CPMAJO) Zionist organizations.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They disseminate pro-Israeli propaganda. They conduct smear campaigns against its critics. They spew hate and malicious lies.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They do so under the ruse of fighting anti-semitism. They claim support for human rights equitably for all. Their policies are polar opposite.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">ADL&#8217;s history is long and disturbing. It&#8217;s shamelessly loathsome. It believes Arabs are inferior to Jews.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It wants Palestinians denied self-determination. It believes Jews alone have rights.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It favors conflict over peace, equity and justice. It&#8217;s a monument to unfairness. It substitutes myths for facts. It spews hate. It&#8217;s a rogue organization writ large.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It publishes an annual top 10 anti-Israeli organization list. On October 21, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adl.org\/press-center\/press-releases\/israel-middle-east\/adl-lists-top-ten-anti-israel-groups-in-america.html#.UmVcCRar3uQ\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">press release<\/span><\/a> headlined &#8220;ADL Lists Top 10 Anti-Israeli Groups in America in 2013,&#8221; saying:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They&#8217;re &#8220;fixated with delegitimizing Israel.&#8221; They &#8220;demonstrated the ability to reach new segments of the American public with a hostile and misleading narrative about Israel.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">According to national director Abe Foxman:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;The Top 10 anti-Israel groups are the most significant players in the domestic anti-Israel movement today.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They prioritize &#8220;delegitimizing Israel and convincing the American public that (it&#8217;s) an international villain that deserves to be ostracized and isolated.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s all that and then some. Don&#8217;t expect Foxman to explain.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;In compiling its list, ADL considered various criteria,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They include:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">organizing ability;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">sponsoring and endorsing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">sponsoring and participating in anti-Israeli rallies, panel discussions or conferences; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">pursuing anti-Israeli lobbying and other policy initiatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Israel and influential Jews exert enormous sway over government and media policy, they say.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Israel is compared to Nazi Germany. One state for Jews and Arabs is advocated.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Support is given to legitimate resistance groups Israel wrongfully calls terrorist organizations.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">According to Foxman:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">ADL&#8217;s top ten represents &#8220;the worst of the worst anti-Israel groups.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;They lob any and every accusation against Israel, including charges of Nazi-like crimes, &#8216;apartheid&#8217; policies, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and genocide.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Their accusations are rarely, if ever, balanced with an acknowledgement of Israel&#8217;s repeated efforts to make peace with the Palestinians, or the legitimate terrorism concerns faced by Israeli citizens.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Foxman masquerades as a human rights champion. He consistently turns truth on its head. His lies long ago wore thin. He repeats them ad nauseam.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He&#8217;s a longstanding Islamophobe. He ignores rule of law principles. He supports the worst of Israeli crimes.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He deplores the notion of Arabs and Jews having equal rights. He endorses greater apartheid harshness than Black South Africans endured.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He menaces peaceful conflict resolution. He&#8217;s done so throughout his career.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">His top 10 list in alphabetical order includes:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">(1) ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s an activist group against war, imperialism, bigotry, civil and human rights, as well as Palestinian equity and justice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Its right over wrong agenda trumps Zionist hatemongering.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">(2) American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s a national education and advocacy organization. Making ADL&#8217;s list proves it&#8217;s &#8220;hitting the mark,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">According to national media and communications director Kristin Szremski:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;In trying to defame us, (ADL) recogniz(es) the impact of our work in educating the American public about Israel\u2019s occupation of the Palestinian people.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Of course we provide training about recognizing and exposing Zionist organizations.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s &#8216;because Zionism is racist. (It) has at its core the call for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine. The American public deserves to know the truth.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">(3) CODEPINK<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It calls itself &#8220;a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement.&#8221; It opposes &#8220;US funded wars and occupations.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It challenges global militarism. It &#8220;redirects (its) resources into health care, education, green jobs, and other life-affirming activities.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s not exclusively for women. Co-founders Medea Benjamin, Diane Wilson, and Starhawk urge male participation.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">At the same time, it especially wants &#8220;mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and daughters, female workers, students, teachers, healers, artists, writers, singers, poets and all outraged woman (to) rise up (against) global militarism.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">(4) Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA)<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It &#8220;promotes awareness and understanding&#8221; of the Israeli\/Palestinian conflict.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It does so &#8220;through educational programs for North American Christians.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It &#8220;seeks reconciliation between people of the Holy Land in a vision of peace based on principles of a just peace.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It prioritizes &#8220;the urgency of ending US support for Israel&#8217;s illegal military occupation.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">(5) If Americans Knew (IAK)\/Council for the National Interest (CNI)<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">IAK calls its mission &#8220;inform(ing) and educat(ing) the American public on issues of major significance that are unreported, underreported, or misreported in the American media.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It believes conflict resolution and justice depend on revealing vital truths major media scoundrels suppress.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Founder Alison Weir acknowledged making ADL&#8217;s top 10 list. &#8220;We are pleased ADL noticed,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;We are pleased to announce that (IAK) is in this elite group of principled organizations.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Weir is a longtime member of ADL&#8217;s top five Americans against Israeli injustice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">The Council for the National Interest (CNI) &#8220;works for US Middle East policies that represent the highest values of our founders and our citizens and that work to sustain a nation of honor, decency, security, and prosperity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It congratulated its other truth-telling comrades for making ADL&#8217;s top 10 list. &#8220;(Y)ou are the pride of the United States and the whole world,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the highest accolades truth-telling fighters against racism and bigotry could hope for.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">(6) Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP)<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It seeks equity, peace, security, and self-determination for Israelis and Palestinians.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It does so through &#8220;grassroots organizing, education, advocacy, and media.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It calls itself the only US Jewish organization providing a voice for Jews and their allies seeking peace &#8220;through justice and full equality for Jews and Muslims alike.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">(7) Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It &#8220;informs and shapes public opinion and policy by serving as a trusted resource (for) decision makers in government, media and policy institutions.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s committed to &#8220;enhancing the political and civic participation of American Muslims.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It &#8220;promot(es) Islamic values of mercy, justice, peace, human dignity, freedom and equality for all.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">ADL advocates polar opposite policies.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">(8) Neturei Karta<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It promotes Torah Judaism. &#8220;Its only loyalty is to G-d and His revelation.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It believes Jews were exiled &#8220;due to Divine decree.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s anti-Zionist. It calls its ideology &#8220;heresy.&#8221; It rejects its &#8220;aggression against all peoples.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Today this cruelty manifests itself primarily in the brutal treatment of the Palestinian people,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It claims doing so violates core Torah principles. It seeks peace and reconciliation with all peoples and nations.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Furthering it is especially vital in Middle East Islamic countries, it says. It&#8217;s where Zionists have &#8220;done so much to ruin Jewish &#8211; Muslim understanding.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It welcomes everyone of good will to join them.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">(9) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It opposes apartheid and occupation. It does so through protests, memorials, and other initiatives.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It highlights the plight of Palestinians against longstanding Israeli aggression and occupation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">(10) US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s a &#8220;diverse coalition working for freedom from occupation and equal rights\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00a6&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It does so &#8220;by challenging US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.&#8221; It seeks peace, justice, and conciliation by &#8220;chang(ing) the US role.&#8221; It calls its initiative the essential way to do it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Policies ADL and 51 other Zionist organizations endorse are polar opposite those the above organizations support.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They believe peace, equity and justice are verboten. They support wrong over right. They promote Israeli supremacy, exceptionalism and specialness.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They&#8217;re comfortable about its belligerence, persecution, racism, occupation harshness and land theft.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They believe Israel&#8217;s rights alone matter. They claim it has a divine right to all parts of Judea and Samaria it wishes. They consider Arabs subhuman. It shows in their longstanding hatemongering policies.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">His new book is titled &#8220;Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">http:\/\/www.progressiveradionetwork.com\/the-progressive-news-hour<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><b>Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s Top 10 Anti-Israeli Groups<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ADL fronts for Jewish supremacy. It supports Israeli rights over Arabs. It backs occupation harshness. It believes colonizing Palestine for dominance and exploitation is OK.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s one of 52 Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organization (CPMAJO) Zionist organizations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They disseminate pro-Israeli propaganda. They conduct smear campaigns against its critics. They spew hate and malicious lies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They do so under the ruse of fighting anti-semitism. They claim support for human rights equitably for all. Their policies are polar opposite.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ADL&#8217;s history is long and disturbing. It&#8217;s shamelessly loathsome. It believes Arabs are inferior to Jews.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It wants Palestinians denied self-determination. It believes Jews alone have rights.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It favors conflict over peace, equity and justice. It&#8217;s a monument to unfairness. It substitutes myths for facts. It spews hate. It&#8217;s a rogue organization writ large.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It publishes an annual top 10 anti-Israeli organization list. On October 21, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adl.org\/press-center\/press-releases\/israel-middle-east\/adl-lists-top-ten-anti-israel-groups-in-america.html#.UmVcCRar3uQ\"><span>press release<\/span><\/a> headlined &#8220;ADL Lists Top 10 Anti-Israeli Groups in America in 2013,&#8221; saying:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They&#8217;re &#8220;fixated with delegitimizing Israel.&#8221; They &#8220;demonstrated the ability to reach new segments of the American public with a hostile and misleading narrative about Israel.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to national director Abe Foxman:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The Top 10 anti-Israel groups are the most significant players in the domestic anti-Israel movement today.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They prioritize &#8220;delegitimizing Israel and convincing the American public that (it&#8217;s) an international villain that deserves to be ostracized and isolated.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s all that and then some. Don&#8217;t expect Foxman to explain.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;In compiling its list, ADL considered various criteria,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They include:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>organizing ability;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>sponsoring and endorsing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>sponsoring and participating in anti-Israeli rallies, panel discussions or conferences; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>pursuing anti-Israeli lobbying and other policy initiatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Israel and influential Jews exert enormous sway over government and media policy, they say.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Israel is compared to Nazi Germany. One state for Jews and Arabs is advocated.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Support is given to legitimate resistance groups Israel wrongfully calls terrorist organizations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to Foxman:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ADL&#8217;s top ten represents &#8220;the worst of the worst anti-Israel groups.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;They lob any and every accusation against Israel, including charges of Nazi-like crimes, &#8216;apartheid&#8217; policies, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and genocide.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Their accusations are rarely, if ever, balanced with an acknowledgement of Israel&#8217;s repeated efforts to make peace with the Palestinians, or the legitimate terrorism concerns faced by Israeli citizens.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Foxman masquerades as a human rights champion. He consistently turns truth on its head. His lies long ago wore thin. He repeats them ad nauseam.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He&#8217;s a longstanding Islamophobe. He ignores rule of law principles. He supports the worst of Israeli crimes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He deplores the notion of Arabs and Jews having equal rights. He endorses greater apartheid harshness than Black South Africans endured.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He menaces peaceful conflict resolution. He&#8217;s done so throughout his career.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His top 10 list in alphabetical order includes:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(1) ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s an activist group against war, imperialism, bigotry, civil and human rights, as well as Palestinian equity and justice.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Its right over wrong agenda trumps Zionist hatemongering.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(2) American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s a national education and advocacy organization. Making ADL&#8217;s list proves it&#8217;s &#8220;hitting the mark,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to national media and communications director Kristin Szremski:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;In trying to defame us, (ADL) recogniz(es) the impact of our work in educating the American public about Israel&rsquo;s occupation of the Palestinian people.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Of course we provide training about recognizing and exposing Zionist organizations.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s &#8216;because Zionism is racist. (It) has at its core the call for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine. The American public deserves to know the truth.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(3) CODEPINK<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It calls itself &#8220;a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement.&#8221; It opposes &#8220;US funded wars and occupations.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It challenges global militarism. It &#8220;redirects (its) resources into health care, education, green jobs, and other life-affirming activities.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s not exclusively for women. Co-founders Medea Benjamin, Diane Wilson, and Starhawk urge male participation.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the same time, it especially wants &#8220;mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and daughters, female workers, students, teachers, healers, artists, writers, singers, poets and all outraged woman (to) rise up (against) global militarism.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(4) Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It &#8220;promotes awareness and understanding&#8221; of the Israeli\/Palestinian conflict.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It does so &#8220;through educational programs for North American Christians.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It &#8220;seeks reconciliation between people of the Holy Land in a vision of peace based on principles of a just peace.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It prioritizes &#8220;the urgency of ending US support for Israel&#8217;s illegal military occupation.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(5) If Americans Knew (IAK)\/Council for the National Interest (CNI)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>IAK calls its mission &#8220;inform(ing) and educat(ing) the American public on issues of major significance that are unreported, underreported, or misreported in the American media.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It believes conflict resolution and justice depend on revealing vital truths major media scoundrels suppress.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Founder Alison Weir acknowledged making ADL&#8217;s top 10 list. &#8220;We are pleased ADL noticed,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We are pleased to announce that (IAK) is in this elite group of principled organizations.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Weir is a longtime member of ADL&#8217;s top five Americans against Israeli injustice.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Council for the National Interest (CNI) &#8220;works for US Middle East policies that represent the highest values of our founders and our citizens and that work to sustain a nation of honor, decency, security, and prosperity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It congratulated its other truth-telling comrades for making ADL&#8217;s top 10 list. &#8220;(Y)ou are the pride of the United States and the whole world,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the highest accolades truth-telling fighters against racism and bigotry could hope for.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(6) Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It seeks equity, peace, security, and self-determination for Israelis and Palestinians.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It does so through &#8220;grassroots organizing, education, advocacy, and media.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It calls itself the only US Jewish organization providing a voice for Jews and their allies seeking peace &#8220;through justice and full equality for Jews and Muslims alike.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(7) Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It &#8220;informs and shapes public opinion and policy by serving as a trusted resource (for) decision makers in government, media and policy institutions.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s committed to &#8220;enhancing the political and civic participation of American Muslims.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It &#8220;promot(es) Islamic values of mercy, justice, peace, human dignity, freedom and equality for all.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ADL advocates polar opposite policies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(8) Neturei Karta<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It promotes Torah Judaism. &#8220;Its only loyalty is to G-d and His revelation.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It believes Jews were exiled &#8220;due to Divine decree.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s anti-Zionist. It calls its ideology &#8220;heresy.&#8221; It rejects its &#8220;aggression against all peoples.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Today this cruelty manifests itself primarily in the brutal treatment of the Palestinian people,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It claims doing so violates core Torah principles. It seeks peace and reconciliation with all peoples and nations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Furthering it is especially vital in Middle East Islamic countries, it says. It&#8217;s where Zionists have &#8220;done so much to ruin Jewish &#8211; Muslim understanding.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It welcomes everyone of good will to join them.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(9) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It opposes apartheid and occupation. It does so through protests, memorials, and other initiatives.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It highlights the plight of Palestinians against longstanding Israeli aggression and occupation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(10) US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s a &#8220;diverse coalition working for freedom from occupation and equal rights&acirc;&euro;&brvbar;&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It does so &#8220;by challenging US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.&#8221; It seeks peace, justice, and conciliation by &#8220;chang(ing) the US role.&#8221; It calls its initiative the essential way to do it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Policies ADL and 51 other Zionist organizations endorse are polar opposite those the above organizations support.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They believe peace, equity and justice are verboten. They support wrong over right. They promote Israeli supremacy, exceptionalism and specialness.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They&#8217;re comfortable about its belligerence, persecution, racism, occupation harshness and land theft.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They believe Israel&#8217;s rights alone matter. They claim it has a divine right to all parts of Judea and Samaria it wishes. They consider Arabs subhuman. It shows in their longstanding hatemongering policies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His new book is titled &#8220;Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/www.progressiveradionetwork.com\/the-progressive-news-hour<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}