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StinkyPete

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Thu Jun 28, 2018, 04:49 PM Jun 2018

For A Century, White Supremacists Have Smeared the ADL. Now, The Left Has Picked Up The Habit [View all]

Just a bit from the end of a long but great article!

There’s a categorical difference between constructive criticism and demonization. Anti-Semitism imagines a shadowy Jewish tyranny that deprives deserving people of their freedom with impunity. As described by Joseph Goebbels, it “stands behind all the unnatural forces that…attempt to deceive the world and keep humanity in the dark.” ADL, since its inception and for nearly a century, has been held to represent this conspiracy. To the anti-Semite, ADL is a ruthless lever of power to suppress people and muzzle dissent.

While ADL is the immediate target of such delegitimization, the ultimate target of these campaigns is Jewry as a whole.

To campaign against the very legitimacy of ADL is to campaign against Jews.

Read more: https://forward.com/opinion/403880/for-a-century-anti-semites-have-attacked-the-adl-now-the-left-has-picked/
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I'm just tired MosheFeingold Jun 2018 #1
I think im going to start donating to the ADL Mosby Jun 2018 #2
Well, there's always MosheFeingold Jun 2018 #3
If Ocasio-Cortez & her friends turn the Dem. Party into Corbynite Labour StinkyPete Jun 2018 #4
It's a concern. MosheFeingold Jun 2018 #5
Is that an actual quote??? EllieBC Jun 2018 #6
She didn't make the quote. Behind the Aegis Jun 2018 #8
Did you see this? Behind the Aegis Jun 2018 #7
I'm not sure I buy it MosheFeingold Jul 2018 #9
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