- The ADL is...
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- "...one of the ugliest, most powerful pressure groups
in the U.S... 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 ('Israel')."
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- -- Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
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- The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL)
gave an award Nov. 18, 1998 to the city of Coeur d'Alene. City Fathers
assume this is something to be proud of and have unthinkingly rolled out
the red carpet for the ADL.
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- They think that an imprimatur from the ADL, a prominent
Jewish group with a multi-million dollar budget and substantial media clout,
is a kind of certification of our area's goodness. But in point of fact,
hosting the ADL and its regional Seattle director at the Coeur d'Alene
Resort is a shameful blot on the region.
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- The ADL is a branch of the masonic B'nai B'rith (Sons
of the Covenant), which was established Oct. 13, 1843.
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- Up until recently, for decades the chief "fact-finder"
(head spy) for the ADL was the late Irwin Suall. From 1957 through 1962,
Mr. Suall was national secretary of the Socialist Party. (1)
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- The ADL keeps extensive espionage files on those
who are critical of Israeli policies. Last year the ADL attempted to blackmail
Benjamin Chavis, leader of the NAACP, with some of those files. (2)
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- The ADL spies on American dissidents on behalf of
the Israeli government. Automobile license plate numbers of people attending
a meeting of the Committee on the Middle East were recorded by ADL agent
Roy Bullock, channeled through San Francisco police officer Tom Gerard,
also an ADL operative, and furnished to the Israeli government. (3)
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- The ADL claims that it has the right to "investigate"
dissidents and "probe into their private lives". When asked in
court, "Does that mean anyone who participates in a political rally
can be the subject of an in-depth investigation?" ADL attorney Stephen
Bomse responded in the affirmative. (4)
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- In 1996, the ADL praised the prison sentence meted
out to an American publisher in Germany: "ADL today said it was gratified
that a German court sentenced American...Gary Lauck to four years in prison
for...disseminating anti-Semitic...hate material." (5)
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- In January of 1998, ADL Director Abraham Foxman ordered
Metropolitan Books to halt publication of "A Nation on Trial: The
Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth", a book which exposed fraud
perpetrated by anti-German bigot Daniel Goldhagen. (6)
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- Early in November of 1998, ADL Director Foxman was
at it again, this time ordering the media to ban black leader Louis Farrakhan
from the airwaves. Foxman's demand can be summarized as, "Keep Farrakhan
off all the television networks!" (7)
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- In 1993, the ADL illegally obtained California police
and government records in San Francisco on a wide array of dissident political
groups and turned them over to the Israeli government. Due to its enormous
influence, the ADL escaped criminal prosecution in return for paying $75,000
to groups that fight hate crimes. (8)
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- The ADL "runs a nationwide surveillance operation
on political groups with the assistance of other law enforcement officials...The
ADL spied on political groups in the US and this information allegedly
made its way to Israeli security authorities." (9)
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- On Aug. 2, 1994, seventy-five Jewish-Americans accused
the ADL of "engaging in defamation" in the ADL's attacks on Christian
conservatives. (10)
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- The seventy-five stated that the ADL uses "such
discreditable techniques as insinuation and guilt by association"
to compile its secret files on dissenters. (11)
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- On Aug. 9, 1994, Houston attorney Gary Polland compiled
an analysis of an ADL attack on Christians. "Among other things, the
analysis demonstrates that ...(ADL Director) Foxman lied..." (12)
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- Syndicated columnist Mona Charen wrote: "...there
is the crude, but undeniable fact that the ADL is in the anti-Semitism
business...It is playing upon ancient fears...and it is doing so dishonestly,
with quotes taken out of context and flagrantly false accusations."
(13)
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- In 1987, the B'nai B'rith of Canada was ordered to
pay $400,000 for defaming a Winnipeg woman. (14)
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- On March 14, 1996, the B'nai B'rith called a press
conference in Toronto urging the government to arrest revisionist publisher
Ernst Zündel for printing revisionist pamphlets the Zionist group
abhors. (15)
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- Jewish journalist Robert I. Friedman says the ADL
is "the largest private spy agency in America... working behind the
scenes to stifle intellectual freedom." (16)
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- According to the Associated Press, the ADL was instrumental
in suppressing an advertisement on the Lycos Internet Website for the "Jews
for Jesus" organization. Lycos Inc. stated that it "would not
renew an advertisement from Jews for Jesus because of complaints from some
in the Jewish community."
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- Lycos said several Jewish people took offense when
the ad popped up on their computer screens as they searched for Web sites
containing the word "Jewish". Jeffrey Snider, Lycos' general
counsel, told The Boston Globe that the ad's contract, which expires in
several days, was not renewed because "controversial advertising is
bad for business".
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- According to the Associated Press, the ad "was
opposed by the Anti-Defamation League's Boston office. Diane Kolb, ADL
associate director, said she believes the "Jews for Jesus" message
is "misleading and blasphemous". (17)
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- When the U.S. government keeps a file on a citizen
that individual can pursue a Freedom of Information inquiry to ascertain
the contents and accuracy of the government dossier.
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- But in the case of the secret files of the ADL which
the group shares with U.S. Intelligence and the Israeli secret police (Mossad),
the citizen has no recourse whatever.
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- If an anti-Communist, right wing group were to engage
in such massive domestic spying our local press and politicians would thunder
anathemas against this "new McCarthyism". But when a totalitarian
Zionist organization engages in such tactics, the Establishment media act
as their dutiful mouthpiece, and the Federal government gives them semi-official
status as "watchdogs over extremism".
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- End Notes
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- [1] Lenni Brenner, "The ADL", American
Educational Trust, 1996, p. 18.
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- [2] Village Voice, Nov. 11, 1997, pp. 48, 50, 53.
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- [3] The Independent (San Francisco, CA), Oct. 22,
1998, p. 11.
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- [4] Ibid.
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- [5] ADL Press Release, Aug. 22, 1996.
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- [6] NY Times, Jan. 10, 1998.
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- [7] "ADL Attack on NBC", Coeur d'Alene
Press, Nov. 15, 1998.
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- [8] "Privacy Suit Against ADL Allowed",
A.P. Nov. 17, 1998.
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- [9] SF Weekly, March 31, 1993.
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- [10] NY Times, Aug. 2, 1994.
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- [11] The New American, Sept. 19, 1994, p. 13.
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- [12] Ibid.
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- [13] The Wanderer (St. Paul, MN), Aug, 1994, p. 10.
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- [14] The Globe and Mail, Nov. 26, 1987.
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- [15] Toronto Star, March 15, 1996.
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- [16] Robert I. Friedman, "The Jewish Thought
Police", Village Voice, July 27, 1993.
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- [17] Associated Press, Aug. 11, 1999
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