These false claims from the ADL were international news, and numerous establishment media talking heads repeat these lies as if they were true. Mission accomplished.
“The ADL Can’t Stop Faking Hate Crime Statistics,” by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage, February 12, 2019:
“Right-Wing Extremist Violence is Our Biggest Threat. The Numbers Don’t Lie,” Jonathan Greenblatt blared in a JTA editorial.
Numbers don’t lie. But people lie with numbers all the time.
Greenblatt’s ADL has become notorious for undermining its mission by putting out fake hate crime statistics. And these fake statistics were as surreally egregious as they were confusing.
The executive summary of the ADL’s annual report claimed that, “2018 was a particularly active year for right-wing extremist murders: Every single extremist killing — from Pittsburgh to Parkland — had a link to right-wing extremism.” This false claim was quickly picked up and repeated by the media.
Typically, the ADL report contradicts itself when it later claims that, “Almost all of the 2018 extremist-related murders were committed by right-wing extremists.”
Is it “every” or “almost all”?
The trick here is that the ADL report exploits any link, no matter how tenuous or dubious, to make its first claim, while its second claim essentially concedes that the shooters weren’t “right-wing extremists”.
How is it possible for a killer to have links to “right-wing extremism” without being a “right-wing extremist”? Why even try to link people who aren’t “right-wing extremists” to “right-wing extremism”?
The Parkland school shooting, whose 17 victims serve as a huge part of the report’s dubious statistics, illustrate how the ADL manufactures a link to “right-wing extremism”.
Attributing the Parkland school shooting to “right-wing extremism” is a conspiracy theory. The ADL began pushing this conspiracy theory after the shooting based on an interview with a white supremacist group. The ADL’s fake news was picked up by everyone from the Associated Press to Neo-Nazis, but the discredited social justice group got the material from alt-right trolls on 4chan. And even after the claims were disproven, the ADL refused to retract it and has chosen to double down on its fake news.
Cruz did appear to have etched swastikas on his ammo magazines, but he also told the authorities that he heard voices in his head. He had said racist and anti-Semitic things, but all but one of his victims were white. Five of his seventeen victims were Jewish, but Parkland has a sizable Jewish population. It’s possible that Cruz targeted Jewish students and faculty, but there’s no actual evidence of that.
And the ADL’s original assertion of a link to “right-wing extremism” long ago fell apart. But instead of retracting it, the ADL is exploiting the Parkland shooting to push fake hate crime statistics.
The ADL’s reports usually contradict themselves. And this one is no exception. It lists murders by Tierre Guthrie and Malachi Qaadir Dorns, African-American members of black nationalist Moorish groups. While Moorish groups do use terms like “sovereign citizen”, it’s highly misleading to define them as “right-wing”, especially considering the misleading impression that this description creates.
“Largely absent from this list of killers were extremists motivated by radical interpretations of Islam. Only one of the 50 murderers had any connection to Islamist extremism — and even he had ties to white supremacy,” Greenblatt claimed.
Most Islamic terror plots in the United States were unsuccessful in 2018. And the media quickly pounced with multiple pieces insisting that Islamic terrorism was no longer a claim, while overlooking many of the catastrophic terror plots that were broken up or proved unsuccessful.
We got lucky in 2018. How lucky?
In Cleveland, Abdur Raheem Rafeeq plotted to bomb the 4th of July parade using remote control cars packed with C-4 explosive. “The wicked Catholics, Jews all of them,” Rafeeq had ranted.
While the media and other terror apologists dismiss plots broken up by FBI informants as fake, there was nothing fake about what happened in March at Travis Air Force Base.
Hafiz Kazi in California packed a minivan full of propane tanks and gasoline cans, in a plot similar to previous ISIS attacks in Europe, and smashed through the gate at Travis Air Force Base, but only succeeded in setting himself on fire.
Hafiz is an Islamic term meaning someone who has memorized the entire Koran by heart.
In Philly, Khalil Lawal was shot and killed after trying to run over pedestrians. Like Hafiz, Lawal’s attack only claimed his own life, but unlike Hafiz, he managed to injure one pedestrian and a police detective.
Any of these attacks could have left dozens dead.
But, most significantly, the ADL neglected the Toledo synagogue plot by an Islamic terrorist who had wanted to carry out a synagogue attack modeled on the Pittsburgh Tree of Life mass shooting. The attack, which was intended to kill a Rabbi and congregants, was stopped with a Chanukah arrest.
But the ADL report appears to have little interest in a synagogue terror plot by a Muslim terrorist.
Even when the ADL does list an act of Islamic violence, like the Islamic stabbings in Florida, it tries to spin it as right-wing extremism.
Corey Johnson, a 17-year-old convert to Islam, stabbed two 13-year-old boys, and Elaine Simon, the mother of one of the boys, at a sleepover, because one of them had mocked his Islamic religion.
The Muslim convert who called himself Mustafa had watched Jihadist videos telling him to make war on non-Muslims in Allah’s name and read the Koran “to give him courage to carry out his intentions.”
First, Mustafa stabbed and slit the throat of one of the 13-year-old boys. Simon, whose house this was, heard the noise and went up to see what was happening. He stabbed her a dozen times and she fell down the stairs. Her 13-year-old son tried to protect her, and was stabbed two dozen times.
Mustafa’s statement declares that there is a war between Muslims and non-Muslims. He quoted Zarqawi, the founder of the Islamist group that eventually turned into ISIS.
He also praised the Islamic terrorist who attacked a Jewish supermarket in France.
In 2016, Mustafa had come to the attention of the FBI when he sent a message about a Catholic school, declaring, “We have our sights set on you, and by Allah we will kill every single infidel student at this school.”
Before Mustafa’s stabbing spree, the FBI was preparing to finally arrest him for those threats. (It was only 2 years and one life too late, but the Bureau is too busy these days entrapping Republicans in process crimes on behalf of the same Democrats who stripped away its counterterrorism functions.)
“Every single extremist killing — from Pittsburgh to Parkland — had a link to right-wing extremism,” the ADL had falsely claimed.
And it looked at Mustafa’s Jihadist videos, his confession and blamed… right-wing extremism.
“Only one of the 50 murderers had any connection to Islamist extremism — and even he had ties to white supremacy,” Greenblatt wrote in his JTA editorial.
Mustafa/Johnson had indeed been a fan of the KKK in the past. Then he turned to Islam.
What was the relevance of his past views to his motives for the stabbings that he carried out for Islam?
The ADL report describes him as having “multiple extremist affiliations”. That’s also distorting the truth. Mustafa, at the time that he committed his crimes, had only one affiliation. He was a Muslim terrorist.
“The Numbers Don’t Lie,” Greenblatt claimed. And then demonstrated how you can lie with numbers.
The ADL’s fake news was quickly picked up by ABC News, The Independent, Business Insider and countless other publications. And these fake statistics inflict serious harm on the ADL’s credibility.
Greenblatt’s political biases have distorted the ADL’s reporting leading to publicity stunts that appeal to the Left while ignoring the threats and violence coming from the Left and from its Islamic allies.
The ADL has become a disgraceful failure as a civil rights group. But when it comes to fake statistics, it’s giving the Southern Poverty Law Center a run for its money.
mortimer says
ADL does not classify JIHAD-TERRORISM as true terrorism.
“Turhibunna” (terrorize them) – Koran 8.60
So, it isn’t ‘terrorism’ when Muslims do it.
J D S says
I don’t know how many potential terrorist attacks were thwarted by our law enforcement officials but am thankful for everyone they stopped…Muslim terrorism is a FACT of life in this day and time….It’s authorized in their constitution, the Koran, and other Islamic writings and there will always be that stupid faction out there that follow these writings, teachings, and preaching to the letter and will continue till the world puts a stop to Islam. Well it may be too late to stop Islam…migration, which is actually a part of the Muslim movement yo conqueror the west, has but the brakes on most efforts to curb Islamic transgression.
They multiply like rats, work their way into elected and appointed political offices, establish multiple Muslim organizations .
.Well one sees wherein going with this and I think most out there can understand that Islamist are out to fulfill their goal of world domination….without a military force….Strange!
gravenimage says
+1
Barbara Brandstatter Bass says
ADL infested with liberals/progressives who ‘wanna be liked by elite’ is more important than advocating for Jewish people. All funding contributions need to be cut off.
FYI says
Does Jonathan Greenblatt and his ADL not know about the islamic supremacist ideology behind SAHIH MUSLIM # 6985:islam’s call for the destruction of the Jews?
“There is a Jew behind me…kill him”
Or perhaps like some Jews in 1930’s nazi Germany,they might cross-their fingers and hope it will go away?
Certainly Far right nazis {and Far left bolsheviks:it is the Far left too..} have always targeted the Jews.
But antisemitic islamic ideology has always been the greatest existential threat to Jews and Israel.
No other religion in the World calls for wiping out another religion.
Except islam.
Sahih Muslim # 6985
{“See Jonathan?The numbers 6985 don’t lie”…}
The meshugeners of the ADL:Does it hurt to be crazy?
christianblood says
Why do Jewish liberal elites in the West collude with Islamists while demonizing peaceful Christian patriots?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHLWjvssAag
FYI says
I honestly don’t know..islam has an ideology that calls for wiping out the Jews Sahih Muslim #6985.
There is certainly nothing in Christianity like that.
christianblood says
FYI
+1
Indiana Tom says
Of course, christianblood never misses what he considers a chance to slam Jews.
Because Bolshevik Jews are easy to slam. Seriously, I have heard Jews say that most Jews are totally brainwashed about the Liberal Agenda. They keep wondering why they are slitting their own throat.
Rarely says
Jews colluding with jihadists? Don’t be ridiculous.
What the Hell are “Bolshevik Jews”?
While true that the Christian religion does not call for the extermination of Jews per se there are many “Christians” in the far right movements of neo-Nazism and white supremacy who ARE terribly anti-Semitic.
As usual Jews are getting it from both ends and walk a tight rope somewhere in the middle. Jews cannot align themselves with either end and those that do are very foolish BUT those that do aren’t doing so because they are Jewish but because they are foolish. The same criticism can be made for Christians that align themselves with the far left but we don’t see very much of that here.
BTW Germany’s Jews did their best to get out of Germany before WWII (and many did) but the great western democracies of Great Britain, Canada and the U.S. wouldn’t take them or, at least, had very small quotas. For those that were left for the Nazis there was virtually nowhere to go.
The ADL has a pretty big job to do and, if it is being too easy on the islamists, as it appears, this would have nothing to do with ideology. Of course they should not fudge the numbers but they are not secret supporters of islamists in any way.
gravenimage says
There are clueless Jews *and* clueless Gentiles.
Of course, christianblood never misses what he considers a chance to slam Jews.
Westman says
Let’s hear the ADL refute this: “Worldwide, Muslims commit the overwhelming majority of violent mayhem that is committed in the name of a religion or God” Now explain why, Mr. Greenblatt. We’re waiting….
gravenimage says
+1
Charles says
The ADL and the SPLC, with their unmitigated power and suspicious sources or money from foreign lobbies have become the biggest threat to America freedom since the age of Robert Bellarmine, Thomas De Torquemada, John Hathorn and Reverend Cotton Mather. They have weaponized the term “hate speech” and “racism” to attack critics and opponents to nefarious ideologies. Smearing is the new norm, and even children, like the Covington Boys are fair game. People like Colin Flaherty are censored from media platforms even though they cite all their work and all their narratives with easily references sourcing. The media fails to tell the truth, so it gives rise to critics like Colin. They place Ayaan Hirsi Ali on lists of “Anti Islamic extremists”. This is the new breed of witch hunter, abusing their power and pandering to identity groups to shut down critics and political opposition. Never in my life have I seen such power against our constitutional rights.
Thanks Robert and your colleagues for holding to your word, and using solid citable truths to tell a counter narrative. I have no hate for people, and have never witnessed exhortations in your work. I merely see the analysis of a large body of ancient literature that is the core doctrine of Islamic thought, and how it directly effects the minds of those who follow it in a literal sense.
At one time we seemed skilled at linking doctrine to action, like the doctrine of the Goddess Kali to the random murders of the Thuggees of India, or the doctrine of the Nazis to the writings in Mein Kampf. Now we have a new class of well capitalized censors who will smear, bankrupt, or ruin you, if you criticize their any of their protected class.
mgoldberg says
Utopians and tyrannies share common ground. Their cherished beliefs and memes demand dimuntion and erasure of ‘lesser’, inferior belief systems. Hence the idea of the furious need to determine right vs wrong, and to debate and demonstrate the ideas is itself diminished as more than unnecessary and better served with elimination. So, when Ayan hirsi Ali, and all the others who suffered as real victims of Islam are presented, they aren’t allowed to even expose and delineate their facts. That would be too painful for the utopians, and those of leftist mentality ( and leftist lite mentality) to handle as it would destroy their memes.
Ordinary people are told to maintain the mantra ‘social justice’ but never consider what it actually means, nor doesn’t mean, lest they become incubators of inferior ideas. This is the latest iron curtain…. the iron curtain that prevents sifting and winnowing and ferrating out facts from fiction
Jack Cade says
Muslims and libtards are liars.
vlparker says
If Cruz was wearing swastikas then that was a left wing hate crime, not a right wing hate crime. Hitler was a leftist, a National Socialist. He believed in gun control, control of the press, socialized medicine and control of industry.
This decades old narrative that Hitler was on the right can only continue to live on because conservatives accept it. Conservatives have let the left ingrain this meme in the minds of Americans until everyone believes it without question. Conservatives have to fight back against this falsehood. Candace Owens was trying to do just that. She could have done a better job of it, but at least she was trying.
Paul J says
Exactly, Hitler was a National SOCIALIST. Why the hell can’t people understand this simple fact. Hitler was a Left Wing Socialist by his own admission.
Indiana Tom says
Mussolini proves you really can be “ultra right” and ultra left all at the same time. The biggest difference between Hitler and Stalin was the shape of their mustaches.
gravenimage says
ADL falsifies hate crime statistics to claim “right-wing extremists” are biggest threat
………………..
Disgusting.
Lydia Church says
They want us to be the biggest threat.
We are not even a threat at all.
So they need to falsify the statistics to support their false claims.
False statistics for false claims.
That is all they need to label us, and to spread the slander that the media will take in a viral direction.
Mission accomplished.
We are the target.
Indiana Tom says
It really is sort of ironic that liberal ADL Jews give Muslims a free pass and consider them as allies against right wing Christians while the group that is most likely to kill them are their Muslim buddies.
christianblood says
Indiana Tom posted
(…It really is sort of ironic that liberal ADL Jews give Muslims a free pass and consider them as allies against right wing Christians while the group that is most likely to kill them are their Muslim buddies…)
Indiana Tom, you never miss a chance to slam the Jews, do you?
Haha!
gravenimage says
What an idiot.
H2O says
In addition to false reporting, the ADL is confusing NAZIS with a right wing phenomenon. Jonathon Greenblat, you are a liar and a propagator of false history. Say it with me slowly Jonathon: National SOCIALIST Workers Party or NAZI for short. The NAZIS that slaughtered so many Jews before and during WWII were just another flavor of totalitarian socialism. But hey Jonathon, most Jews are BRAINWASHED dyed in the wool demonRat voters, so why should we expect better from you? Your so framed “right wing” enemy Goebbels taught you well. Just keep repeating lies loud enough and long enough for people to believe them Jonathon. Go to hell.
R Cole says
If you are ADL and you trying to get donations from the liberal elite and continue to enjoy the comforts that far-left support bestows, saying the motivation behind a terror attack was Islam, or the hate crimes of members of an extremist black group, had other motivations – will not keep those donations topped up.
At least ADL bothered to check these crimes took place. Reportedly much SPLC’s right wing hate crimes list is unverified. It’s extremely worrying because, anyone who has read a genuine human rights report, realizes how much trouble these – often cash strapped agencies – go through to document a case. They take the victims full name, they contact the police and or local authorities, they have a person on the ground. None of which seems to be the case with SPLC hate crimes reports, even as they are certain, since the election, these “hate crimes” are all connected to Trump.
Trump-Inspired Harassment Hoaxes | A Case Study
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5fg1OfH018