The Left doesn’t see inconvenient facts. New in FrontPage:
If the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), it would change its name to the Anti-Right Wing Defamation League, because whenever Jew-hatred comes from the Left or from adherents of the Left’s favorite religion, Islam, the ADL just doesn’t see it. So it came as no real surprise Thursday when Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) announced that “The ADL’s 2021 ‘Murder and Extremism in the United States’ report covers up for anti-Semitism from the Nation of Islam, Muslims, and other ‘non-traditional’ sources.” That’s what the ADL does. It would have been more surprising if the ADL had covered Islamic anti-Semitism.
This is the ADL that, after an Islamic jihadi stormed a Texas synagogue and took hostages, published an article entitled “Extremists Respond to Colleyville Hostage Crisis with Antisemitism, Islamophobia,” pointing the finger at those who explained the Colleyville hostage taker’s beliefs, and continuingto ignore the deep roots of Jew-hatred in Islamic texts and teachings. The ADL was worried that “anti-Muslim extremists used the hostage situation as an opportunity to peddle their bigoted views about Islam and Muslim people,” but of course didn’t even bother to try to prove these allegedly bigoted views to be false.
Americans for Peace and Tolerance shows that the ADL is still playing the same deceptive game: the self-proclaimed anti-Semitism watchdog’s “latest report on ‘Murder and Extremism in the United States’ falsely elevates the threat from ‘white supremacists’ while playing down the threat from non-white Jew-haters.”
The ADL’s report claims that “white supremacists killed more people in 2021 than any other type of extremist,” and that “most of the murders (26 of 29) were committed by right-wing extremists.”
Americans for Peace and Tolerance, however, shows that “this is completely misleading. The report ignores the worst terrorist attack of 2021: anti-Semitic black supremacist and Nation of Islam sympathizer Darrel Brooks’ vehicular rampage in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on November 21. Brooks, deliberately targeting white people, drove his SUV through a pre-Christmas parade, hitting 68 people and killing six, including an eight-year-old child.”
APT adds that “it is black supremacist — not white supremacist — anti-Semites who are largely responsible for the meteoric rise in attacks on Orthodox Jewish communities in New York. According to the NYPD, hate crimes against Jews in New York have risen 409% between February of 2021 and February of 2022. When surveillance images of the attacks exist, the perpetrators are very often black, or, in cases from just after Israel’s war with Hamas in May of last year, largely Muslim. More examples (such as here, here, here, and here) are not difficult to find.”
This is largely because the ADL’s use of the available data is highly selective, and clearly designed to elicit statistics that they could use for their own propaganda purposes: “The ADL’s report chose to focus on only 29 of the 21,570 murders across America in 2021. It drums up the danger of white supremacist gangs while anti-Semitic Black Lives Matter, responsible for many murders of police officers, is never mentioned.”
APT comes to the only possible conclusion: “This not what the ADL should be doing. The ADL is a disgraced, utterly politicized organization, actively covering up anti-Semitism coming from ‘politically incorrect’ sources in order to serve its leftist agenda. The Jewish community is under siege from all sides, yet the ADL chooses to continue with politics as usual.”
Not only does ADL top dog Jonathan Greenblatt ignore Islamic Jew-hatred; he also demonizes and smears those who call attention to it, and Greenblatt claims that a “rise in anti-Muslim hate” is “coming,” based on opposition to Afghan evacuees coming into the United States. He doesn’t say anything about the suspected jihad terrorists who have already been discovered among the evacuees, or about how anti-Muslim hate crimes actually decreased by 42% last year. That’s just more of the kind of information that Jonathan Greenblatt clearly doesn’t want you to know, because it explodes his whole silly narrative of rising “Islamophobic” hysteria calling for solidarity with Muslims who face oppression, discrimination and harassment in the U.S., and casts doubts on the narrative he is trying to construct of Jews facing a threat only from the Right in the United States.
It is actually Leftists who are growing increasingly anti-Semitic and openly hostile to Jews, in imitation of their Muslim friends and allies. But for Jonathan Greenblatt to take any public notice of that would be to repudiate is own friends. Don’t count on it happening.
gravenimage says
ADL’s Anti-Semitism Report Ignores Islamic Jew-Hatred
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Disturbing willful blindness.
mortimer says
They are willfully blind to the fact that standard, traditional Islam is the MOST CONSERVATIVE and even the MOST FASCIST political movement there is. Anti-Semitism is a normative part of authentic, traditional Islam.
– Example: “In a Friday, February 14, 2020 sermon in Jerusalem that aired on the Hizb ut-Tahrir-affiliated Al-Waqiyah TV (Lebanon), Palestinian cleric … Sheikh Makharzah said that animosity towards the Jews is an OBLIGATORY religious DUTY for Muslims and that any Muslim who fails to show ENMITY towards the Jews is a heretic. He cited a Quranic verse that says that the Jews hold the most intense enmity against the Muslims.”
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer.
Roland Tours says
Conservative Jewish sources, such as Charles Jacobs, Commentary magazine, and JNS Jewish News Service have criticized Jonathan Greenblatt’s ADL, but a lot of dumb money keeps flowing there. Which is why Greenblatt remains in charge.
Andrew Blackadder says
The Left of today publicly, loudly, denigrates Christians and Jews but goes bat shit crazy if anybody used the same words against muslims, which is really weird as islam is totally against the beliefs of The Left and their entire agenda but I guess they just dont seem to know that muslims are using the Left leaning fools as useful idiots as islam teaches everything thats basically the opposite of what a Liberal holds near and ear.
Upside down world indeed.
mortimer says
The Left (informed by the neo-Marxist Frankfurt School) has declared war on the cultures of traditional Judaism and traditional Christianity. The Left has cunningly tricked Christian and Jewish leaders to espouse causes that destroy both religions and their cultures.
The goal of the Left is to control the culture through the schools and raise new generations of godless communists who will ignore the Sixth Commandment and reject the traditional family.
A number of Christian clergy, such as Pope Francis and some secular Jews have been seduced or duped into going along with these particularly un-Jewish and un-Christian agendas.
Alfredo says
The Useful Idiot’s Guide to Willful Blindness for Leftards could quite easily be the title of a book designed to mislead misinformed Leftards.
That’s the thinly disguised aim of the misleading report by the chief comrad at the ADL. Don’t look here! There’s nothing to see here. It is what they’re saying when it comes to reporting hate crimes against Jews.
It is now politically incorrect to point out when the violence against Jews is perpetrated by Blacks and Muslims. A “protected” class now apparently. Because the aim is to portray all Whites as deplorable opressors and irredeemable racists.
That’s perennialy popular trop among the so-called Progressives. It is the White supremacists and insurrectionists who constitue the greatest threat to America (…)
It is all consistent with the tenets of Critical Race Theory that is now being peddled incessantly as fact, by the famously dishonest and hopelessly biased corporate media.
mortimer says
In other words … The officially endorsed ‘victims’ are now APPROVED by the Left to become the officially endorsed ‘VICTIMIZERS’ of Jews and Christians.
The new VICTIMIZERS will never be CRITICIZED by the Leftards for victimizing Jews and Christians.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
It was Biden’s willfull incompetence in Afghanistan that gave the green light for the homicidal maniac in Russia to invade and murder thousands of mostly white Christians in the sovereign nation of Ukraine.Think about that for awhile.
Oh, how I hate Biden. What a useless, corrupt turd.
James Lincoln says
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness,
Yes, proof positive that rigged elections can have horrific consequences.
The fraudulent Biden administration has blood on its hands.
OLD GUY says
ADL ignores everything that Islam hates and actively promotes violence against. Islam is the new protected species. Funny there doesn’t seem to be a shortage of these islamic animals.
Walter Sieruk says
The Anti – defamation league must be deliberately embracing deliberate ignorance by ignoring that such jihadist hate for the Jewish people is the results of a firm but blind and unquestioning faith in the “holy book’ of Islam the Koran. Which instructs in violence and killing for the cause of Islam. As found in, for example, 4: 89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4.
In other words the Koran inspires and causes such hideous violence. Furthermore, another role the Koran has in such deadly Islamic terror attacks in the Jewish nation of Israel is that the Koran contains many negative about the Jewish people.
The reason that the Koran reads as it does have much to do with the history of the founder and prophet of Islam, who is Muhammad. This is for a specific time period of his life Muhammad lived among many Jewish people and he liked them at first.
Later then they would not accept his claim of being of prophet, Muhammad then took is dislike to them that then turned into bitterness and even hate for them. So in the hate and bitterness he spoke many derogatory things about the as even referring to them as “apes and swine.” Such word of bitterness and hate, along with other thing he said, where written down on things and then later after his death those words were together together and then eventually, in time went in the composition of the Koran.
Therefore, that why the Koran reads and in does about the Jewish people, as in calling them descendants of “apes and swine.” As seen in the Koran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60.
Furthermore, as a Christian I can keyboard that there is a chance the Muhammad actually might had been a prophet but the important thing to understand is that Muhammad was NOT a prophet send by God. Instead, Muhammad was a deceptive, lying false prophet send by Satan to lead many people astray and even and straight into hell. Jesus, in fact, had predicted and warned of the coming of such men as Muhammad. For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15. In addition, the Bible further warns that “many false prophets are gone out into the world.” First John 4:1. [K.J.V.]