Yes, ADL is “The Political Front denies as a monitoring authority” | education

It is difficult to imagine a strange development to “War on Woke” from Maga from the announcement of the FBI director, Cash Patel, that the office cuts relations with the Anti -Distort Association (ADL). In a post on social media, Patel wrote that the agency will not participate with “political fronts that disguise as a bonding device.” The decision came after a right -wing response to ADL inserting into Turning Point Usa and its late leader, Charlie Kirk, in “The Mesh of Extremism”.

It is not surprising that the organization, with which the FBI cooperated in issues related to tracking anti -Semitism and other forms of extremism for more than half a century, has quickly announced that many of its “outdated” research “and began to clean its websites to criticize the conservative personalities and organizations.

Patel is definitely not wrong that ADL is a deep political organization. Although it was established in 1913 “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and ensure justice and fair treatment for all”, since the 1970s, the organization focused more clearly on protecting Israel from criticism. In parallel, it also monitored the right -wing racist extremism and combat gay so that it can stay strongly within the liberal Jewish fold in the United States.

Today, ADL claims to be one of the leading organizations in the country fighting anti -Semitism and other forms of hatred. But in reality, its basic mission is to protect Israel from any criticism using its large resources to ensure that any serious and systematic criticism of its policies, Even by the JewsIt must be considered-and when it is possible, it is punished-as anti-Semitic.

ADL was a partner close to the Joe Biden administration in her campaign against the supportive mobilization of the Palestinians on the university campus, and until last week, he was a close partner of the Donald Trump administration as well. Under the Strip of Combating anti -Semitism on the campus, the organization contributed to the tremendous attack on the freedom of the opposition and the freedom of thought in higher education in the United States.

When the pro -Palestinian demonstrations at the University of Colombia erupted in 2024, which led to a wave of similar protest work throughout the country, ADL led the charge against the university, and called for “rapid work” to “anti -Semitism” on the campus. For the Biden Administration, it was necessary to conduct a quick and harsh campaign on the campus protests to enable it to follow up its policy of unconditional support for the trial of Israel more violent to the war in Gaza without a major public reaction.

For the Trump administration, ADL and other pro -Israel Jewish organizations have served another purpose: its uncompromising focus on the “new anti -Semitism”, which was smoothly overlapping with the anti -Zionism and which was claiming to afflict higher education.

By working closely with the government, ADL managed to engage in the classic fraud “Arsersist and Fireman”: accusing universities throughout the country of anti -Semitism, and then presents itself as an organization that can put an anti -Jewish fire.

How does the trick work? AdL constantly puts data that universities criticize to enable or not do to combat anti -Semitism on the campus. In particular, the Entity Report card – which faced Strong criticism For its defective methodology-the degrees of schools throughout the country on the spread of anti-Semitism on their sanctity.

Similar to American News College and World Report, ADL “ADL” can distort the reputation of the school through an important segment of the population of the age of the college. The accusations of anti -Semitism would stimulate the main donors at the university to threaten to withdraw their support.

Given its arrival at the centers of political authority-at least so far-AdL has been properly developed to cooperate in dealing with alleged anti-Semitism on the university campus, reassuring donors and the government.

Thus, for example, in July, Colombia announced that it was cooperating with ADL to create programs aimed at combating anti -Semitism.

How much is AdL for this cooperation and other cooperation? The calls and email messages have not been returned to the suspension that is requested by AdL, but from its own data, it is clear that the organization has “cooperation” and “partnerships” with a large number of universities throughout the country through different programs – the exact number is not general.

To cite one at home, adl splurge “More than 56,000 faculty, employees, administrators, and students in 900 university and universities have participated in all parts of the country” in its prohibition in the difference programs, although it seems that the program, similar to “the radical extremism”, has been withdrawn without contact since Trump returned to power, perhaps because he used terms such as “diversity”.

ADL was not the only one to benefit from the campaign to anti -Semitism in university universities.

The University of Brown, which also reached an agreement with the Trump administration earlier this year, took a pledge to increase cooperation With Helly. Likewise, Upenn, which now allows donations to submit Hillle directly through the university. The most sported for me as a member of the University of California is the last at the University of California, Los Angeles Pledge From $ 2.3 million to “eight organizations fighting anti -Semitism”, including ADL and Hillel. All eight is a supporter of Israel.

With all this, ADL, along with other pro -Israel organizations, played a major role in the coup against academic freedom and joint governance, forcing university leaders to the axis for the right to preserve tens of billions of dollars, mostly scientific financing. They facilitated the largest project to reshape the university as a system for renewing the reckless province throughout society.

The question that arose with the sudden front attack by the senior Trump administration officials and the conservative figures is whether these pro-Israel organizations, after playing their role very well, and these pro-Israel organizations will take place, and the hostility of Israel-and the anti-Semitic rhetoric-between the Trump base now. It is too late, adl’s Amazing support For Elon Musk after greeting the Nazis and his anti -Semitic comments, it may be due to the meaning between the leadership that it will be on more fragile land with Trump than it was with Biden.

Another hint of this perception comes from ADL in a recently released report to take care of a “Jewish College under Fire” from colleagues and demonstrators who depict themselves as “hostile to the Zion, but (they) are really hostile to Semitism.”

This type of obstacle reveals in a moment when the forces supporting Israel were unprecedented support at the highest levels of power revealing the speech of the Anchel of the Jews who in itself, but it is also possible that it will also indicate the increasing insecurity within the Israeli -supporting Israeli Foundation. Suddenly the IRE victim, the Jews need to feel more fearful of maintaining hard support within society.

However, the unintended result of the presence of ADL abroad with Trump and his forces is to give faculty and Jewish students a field of breathing, understanding of the relative concession and the responsibility of our position today. Certainly it will be welcome.

Seventy years ago, my mother was refused to enter Colombia due to the publicly recognized Jewish share. Thirty years later, when she joined the city of Medina in New York, the accusations of some of the faculty members who prevailed by the Jews in the slave trade were mixed with Black Violence in Brooklyn and an increasing popularity in the nation of Islam to create a sublime toxic wine for Jewish students who attended one of the General Urban College.

ADL was present at the time, but he was focusing on to spy In the Antarctic Combating Movement-a policy that continues today with progressive activists-and to defend Israel against the initial movements against the occupation. We, Jewish university students, were largely, thank God for our own devices. Like any other minority – more persecuted – we learned what we ignore and what we learn, when we benefit from our land or fighting, and when we leave things going. In other words, how to move and deal with harassment of life as an adult.

Slapdown Trump-Maga from ADL may open a good space for the growing criticism of Israel and all everyone grows a little when it comes to discussing Palestine Israel. Whether the university leaders seize the opportunity to confirm more independence, defend academic freedom, or continue to sell Names names It is still tragicly, an open question.

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