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  1. DATE: May 10, 2026 at 11:09AM
    SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

    TITLE: Abraham Foxman, Former Anti-Defamation League Head, Dies at 86

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    Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League from 1987 until 2015, died Sunday at age 86. "Abe understood the power of words. He often said that the Holocaust did not begin with bricks and mortar and gas chambers, but rather, it began with a word," said his successor, Jonathan Greenblatt, in a statement. Foxman was a survivor of the Holocaust, entrusted to a Catholic nursemaid who baptized and raised him as a Christian to hide his...

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  2. "#AbrahamFoxman, the former national director of the #AntiDefamationLeague, passed away aged 86 on Sunday.

    The #funeral service is set to be held at Park Avenue #synagogue in #NewYorkCity on Tuesday and will be live-streamed.

    The #ADL mourned the passing of #Foxman, who served as the organization's head from 1987 until 2015, after which he was succeeded by Jonathan Greenblatt and assumed an emeritus role.

    #America and the #Jewish people have lost a moral voice, a passionate advocate for the Jewish people and the state of Israel, and a remarkable leader,” Greenblatt said of his predecessor in a Sunday statement.

    “Abe Foxman was an iconic Jewish leader who embraced the ideal of an America free from #antisemitism and hate and who strongly believed that these scourges could be defeated if good people opposed it.”

    jpost.com/diaspora/article-895

  3. "Since #Hamas#October7 #terrorist attack, many #Jewish #faculty at #colleges and #universities across the country have been describing their professional lives in language more commonly associated with #trauma than #academic disagreement. In a nationwide #survey of more than 200 Jewish-identifying #US-based faculty conducted between April and July of 2025 by the #AcademicEngagementNetwork (#AEN) and the #AntiDefamationLeague (#ADL), respondents spoke of fear, isolation, and a loss of belonging on their own #campuses.

    One Jewish faculty member starkly described the experience: “I’m being attacked online…I have been ostracized by faculty in a smear campaign. I have been advised…not to come to #campus…this is as bad as it gets.” Another shared, “faculty are not talking to me because they know I’m a #Zionist.” And another participant confided, “I am being attacked in all directions, and I no longer feel safe on campus.”

    And these aren’t isolated incidents."

    jewishjournal.com/commentary/o

  4. "Since #Hamas#October7 #terrorist attack, many #Jewish #faculty at #colleges and #universities across the country have been describing their professional lives in language more commonly associated with #trauma than #academic disagreement. In a nationwide #survey of more than 200 Jewish-identifying #US-based faculty conducted between April and July of 2025 by the #AcademicEngagementNetwork (#AEN) and the #AntiDefamationLeague (#ADL), respondents spoke of fear, isolation, and a loss of belonging on their own #campuses.

    One Jewish faculty member starkly described the experience: “I’m being attacked online…I have been ostracized by faculty in a smear campaign. I have been advised…not to come to #campus…this is as bad as it gets.” Another shared, “faculty are not talking to me because they know I’m a #Zionist.” And another participant confided, “I am being attacked in all directions, and I no longer feel safe on campus.”

    And these aren’t isolated incidents."

    jewishjournal.com/commentary/o

  5. No ADL, Anti-Police Symbols Aren't Hate Speech

    So, even if you ignore everything the ADL explicitly says about Israel or Zionism, it's
    still not a reliable source on hate speech.

    Did you know that nestled among the 14 words, the swastika, and the burning cross,
    the ADL lists ACAB as a hate symbol?

    And here's the justification given for the classification:

    The acronym ACAB stands for "All Cops Are Bastards" and is a slogan of long standing in the skinhead subculture. Because non-racist skinheads (including "traditional" skinheads and anti-racist skinheads) may use this acronym as well as racist skinheads, it should be carefully judged in the context in which it appears.
    Now, here's the problem with this justification: something doesn't become a hate symbol merely due to an association or even use by racists or other types of hate groups. If a nazi draws a smiley face that doesn't, in and of itself, make smiley faces 'hate symbols'. If a nazi hates corporate CEO's, that doesn't make CEO bashing hate speech. Similarly, a racist using 'ACAB' doesn't make that abbreviation hate speech.

    What makes a symbol hate speech is if the group it is directed at is oppressed by the group using it. This is why words like 'cracker' aren't hate speech--because white people aren't oppressed by black people. Similarly, cops are an oppressor group in our society, which means a word like ACAB simply is not and cannot be hate speech and in fact the insinuation that it can be is in and of itself intensely racist given how cops uphold racism in our society.

    There's a lot more I could say about the ADL's classification of this symbol, but I lack the time to elaborate, so I hope this makes clear how deeply insidious this inclusion is.

  6. 2/2 A Palestinian-friendly news organization's take on the unprecedented "Mamadani Monitor" from the ADL. Hint: They hate it. Never has the ADL monitored a person before, always organizations. These people remind me of "blue lives" jerks: one can't criticize the genocide, it means one hates all Jews, just like one can't criticize bad cops, it means one hates all cops.
    #AntiDefamationLeague #MamdaniMandate #political #division #bigoted #ADL #monitor middleeasteye.net/news/adls-mo

  7. …In recent years, the #ADL has taken an increasingly conciliatory approach to the #FarRight & a hard-line stance against critics of #Israel.

    Earlier this year, the group defended #ElonMusk after he was accused of making a #Nazi salute at a rally celebrating Trump’s inauguration, calling it “an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm.”

    It also initially praised the #Trump admin’s move to #arrest & #deport pro-#Palestinian #StudentActivists, a position it shifted after backlash.

    #Islamophobia

  8. WTF ADL?

    The #AntiDefamationLeague is facing backlash over what critics have called unwarranted hostility toward Mayor-elect #ZohranMamdani, after the org publicized a website & tip line to monitor his admin for actions that could be construed as #antisemitic.

    During the final stretch of the mayoral campaign, #Mamdani’s detractors, including #JonathanGreenblatt, chief exec of the #ADL, repeatedly accused him of #antisemitism, a charge he strongly rejects.

    #Islamophobia
    nytimes.com/2025/11/06/nyregio

  9. Every Major Waffen SS Division Explained By a German -

    #KnowYourEnemy #FCKNZS

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDbMYKUr

    I've posted other #BrofessorStein vids. My only problem is I wish this person would stop using the #ADL to get info. There are other sources.

  10. SirDoom: „Shadowrun – MEGAPULS 2083 – Befreiungsschlag für die Allianzregierung?“

    SPOILERWARUNG: Die Ereignisse in der Sechsten Welt entwickeln sich ständig weiter. Das bedeutet, dass sich in den Newsmeldungen jedes Nova- und Megapuls Spoiler zu neueren Publikationen befinden können. Dieser Megapuls steht in direktem Zusammenhang mit dem Abenteuerband Ernteschäden. Wenn deine … Weiterlesen

  11. Bravo to the National Education Association (#NEA, @neatoday) for voting to drop the Anti-Defamation League (#ADL) as a partner in developing school curricula.

    From Judy Greenspan, the NEA delegate who introduced the motion: "The ADL…continually [tries] to equate criticism of #Israel with #antisemitism.”

  12. The War on #Masks Has Taken on a New Meaning

    This time, the masks have nothing to do with #COVID19.

    By Henry Grabar
    Feb 05, 20254:57 PM

    "Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'

    "That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'

    "If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.

    "In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from #DisabilityRights advocates, #CriminalJustice reformers, #HealthCareWorkers, and #CivilLiberties groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.

    "Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. #NorthCarolina Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again #BanPublicFaceCoverings, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten #StudentProtesters with #felonies. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to #unmask #protesters this year.

    "For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era #HealthDirectives and make it easier to arrest #demonstrators at the same time.

    "In #Ohio and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the #KuKluxKlan, but had been ignored or suspended during the #pandemic and the #GeorgeFloydProtests. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of #Gaza as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [#ADL] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '#KKK tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.

    "That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to #Philadelphia banning #SkiMasks in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson by a #MaskedAssassin, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: #NoFaceNoCase.

    "For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.

    "But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. #PoliceReformers observed that #MaskBans have often been used for pretextual #policing and racial profiling against #BlackAmericans. (#AtlantaGeorgia tabled a mask ban for that reason.)

    "What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of #FacialRecognition, streaming video, and #doxing. Last year, the anonymous #ProIsrael website the #CanaryMission posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.

    "'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be
    'targets' for their alleged involvement in #DEI initiatives at work.

    "Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"

    Source:
    slate.com/business/2025/02/mas
    #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #SurveillanceState #SilencingDissent

  13. @TomWellborn
    That 'ignorant mistake' 💩 is from the same pile as the #ADL valling #Musk 's nazi salutes (plural) an 'awkward gesture'

    Tests of how much overt #Fascism & #racism will be tolerated are always followed by 'Woah! Someone around here sure can't take a joke' #smfh

  14. The mere idea of the ADL(*) saying “all sides should give one another a bit of grace” is so extremely funny 😆😆

    (* the ADL is one of the main pro-israeli ideological pressure groups in the US, like LIC(R)A in France. They spied on anti-apartheid groups in US universities for the South African gov in the 80’s)

    Quoting mastodon.world/@mkpetkova/1138

    #adl #elonmusk #AntiDefamationLeague #palestine

  15. The #ADL needs to change their initials to AKL (American #Kapo League). Pathetic.

  16. CW: Politics, the ADL, Musk

    Despite the fact that the Anti-Defamation League has openly endorsed the Palestinian genocide, it's still wildly transparent how they're now defending Elon Musk's Nazi salute :corgi_wtf1: They've really just full-on dropped the pretext of being a human rights org and moved the rest of the way into fascism, huh?

    The more GLAAD continues to align with the ADL the more they become a farce of an organization too. It's sad that our last line of defense for Trump's presidency are all falling in line with him and his cronies instead. :drgn_sigh:

    #ADL #AntiDefamationLeague #Israel #GLAAD #USPol #USPolitics #Politics

  17. CW: Antisemitism, Wikipedia

    No, Wikipedia hasn't banned the Anti-Defamation League as a reliable source:

    "Wikipedia editors came to three simultaneous conclusions:
    1. The ADL is generally reliable for topics unrelated to the Israel/Pelestine conflict
    2. Reliability is unclear for topics related to antisemitism outside the context of Israel and Zionism
    3. The ADL generally unreliable regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict"
    thewikipedian.net/p/anti-defam

    #Wikipedia #Antisemitism #AntiDefamationLeague #ADL

  18. "Moreover, in a near consensus, dozens of Wikipedia editors involved in the discussion said they believe the ADL should not be cited for factual information on antisemitism as well because it acts primarily as a pro-Israel organization and tends to label legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism."

    #Wikipedia #ADL #AntiDefamationLeague #Israel #Gaza #antisemitism
    /5

  19. "The decision about Israel-related citations, made last week, means that one of the most prominent and longstanding Jewish advocacy groups in the United States – and one historically seen as the leading U.S. authority on antisemitism – is now grouped together with the National Inquirer, Newsmax, and Occupy Democrats as a source of propaganda or misinformation in the eyes of the online encyclopedia."

    #Wikipedia #ADL #AntiDefamationLeague #Israel #Gaza #antisemitism
    /4

  20. "An overwhelming majority of editors involved in the debate about the ADL also voted to deem the organization unreliable on the topic of antisemitism, its core focus. A formal declaration on that count is expected next."

    #Wikipedia #ADL #AntiDefamationLeague #Israel #Gaza #antisemitism
    /3

  21. "Wikipedia's editors have voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League "generally unreliable" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adding it to a list of banned and partially banned sources."

    ~ JTA and Asaf Elia-Shalev

    #Wikipedia #ADL #AntiDefamationLeague #Israel #Gaza #antisemitism
    /2

    haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-0

  22. "Wikipedia’s editors declared that the Anti-Defamation League cannot be trusted to give reliable information on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and they overwhelmingly said the ADL is an unreliable source on antisemitism. It’s a stunning rebuke to one of the world’s preeminent authorities on anti-Jewish hate and a significant advocate for the rights and causes of American Jews."

    ~ David Goldman

    #Wikipedia #ADL #AntiDefamationLeague #Israel #Gaza #antisemitism
    /1

    cnn.com/2024/06/19/media/wikip

  23. For a free speech maximalist, #Musk’s definition of free speech is extremely narrow, limited to speech that is not critical of him. Now, he wants to sue the #ADL on the heels of wanting to sue the Center for Countering Digital Hate ( #CCDC). Nothing he does is really newsworthy anymore, and I shouldn’t be posting about it. He’s a known quantity.

    “Can you believe he said that?!”
    “I’d be more surprised if he didn’t.”
    pcmag.com/news/pro-free-speech

  24. For a free speech maximalist, #Musk’s definition of free speech is extremely narrow, limited to speech that is not critical of him. Now, he wants to sue the #ADL on the heels of wanting to sue the Center for Countering Digital Hate ( #CCDC). Nothing he does is really newsworthy anymore, and I shouldn’t be posting about it. He’s a known quantity.

    “Can you believe he said that?!”
    “I’d be more surprised if he didn’t.”
    pcmag.com/news/pro-free-speech

  25. For a free speech maximalist, #Musk’s definition of free speech is extremely narrow, limited to speech that is not critical of him. Now, he wants to sue the #ADL on the heels of wanting to sue the Center for Countering Digital Hate ( #CCDC). Nothing he does is really newsworthy anymore, and I shouldn’t be posting about it. He’s a known quantity.

    “Can you believe he said that?!”
    “I’d be more surprised if he didn’t.”
    pcmag.com/news/pro-free-speech