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In article <7MzSI.1620676$ImK8.1392333@fx04.ams1>
governor.swill@gmail.com wrote:

Jews are hypocrits and they don't deny it.

The last thing that you'd expect from a group whose historic
mission is to monitor and fight anti-Semitism would be to
discover that the group is helping to spread woke ideological
indoctrination that grants a permission slip for Jew-hatred.

Yet that is exactly what the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has
been caught doing in a Fox News Digital exposé that uncovered
the fact that the curricula the group gives to schools as part
of its widely popular anti-hate programs includes critical race
theory (CRT) teachings about "white privilege," the need to
address the problems of "whiteness," praise for the anti-Semitic
Women's March group and support for the idea of contemporary
Americans paying reparations to those whose ancestors were
slaves. The curricula also buttresses myths about the 2014
shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri that helped give
birth to the noxious Black Lives Matter movement.

This is shocking not merely because it is one more piece of
evidence that the liberal gaslighting that CRT in the schools is
a figment of the conservative imagination is an obvious lie.
It's also important because due to its adherence to
intersectional myths about Israelis being "white" oppressors of
the "brown" Palestinians who want to destroy the one Jewish
state on the planet and American Jews possessing "white
privilege," CRT legitimizes anti-Semitism—something the ADL
purports to oppose.

Faced with proof that the materials that are distributed in
school districts around the nation as part of its anti-hate
programs are immersed in these woke leftist ideas that
legitimate racialist attitudes linked to Jew-hatred, the ADL was
forced to concede that the Fox report was accurate. A statement
from the group said, "There is content among our curricular
materials that is misaligned with ADL's values and strategy."

Yet the ADL still insisted, "We do not teach Critical Race
Theory. Period." Of course, a look at these curricula shows that
is exactly what they are doing. But the non-apology was an
attempt to pretend that it was all attributable to a simple
misunderstanding.

Founded in 1913 to address the threat from anti-Semitism in the
wake of the lynching of Leo Frank, an Atlanta Jew who was
wrongly accused of the murder of a non-Jewish girl, the ADL was
long considered the authoritative voice on hate and an important
resource for both Jews and non-Jews.

But in order to believe that what Fox discovered was merely a
one-off blunder, you'd have to ignore what's been happening to
the ADL in the seven years since former Clinton and Obama White
House staffer Jonathan Greenblatt took over as its CEO,
replacing long-time leader Abe Foxman. Greenblatt shifted the
ADL from a non-partisan Jewish defense organization to being
just another left-wing activist group whose priority is helping
the Democratic Party. Rather than being "misaligned" with the
ADL's mission, endorsements of CRT teachings are very much
aligned with the ADL's decision to latch on to radical ideas
about race in order to remain in touch with vogue Democratic
sentiment.

There was the ADL's endorsement of the Black Lives Matter
movement, which had itself endorsed anti-Semitic attacks on the
state of Israel, and its misguided "anti-racist" agenda. The ADL
even embraced veteran race-baiter Al Sharpton, who helped foment
the 1991 Crown Heights pogrom against Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn.
It defended two anti-Semitic members of Congress—Reps. Ilhan
Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)—against criticism from
former President Donald Trump largely on the basis that they
were "women of color." Then there was the fact that the ADL's
website had a definition of racism that invoked CRT teachings
about privilege.

The ADL's dubious complicity in Internet censorship with Big
Tech allies like Google and PayPal, ostensibly to educate
against hatred, also wound up promoting extremism rather than
stopping it.

And that's on top of the fact that Greenblatt has allowed the
ADL to become entrenched in partisan politics by involving it in
issues such as the battle to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett
Kavanaugh. Even worse is the ADL's ongoing campaign to falsely
smear former President Donald Trump as the main reason for the
recent uptick in anti-Semitism or for attacks on Jews, even
though he was the greatest friend Israel ever had in the White
House, took unprecedented action against anti-Semitism on
college campuses, and has closer ties—both in terms of family
and close associates—to the Jewish community than any president
has ever had.

All this speaks to a pattern of behavior that demonstrates the
ADL is mired in leftist ideology and has fully bought into the
Black Lives Matter agenda of "equity," as opposed to genuine
equality. By emphasizing ideas about race and privilege even
though doing so gives a boost to the lies about Israel being an
"apartheid state," this behavior undermines the interests and
security of the very people the ADL was founded to stand up for.

That's a scandal that illustrates how a once-vital group has
betrayed its mission. But it's also an illustration of how woke
ideas like CRT can act as a toxic influence and subvert
institutions, including the federal government itself, to the
point where the institutions become complicit in racism rather
than a bulwark against it.

This saga is more proof that rather than being able to dismiss
the battle against CRT as a tangential conservative-populist
issue, any candidate who wants to be taken seriously as a
defender of basic American values must prioritize the struggle
to root out wokeism from our schools and the rest of society.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org, a senior
contributor to The Federalist and a columnist for the New York
Post. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.

https://www.newsweek.com/adls-critical-race-theory-curricula-no- accident-opinion-1741207

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