(Religion News) In one of his harshest speeches to date, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, the country’s leading antisemitism watchdog, compared three left-leaning groups that have been critical of Israel to white nationalists.
The speech by Jonathan Greenblatt, who has led ADL for seven years, signaled a new, more combative focus on what he called anti-Zionist extremists. He said his organization would now fight these groups using its “analytic capabilities,” “litigation skills” and “advocacy muscles.”
Greenblatt’s prerecorded video, which aired Sunday (May 1) at the ADL’s National Leadership Summit, took to task three groups he said were the “photo inverse” of the extreme right: Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim civil rights organization.
