What had been a heroic defender of civil rights, tolerance and pluralism has become a mean-spirited, incoherent organization of political hacks.
Now, the ADL is taking after Glenn Greenwald.
Big mistake.
See Greenwald's "follow-up to the silence from the ADL regarding Fox News and right-wing talk radio".
It's a long, typically meticulous piece by Greenwald, but in sum he dissects Abraham Foxman in what I recommend as enjoyable weekend reading.
Concludes Greenwald:
Innuendo and, increasingly, explicit claims of anti-semitism have become political weapons of the war-hungry Right in all sorts of foreign policy debates, most frequently now with regard to Iran. That is the real goal of constantly labelling liberal blogs and anti-war groups as Nazis, Hitler, Brownshirts, Gestapo troops, etc. Groups such as the ADL which claim to be devoted to opposing such tactics seem extremely reluctant -- to put it###
generously -- to condemn these tactics when used by those expressing unrelated political views that they seem to embrace(such as a hard-line against Iran). If they really believe in their ostensible principles, they ought to apply them equally.
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