Reply #22: The ADL could be doing good things in a less partisan manner:

[IntiRaymi]

A few instances of the bang up job that the ADL is doing in destroying the freedom of speech of those that it hates:

(a) Tony Judt speech shut out by the ADL:

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2006/10/04/tony-judt-speech-shut-down-by-adl/

"The talk was cancelled because the Polish Consulate had been threatened by the Anti-Defamation League. Serial phone calls from ADL President Abe Foxman warned them off hosting anything involving Tony Judt. If they persisted, he warned, he would smear the charge of Polish collaboration with anti-Israeli anti-Semites (= me) all over the front page of every daily paper in the city (an indirect quote). They caved and Network 20/20 were forced to cancel."

(b) ADL Letter to Georgetown University President Libels Finkelstein

Full text of libelous letter here, complete with Prof. Finkelstein's usual efficiency in debunking accusations:

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=585

Other examples of Pro-Israel media hounding academics that dare speak against Israel:

(c) New York Sun compares eminent historian, Rashid Khalidi, to Louis Farrakhan

http://www.nysun.com/article/7441

"The ADL recently noted a December 11 speech by the leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, in which the minister said "the rudder that is turning America is not your elected officials; it's that small influential group of neoconservatives that are using America's power to destroy the enemies of Israel." How different is that from Mr. Khalidi's statement, in his recent book, that "Perle, Feith, Wurmser, and others" are "part of a group that often seems to have virtually exclusive access to the top decision-makers in the Bush administration"? Maybe Columbia's president, Lee Bollinger, should look into giving Minister Farrakhan tenure. He'd fit right in."

(d) Rabid neocon, Daniel Pipes, and his thought-crimes unit: Campus Watch

http://www.campus-watch.org/

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I have to ask something here: Why are so many academes being attacked by pro-Israel groups? Are they, perhaps, afraid that there is a WORLDWIDE CONSPIRACY to besmirch the innocent G.O.I.?