They even go so far as to accuse Jewish groups that criticize Israel as being anti-semetic.
In a Monday report, the Anti-Defamation League – the self-described “premier civil rights/human relations agency” in the United States – slammed what it called the “Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups in America.” Among those listed: several groups with Jewish leaders and activists, and two explicitly Jewish organizations.
“I don’t think that everybody realizes the amount of Jews that are involved in some anti-Israel activity in this country,” Oren Segal, who directs the ADL’s Center on Extremism, told Salon Monday. “They are saying, ‘You are Jews, but your way of being Jews is not OK,” countered Sydney Levy, advocacy director for Jewish Voice for Peace. “I qualify that as anti-semitism.”
Monday’s report is a follow-up to a previous 2010 list released by the ADL. Segal emphasized that the ADL was not accusing all ten of the organizations – which include Christian, Muslim, and Jewish groups – of being anti-semitic. But he argued that tracking “anti-Israel” activity was “very consistent with our fight against bigotry,” because “Israel is sort of a convenient entity, for many years, for many people to espouse bigotry.”
Segal said that the ADL was not against all criticism of Israeli government policy, but offered three criteria for identifying what he sees as potentially anti-semitic arguments: First, “the notion that Israel is controlling the government and media”; second, “offensive parallels” referencing the Holocaust; and third, “calls for dismantling” Israel as a Jewish state. While any one of those may not automatically signify anti-semitism, argued Segal,“When we contextualize that, then we sort of can decide whether we think they’re crossing the line or not.”
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