http://www.timesofisrael.com/adl-chief-pollard-case-on-the-verge-of-anti-semitism/

Knesset Member Implies Kerry Guided By Anti-Semitism
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-home-mk-implies-kerry-guided-by-anti-semitism/#ixzz2rvgYUvcC


Candidly speaking: Pollard, American Jewish leaders and anti-Semitism
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Candidly-speaking-Pollard-American-Jewish-leaders-and-anti-Semitism-339669

ADL chief Foxman: Kerry's 'chutzpah' will unite American Jews
In interview with Army Radio, Foxman weighs in on tensions in Israel-U.S. relations.
By Haaretz | Nov. 10, 2013 |
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.557235

National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Abe Foxman speaks with Ynet about threats still facing Jews in Europe and around the world before he leaves the top position.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4488171,00.html


snip*Abraham H. Foxman announced he will step down from his position as national director of the Anti-Defamation League on July 20, 2015, ending a 50-year career in Jewish communal service.

“ADL offered me the perfect vehicle to live a life of purpose both in standing up on behalf of the Jewish people to ensure that what happened during World War II would never happen again and in fighting bigotry and all forms of oppression,” Foxman said in a statement. “My years at ADL, particularly the 27 spent as National Director, could not have been more rewarding.”

Foxman, a Holocaust survivor who was hidden as a child during the war, began his career with the ADL in 1965 after graduating from the City College of the City University of New York and New York University School of Law. He rose through the ranks and, in 1987, was tapped as national director.

During his tenure, the ADL continued to grow as the premier organization fighting anti-Semitism bigotry and discrimination with 30 regional offices across the United States and an office in Israel. It celebrated its centennial year in 2013.

Foxman has a leading voice confronting the forces of anti-Semitism and intolerance of all types. He has become a familiar face worldwide for his embrace of global leaders who see eye-to-eye with the ADL’s mission of standing up to intolerance.

“Abe Foxman is a unique leader in American Jewish life. No one brings the combination of passion, experience, insight and courage to the Jewish community like Abe,” Barry Curtiss-Lusher, ADL national chair, said.

Foxman announced his retirement at the ADL’s annual National Executive Committee meeting in Palm Beach, Fla. The organization said its search for Foxman’s successor will be conducted by the executive search firm BoardWalk Consulting and will be guided by ADL leadership.

In 2011, the last year for which data is available, the ADL reported nearly $54 million in revenue. The organization monitors anti-Semitic activity, offers discrimination-sensitivity training and runs anti-bigotry programs.

But it is Foxman’s personage for which the ADL may best be known. Seen as a spokesman for the Jewish people, Foxman has used his position as a bully pulpit to advocate for Israel, warn against discrimination and, perhaps most often, issue declamations of what does or does not constitute anti-Semitism.

Whether they be condemnations of foreign leaders or pardons of celebrities who have made ill-considered utterances, Foxman’s has been the authoritative voice on what is or is not acceptable to Jews.

After he steps down, Foxman will serve as a part-time consultant to ADL and sit on the organization’s national commission and national executive committee, the organization said.

With JTA

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/192542/abraham-foxman-to-step-down-as-anti-defamation-lea/#ixzz2tFTxBe2O

Just a thought.

ADL and AJC demand Israeli MK apologize for calling Kerry 'anti-Semitic'

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.571807

Anti-Semitism exists today on the furthest margins of Western society, in obscure sinecures, on the Internet, but perhaps most prevalently in our feverish imaginations.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Feb. 7, 2014 | 7:19 AM

snip* Whenever a rabid Israel-hater whines that “the Zionists use the anti-Semitism card every time anyone criticizes Israel,” the hypocrisy and dirty conscience reeks to high heaven. But even if history is tragically on our side, is it healthy for us to be gripped by this paranoia?

Something funny happened to anti-Semitism on the way to the 21st century. It stopped being about persecution and open vilification of Jews, which was something the goyim did to us and we had no control over. It became something we define ourselves, something we discover and too often invent where it isn’t at all clear it even exists: in a cartoon in a perfectly respectable newspaper, in the campaign to treat African asylum seekers with a degree of humanity, and in the earnest attempt of a patrician Bostonian gentleman to bring peace to the region.

Anti-Semitism exists today on the furthest margins of Western society, in obscure sinecures, on the Internet, but perhaps most prevalently in our feverish imaginations. And in our generation that is where it constitutes the biggest threat.

In many ways our fear of anti-Semitism has begun to mirror the hatred itself in its irrationality and in the ways it hinders any serious debate. The Knesset is currently legislating a woeful new law that will make it illegal to call anyone a Nazi or to use Third Reich imagery. It would make much more sense if they could outlaw calling people anti-Semites. Not because there aren’t any anti-Semites out there, but because of the damage we do ourselves with this incessant searching and name-calling.

Manners and good form mandate that Yogev and all the other MKs and ministers apologize to Kerry, but they have done him no real harm. The damage they have caused, perpetuating our paranoias and traumas without offering any hope of redemption, is entirely self-inflicted.

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/jerusalem-babylon/.premium-1.572920#

"Someone blinded by a Jewish supremacist view of a hostile world which hates the Jews."

I guess according to some here that would mean Anshel Pfeffer is just like David Duke because he used the term Jewish supremacist too

And equivalently, the settlers are the only real Jews now, the only ones that matter.

ADL's Foxman, was going down that road with Kerry about Israel and then about Pollard.

Soon after, he did an about face, and recently he is supporting Kerry. I haven't
heard any further remarks about Pollard, either.

I have not read about what exactly influenced his turn around since Kerry's plan was never going
to disenfranchise Israel from the start. Not sure why he felt he needed to go there in the first
place.

February 7, 2014 5:26pm

(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League awarded its highest honor to former President George W. Bush.

The ADL presented its America’s Democratic Legacy Award to the former president during a Thursday night gala dinner that opened the its national executive committee meeting in Palm Beach, Fla.

“We will never forget, Mr. President, how the vision you laid out of ‘two states, living side by side, in peace and security’ still informs our consciousness and our parlance today,” said the ADL’s national director, Abraham Foxman. “You solidified an unbreakable affinity between two democracies challenged by extremists and terrorists — and an ironclad shared understanding — that security is one of the most important foundations for peace.”

Foxman also hailed Bush’s support for immigration reform and his leadership after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“When you were called on to respond to unspeakable terror, hate and violence, you refused to let America give into stereotypes,” Foxman said. “You answered calls for anti-Muslim revenge with calls for respect and understanding.”

Bush spoke at the dinner, which was held at The Breakers resort and was reportedly closed to the press.

Previous recipients of the award, which the ADL has been giving out for more than half a century, have included American presidents as well as other government, business, literary and religious figures.

Read more: http://www.jta.org/2014/02/07/news-opinion/politics/adl-honors-president-george-w-bush#ixzz2sr96s1tG

Let the settlers' new 'John Kerry Test' be your guide .

If you are an American Jew, if you're one among the majority of Israelis who would like to see a two-state solution, or a person anywhere who cares about Israel as a democracy, you're already at risk.

Entirely unbeknownst to you, you may be a silent carrier of anti-Semitism.

Until recently, many of the signs and symptoms were hidden, unapparent except to the settlement movement. Now, however, they have been made available to the wider public.

Here, then, is the settlement movement's new John Kerry Self-Test of Anti-Semitism:

QUESTION 1: The U.S. secretary of state, an avowed opponent of boycotts against Israel, warned this week of the "very high" risks Israel faces if peace talks fail: "People are talking about boycott. That will intensify in the case of failure. We all have a strong interest in this conflict resolution. Today's status quo absolutely, to a certainty, I promise you 100 percent, cannot be maintained. It's not sustainable. It's illusionary. There's a momentary prosperity, there's a momentary peace."

Responding to Kerry's assessment, senior Yesha settlement movement official Adi Mintz told Israel's Channel 2 television station that "this is an anti-Semitic move."

"In the end, John Kerry's statement is: 'Hit the Jews in their pockets.' I am saying here that John Kerry's statement is anti-Semitic."

Ignoring the carnage in Syria, "the secretary of state busies himself with threats against the Jews living in the Land of Israel," Mintz continued. "Anti-Semites have always made use of a very simple technique: Hit the Jews in their pockets. Show them, in the end, hurt them in their pockets, and they'll recoil, back off. At times, these threats work."

Choose the response which most closely resembles your view:

A. Mintz is right.

B. Kerry is right. In point of fact, of the two, Mintz is the one who actually sounds anti-Semitic.

C. I don't care anymore. I've got better things to think about.

QUESTION 2: The U.S. secretary of state is pushing for a permanent end to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, with sweeping security arrangements for Israel. The plan calls for Israel to keep certain settlement blocs, in return for ceding land to the Palestinians, whose independent state will have a capital in Arab East Jerusalem, and who will forego claims to resettle refugees in pre-1967 Israel.

MK Motti Yogev (Habayit Hayehudi), a resident of an isolated West Bank settlement, tells Israel Radio on Thursday that the secretary of state's motivation for driving the peace process bears an "undertone of anti-Semitism on Kerry's part."

In an unusually angry letter to Yogev, the Anti-Defamation League's Abraham Foxman writes that Kerry deserves a "full and prompt apology for his "offensive," "baseless" and "inflammatory" comments. The American Jewish Committee's David Harris condemns Yogev's remarks "in the strongest possible terms," terming them "totally unfounded, dumb, and damaging." Harris also demands a "heartfelt apology," adding that Kerry is a "rock-solid friend" of the Jewish people.

This week, Yogev sends U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro a three-page letter which includes further charges against Kerry. At one point, apparently responding to calls for apology, he writes that this was "not a personal matter."

"Maybe the expression 'anti-Semitic' was inappropriate," Yogev writes, "but since he showed his pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel opinions in the past, John Kerry cannot be a fair broker in the Israeli-Palestinian matter."

A. Yogev is right.

B. Yogev – and the settlement movement as a whole – is doing profound injury to Israel's best interests, and its crucial relationship with the United States. Nothing is doing more harm to Israel and a possible solution to the conflict, than constant settlement expansion and the costs and dangers of keeping the West Bank and East Jerusalem in perpetuity.

3. I don't care anymore. I've got better things to think about.

QUESTION 3: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has proposed a number of significant concessions on security and settlement issues.

Abbas is (choose one):

A. The world's most anti-Semitic leader (Strategic and Intelligence Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Thursday).

"Since [Iranian President] Ahmadinejad left the political stage, [Abbas] is the number one leader in injecting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel poison," Steinitz said. "Under [Abbas], the level of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement in the [Palestinian] Authority has reached new heights, where the bottom line is the destruction of Israel."

B. By far Israel's best and probably last chance for a two-state solution.

C. I don't care anymore. I've got better things to think about.

Scoring: 10 points for each A answer, 50 for each B, 200 for each C.

10 – 30 Points: It's about time that we let the truth be known: Kerry hates the Jews. The world hates the Jews. Settlements have nothing to do with it. Israel has nothing to do with it. That's the way it's always been. That's the way it will always be. The peace talks are just one more way to find a more convenient position from which to murder Jews.

Also, I don't want to say anything about the people who answered B a lot, but at best, they're being duped by anti-Semites. At worst, they've got anti-Semitism inside them.

50 – 150 points: If I've got 'anti-Semitism inside me,' there are a whole lot of us out here. The Pew Report found that 61 percent of U.S. Jews believe that there is a way for Israel and an independent Palestinian state to coexist peacefully. A recent poll also showed that 63 percent of Israelis support the two-state solution, along with 53 percent of Palestinians.

200 Points or More: Israel's actions may have driven me to some sort of boycott (in which case, I will be branded an anti-Semite no matter what), and/or a strong feeling of a pox on both their houses, Israeli and Palestinian. Either way, I have very possibly already turned to a different article, or to Facebook.

BONUS QUESTION: Knowing what it knows about how unpopular its uphill fight for recognition is, which answer is the settlement movement hoping and praying that a large majority of respondents will pick?

[Answer: C]

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/.premium-1.572447

but it breaks the 4 para rules .