ADL's Foxman
Under Attack
By
Rev. Ted Pike
16 March 2010
The prestige of Abraham H. Foxman, national
director of the Anti-Defamation League, has never been lower. A
recent biting article by J. J. Goldberg in the Jewish Forward
reveals that criticism of Foxman continues to expand, especially
from leaders of the American Jewish community. Increasingly, American
Jewish intellectuals fear that Foxman, while decrying the anti-Obama
“paranoia” of the religious right, may be a victim of
his own paranoid obsession with anti-Semitism where it doesn’t
exist. (See Goldberg article Foxman
Fever Doesn’t Discriminate)
 Goldberg:
“Foxman is the country’s most prolific anti-Semitism
spotter, the gestalt guy who sees Jew-haters under every bed and
invents them if he can’t find them.” He writes of respected
journalist James Traub’s 2007 New York Times Magazine
profile:
In
his telling, Foxman is “the hanging-judge of anti-Semitism,”
an “anachronism” who continues to “harp on Jewish
insecurity” in a world where Jews have become “the most
widely admired religious group in America, as well as the most successful.”
Portraying him as a blustering alarmist, Traub seemed bemused by
Foxman’s warnings about “jihadist” anti-Semitism
as a serious threat in today’s world and troubled by Foxman’s
focus on “good for the Jews, bad for the Jews” to the
exclusion of broader goals of “promoting tolerance and diversity.”
Goldberg
says this critique is abounding. Recently, for example, Republicans
have been savaging Foxman for … attacking right-wing extremists
even when they support Israel. Last November, for example, Commentary
editor Jonathan Tobin wrote that the ADL had “stepped over
the line” and was trying to stifle criticism of the Obama
administration with the publication of a report, “Rage Grows
in America: Anti-Government Conspiracies,” which warned of
anti-democratic tendencies and intolerance in far-right movements
like the Tea Parties and in the rhetoric of media figures like Glenn
Beck.
Goldberg
relates how in January, Foxman again faced angry conservatives over
his accusation that Rush Limbaugh committed “borderline anti-Semitic
stereotyping” because he said many Wall Street bankers are
Jewish. Normon Podhoretz scoffed, saying Foxman “has a long
history of seeing an anti-Semite under every conservative bed”
and should “apologize for the defamatory accusation of anti-Semitism
that he himself has hurled against so loyal a friend of Israel as
Rush Limbaugh.”
One
activist went so far as to demand “a class-action lawsuit
by ADL donors to demand new leadership,” reports Goldberg.
Perhaps
the hardest hit against Foxman came from former ADL vice chairman
Joel Sprayregen. Describing recent ADL history, Sprayregen says,
“ADL stumbled so egregiously. As observed by many, including
myself, who have left the organization, the ADL has declined into
an autocracy where no opinion counts other than that of its long-time
national director Abraham Foxman, whom the New York Times
described as “a one-man Sanhedrin for life.” When Foxman
hatches a crackpot idea like the “Rage Report,” no one
can restrain him…Foxman is driven to justify his half-million
dollar-plus salary (matched in virtually no other Jewish organization)…To
generate publicity for himself, he launches (and then summarily
drops) foolish initiatives, such as his attack on Christian evangelicals,
Israel’s most consistent supporters…” (See Ex-ADL
Leader Blasts ADL/Foxman)
Decline of ADL Power
Such
criticism of ADL among Jews is unheard of in ADL’s 97-year
history. In 1982, Israel saturation-bombed Lebanon, killing tens
of thousands of innocent refugees. But criticism from evangelicals
was virtually nonexistent. Apart from a few voices— particularly
Rep. Paul Findley, the Washington Report on Mideast Affairs
and the Spotlight newspaper (now American Free Press)—major
American media considered Israel beyond reproach. There was no substantive
movement to halt or even criticize Israel’s mistreatment of
Palestinians.
As
Israel’s formidable PR representative, ADL had never ridden
higher than at this time. If anyone dared speak the truth—particularly
about anti-Christian/Gentile hatred in rabbinic Judaism’s
sacred Talmudic scriptures or such taboo realities as Jewish control
of big media, Jewish origins of communism, or Jewish control in
Congress—ADL descended in fiery attack from one of its 34
regional offices. It would enlist local media, particularly Messianic
Jews, to destroy the offending “anti-Semite’s”
reputation.
When
I released my first major video, The Other Israel, in 1987, it spoke
the whole truth about Talmudic Judaism through an explosive new
medium. Since publication of my book, Israel: Our Duty, Our
Dilemma, in 1984, I had been treading further on untested ice
than anyone in nearly a half century. The Spotlight said
The Other Israel was so hot they would sell me advertising
but not review the film. The most important question to me was how
populist America would react. Zionist critic Michael Hoffman II
told me I would be setting a record if I sold 50 copies. After three
months, I had sold over ten thousand! (Watch
The Other Israel here.)
ADL
went on high alert. In Seattle they summoned a special conference,
including local clergy, to consider this unprecedented threat. They
boasted that in a year and a half they would destroy the National
Prayer Network.
In
Portland, my father’s daily radio program, The Claude Pike
Report, aired on Oregon’s largest Christian radio station,
KPDQ, and was an important focal point for Christian/conservative
activism in our state. After we showed my film at a meeting of several
hundred Christian conservatives and leaders in Portland, ADL leapt
into action. It activated the Jewish-owned Oregonian newspaper
to sound the alarm against the “virulent anti-Semitism”
we represented. ADL’s smears against us set off a stampede
among Christian conservative leaders in Oregon to put as much distance
between themselves and the Pikes as possible. Lew Davies, popular
KPDQ talk show host, spent two and a half afternoons on air portraying
me as a raving anti-Semite, virtually no higher than a child molester.
He frankly said he never read my book or saw my video but, with
ADL, the Oregonian and respected figures marshaled against
me, no one seemed bothered by the omission. Asked if he would allow
Ted Pike to give his side, Davies replied that I was beneath representation.
My father was thrown off KPDQ and our reputations destroyed among
tens of thousands of evangelicals in Oregon and Washington. This
was typical of the mistreatment anyone might expect from ADL if
they publicly criticized Israel or matters Jewish through most of
the 20th century.
How
different it is today! Bedeviled by criticism, ADL and the Jewish
state it represents fight to keep operational their historically
most effective tool for self-defense and advancement: their power
to defame as “anti-Semites” anyone who criticizes them.
Yet,
Eric
Fingerhut, in the Jerusalem Post, reports that an increasing
number of Israel’s critics now consider it a badge of honor
to be labeled “anti-Semitic” by Israel!
In
the late 1980s at their annual New York conference, ADL focused
on Ted Pike and racist Tom Metzger as the two greatest threats to
their agenda. Now, surrounded by a host of adversaries, ADL has
gradually stopped giving me such priority. ADL does have 11 pages
of nonsense against me at their website (Read my rebuttal, My
Response to ADL's Attack). But today my voice in criticism of
Zionist control and oppression has been joined by figures of such
stature as former President Jimmy Carter, academics Mearsheimer
and Walt, Norman Finkelstein, jurist Samuel Goldstone and many others
including the United Nations and European countries. (Half of Europeans
are now critical of Israel, as are three quarters of Spaniards are.)
With Israel’s brutality against the Palestinians increasingly
condemned, the Anti-Defamation League can no longer diversify its
damage control in order to defame lesser critics.
It's
an ideal time to destroy ADL!
Evangelicals still Terrified of ADL
More
than any force except Jewish media, ADL is destroying the moral
underpinnings of our nation and civilization. ADL now boasts that
it is architect of 45 US state hate laws as well as the federal
law. Are evangelicals seizing this moment to weaken ADL’s
destructive influence? No.
In
his article, Goldberg says “Republicans” are heaping
criticism on Foxman for his “Rage Report.” Actually,
Republican leaders who did so, at least initially, were few. Jonathan
Tobin blasted ADL in Commentary. Joseph Farah wrote a piece for
World Net Daily basically warning ADL, “Don’t call me
anti-Semitic!” I wrote a salvo of articles alerting America
to ADL’s attack which soared to reprints on over 100 blogs
and websites. In contrast, a cowering religious right remains eerily
silent about ADL’s characterization of millions of conservatives
as “conspirators.” Evangelicals still remember ADL’s
previously unrestrained powers of recrimination.
But
such power is fading and could end if evangelicals emerge from hiding—and
give chase! It’s time to drive this bullying, corrupting,
illegal agent of a foreign power from the only remaining country
able to be a beacon of freedom and free speech to the world. At
this auspicious moment, Christian conservatives can make no greater
contribution to liberty than to speak out boldly in criticism of
ADL.
ADL
must go the way of the dinosaur—including that dinosaur most
like ADL, Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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America First Books Editor's
Note
For
those new to the hate bill controversy that is the topic of most
of Rev. Pike's work, please link to the following articles:
 Alert
to Congress Regarding Hate Bills and the False Flag Attack Threat
by America First Books publisher William B. Fox. Two-thirds
down the web page please find the essay "The
Hate Crime Law Concept: It is all very sinister for at least nine
major reasons."
Also,
earlier on this same page I comment:
Although
Rev Ted Pike is completely independent from Captain May and myself
in terms of his political and religious views, the threats we
address all stem from the same corrupt power elite. I mention
in my concluding remarks below that this elite “would mobilize
us into domestic tyranny and foreign wars, while distracting us
from economic depression and the groups that brought it about.”
This
is the real problem, not the lack of more “hate crime”
laws. If anything, we need even more freedom of speech to speak
truth to power, sort out our problems, and develop peaceful strategies
to handle high level malefactors. This is why we urgently need
for members of Congress to not only take a principled stand and
stop all hate crime legislative initiatives, but to also roll
back all the existing hate crime laws currently on the books.
Hate
crime laws actually pose a major national security threat. They
condition Americans to feel that certain types of thought are inherently
immoral or illegal, even if they do not result in any form of violence
or infringement on the rights of others.
In
our articles related to false flag attacks, Capt.
Eric H. May and I have discussed strong evidence that Mossad-CIA
was behind 9-11, the mere "thought" of which would some
day be outlawed once hate crime oversight bureaucracies become firmly
implanted in America. We can expect government hate crime overwatch
entities to experience the usual cancerous growth and abuse of power
that libertarian writer and Presidential candidate Harry Browne
described in his classic book Why
Government Doesn't Work.
Please
find out more about the hate crime issue in the Rev
Ted Pike archive.
Please discover important
alternative religious and secular viewpoints on freedom of speech
issues at America First Books:
a) The
Rev Ted Pike archive
b) The
Religious Crisis page
These web pages address not only conservative
Christian and Christian Zionist viewpoints, but also secular, anarcho-libertarian,
atheist, pagan/natural religion (particularly Asatru/Odinist), racial
nationalist, and "miscellaneous other" perspectives.
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