ADL confirms that antisemitism in the US comes overwhelmingly from the far right
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The Anti-Defamation League in the United States is a formidable part of the pro-Israel lobby, relentless in its condemnation of pro-Palestinian support, particularly of the BDS Movement.
Yet is new publication Audit of Antisemitic Incidents for 2019 struggles to find any examples of antisemitism coming from the left in the United States.
Worryingly, they reported 2,107 anti-Semitic incidents in 2019, an increase of 12 percent from the previous year.
But it comes overwhelmingly from the far right, particularly white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups that target and inspire violence against Muslims, immigrants and others.
Colleges and universities are supposedly a hotbed of anti-Israel = anti-Jewish hate. Yet in in a country with more than 4,000 such institutions, barely a fifth of the 186 registered instances of antisemitism even involved “references to Israel or Zionism” – and these were generally cases pointing out the blatant discrimination against Palestinians practiced by Zionism today, not antisemitism as we would recognise it.
The threat comes from the right. Yet the ADL, despite its own analysis, and the Israel lobby continue to see supporting Palestinian rights as the real threat facing Jews today…
This article was originally published by Electronic Intifada on Thu 21 May 2020. Read the original here.
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