The ADL is angry with Ilhan Omar today, but the ADL helped make Ilhan Omar. For years, the ADL has ignored leftist Jew-hatred and pretended that the only source of antisemitism was on the right. For years, the ADL has smeared and defamed me and others for daring to stand up against the Islamic antisemitism of people such as Ilhan Omar, and for identifying the roots of that antisemitism in Islamic texts and teachings. Recently I’ve had a lawyer and another advocate try to get the ADL to remove its defamation of me, and it steadfastly refused. So now Greenblatt is waking up to what Ilhan Omar is, when we have been sounding the alarm about her since she first arrived on the scene? He made his bed, he can lie in it.
“ADL accuses Rep. Omar of ‘blood libel’ for saying some Jewish students pro-genocide,” Times of Israel, April 28, 2024:
The head of the Anti-Defamation League on Saturday accused Democratic US Representative Ilhan Omar of spreading a blood libel after she implied Jewish students who support Israel amid its war against Hamas are “pro-genocide.”
Omar made the remarks as she visited anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University.
With the death toll mounting in the war in Gaza, anti-Israel protesters nationwide are demanding that schools cut financial ties to the country and divest from companies they say are enabling the conflict. Some Jewish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism and made them afraid to set foot on campus.
What started at Columbia has turned into a nationwide showdown between students and administrators over anti-war protests and the limits of free speech. In the past 10 days, hundreds of students have been arrested, suspended, put on probation, and, in rare cases, expelled from colleges, including Yale University, the University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University and the University of Minnesota.
School leaders at several universities have responded by asking police to clear out camps and arrest those who refuse to leave. While saying they defend free speech rights to protest, the leaders say they will not abide activists infringing on campus policies against hate speech or camping out on university grounds.
Over 200 were arrested over the weekend as police moved in to clear protest camps at some campuses.
On Friday, Omar visited her daughter Isra Hirsi at the anti-Israel tent encampment set up by pro-Palestinian students at Columbia. Hirsi was one of several students suspended by Columbia after being arrested for setting up an initial encampment.
Asked how she thought her visit would be received by Jewish students facing antisemitism, Omar responded that she met Jewish students in the encampment.
“I think it is really unfortunate that people don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe and that we should not have to tolerate antisemitism or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide,” she said.
In a post on Saturday to the X platform, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt slammed Omar, saying “it’s patently false and a blood libel to suggest that ANY Jewish students are ‘pro-genocide.’”
“It is gaslighting to impute that Jewish people are somehow at fault for being harassed and menaced with signs and slogans literally calling for their own extermination,” he continued. “It is abhorrent that a sitting member of Congress would slander an entire group of young people in such a cold, calculated manner.”
“This is how people get killed.”…
Bexarkat says
In 2016, former President Obama said ““We are all Jews, because anti-Semitism is a distillation, an expression of an evil that runs through so much of human history, and if we do not answer that, we do not answer any other form of evil,” Mr. Obama said. “America’s commitment to Israel’s security remains now and forever unshakable, and, I’ve said this before, it would be a fundamental moral failure if America broke that bond.” (New York Times, January 27, 2016).
Now in the face of the highest levels of antisemitism perpetrated on America’s shores, Obama remains silent. Clint Eastwood was quite correct in his observation that Obama is just an empty suit.
somehistory says
i elmi has put the lives of the students who are Jews, at risk. And she did it on purpose.
She is trash and gets paid big bucks to put forth mozlums as a protected group, wanting to make telling the Truth about islam a crime.
And here she goes out for more attention hogging and spouting lies; and all the while, grinning like the snake she is, and the snake she follows in worship.
Although various universities have called on the police to quell the demonstrations for hamas and its ghoulish actions, the mayor of DC says it would look bad for the U there to use the police in that manner. The U admin called for police help, but the mayor is more interested in retaining power and doesn’t want to ‘look bad.’
The present world is overrun by evil people who have gained power and control over others. i elmi is just one of many; but she makes me sick.
Noah Andeark says
“Pro-genocide” to this muslima means “Pro-Israel”.
somehistory says
Yes.
Mad Celt says
Genocide is not being waged against the ‘Palestinians ‘. It is war. Citizens are responsible for the actions of their government. The people of Gaza are paying the price for Hamas evil. If the US provokes Russia into a nuclear exchange we are responsible for the governments stupid action and will be vaporized along with otherwise non combative Russian citizens. A tragic fact but a true one.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, if I were Jewish, the ADL would have zero credibility w/ me
OLD GUY says
Who Attacked America? Who attacked Israel? Ans. Islamic followers, maybe they are the problem.
OLD GUY says
Who Attacked America? Who attacked Israel? Ans. Islamic followers, maybe they are the problem.