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Upon finding out on Tuesday that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) had deleted its entire “Glossary of Extremism and Hate,” I felt like a convict who has given up all hope of ever getting out of prison suddenly noticing that the door to his cell is unlocked and the guards are gone. For while popular indignation against the far-left defamation group for listing Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) as an extremist group led the hatemongers to realize that they had gone too far, TPUSA was not the only unjust and unwarranted entry in the “Glossary.” I, for one, was on it, too.
As Rick Moran noted Thursday, the ADL “removed its ‘Glossary of Extremism and Hate’ from its website after numerous complaints from conservatives, including Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr.” And in a revealing indication that the ADL was well aware of how dodgy the whole enterprise really was “rather than remove the entry, the ADL deleted the entire Glossary and said that it no longer considers TPUSA an ‘extremist group.’”
This is yet another indication of how much the cultural tide is turning, and how quickly. Just under two years ago, a lawyer wrote to the ADL on my behalf, calling upon the ADL to remove me from its Glossary of Extremism. The letter said: “Robert Spencer personally challenges ADL to produce one statement of his or of Jihad Watch that treats Muslims with ‘hatred or intolerance’, or which denigrates them based on their identity or immutable characteristics.” This was in reference to my opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, which opposition the ADL deplored as “extremism.” In response, though the ADL did not deign to support any of its false and defamatory claims, the organization flatly refused to remove them.
Compounding the absurdity of this was the fact that my lawyer’s letter points out that I have “written and published numerous books and articles defending Jews and Israel.” These include The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, which makes the case for Israel against the Palestinian propaganda that is increasingly taken as fact all across the political spectrum, and Antisemitism: History and Myth, about which Dennis Prager said: “I do not believe a more important book on antisemitism has ever been written.”
All that cut no ice with the ADL. Oren Segal, the ADL’s Vice President of the Center on Extremism, refused to remove me from the list. The ADL’s lawyer haughtily said that “We do not believe that Mr. Spencer allegedly ‘defending Israel and Jewish interests’ insulates him from scrutiny.” “Allegedly,” as if the books didn’t actually exist, but were just all part of the sinister right-wing plot to shield “extremists” from the exposure they so richly deserved.
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Laurence Jarvik says
Why didn’t you sue the ADL for defamation?
WPM says
Not worth the trouble ,it will give more propaganda that Robert Spencer is going after a “pro-Jewish” organization by suing them .It would keep the lie alive that Robert Spencer is a bigot in the MSM spin about the trial. Just having their nonsense about him taken down is victory enough.
truth says
“I got sprung “is a Glorious headline. 😂🤣😂.. Robert is the GOAT..!!!! thx
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I like how the DOJ has completely disassociated itself from these “anti-hate” groups like SPLC and ADL. High time that happened, particularly after the Charlie Kirk assassination
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Sorry, I meant FBI and Kash Patel. Anyway, that story is now posted, so will comment there
tgusa says
It has become evident that left wing jews are a menace to our Republic. Don’t ask me what their endgame might be because I have no idea.
Hoi Polloi says
Congratulations on your new freedom! I wonder if deleting their archive, evidence of their crimes against humanity, is illegal?
It does prove that your efforts, and that of your fellow truth warriors, is working. The more people understand what you’re fighting and why, the more ground is gained against these evil people.
Winston 101 says
Dismantle all the “hate speech”, “hate group”, thought crime structures.
This article shows how their application backfires and you get
unintended consequences that hurt those you’re trying to protect.
Free speech for me but not for thee is NOT the answer.
More Speech is the answer.
The question to me seems to be:
How can Islam be Constitutionally kept out of the United States?
It’s not just another religion. It is a form of GOVERNMENT.
There is no islam with the rules governing non-believers.
There is no separation of mosque and State.
Islam is the State.
The U.S. wouldn’t import Nazis, and their propagandists,
just because they professed to believe in Odin as their religion.
U.S. Constitutional scholars please step up and take this seriously.
The U.S. needs the Constitutional, legal framework, to stop the tide of
Islam and expel, as anti-Constitutional (and anti-American State and
local law) the islamists that are already in the U.S.
Hoi Polloi says
Yes, I would also like to see our fundamental principle of separation used to deal with this issue.
Winston 101 says
Hoi Polloi,
If you come across any information to that effect
please post on this site and I will do the same.
Thank you.
somehistory says
Many, many years ago, the U.S. kept out Catholic priests. I’m not saying it was a good thing, just that they did it.
If the government had laws that made that possible, then they could find some to apply to muzzies because muzzies don’t come here to just live, they come to make the country ruled by their political scheme.
The mb put it in writing and have been working on it….installing their operatives in the various offices of government (ilhan elmi, ratshida tlaib, k. ellison, a. carson, and so many others as judges, mayors, city councilman, etc)…ever since.
One thing they could do is apply RICO against the various muzzie orgs. that would be a beginning.