"Since #Hamas’ #October7 #terrorist attack, many #Jewish #faculty at #colleges and #universities across the country have been describing their professional lives in language more commonly associated with #trauma than #academic disagreement. In a nationwide #survey of more than 200 Jewish-identifying #US-based faculty conducted between April and July of 2025 by the #AcademicEngagementNetwork (#AEN) and the #AntiDefamationLeague (#ADL), respondents spoke of fear, isolation, and a loss of belonging on their own #campuses.

One Jewish faculty member starkly described the experience: “I’m being attacked online…I have been ostracized by faculty in a smear campaign. I have been advised…not to come to #campus…this is as bad as it gets.” Another shared, “faculty are not talking to me because they know I’m a #Zionist.” And another participant confided, “I am being attacked in all directions, and I no longer feel safe on campus.”

And these aren’t isolated incidents."

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/387032/the-hidden-cost-of-campus-antisemitism-faculty-mental-health/

"There have always been grumblings and mumblings and rumblings about the efficacy of the #Jewish community’s efforts to combat #antisemitism. But over the past two-plus years, in the wake of the wave of antisemitism that has swept the globe since the #Oct7 terror attacks in #Israel and Israel’s war against #Hamas in #Gaza, those disagreements over tactics, policies and strategies have reached a fever pitch, particularly this week.

This comes in light of two nominally distinct events: one being a speech by #NewYorkTimes columnist and Jewish thought-leader #BretStephens at the #92ndStreetY in which he called to “dismantle the #AntiDefamationLeague”; and the other being the release of a new commercial from #RobertKraft’s #BlueSquareAlliance aimed at combating antisemitism, which has, perhaps unsurprisingly, drawn fierce criticism."

https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/a-reckoning-for-combating-antisemitism-complex-has-been-coming-for-a-long-time/

Across the West, speaking for Palestine is now a crime

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/across-west-speaking-palestine-now-crime

"For years, #ImranAhmed has presented his research on how #techplatforms enable the spread of #antisemitism to receptive audiences across the ideological spectrum.

He’s worked with the #AntiDefamationLeague and #JewishFederations of North America; the latter credits Ahmed with the backbone of much of its own policy proposals[...]

He’s joined #Republicans in advocating for an end to #Section230, a law granting special protections to #socialmedia platforms. During the first #Trump administration, on the strength of his research, the #British-born Ahmed received a priority visa as an “alien of extraordinary ability” — the so-called “#Einsteinvisa,” after the German-born #Jewish physicist.

All of that only added to Ahmed’s befuddlement when, just before Christmas, the current Trump #StateDepartment announced it would be revoking his #visa because of what #SecretaryofState #MarcoRubio tweeted were “egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship.”

https://www.jta.org/2026/01/06/politics/he-researches-antisemitism-for-a-living-why-does-the-state-department-want-to-kick-him-out-of-the-country

Digging deep into my Pocket archives since they shutdown

'When the Anti-Defamation League...magnifies offensive graffiti and unflattering tweets to the status of violence, while ignoring actual discrimination, if it exists, they trivialise antisemitism. When they condemn criticism of Israel and Zionism as antisemitic, they risk elevating antisemitism to a virtue. And when those who define antisemitism bend over backwards to allow interpretation of antizionist expression as antisemitic, they contribute to enabling such dilutions'

#israel #antisemitism #zionism #antiDefamationLeague

https://bureauofcounterpropaganda.substack.com/p/onto-front-foot

No ADL, Anti-Police Symbols Aren't Hate Speech

So, even if you ignore everything the ADL explicitly says about Israel or Zionism, it's still not a reliable source on hate speech.

Did you know that nestled among the 14 words, the swastika, and the burning cross, the ADL lists ACAB as a hate symbol?

And here's the justification given for the classification:

WTF ADL?

The #AntiDefamationLeague is facing backlash over what critics have called unwarranted hostility toward Mayor-elect #ZohranMamdani, after the org publicized a website & tip line to monitor his admin for actions that could be construed as #antisemitic.

During the final stretch of the mayoral campaign, #Mamdani’s detractors, including #JonathanGreenblatt, chief exec of the #ADL, repeatedly accused him of #antisemitism, a charge he strongly rejects.

#Islamophobia
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-monitor-antisemitism-adl.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/history-lessons-ethnic-studies-retreat.html