New Haven Independent

Posted by: THREEFIFTHS | December 8, 2009 1:28 PM

We also have new partnerships,” Rawlings said, “and one of our new partners is ADL,” the Anti-Defamation League. “The issues of the ADL around hate crimes and social injustice are consistent with the issues of the NAACP. We’ve been meeting for the past eight months. We have lots of things in common,” he said, referencing the murder of a black security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. almost a year ago. “That’s no different to me than the [civil rights-era] bombings in Alabama.”

Mr.Rawlings sorry to tell you that the Black community does not have lots of things in common with the ADL. In fact Check out there history when it comes to Black Peopland other groups.

Anti-Defamation League: Encyclopedia II - Anti-Defamation League - Relations with Blacks

Anti-Defamation League - Relations with Blacks
Historically, some African-American organizations in America and the ADL have worked closely together in the American civil rights movement. However, since the 1970s relations have been less smooth, owing to diverging opinions on a range of issues (including affirmative action, welfare, Israel and a range of other topics).

The ADL has publicly criticized certain political, business, entertainment, activist and religious leaders and organizations in the black community:

Before the fall of the former South African apartheid regime, the ADL actively opposed and labeled anti-Semitic, the anti-apartheid African National Congress (ANC), led by Nelson Mandela.
The ADL has engaged the Nation of Islam which it considers anti-Semitic, in public discord since the 1984 U.S. Presidential campaign.
In 1984 The Boston Globe reported that then ADL national director, Nathan Perlmutter, described Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. as anti-Semitic, after Jackson referred to New York City as "Hymietown".
During the 1990s ADL files scandal, it was revealed that the NAACP was among the hundreds of groups the organization kept information files on. In 1994, the ADL stated that they may ask corporations to stop funding the NAACP, when their leader at the time, Benjamin Chavis, developed a working relationship with Louis Farrakhan, who the ADL considers to be anti-Semitic.
During the 2002 election cycle, the ADL, in a letter to The New York Times, harshly criticized long standing Congressional Black Caucus member Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. According to an August 19, 2002 article in The New York Times ADL Director Abraham Foxman said, "it made sense that Jewish Americans would want to contribute to efforts to replace Ms. McKinney and [Black former Alabama Congressman] Mr. Hilliard because of the lawmakers' records on matters of interest to the Jewish community." McKinney was subsequently defeated in the Democratic primary by black state judge Denise Majette. In an August 25 letter to The New York Times Foxman pointed out that "support [from outside the African-American community] was vital in furthering the civil rights movements, and Jews played an important role" and added "McKinney went out of her way to attack Israel, causing much pain to supporters of a beleaguered democracy. It is also clear that her constituents turned her out of office for many reasons, including her extreme comments about Sept. 11."
Rep. McKinney who regained her Congressional seat in 2004 wrote in an Washington Post Op-Ed, "..I have been condemned by the Anti-Defamation League. I have been attacked as an anti-Semite. ..Two Jewish organizations that support my right to speak are Not in My Name and Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel. Not in My Name expressed its disappointment at "the harsh rebuke by the Anti- Defamation League. We support Rep. McKinney and hope she continues to show courage in bringing such topics before the American people." Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel wrote, "The time has arrived to examine seriously the United States' role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." "[8]
In March of 2005, ADL National Director, Abraham Foxman called Hip hop mogul Russell Simmons's public campaign against anti-Semitism hypocritical, due to Simmons's long history of working with Louis Farrakhan.

Look ow the good old ADL Spied on the Naacp Along
with other groups. They even spied on the unions.

Unions among hundreds of groups spied on by ADL Informant

ADL National Director Abraham H Foxman

Jeffrey Blankfort Middle East Labor Bulletin Vol 4. No. 3 Fall 1993

Question: "What was the purpose of keeping all those names, Cal?
Answer: "What was the purpose? I was an investigator for the ADL. I investigated any and all anti-democratic movements.
Question: "And these investigations that you were doing, were they all in behalf of the ADL?
Answer: "They were all in behalf of the ADL."
(From deposition of Roy "Cal" Bullock, interviewed by San Francisco Police inspector Ron Roth, January 25. (Pp. 138 and 139)

ROY "CAL" BULLOCK has been on the "unofficial" payroll of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith for nearly 40 years and as recently as July 19, 1992*, was described by its New York-based chief spymaster, Irwin Suall, as "our Number One investigator."

Bullock, as of 1992, was receiving close to $25,000 annually for monitoring what Bullock and the ADL apparently considered to be "anti-democratic" organizations and individuals. The numbers of the former stretched into the hundreds and the names of individuals he had in his computer went well beyond 10,000, according to 700 pages of documents released in April by San Francisco District Attorney Arlo Smith.

While Bullock monitored and at times infiltrated neo-Nazi and skinhead groups, his and the ADL's main concerns were organizations and individuals considered threats or potential threats to Israel. These seemed to include not only the more obvious targets, Palestinians and Arab-Americans and their support groups, but organizations representing virtually every segment of the progressive social, legal and political spectrum, with a special emphasis on those opposing apartheid.

Under a separate "Arab" category he kept 77 files on 58 Arab- American organizations; among 647 groups described as "pinko," multiple files were maintained on the African National Congress and 47 other anti-apartheid organizations, both here and South Africa-based. His surveillance of the latter reflected the ADL's desire, as part of Israel's "unofficial" U.S. propaganda arm, to neutralize critics of Israel's military and economic ties to the apartheid state, an effort, which, the records show, was largely successful.

This eventually led him to do similar spying for the South African intelligence service together with his buddy, now retired San Francisco police inspector Tom Gerard who kept his own set of files (which is more than just a departmental no-no and has him already indicted and facing a possible conviction).

Among the hundreds of others groups spied upon were such diverse organizations as the NAACP, the National Indian Treaty Council, Greenpeace, the Japanese-Americans Citizens League, the Centro Legal de La Raza, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Earth Island Institute and the Harvey Milk Gay and Lesbian Democratic Club. A half dozen American Jewish and Israeli groups also received his attention including the Jerusalem-based Alternative Information Center, Americans for Peace Now, Friends of Yesh G'vul, the International Jewish Peace Union and Israelis Against Occupation.

There were also files on 20 Bay Area labor unions, plus the San Francisco Central Labor Council, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, the Boycott Shell Committee, the Green Giant Frozen Food Workers Committee and the San Francisco Chapter of the Committee for Labor Union Women.

In alphabetical order, files were maintained on:

AFSCME Local 3218
AFT 151
AFSCME Local 3506
Carpenters Local 22
NABET Local 51
HERE Local 2
IAM Local 565
ILWU
ILWU Local 6
NALC Local 214
OCAW
OCAW 8149
Plumbers & Fitters Local 93
SEIU Local 535
SEIU Local 616
Teamster Local 921 (S.F. TDU),
United Farm Workers and UTU Local 1730.
In addition, records were kept on

The Bay Area Network on Central America
The Portland Labor Committee on Central America
The Free South Africa Labor Committee
The Labor Committee on the Middle East.
In Bullock's computer, all were labeled "pinko," (which in his interview with SFPD inspector Roth, he equated with "left wing.")

Robert Carl Miller, writing in The Voice, (July/Aug. '93) the publication of the spied-upon Letter Carriers Local 214, asked: "Why would the ADL, dedicated to 'translating the country's democratic ideals into a way of life for all Americans," be wasting their time and resources (an estimated 34 million dollars a year) investigating all of the above-named groups? Why was this spy network interested in rooting out possible anti-Semitism in the Boycott Shell Committee but had no interest in any anti- Semitism in the boardroom of Standard Oil? Are the wealthy purer of heart than the working class? The history of oil companies is littered with anti-Semitism. Henry Ford, not the UAW, was supporter of Hitler. There were no files listed for corporations with this spy network."

What information Bullock entered into in his files will be secret, at least until September 10th, thanks to an accommodating San Francisco judge, Henry Louie, who accepted the ADL's version of reality -- that their files and those of Bullock, who remains on the ADL payroll, are their private property.

Bottom line the ADL is noting more than a copy of the CIA.So Mr.Rawlings I have alot of respect for you and I think you mean well but watch who you partnership with cause it may come back to haunt you.

P.S. I hope king john is not the NAACP new
partnership.

Posted by: anon | December 8, 2009 3:26 PM

Three fifths:

Which is why, thank god, Rawlings and people at the ADL are working to push past all that.

Some ADL's positions were wrong, some right.

For example, Southern Poverty Law Center lists Nation of Islam as a Hate group. Of the list of hate groups it monitors the vast majority are white supremacist. Only two black groups are on the list.

If they manage to get past their differences and work together, it is a very good thing. Somehow, I don't think Farrakhan is going to be one of them.

Posted by: Jimmie Griffin | December 8, 2009 3:39 PM

Congrats to the efforts of the Greater New Haven
Branch and their renewed efforts as one of the premiere branches in the nation.

Posted by: THREEFIFTHS | December 8, 2009 7:47 PM

anon

Three fifths:

Which is why, thank god, Rawlings and people at the ADL are working to push past all that.

Some ADL's positions were wrong, some right.

For example, Southern Poverty Law Center lists Nation of Islam as a Hate group. Of the list of hate groups it monitors the vast majority are white supremacist. Only two black groups are on the list.

If they manage to get past their differences and work together, it is a very good thing. Somehow, I don't think Farrakhan is going to be one of them.

Some ADL's positions were wrong, some right.

Who said that the ADL has stop spying. They still are along with AIPAC.

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Share Print CommentsI'm feeling a bit gleeful and sad right now. I'm happy because my theory about the disconnect between mainstream Jewish groups political positions and the opinions of the majority of American Jews, has been proven correct. At the same time, I'm a bit glum because of what is happening right now in Israel. While the rest of the world is focused on the uber-cool Obamas first foray into the world scene, beyond the shores of the Union Jack, there's some serious stuff happening, including the return of Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Under his previous term, Netanyahu's extreme right-wing domestic and international policies left Israel starving for alternatives. Literally. Under his watch, poverty sky rocketed in the country and the peace process was a failure.

Netanyahu has been in office for one day but is already quickly putting in place an Administration with an unequivocal right wing stamp. His Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman (same name as another right-wing hawkish US politician), is an extreme hawk and nationalist whose off-the-cuff comments are already making waves. According to the New York Times, Lieberman brazenly declared that "'those who wish for peace should prepare for war' and that Israel was not obligated by understandings on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached at an American-sponsored peace conference in late 2007." As I wrote in a hotly debated blog last month, "ABC and the ADL Don't Represent Me," US politicians, media and mainstream Jewish groups lock-in-step support for Israeli policies are out of touch with the majority of US Jews positions on Israel.

While there been little traction on the peace front in Israel in the past several years, this will make the situation more dire. There needs to be resounding condemnation of Lieberman's views from the US government, international peace brokers and major Jewish groups that his beliefs will create more instability and insecurity for Israel (Lieberman also said "if you want peace, prepare for war.") However, the Anti-Defamation League, the so-called civil rights group led by Abraham Foxman, decided that rather than condemning Lieberman, it would be better to support his extremist position. In fact, the organization issued a press release defending the political hawk's commitment to peace.

Shocking? Not really. Wrong? Yes.

The ADL is out of touch with the majority of American Jews. Tell the ADL to reverse it's unequivocal support for Lieberman. And, stay informed with J Street, a progressive voice for Israel.

Notice how then look out for Joe Lieberman. You talk about Farrakhan,How about Meir David Kahane Abraham Foxman, director of the U.S. "Anti-Defamation League", attended the funeral of mass-murderer Meir Kahane as a pall bearer.

Bottom line this is nothing more than.Fell free to read about it.

Jewish Dominance and Exploitation
of the Black Civil Rights Movement

http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/naacp.htm