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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz đź–¤"):
jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:
As a Jewish American, I grew up appreciating the Anti-Defamation League's work combatting antisemitism. But as I got more experienced with progressive activism, I realized that it's a lot more complex than that. #DropTheADL has a good summary at https://droptheadl.org/ -- signed by dozens of groups including If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace, United We Dream, Mijente, Movement for Black Lives, National Lawyers Guild, Center for Constitutional Rights, and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
"Many organizations in our communities find themselves in spaces with the ADL, using its anti-bias education materials, or counting on the ADL to support our political goals. In light of a growing understanding of the ADL’s harmful practices, many progressive groups are rethinking those relationships.
Even though the ADL is integrated into community work on a range of issues, it has a history and ongoing pattern of attacking social justice movements led by communities of color, queer people, immigrants, Muslims, Arabs, and other marginalized groups, while aligning itself with police, right-wing leaders, and perpetrators of state violence. More disturbing, it has often conducted those attacks under the banner of “civil rights.” This largely unpublicized history has come increasingly to light as activists work to make sense of the ADL’s role in condemning the Movement for Black Lives, Palestinian rights organizing, and Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar, among others.
We are deeply concerned that the ADL’s credibility in some social justice movements and communities is precisely what allows it to undermine the rights of marginalized communities, shielding it from criticism and accountability while boosting its legitimacy and resources. Even when it may seem that our work is benefiting from access to some resources or participation from the ADL, given the destructive role that it too often plays in undermining struggles for justice, we believe that we cannot collaborate with the ADL without betraying our movements."
Their primer on https://droptheadl.org/the-adl-is-not-an-ally/ goes into a lot more depth and is really worth reading.