Morton Klein and Liz Berney
ZOA, Sept. 12, 2022
“… after ZOA published critiques of ADL’s policies, Jonathan Greenblatt physically assaulted female ZOA attorney Liz Berney in May 2016.”
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research and Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement:
A recent Fox News investigation found that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s educational and “anti-bias” programs, which influence millions of American children and thousands of educators and officials, promote far-left and critical race theory (CRT) concepts such as “white privilege” and “systemic racism,” and promote groups such as the Women’s March and BLM – despite the virulent Jew-hating, Israel-hating and pro-Farrakhan positions of the Women’s March leaders and BLM/M4BL organization. The investigation also found that these harmful ADL programs characterize denying white privilege as a “biased attitude”; encourage white students to view themselves as “oppressors”; and include an article indicating that white women are “justly seen as oppressive” and “enjoy unearned skin privilege,” etc, etc.
Unfortunately, this is nothing new. After Obama senior advisor Jonathan Greenblatt became ADL’s CEO in 2015, Greenblatt “refocused” ADL on far-left partisan political, legal and educational advocacy. For years, ZOA and others have raised alarm bells about ADL’s and Greenblatt’s dangerous far-left advocacy and numerous departures from ADL’s primary stated mission of combatting antisemitism.
Six years ago, in mid-2016, in an article entitled “BlackLivesMatter Platform Falsely Accuses Israel of Genocide, etc. – Yet ADL Still Promotes BLM,” ZOA documented that multiple ADL educational lesson plans: encouraged high school students to join BLM protests in Ferguson (the very same protests that demanded ending Israel’s existence); promoted BLM while ignoring the antisemitic BLM/M4BL platform and antisemitism that permeates the BLM organization; repeated BLM’s false “hands up” claim – while omitting the multiple comprehensive government investigations which concluded that Officer Wilson shot Michael Brown in self-defense; presented misleading selective police shooting statistics; falsely presented self-defense as an example of “racial profiling”; and complained about (so-called) “unearned white privilege” (a racist theory that is too often used against innocent Jews and others).
Similarly, later in 2016, the New York Post published an article by Alex VanNess entitled “Jonathan Greenblatt is Destroying the Anti-Defamation League,” which among other things, explained that “The ADL has also promoted the Black Lives Matter movement, for example, by creating school lesson plans that promote it, despite BLM’s support for BDS and open hostility toward Israel. Just recently, Greenblatt accused American Jews of living with ‘white privilege’.”… SOURCE
