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Everybody's Antisemitic!
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If your business model involves marginalizing people by calling them names—and requires you to terrorize your funders with the specter of an exponentially-growing number of “antisemites” who need to be marginalized and insulted, leading you to deliberately set about pissing off more and more people—you will eventually reach a point of diminishing returns. Once you have marginalized the majority, it’s no longer on the margins. Once everybody’s antisemitic, nobody’s antisemitic. The magical word no longer commands its magic. It’s time to call it a day and find a new gig.
The Anti-Defamation League is fast reaching that point. And it isn’t just people like me, who have been on the receiving end of numerous ADL fatwas, who are saying it. Their supporters are saying it too.
A few weeks ago the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal published “Can the Anti-Defamation League Be Saved? What the decline of the nation’s oldest antisemitism-fighting org says about the future of Jewish politics.” The author, Jesse Arm, a Tel Aviv University dropout, argues that the ADL’s “anti-hate” strategy has backfired:
Had antisemitism itself remained a peripheral prejudice, that evolution might merely have been disappointing. But anti-Jewish hate has surged since October 7, 2023, in the form of civil terrorism, street violence, targeted attacks, and the mainstreaming of conspiratorial figures on both left and right. The ADL’s approach—count incidents, denounce them, offer a free trip to the Holocaust museum—has proved worse than useless in response.
Ironically, Arm’s prescription for Making the ADL Great Again is worse than “worse than useless”:
The old ADL model—rooted in law-enforcement partnerships, deterrence, and unapologetic civic defense—is the most obvious answer. The job of a serious defense organization is to make it dangerous to menace Jews…
In other words, Arm wants transform the ADL from a supposedly anti-hate organization to an openly pro-hate organization. He hopes to reinvent the ADL as a terrorist outfit infiltrating law enforcement in the same way that other organized crime groups do. He wants to cross out the A and reinvent the group as a rebranded JDL, or Jewish Defense League, a terrorist group implicated in numerous Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago