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ADL misrepresents Israel’s map to delegation it leads of 19 Latino leaders

In reaching out to potential new sources of support for Israel in the United States, the Anti-Defamation League took a group of 19 “influential” Latino leaders to Israel and the occupied territories in late November.

But the trip seriously misrepresented the political landscape:

The Latino leaders visited key Christian and Jewish holy sites and traveled to various parts of the country, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. They also met with ordinary Israelis living in the south of the country who are regularly victimized by indiscriminate rocket fire from terrorists in Gaza, and traveled along the security fence that separates Israel and the West Bank.

Note the photo indicating that the Golan Heights is part of Israel. Also, note the reference to Jerusalem (evidently all of it) being part of Israel. And then there’s the inaccurate reference to the “security fence” as separating Israel and the West Bank when most of it runs well inside the West Bank. As anyone who has visited the West Bank and East Jerusalem and seen the wall knows, this is a flagrant misrepresentation of reality to American visitors.

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One possible motivation for the ADL to spend its dollars brainwashing educating Hispanic leaders (from Haaretz): ” The Israel Project: ‘American Hispanics are the most hostile toward Israel’”

Security Council Resolution 497 [December 1981] declared that that the acquisition of territory by force was inadmissible and that Israel’s decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the Golan Heights is null and void and without legal effect. This use of force to acquire land also of course applies to the whole of the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.

Check your letter-box, Abe’s year-end donation solicitation has been sent out. It’s a 4-page doosey and highlights the wonderful things ADL is doing to build bridges with the Latinos — including this hasbara junket. Copy at logophere:
http://logophere.com/index.htm

Once again, Abe’s favorite story of how being hidden by a Polish Catholic nanny during the Shoah until his folks could pick him up has motivated him 1) to insure the Catholics clean up their act and 2) to shed light on actions of the Catholic Church during the Shoah. Not sure there isn’t an element of non sequitur or bite-the-hand-that-saves-you here.

ADL = Anti-Democratic League? and just think, once upon a time it was in the forefront of the civil rights movement

ADL. Any record of what they did in the 1930’s?