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Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL in January 2022. Screenshot from ADL video.

The ADL’s main targets these days include a liberal ice cream company, mainstream human rights organizations, and the Harvard University student newspaper.

Adolf Hitler, Count Galeazzo Ciano, and Joachim von Ribbentrop attend a Nazi Party rally.

After Russia’s Foreign Minister said that Hitler had Jewish blood, Israeli leaders have condemned him angrily, with the Prime Minister saying he was justifying “the oppressors of Israel.” Wait, when did this become about Israel? There is in fact a plausible theory that Hitler’s father’s father was Jewish. Not that that would in any way justify Russian or Israeli propaganda.

For the second time in the last year, the rightwing Israel lobby– AIPAC and the Democratic Majority for Israel, which bragged of spending over $1 million — helped Rep. Shontel Brown defeat Nina Turner in Cleveland primary. What was Nina Turner’s crime? Expressing solidarity with Palestinians being thrown out of their homes and being bombed in Gaza. Though Brown doesn’t even mention Israel in her public priorities.

Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL says anti-Zionism is antisemitism, and as dangerous to Jews as white nationalism. His speech is strategic. Greenblatt’s core audience is the political establishment and the Jewish establishment. He is trying to make sure that Democratic Party doesn’t accept the growing number of human rights reports accusing Israel of apartheid. And he is trying to keep more young Jews from saying Israel has no right to exist.

Michael Lynk briefs reporters at UN headquarters in New York on October 26, 2017. (Photo: UN)

When Canadian human rights lawyer Michael Lynk ended his term as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories on May 1 he left a series of reports and statements laying out the realities of Israeli apartheid. Now in an extended interview with Mondoweiss, Lynk describes the process that led to his apartheid declarations, and what steps the international community can take to force Israel to abandon its “fever-dream of settler-colonialism.”