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Anti-Defamation League CEO and national director Jonathan Greenblatt. Credit: ADL.

The Anti Defamation League’s yearly conference features student-oriented sessions on “Anti-Zionism’s Global Reach” and how students can confront anti-Zionism on campus. As the ADL brings together youth and educators under the misleading banner of “fighting hate,” our movements must come together to affirm that the ADL is not an ally to working class and oppressed peoples, nor to students and teachers.

Zionism—the ideology Itamar Ben-Gvir and Benjamin Netanyahu embody, one of Jewish supremacy in the Jewish land– is at last becoming problematic for American Jews. They are up to their chins in that discriminatory ideology, and so we begin a war over Zionism that will bring down the Israel lobby in the next ten years. Because Zionism destroys everything in its path.

Benjamin Netanyahu rides Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the ghost of Meir Kahane, back to power in Israel’s recent elections. (Cartoon: Carlos Latuff)

This week Israel held national elections for the fifth time in three years. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party was triumphant and will forming the next government with the help of the real winners of this latest round – the messianic, fascist Religious Zionist Party that electrified the electorate, and is terrifying Israel’s supporters in the United States.