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For a while we’ve pointed out how much energy the Anti-Defamation League spends attacking anti-Zionists, including younger Jews, as supposed antisemites. Now the American Jewish Committee has thrown in. I watched a few hours of the AJC’s conference this month in New York, and my jaw dropped as speaker after speaker directed criticism at young Jews for not standing up for Israel.

Israeli forces raze four water wells in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the southern West Bank on February 2, 2022. (Photo: Ihab Alami/APA Images)

Two congressional letters to the Biden administration on the ethnic cleansing in Masafer Yatta show the differences within the Democratic Party when it comes to Palestine.

Palestinian artists paint a mural in honour of slain veteran Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Gaza City on May 12, 2022. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

A couple weeks ago President Biden addressed the importance of journalism during his remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. This is a great sentiment, but of course it can’t possibly be taken seriously.

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.