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HOW QUICKLY THEY FALL WHEN A FORMER OBAMA SUPPORTER TAKES OVER:
Best line in article: Josh Hammer, a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation…told Fox News Digital that the current CEO of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, is "a 'progressive' flunky and first-order partisan hack."
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After the ADL gets caught spreading woke ideology, Greenblatt must go
Under its current leader, the group discarded nonpartisanship. But the inclusion of critical race theory in the curricula it gives schools is not an isolated blunder.
BY JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(September 7, 2022 / JNS) According to the Anti-Defamation League, it’s just a mistake. A Fox News Digital exposé showed that the curricula they hand out to schools as part of their anti-hate programs included critical race theory (CRT) teachings about “white privilege,” the need to address the problems of “whiteness,” praise for the anti-Semitic Women’s March group and support for the idea of contemporary Americans paying reparations to those whose ancestors were enslaved.
Faced with hard evidence that its lucrative “No Place for Hate” initiatives are immersed in the woke leftist ideas that are actually legitimizing racialist attitudes and granting a permission slip for anti-Semitism, the organization had no choice but to say that the Fox News report was accurate and that “there is content among our curricular materials that is misaligned with ADL’s values and strategy.”
Yet rather than admit that the inclusion of such ideas in the material they are pushing on schools reflected a broader problem in the group’s work, the ADL still insisted: “We do not teach critical race theory. Period.” That’s a blatantly dishonest and even illogical claim since the material in their curricula shows that is exactly what they’re doing.
The upshot of this weasel-worded non-apology is that the group founded to defend the Jewish people against anti-Semitism is trying to claim that this is all somehow a misunderstanding. They want their donors, who were under the impression that the ADL was belatedly confronting left-wing anti-Semitism, to believe that the organization isn’t actually part of the problem rather than the solution.
But no one should be buying this disingenuous line of defense.
What Fox discovered was entirely consistent with the organization’s actions and decisions in the years since Jonathan Greenblatt took over as its CEO replacing longtime leader Abe Foxman. Greenblatt has helped shift the ADL from its former stance as the nonpartisan gold standard for monitoring of hate to being just another liberal activist group whose priority is helping the Democratic Party—something that makes sense for a former staffer in the Clinton and Obama White Houses. Rather than being “misaligned,” endorsements of CRT teachings are very much aligned with the way the ADL has made it a priority to stay in sync with fashionable radical ideas about race and to avoid being tagged as a bastion of Zionist privilege by their left-wing allies.
All of this means that the only thing ADL’s board and donors should be reviewing in the wake of this expose is their continued employment of Greenblatt. If it wants to truly demonstrate that it is rejecting CRT and the anti-Semitism that comes in its wake, then Greenblatt has got to go.
Far from being an isolated instance, the group’s inclusion of critical race theory concepts and ideas in their model anti-hate curricula is very much in line with the group’s approach to racial issues in recent years. There was its endorsement of the Black Lives Matter movement, which had itself endorsed anti-Semitic attacks on the state of Israel; and its “anti-racist” agenda about white supremacy. There was its defense of two anti-Semitic members of Congress—Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.)—against criticism from former President Donald Trump, largely on the basis that they were “women of color.” There was the hiring of left-wing Twitter troll Tema Smith as an outreach director tasked with educating about race and racism, whose main priority seems to be calling Jews racists for not going along with radical concepts about white privilege. Then there was the fact that its website had a definition of racism that invoked CRT teachings about privilege.
That the ADL is primarily interested in attacking anti-Semites on the far-right that it tries to link to Republicans and conservatives while downplaying the way left-wing anti-Semites have taken over academia and gained acceptance in popular culture and the left-wing of the Democratic Party has long been obvious. But the content of their school curricula in their hate-education program speaks to the way these ideas have become integral to its core business model and seem in line with much of the material that is routinely tweeted out by the @ADL_education Twitter account.
All of this speaks to a pattern of behavior under ADL that demonstrates that from the top down, the group has doubled down on the BLM agenda of equity as opposed to equality by emphasizing ideas about race and privilege.
A closer look at the material that the Fox News report highlighted shows just how far into wokeness the ADL has gone. The whole point of the topics covered points consistently towards justifying the BLM movement.
Cornell Law School Professor William Jacobson’s criticalrace.org website is an essential resource in discovering the influence of toxic racial theories that are spreading throughout the education system. In an email to me, he said that the ADL curricula is particularly damaging because it validates discredited talking points about the 2014 police shooting in Ferguson, Mo., that helped launch the BLM movement.
According to Jacobson:
“The lesson plan (‘privilege, discrimination, and racial disparities’) on the shooting of Michael Brown is highly misleading and irresponsible. As an investigation by the Obama Department of Justice confirmed, Michael Brown was shot after he sucker-punched a police officer who was seated in a patrol vehicle and tried to steal his weapon. The police officer was not charged because the shooting was legally justifiable. None of that is mentioned in the ADL lesson plan, which instead suggests that Brown was a victim of racist police violence and uses that as a launch pad to delve into issues of white privilege and other racial justice topics.”
Nor was that all.
“The second Michael Brown lesson, ‘Power and Privilege’ misleads by suggesting that Brown was unarmed,” said Jacobson. “That’s true but incomplete because he was shot in an unprovoked assault on a police officer sitting in a patrol car in an attempt to steal his gun. The lesson also says that the police officer was not indicted, which also is true, but fails to explain that the police officer was not indicted because the officer used lawful force to defend himself. The lesson plan also fails to point out that the Obama Justice Department came to the same conclusion.”
Both these lessons are, as Jacobson states, “misleading and manipulative.” Along with parts of curricula that seek to engage students by indoctrinating them with notions about white privilege and “structural racism,” this reflects the ADLs acceptance of racial-justice dogma and ideology in order to promote ideas about race that are aimed at polarizing and racializing society. The fact that information from a Jewish defense agency would ask students to reflect on the “achievements” of BLM without also taking into account the anti-Semitism and hatred for Israel that is associated with it calls into question where the ADL’s priorities lie.
Equally troubling is ADL’s embrace of intersectionality, a concept that falsely analogizes the Palestinian war on Israel with the struggle for civil rights in the United States and other anodyne causes. In one lesson plan about equality for women, the ADL advocates for students to “reflect upon the [2017] Women’s March,” using “an intersectionality approach.” It completely ignores the fact that the anti-Trump protest group, which was led by prominent anti-Semitic activists like Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour, was completely compromised by Jew-hatred.
Groups that claim to oppose racism ought to be advocating against intersectionality and the anti-equality “equity” agenda, not endorsing it. Groups that are supposed to be opposing anti-Semitism should be at the forefront of the fight against ideas that seek to view everything through the prism of race and identifying Israel and Jews as privileged oppressors. Yet the ADL, which raises close to $100 million a year to oppose racism and anti-Semitism, is, in essence, endorsing both.
Greenblatt’s skill at raising money even while trashing the ADL’s reputation for fairness and nonpartisanship has seemingly solidified his position at the head of one of the organized Jewish world’s most prominent organizations. His leadership also reflects the way American society has become polarized and driven to extremes as politics now serves in the role that religion used to play in most people’s lives. Seen from that perspective, perhaps it was inevitable that a liberal group like ADL would begin to drift to the far-left even while pretending to still speak for the center. The group’s involvement in Internet censorship with Big Tech allies like Google—ostensibly to educate against hatred—also showed its new bias as well as a propensity for other “mistakes” in which it wound up promoting extremism rather than stopping it.
Yet if the ADL is to retain even a sliver of credibility, it will require more than a pro forma “review” about “misaligned” lesson plans. It’s going to need a complete overhaul and a purge of the woke leftism and one-sidedness that now permeates almost everything it says and does. The only way to begin that effort is to fire Jonathan Greenblatt. Anything less than that will be a further betrayal of the organization’s responsibilities to speak up for its founding principles and mission.
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Anti-Defamation League launches review of education content after Fox News Digital investigation
The Anti-Defamation League announced in a statement that the organization is reviewing its education content after a Fox News Digital investigation into the curriculum it offers to teachers and students.
A Fox News Digital investigation found that the ADL – which was originally founded over 100 years ago to combat the anti-Semitic defamation of American Jews – included concepts from critical race theory as well as far-left ideas within its education wing.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, an ADL spokesperson stated they don't teach critical race theory but admitted how some of their curriculum materials are "misaligned" with their values.
"ADL is guided by a mission statement that was written when the organization was founded in 1913: our purpose is to ‘stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.’ This mission compels us to fight antisemitism and all forms of bigotry and prejudice, from virulent anti-Zionism to vicious xenophobia. In service to our mission, we have developed anti-bias and anti-hate education programs over the past four decades. These programs are designed to educate students and help them confront hate. We are proud we have helped millions of children across America learn to challenge bias, discrimination, and hate against all people.
We do not teach Critical Race Theory, period.
That said, we are far from perfect and clearly there is content among our curricular materials that is misaligned with ADL’s values and strategy. We intend to address this issue immediately and openly. We are moving to launch a thorough review of our education content. We will review the findings and implement a process to update them appropriately and expeditiously. We will get this right."
The reach of the ADL's education wing is expansive. According to the ADL's website, in 2021, over 46,000 educators participated in its anti-bias training and 4.8 million K-12 students were reached through its education tools and programs.
Districts around the country pay the ADL's World of a Difference Institute Training Program tens of thousands of dollars for its anti-bias training. For example, Fox News Digital previously reported that the Clark County School District in Nevada agreed to pay the ADL $75,000 over three years for "anti-bias professional learning for students and staff." In California, a district that proposed the implementation of the program met backlash from parents who accused it of peddling CRT.
The information from this article was found in the ADL Education's lesson plans which are available online for teachers to voluntarily use.
Critical Race Theory
ADL Education's states it goal is to provide education tools to "help people of all ages challenge bias, discrimination and systems of oppression."
Its "Education Glossary Terms," which the ADL said it used in anti-bias programs, addressed "intersectionality," a term coined by a critical race theorist named Kimberlé Crenshaw. Intersectionality holds that a person who is in various oppressed categories – for example, someone who is gay and a person of color – can be marginalized by multiple systems "simultaneously." Fox News Digital found that Crenshaw's theory on intersectionality was included in an ADL lesson plan from 2020 on women's rights.
Also included in the lesson was a link to an ADL post praising the Women's March, a left-wing movement led by some activists riddled with accusations of anti-Semitism.
"Have young people reflect upon the Women’s March as well as other examples of social activism throughout the years, using an intersectionality approach," the ADL said in a post.
The ADL's post about "Engaging Young People in Conversations about Race and Racism" contained "key elements of critical race theory," Legal Insurrection founder, Bill Jacobson, said.
The article discussed how "The flip side of white privilege is structural racism which oppresses and marginalizes people of color through societal institutions like education, law enforcement, voting, employment and other systems" and encouraged teachers to show MTV's documentary "White People" to students.
The ADL's post on discussing the topic of racism with young people included ‘key elements of critical race theory,’ according to the founder of Legal insurrection, Bill Jacobson, (iStock)
"Those concepts are accepted as fact as a starting point, rather than open to debate. There are no counter-arguments presented," Jacobson told Fox News Digital about the lesson plans he reviewed. "These lesson plans… reflect how ADL has lost its way. It substitutes racial justice dogma and ideology for fact-based analysis. This is not education, it's manipulation." '
ADL's lesson plan called "Power and Privilege" included an exercise to help students identify their White privilege. One of the "privilege statements" included "When I wear a hoodie, headphones or my pants sagging, no one says or thinks I’m dangerous."
According to the ADL, denying one's privilege is a "biased attitude."
The ADL included an article by Peggy McIntosh called "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" within the lesson plan. The article indicated that White women are "justly seen as oppressive" and said they "enjoy unearned skin privilege."
Peggy McIntosh wrote an article called "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" which suggests some people have "unearned skin privilege." (YouTube/Screenshot)
"Many, perhaps most, of our white students in the U.S. think that racism doesn't affect them because they are not people of color, they do not see 'whiteness' as a racial identity," the article said.
The article lamented that White students are not taught in schools to see themselves as "an oppressor," a "participant in a damaged culture" and "unfairly advantaged."
On its website, the ADL suggested educators and/or parents introduce "Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness" to children. The book stated that "Racism is a White person's problem." The author, Anastasia Higginbotham, described the purpose of the book to The Atlantic.
Oregon's Department of Education is funding an antiracist fellowship. It will cost taxpayers nearly $2 million. (iStock)
The Atlantic summed up Higginbotham's argument as follows: "She argues that, at the earliest possible age, white kids should be taught to identify whiteness as the root of racial injustice so that they can reject the pervasive racism that they would otherwise embody."
"Understanding the truth takes courage, especially the truth about your own people, your own family," Higginbotham wrote in her book. "In the United States of America, White people have committed outrageous crimes against Black people for 400 years."
It also said "whiteness" was "a bad deal" and showed an image of a "contract binding you to WHITENESS." The contract states, "WHITENESS gets: to mess endlessly with the lives of your friends, neighbors, loved ones and fellow humans of color for the purpose of profit."
Reparations
The ADL's lesson plan on reparations asked educators to "Explain [to students] that reparations can be made in the form of individual monetary payments to victims or descendants… [and] they can also be paired with apologies and acknowledgments of the injustices committed."
In the lesson plan, the ADL included a video and article from American author Ta-Nehisi Coates, who has made several controversial remarks about race in the United States.
Coates previously said that he did not feel sorry for the first responders who were killed on September 11.
"They were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body," Coates had said in his book "Between the World and Me."
In the same book, he referred to "White America" as a "syndicate" designed to "dominate and control our bodies."
The ADL's lesson plan, describing Coates's pro-reparations argument, stated, "Coates focused the conversation over reparations on the need for our country to come to terms with the fact that the legacy of slavery has extended in our policies and institutions long after slavery was abolished."
Black Lives Matter
A lesson plan on Black Lives Matter included a graphic New York Times video which featured imagery of dead bodies, people being gunned down and rioting.
A protester waves a Black Lives Matter flag during the demonstration. Hours after the verdict of the Derek Chauvin trial, protesters meet outside of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's home to protest his proposed funding of the Los Angeles Police Department. (Stanton Sharpe/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
he lesson plan included a disclaimer that educators should use their discretion to determine its age-appropriateness of showing the video. "If students need to process their thoughts and feelings in more depth after watching the video, allow time for that," the lesson plan stated.
It also asked students, "What are some of the accomplishments of the Black Lives Matter movement?"
"Does their work inspire you to think about getting involved in activism on issues that are important to you? How so?"
Gender Ideology
In order to "prevent gender bias in young children," the ADL said that educators should use "gender-neutral" terminology such as "they/them" pronouns instead of "masculine pronouns ‘he’ and ‘him.’"
A guide from the Anti-Defamation League for high school students included information on the treatments used to transition kids. (iStock)
For high school students, the ADL guide and lesson plan on gender identity included information on the treatments used to transition kids.
"Transitioning is a process some transgender people go through to begin living as the gender with which they identify," the lesson plan stated. "There are some common social changes many transgender people go through that include… changes in clothing and grooming, adopting a new name, using hormone therapy treatment and/or medical procedures that modify their body to conform to their gender identity."
"What hormone blockers do is they basically turn off the spigot on your hormones to stop puberty from going forward. So it's a puberty interruption and what that can do is stop a youth from going through a puberty that is unwanted and give them an opportunity to sort out what adult body and identity they do want," a video, linked in the ADL guide, said.
On its website, the ADL also recommended a book "Julian is a Mermaid," which is about "a gender non-conforming child," a review of the book, posted to the author's website, said.
Other books the ADL recommended included "When Aidan Became a Brother" and "Call me Max," which explored the journeys of young children coming out as transgender.
The Anti-Defamation League was once a universally-respected organization, but their bipartisan appeal hit a compounding decline after a former Obama official took over in 2015, said Josh Hammer, a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation.
He told Fox News Digital that the current CEO of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, is "a 'progressive' flunky and first-order partisan hack."
Hammer added that Greenblatt has "overseen the final stages of the collapse of a once-venerable institution into just another cog in the left's all-encompassing, intersectional assault on… the American way of life."
Fox News' Kelsey Koberg contributed to this report.
Hannah Grossman is an associate editor at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent on Twitter: @GrossmanHannah.
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