Insisting that there is a fixed relationship between “identity and bias and power” legitimizes and encourages bad actors to assert a relationship between Jewish identity and power—a classical antisemitic trope. Well-meaning though they may be, such assertions coming from ADL professionals inevitably fuel notions of Jewish power and privilege. Unless and until the ADL stops insisting on a rigid hierarchy of privilege and power, the organization will be fighting on both sides of the war on antisemitism.
