Adl Quotes

“What makes the ADLs antipathy to the phrase "river to the sea" so ironic is that there already is a country that extends from the Mediterranean to the Jordan. Israeli leaders use similar expressions, all the time, to describe the territory they rule. The founding charter of Netanyahu's Likud Party declares, "Between the Sea and the Jordan there will be only Israeli sovereignty.” And while the ADI can speculate about how a Palestinian state from the river to the sea would treat Jews, Israel's treatment of Palestinians isn't hypothetical.
Israel was created by displacing roughly 750,000 Palestinians in 1948, and it displaced several hundred thousand more in 1967, when it extended its borders from the river to the sea. Most of the Palestinians under Israeli control lack citizenship, and none enjoy legal equality. Israel now stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, a charge endorsed by some of the most prominent human rights lawyers in the world. Between the river and the sea, in other words, Israel has already perpetrated, or is perpetrating, the very abuses that the ADL and the Israeli Foreign Ministry accuse Palestinian activists of wanting to perpetrate. It's a remarkable act of projection. But it serves a purpose. Labeling the slogan antisemitic—even genocidally antisemitic—turns public attention away from how Israel is treating Palestinians now, especially in Gaza, and redirects attention toward how Palestinians might treat Jews were they in charge. It replaces the actual subjugation that Palestinians experience as an oppressed people with the theoretical subjugation that Jews might experience were the shoe on the other foot.”
― Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

“…because of racial or religious bigotry, conspiratorialists will take small fragments of legitimate evidence and expand them into a conclusion that will support their particular prejudice, i.e., the conspiracy is totally “Jewish,” “Catholic,” or “Masonic”. These people do not help to expose the conspiracy, but, sadly play into the hands of those who want the public to believe that all conspiratorialists are screwballs.”
― Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy