The ADL has strayed far from combating bona fide antisemitism. From Keith Woods at unz.com:
Last week, I urged everybody to join me in a call to #BanTheADL. The response has been greater than I expected, to put it mildly. Everybody–and I do mean everybody–shared the hashtag.
The timing of this was not incidental. Days prior, Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL announced a productive conversation with new X/Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino. After a somewhat hit-and-miss start to Elon’s reign censorship-wise, it appeared things were going back in the direction the ADL desired. X users were exasperated. Many big accounts began to post information exposing the nefarious workings of the ADL which caught Musk’s attention, including their defence of Julius Malema’s singing of the “Kill the Boer” anthem in South Africa.
I am firmly of the belief that most social media users want a free speech environment, as evidenced by Musk’s own poll on a total amnesty of banned accounts winning a popular vote. The problem is that a multitude of civil rights groups and other NGO’s exist to drive a censorship agenda. There has never appeared to be a clear way to fight back against this.
Mark Zuckerberg tried to retain some principles on free speech, until an ADL led boycott in the summer of 2020 took 8% off Facebook’s stock price and forced him to give in to Jonathan Greenblatt’s demands. Donald Trump could have passed legislation to protect against deplatforming from the modern public square, but by the end of his presidency the ADL successfully petitioned to have Trump banned from all major social media platforms with its participation in another boycott.
