David Glick: “Whatever understandable nostalgia many Jews have for the origins of the Zionist movement as a reaction to centuries of Jewish discrimination and persecution, we must face up to the kind of state Zionism has created. Israel today is not a democracy but rather a racist, militaristic, ethnocracy that privileges the rights of its Jewish citizens over those of its Palestinian citizens.”
Over the past year the ADL has begun defending some of the world’s biggest weapons companies, as their shareholders call for reporting on the human rights impact of their weapons.
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist involved in organizing at Columbia University, is the result of more than a year of pro-Israeli think-tank propaganda and lobbying efforts to tie the students to Hamas and erode free speech protections in the United States.
Israeli Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli attacked and threatened the American nonprofit organization, which has defended Americans of all faiths.