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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research and Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement:
This week, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), in commemoration of Black History Month, has chosen to honor and highlight an African American author Jacqueline Woodson, who is anti-Israel and pro-BDS. ADL is featuring Woodson in ADL’s “Changing the World” program for children and young people. ADL’s program leaves us again wondering, what in the world is the ADL doing? Why, under its CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, does the ADL again and again employ and honor and give podiums to and praise and defend people and groups who hate and harm Jews and Israel? This is the antithesis of ADL’s stated purpose to combat antisemitism and support Israel.
(For some of ADL’s most recent other horrors, see “The Anti-Defamation League and Amnesty International,” by Caroline Glick, JNS, Feb. 6, 2022 (describing ADL’s defense of Israel-hating Amnesty International, which encouraged AI’s recent Israel-bashing report); “ADL Hires Director for Jewish Outreach Who Hates Jews,” by Daniel Greenfield, Feb. 1, 2022; and “Wicked ADL Pushes Hate in Classrooms — Program on Diversity that Is Taught to 1.4 Million U.S. Kids Includes Language that Only Whites Can Be Racist,” by Jim Hoft, Feb. 7, 2022 and The ADL’s Disturbing Obsession With Race, by Jonathan Tobin, Feb. 4, 2022, JNS.)
ADL featured African American author Jacqueline Woodson, whose shameful Israelophobic record includes the following:
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Woodson joined and was featured in radical anti-Israel hate groups “Jewish Voice for Peace” (JVP)’s and Adalah-NY’s anti-Israel BDS campaign, demanding that the PEN World Voices Festival end its partnership with Israel. (The Woodson-JVP-Adalah-NY BDS campaign may have succeeded. PEN’s World Voices Festival did not include Israel as a sponsor the following year, although no explanation was provided.) Ironically, PEN’s mission is freedom of expression “across political and ideological bound.”
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Woodson also joined and was featured in JVP’s and Adalah’s demands for Israel to release Dareen Tatour, who was convicted and received a five-month sentence for inciting violence against Israelis and supporting terrorist organizations. In the midst of the “knife intifada” (repeated Arab stabbings of innocent Jews), Tatour called for more Arabs to rise up and to become “shahids” (martyrs – a euphemism for terrorists), and wrote on Facebook that she planned to be the next shahid.
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