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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
During a recent CNN segment discussing Whoopi Goldberg’s temporary suspension from The View, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that Whoopi should not be canceled, and falsely and hypocritically stated, “I don’t believe in cancel culture.” In fact, when it serves his left wing agenda, Jonathan Greenblatt avidly, though selectively, promotes the fascism of the “cancel culture.” Greenblatt frequently calls for canceling people and groups that he opposes. We at ZOA, other pro-Israel groups, conservatives, media personalities and politicians, as well as many others, are victims of ADL’s and Greenblatt’s attempts to cancel them. For instance:
ADL/Jonathan Greenblatt called for Fox News to Fire (Cancel) and Not Air Conservative Commentator Tucker Carlson:
ADL and Greenblatt have repeatedly called for Fox News to fire Conservative Tucker Carlson (See video).
Also, in October 2021, Greenblatt sent a letter to Fox News insisting that Fox has a “moral responsibility” to not air (cancel) Tucker Carlson’s program about January 6th, and emphasized: “Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach.”
ADL/Jonathan Greenblatt Called for Social Media to “Permanently Ban” (Cancel) Republican/Conservative President Trump:
In January 2021, ADL and ADL CEO Greenblatt called for Republic/Conservative President Trump to be removed from office, and “called on all social media platforms to #BanTrumpSaveDemocracy and permanently remove him from their services . . . Brands and companies should pull back on advertising on these social media networks, like Facebook and Twitter, until Trump is entirely removed from these platforms.”
In June 2021, ADL CEO Greenblatt applauded Facebook’s decision to ban former President Trump for an additional two years, saying: “While banning former President Trump is a step in the right direction, this simply doesn't go far enough. . . . We . . . will push for this to be a permanent ban.”
ADL/Greenblatt Attempted to Silence Right-of-Center ZOA After ZOA’s Legitimate Numerous Criticisms of ADL:
ZOA (and others) have correctly criticized some of ADL’s and Jonathan Greenblatt’s many harmful positions, including ADL’s lobbying against anti-BDS laws; falsely saying that BDS is not always antisemitic (despite the fact that BDS boycotts and targets Jews); defending Israel-bashing phony “human rights” organizations including Amnesty International; opposing and smearing pro-Israel government appointments including Mike Pompeo, Fred Fleitz and others; falsely blaming “Jewish nationalists” for “exacerbating tensions” when Arabs attacked hundreds of innocent Jews in Israel and burned down Jewish homes and synagogues; praising antisemite Ilhan Omar as having “commitment to a more just world”; and much, much more.
Greenblatt responded to our valid criticisms by attempting to silence us.
In May 2016, during a recess at a United Nations program at which Jonathan Greenblatt and ZOA official Liz Berney, Esq. were both speakers, Greenblatt suddenly grabbed and restrained Ms. Berney, and kept pushing Ms. Berney down a long hallway, while continually screaming at her that the “real enemies” were various Arab governments, and that ZOA should never criticize ADL. (That’s legally an assault.) ZOA promptly demanded that Greenblatt apologize to Ms. Berney, which Greenblatt still has never done.
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