The Pete Quiñones Show - Pete Reads 'Crying Wolf: Hate Crime Hoaxes in America' by Laird Wilcox - Part 1

Episode Date: September 25, 2024

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His father was a construction accountant. Family moved frequently. He attended the University at Kansas. He joined the students for a Democratic Society and later dropped out of college. While living in, I think this is Olayth, Kansas. He worked as a carpenter, investigator, and writer. Basically, he accumulated four file drawers of literature about radical political movements. Some since his teens, University of Kansas library bought a portion of them for $1,000.

It's now called the Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Political Movement. It's kept in Kansas collection of the Kansas collection of Kenneth Spencer Research Library. So check this out. So this is, you know, he's talking about hate crime hoaxes. Here are his views. 1968, he signed the writers and editors war tax protest pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments and protests against Vietnam War. He was a member of the ACLU since 1961, member of Amnesty International since 1970.

Historian George Michael described Will Cox in 2003 as a left-wing libertarian. In 1997, he self-published a book called The Watchdogs. He criticized an anti-racist industry of groups monitoring extremism, writing that their identity and livelihood depend upon growth and expansion of their particular kind of victimization. He accused groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ADL, the American Anti-Defamation League, and political research associates of a massive extortion racket to exaggerate threats from right-wing extremists who he estimated at 10,000 in a total U.S. population is 270 million. Mark Potock of the SPLC said that Wilcox had an axe to grind for a great many years.

Mark Potock, if I remember correctly, is the guy at the ACLU who keeps a post-it note on his computer chronicling the dwindling white population in the United States due to weaponized immigration. And yes, if you want to ask the question about Potock, you would be correct. Chip Burlett of political research associates said that Wilcox is not an accurate or ethical reporter. Historian George Michael noted that Wilcox examination of memoranda indicated a close working relationship between the ADL and the FBI. He passed away in 2003, November 4, 2003 in Olath, Kansas. He was 80 years old. All right.

So I'm going to read the intro to crying wolf. Let's make sure this is sharing. Yep. Okay, here we go. And see the chapters here? Not going to be a long book. Forward. This book grew out of a research project I began in 1988

when the issue of racist and anti-Semitic hosts first came to my attention in a serious way. I had learned in talking with a former associate in the civil rights movement in the 1960s that a cross-burning I had always assumed was done by white racists was in fact done by civil rights workers. This aroused my curiosity and more extensive research convinced me that it may not be an uncommon occurrence. I quickly learned that there were almost no sources

of information on the subject of racist and anti-Semitic hoaxes. Right-wing groups, whom one might suspect would keep tabs on this, were rendered almost useless by their conspiratorial approach to the subject. The various black and Jewish groups refused to discuss the issue. It was a subject that obviously had to be researched from scratch. In 1989, I established a hoaxer project to bring together information on the subject. I managed to collect a number of newspaper clippings, and in 1990 I published a small report entitled The Hoaxer Project Report. Altogether, some 5,500 copies of that report were circulated. A few readers began sending me clippings of hoaxes that actually made the newspapers, as well as their own accounts of incidents they knew

or suspected were hoaxes. In time, this added up to some 300 documented incidents from which the cases described in this book were drawn. I didn't. not have the resources of a clipping service or a large network of monitors to assist me. If I had, I believe this compilation would be many times as large. Obviously, hoaxers are people who have exercised pretty bad judgment. Their acts may have been hurtful to others, and they have usually violated various laws. I think it's important to avoid as much as possible the concept of good guys and bad guys when considering this issue. I think what we have instead are those were simply responding to an opportunity.

I'm not trying to minimize individual responsibility, but rather avoid the kind of witch-hunting atmosphere that created the problem in the first place. He apparently thinks that if he, you know, just take the pot, turn the flame down. I wonder if he was still around what he would think. Whenever an abstract ideal acquires the moral urgency that racial equality or opposition to be,

bigotry has today. It's only a matter of time until we find individuals for whom the end justifies the means. The militant moralizing fanatic is the stumbling block which any reasonable resolution of racial problems must overcome. Further, in my experience, the uncompromising behavior of the fanatic is often a way of compensating for a hidden inner ambivalence. Harold Laswell in psychopathology and politics has said, quote, dogma is a defensive reaction in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. I think this unconscious ambivalence explains the apparent willingness of many so-called anti-racists to justify and practice a kind of reverse racism or counter-bigotry. This manifests itself in the good racism of affirmative action and hate crime

legislation, as well as stereotyping and prejudicial judgments about white people. I suspect the last thing many professional anti-racists want is a truly race-neutral society. No advances in racial equity are going to quell the inner turmoil of people for whom their race or religion and its victimization are the only things they have going for them and the only way they can explain their unhappiness and anxiety. This is very interesting because as soon as I started reading that sentence, I immediately thought of Uncle Ted. And what he talked about was that there were what he he called people of the left, they are over-socialized, and they need, they need this anxiety and this unhappiness. 20 years ago, one couldn't have said this, but today discrimination in schools,

housing, jobs, and government is minimal. Institutional racism is gone. In its place, a series of preferential policies is firmly established. Wish that he could come forward 21 years and see that It's just basically been reversed. Something that I've been talking about recently, that Stormy Waters, stormy waters really gets upset when people talk about the competency crisis. He says, we don't have a competency crisis. He says, the most competent people are locked out of jobs, white people, the people who can do jobs, the people who can learn something in a month and be proficient at it,

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with their utility and accomplishing desired ends. When the market for the payoffs of victimization goes up, the temptation to create victimization when none exists is very strong. Conversely, as a number of hoaxes increases, assuming they are reported, a greater skepticism toward unproven and marginal victimization claims will probably increase as well, and hoaxes will become less effective. It's pretty much a matter of supply and demand. We saw all sorts of hoaxes happening, and now it's, you know, especially with the way things can be investigated almost immediately on the internet, on Twitter, and things like that. It's, I mean, people are like, oh, boo-hoo. No. I mean, the people who believe these things, these, you know, quote-unquote anti-racist, of course,

they're in power and they control, they still control academia, they still control a lot of different, you know, the press, a lot of the narrative. But that's changing. Consider a college campus boiling with racial and gender sensitivity with courses in victimization, organization for victims, a constant barrage of victimization propaganda, but no immediate and palpable victims. anti-racist vigilantes with no racist to hang had better get busy and make some, and they often do. Now everyone who doesn't agree with them is a racist. Everyone who is white is a racist, a colonizer. Yeah, all of that.

In recent years, anti-racists have proclaimed that virtually every behavior and institution in our society is covertly racist, but that line is wearing thin. Efforts to broaden the definition of racism have about reached their own. limit. Nothing like some racist graffiti or some other hate crime to invigorate the militants, and what the hell? It's for a good cause, right? This is right out of Uncle Ted. In an enterprising society such as ours, what is needed will eventually appear, one way or another. Americans are not known for their ability to defer gratification for long. Wow, he's saying that we have high time preference. Hence the racist or anti-Semitic hoax. It's as easy as apple pie.

Finally, this publication is a continuing project. It is anticipated that future editions will appear, either by myself or someone else. I would like to recruit you to help overcome the disadvantage I have in compiling information on hoaxes. If you see newspaper coverage or other information about a hoax in your community, please send it to me. Laird Wilcox, July 1994. All right. So I'm going to get into this. A lot of this is just going to be one, like, it'll talk about one incident for a couple paragraphs.

It'll go on to the next incident for a couple paragraphs. And it'll just, it's going to inundate you with hoaxes one after another. And some people can say that this is just overkill. but for, you know, I think it's good for you to pass along to people. You know, if you're listening to this and you already know, you don't need to be convinced, I think this is going to be great for people you can just pass along and say, here, you know, listen to this, these are all the hate crime hoaxes, and these were a long time ago. So what are they now?

All right. Chapter 1, the scope of the problem. In January 1994, the Anti-Defamation League and Organizanties devoted to defending the interests of Jews in the United States, reported that anti-Semitic acts against Jewish people and their property rose 8% in the United States during 1993. The ADL also reported 1,867 incidents involving threats, harassment, assault, vandalism, graffiti, other behaviors, one incident per 139,000 Americans. These included one arson, one attempted arson, one bombing, and one attempted bombing. The ADL annual audit claims 78 acts of vandalism, one per 330,000 Americans, or slightly over two per day in a country of 260 million.

Look how much our population has grown. Down 8% from the previous year. Of those, 325 involved graffiti on bridges, buildings, and signs, i.e. expressions of values, opinions, and beliefs on private property. So it sounds to me like some, you know, some edgy kid decided to sprays pan and a swastika on, you know, like under a bridge somewhere. And that's considered, you know, hate vandalism. Nationwide, according to the ADL in 1993, there were only 60 arrests for any of this activity, revealing that the vast majority of the incidents were unsolved and no identified culprit was apprehended. Vandalism is almost always a criminal offense and could be prosecuted if there was anyone to prosecute.

The ADL, of course, lobbies hard for prosecution when the perpetrators are identified. On the other hand, the ADL's 1992 annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents reported an 8% decline from 1991. Thus, the 1993 increase only served to bring the number of incidents back to its 1991 level. A total of 1,730 incidents were reported in 1992, one incident per 150,000 Americans, including 28 serious cases of arson, attempted arson, cemetery desecration, and synagogue bombings, one incident per 928,000 Americans. 44% of the incidents took place in public areas, such as public schools or office buildings. B'nai Briths Canada's League for Human Rights, the Canadian equivalent of the ADL, also reported a decline in anti-Semitic incidents in its 1992 audit.

A total of 196 incidents occurred nationwide in 1992, 1 for 196,000 Canadians, down 22% from 1991. Half of them occurred in Toronto, which has the largest Jewish population in Canada. The ADL audit, as always, included many incidents that are not crimes. One person, only personal insults such as one person telling another off and making reference to their ethnic identity in the process. ADL National Chairman Melvin Salberg said that he found this, quote, very disturbing and of great concern. This in-your-face anti-Semitism may signal a new tendency to engage in direct confrontations with Jews, and further arose the taboo against open bigotry. Huh.

Interesting, huh? No other groups. Okay. Okay. What's just a direct confrontations? In other words, like kids, yeah, many times I was called the spic when I was a kid, and people just, you know, just screw it.

around or, you know, even in someone gets upset, who cares? Who cares? The audit also includes incidents where mailings are identified on the basis of their alleged anti-Semitic content, public expressions of identification with Arab radicals in Israel's occupied territories, distribution of Holocaust revisionist material on the campus, and other activities protected under the First Amendment. The ADL reported 1879 anti-Semitic incidents in 1991. This was up from 1685 incidents recorded by the ADL in 1990 and 1432 in 1989. Bonified anti-Semitic physical violence against Jews is extraordinarily rare in the United States.

The ADL reported only 30 such cases in 1990 and 60 in 1991. No disrespect is intended, and I'm sure these incidents were distressing to those who experience them, but these figures do not support the claim of a serious and significant trend toward anti-Semitism in a nation of 260 million people. The vast majority of these incidents are on the order of simple graffiti, minor vandalism, verbal altercations, or telephone harassment. Most of these incidents remain unsolved in that no perpetrator was ever identified, let alone prosecuted. Where the perpetrator is identified, most of these offenses are committed by juveniles under 18.

Many of the unsolved cases may be hoaxes. A single hoaxer with a can of spray paint or a pocketful of quarters can inflate statistics considerably. The ADL compiled these statistics through a nationwide network of regional offices, local monitors, clipping services, and reports from police agencies. In addition, the ADL actually solicited reports of anti-Semitic incidents by circulating questionnaires to a its own mailing list, hardly a disinterested group. This practice raises serious doubts about statistics compiled by an interested organization, eager to promote its own agenda, especially when it's one that fundraises. You send out mailings to your list and tell them that anti-Semitism is going through the roof,

and we need money to help stop this. well and I'm not saying it's it would only be the ADL that would do that pretty much any organization that is quote unquote activist political in nature social in nature is going to do that air grid operator of Ireland's electricity grid is powering up the northwest we're planning to upgrade the electricity grid in your area and your input and local knowledge are vital in shaping these plans Our consultation closes on the 25th of November. Have your say, online or in person. So together we can create a more reliable, sustainable electricity supply for your community. Find out more at airgrid.e. 4.N. Northwest. Employers. Rewarding your staff?

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My goodness, it's Christmas at the Guinness Storehouse. Book now at giddhistorehouse.com. Get the facts be drinkaware, visit drinkaware.com. According to Leonard Larson, syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard's service, the ADL statistics may be questioned on other grounds as well. Larson notes that among the anti-Semitic incidents listed in an annual audit is a case where individuals in Boston displayed pro-Palestinian anti-Israel graffiti in the subways. Larson, as of the ADL, considered these and other incidents anti-Semitic because they recount

brutal acts of repression against Palestinians by the Israeli government. Quote, an obvious intent here is to use intimidation to silence criticism of Israel's political and military conduct, Larson says. It's amazing how this was written 30 years ago, 30-plus years ago. and this could be about today. New heading. Anti-Semitism. On the rise?

Of course, there is the question of whether anti-Semitism is on the rise or in decline. In November 1991, the ADL held a two-day conference in Montreal, which produced a consensus that anti-Semitism, both in North American abroad, is on the rise, and Jews have to stop keeping quiet about it. According to ADL executive director, Abraham Foxman. I would love to go, no, I'm not going to do it. Quoting, there are so many, you can go and, um, Dark Enlightenment has talked about Abe Foxman before, um, Tim Kelly has talked about Abe Foxman before.

Quote, we have reason to be concerned and frightened by what seems to be a rising tide of anti-Semitism here and around the world. The virus has become more active. The restraints and taboos have disappeared. Notice how they use the term virus there. Remember when I read Lorraine Gignon's essay, Israel, the Psychopathic Nation. Remember that Zionists, the Zionist philosophers and fathers, all said that anti-Semitism was an incurable disease. If it's incurable, I mean, what do you do?

what do you do? Especially if you, if somebody has an incurable disease and it's a threat to you, how do you look upon that person? You're either going to do one or two things. You're going to seek to kill them, or you are going to do everything you can to medicate them and drug them and quote unquote, them and sedate them until they're no longer a threat to you. In January 1992, however, another Jewish organization released this report based on detailed survey data that racial and religious tolerance is increasing and anti-Semitism is declining. The American Jewish Committee report cited data, for example, the American Jewish Committee is actually, he's talking about this in 1992.

the American Jewish Committee is the committee that commissioned the authoritarian personality, the F scale, which I've talked about on the show many times. The American Jewish Committee reports cited data, for example, which showed that in 1968, 59% of Gallup poll respondents expressed approval of marriage between Jews and non-Jews, while in 1983, 77% approved. According to media reports, quote, the study found that anti-Jewish attitudes are at historic lows. Jews were even perceived in the 1990 general social survey as leading whites in general, southern whites, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans,

and blacks in terms of who was regarded as harder working, richer, less prone to violence, more self-supporting, and more intelligent. I wonder how people came to that opinion. I wonder how 77% of the people polled could have came to that opinion. It's also interesting that Jews are separated from whites here and from southern whites and everyone else. The American Jewish Committee said that the report should come as a relief to American Jews who fear a possible increase in anti-Semitism. This was not the first time in recent years.

Serious differences over the prevalence of anti-Semitism have emerged among Jewish organizations. In 1983, the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center were at loggerheads over the issue. The ADL reported a 15% decline in anti-Semitic incidents in 1982 from the previous year, and out of 829 incidents, only 197 involved vandalism at Jewish synagogues, temples, and community centers. The Wiesenthal Center, on the other hand, claimed a total of over 1,000 vandalism cases, asserting, for instance, that in the last three years, 57% of the synagogues in New York had been vandalized. These are not trivial differences.

In 1988, J.J. Goldberg, I'm not sure if that's Jonah Goldberg, but I will say it's not? Maybe. Writing in Jewish Week observed, a majority of the Jewish community's professional experts insist there is no detectable jump either in the rate of anti-sense. or in the level of anti-Jewish feeling among the American population at large. Goldberg's article quotes sociologist Stephen M. Cohen, I read something by him recently. I can't remember what it is.

Who believes that an increase in reporting anti-Semitic incidents fuels to claim that they are increasing? Cohen says, Jews are more sensitive to anti-Semitism than they've been in the past. So one of the reasons we may be seeing a rise in reports of anti-Semitism is that local people see incidents as anti-Semitic more readily. And secondly, the national media give it more prominence than in the past. You have to conclude that to some degree, Jews construct anti-Semitism. Five years later, writing in the New Republic, Goldberg, said that the very definition of anti-Semitism had been changed by some Jewish groups in order to support their agenda. Quoting, before World War II, anti-Semitism was defined as wanting to harm Jews. In the post-war era, it was broadened to include

prejudice that might lead one to wish Jews harm. More recently, it comes to mean any stereotype or disagreement with the Jewish community. The very term has become a weapon. Now, I think the meme says that now anti-Semites are somebody that a Jew doesn't like. Goldberg commented on the hyping of anti-Semitism by Jewish organizations noting that people give money when motivated by fear, what I said before. Quoting, private, some Jewish agency staffers insist the alarmist tone set by a few national Jewish agencies, mainly for fundraising purposes, is a key cause of Jewish anxiety. Hmm. Fingers point most often at the ADL and the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center,

both of which specialize in mass mailings warning of the impact of doom and urging donations. Really would like to go back right around this time and see what Israel was doing. if Israel was bombing, if Israel was having a war with Gaza, what they, because that's when, that's when they start reporting that anti-Semitism is up and hate crimes are up. The thing that we've called since October 7th, or before that, but on a more mass scale, the noticing, with Twitter and social media. I don't know how they get by it now. A critique of alarmist tactics was circulated by the Jewish telegraph agency in 1993.

Deborah Nussbaum-Cohen, a prominent Jewish journalist, noted that, quote, the reality, experts say, is that Jews no longer face serious discrimination in American society, not in the community, the workplace, politics, or academia. Both American Jews are convinced more than ever that anti-Semitism remains a serious threat, although few have encountered any real bias themselves. This dilemma, Ms. Cohn, is occasioned by the very organizations that promote awareness of anti-Semitism and solicit funds to combat it. With apparent reference to the ADL audit, she says, quoting,

the very lumping together of graffiti and epithets with occasional acts of violence in order to emphasize an upward trend in anti-Semitism may obscure the issue and raise undue alarm. Ms. Cohen quotes a source, which she identifies as a senior staffer at a mainstream Jewish organization, quoting again. By focusing on small and dramatic expressions of anti-Semitism, which don't mean much, they're sending an alarmist message, which is, at bottom, irresponsible. The ADL's obsession with minuscule American hate groups has been noticed abroad as well. In October 1991, the Jerusalem Post editorialized, quoting, The American Defamation League, which used to take firm positions on Israel and devote much effort to its causes, now waste energy on such marginal phenomena as neo-Nazi skinheads, devotes inordinate time to aggrandizing its executive director and goes out of its way to ingratiate itself with the U.S. administration and the media. Huh.

In a perceptive analysis of the hate crime controversy appearing in Reason magazine, Associate Editor Jacob Sullum, he's been around that long, observed that serious problems exist in ADL statistics. Quoting, a single random event can skew the numbers falsely suggesting an alarming nationwide rise. For example, the ADL counted twice as many anti-Semitic assault in 1991 as it did in 1990, but all but a handful of the additional attacks were associated with unrest in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, following a car accident in which a Hasidic Jew killed a black boy. If that incident hadn't happened, the number of assaults would have been roughly the same.

Sallum also observes that the statistics constructed by the ADL failed to provide necessary perspective. In 1990, the same year the ADL counted 30 anti-Semitic assaults, the FBI counted nearly 1 million an arrest for assault nationwide. Jews represented about 2.4% of the population, and let's assume that they suffer a proportionate number of assaults. That means that every assault motivated by anti-Semitism, Jews experienced roughly 800 assaults for other reasons, assuming that every assault led to an arrest. Faced with growing criticism of the statistics from within the Jewish community and without, the ADL commissioned another study to support its agenda. Amazingly, the may be a, 1992 ADL study reported, quoting,

1 in 5 adult Americans hold strong prejudicial attitudes against Jews, and anti-Semitism is most prevalent among blacks and the elderly, according to a survey released Monday. Overall, 20% of Americans in the survey fell into the most anti-Semitic category. 37% of blacks were in the category compared with 17% of whites. The study used a series of 11 questions to give, anti-Semitism. Included among these were

Jews stick together more than other Americans. 51% agreed. Jews always like to be at the head of things. 39% agreed. Man, a bunch of fascists. How could you agree with that? Ugh. Air grid. Operator of Ireland's electricity grid

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In order to be entirely free of anti-Semitism, a respondent could not agree with more, could not agree with more than one of the 11 questions. Agreeing with more than six, put one in the hardcore of haters who are unquestionably anti-Semitic. Deborah Nussbaum-Cohn observed in Jewish week that the survey question about Jews sticking together more than other Americans was, quote, a quality that could be regarded as ambiguous, if not positive, by non-Jews and Jews alike. The problem is now is that you're a white supremacist if you stick together with your people and you're white.

But if you notice that Jews do that, then you're anti-Semitic. Other questions, such as the one implying Jewish leadership ability, are equally troublesome. This could easily be taken as a compliment. By injecting these two ambiguous questions into the survey, the ADL survey seriously fudged results. A more interesting result might have been obtained if the questions were posed to an equal number of Jews. That's a good, uh, that's a good point. Another critical account of the ADL survey was penned by Richard Cohen. A lot of Cohen's, a lot of kings.

In the Washington Post magazine, he observed, you may even want to publicly agree with one of the statements with which to serve, surveyors caught anti-Semites in the process of thinking anti-Semitically. Jews pretty much run the movie in television industries. I would have said yes to that myself. Cohen adds that he could cite several books to back up his position and that Hollywood has been dominated by Jews so completely and their influence in the entertainment business is so vast

that to name them would take up the remainder of his column. In short, to agree with this statement is simply not evidence of anti-Semitism. However, Cohen admonishes, but non-Jews know better than to comment about what is before their very eyes. Should they answer forthrightly, they might be denounced for anti-Semitism. A very good point. In fact, in the ADL survey, they were. What many critics have pointed out as a perverse and manipulative double standard

in perceptions of anti-Semitism is clearly evident. New heading. Hate crime in perspective. The ADL statistics have their problems. and similar complications of hate-motivated incidents compiled by other interested parties such as the NWACP and Klan Watch are also flawed. Perhaps the most glaring flaw in these statistics is the practice of counting unsolved incidents. Doubtless numerous hoaxes are included among them. Other crime statistics help to put these figures in perspective.

For example, 570 individuals, mostly young minority males, have died in violent, often often interracial gang warfare in Los Angeles in the 12 months in 1989. In addition, there were 3,819 gang-related reported assaults with deadly weapons, 93 rapes, and 1,851 robberies. The perpetrators of this year of carnage, which certainly surpasses the death toll from racist and anti-Semitic hate crimes in 20th century America, have also been mostly young minority males, primarily Hispanics and blacks, and blacks, and acts and not white racist, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klanmen, or skinheads. But of course, when you point that out, they just start making excuses like socio-economics. Because the white racists and the

neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan members and the skinheads, they don't have to deal with socio-economics, or economics in general. Apparently, everybody who's white is just born rich. Which is, never mind. The issue of black gang violence was graphically illustrated by a 30-second TV commercial commissioned by the Evanston, Illinois, Human Relations Commission in 1992. The commercial began with a shot of a Ku Klux Klanzman on the left and a black gang member on the right, arms crossed and looking defiant. The announcer states, if they were giving medals for killing black people, the neo-Nazi

would win a bronze medal, the KKK member, a silver, and the street gang member, the gold. At this point, the following data appears on the screen under the Klansmen and the gang member. KKK murdered at least 20 blacks, 1960 to 1991. Black gangs murdered at least 1,300 blacks, 1991 alone. If you're in a gang, you're not a brother. You're a traitor. The black community went ballistic. A public screening was disrupted by protesters who, called it racist. Operation Push, executive director, Jeanette Wilson, said that the ad misstates

the problem. The Anti-Defamation League. The Anti-Defamation League projects a public image of a human rights organization with a particular interest in the welfare of Jews in opposition to whatever it considers as anti-Semitism. Established in Chicago in 1913, what happened in 1913? What happened in Atlanta in 1913? I think I did three episodes. four episodes on that. Established in Chicago in 1913 is a subdivision of B'nai Brith, a Jewish fraternal order. The organization is grown by leaps and bounds. I love how it's a fraternal order, and not basically a terrorist organization. That's amazing. Today, the tax-exempt organization maintains 31 offices nationwide and has a budget of 34 million. Oh, and over 400 employees,

including an extensive legal staff. Maybe at the end of this, I'll look up and see what that is now. Oh, it's got to be good. Or maybe I'll have that information for the next episode, ADL budget and employees. Oh, it's, I, uh, I, uh, I, uh, I, uh, I, uh, I, uh, I, I, I wouldn't be surprised if it's in the hundreds of millions. Over the decades, the ADL established a reputation within, and without the Jewish community as a major supporter of civil rights for Jews and other minorities,

a staunch opponent of bigotry in all forms, a fearless watchdog over racist and anti-Semitic groups, and a major educational resource on human rights issues. Little known was its far less scrupulous espionage, disinformation, and destabilization operations, not only against neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan, but against leftist and progressive groups as well. The ADL charade came to a halt in January 1993, a rapidly developing investigation by the San Francisco Police Department into the activities of police intelligence officer. Tom Gerard produced evidence of an extensive network of illegal ADL penetration into confidential police files in San Francisco and elsewhere. The investigation quickly focused on Ray Bullock, a paid ADL operative

and well-known figure in the gay community who had possession of an extensive ADL enemies list of some 10,000 individuals and 1,000 organizations. Bullock, who had worked for the ADL for fully 35 years and who was regarded as their top spy, had an illegal intelligence-sharing relationship with Gerard, who regularly stole information from police files for transmittal to the ADL and in some cases to Israeli intelligence agencies through Bullock. other information developed that there were Bullock and Gerard clones positioned in or close to police departments throughout the country. At the least, they have to be registered as foreign agents.

At the least, people make the, you know, it's anti-Semitic to make the dual loyalty comment. Okay, then I'm not going to be anti-Semitic. I'll just say that they have one loyalty. And it's not to the United States. I mean, how do you read that? How do you know that that happened? That that was revealed. And the ADL is more powerful than ever.

That they still exist. That they still operate in this country. That all of these Jewish groups still operate in this country. What was striking about the enemies list was that most of the individuals and organizations listed were of leftist progressive persuasion. Given the scarcity of bona fide racist and neo-Nazi organizations, it is not so. surprising that few of them would be listed. Also not surprising is that many Arab human rights organizations listed were. What was shocking was the range of left groups, which included many organizations included among the ADL's allies. Groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union,

the National Conference of Black Lawyers, the Black United Fund, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Asian Law Caucus, and the San Francisco Anti-Apartite Committee were on the list. predictably, this produced a howl of protest from a sector of the American political spectrum that might have been expected to condone the ADL's harassment of the far right. Why leftist groups, particularly human rights groups? For the simple reason that the ADL fears nothing more than the American civil rights establishment will adopt the Palestinian cause, which in certain respects resembles the plight of American blacks. Do you understand everything that's happened since October 7th?

It's right there. This is the early 90s. As far as I know, as far as I can remember from Israeli history, they're not dropping bombs right now. But this is why they're going after the left, too. This is why they went after the left. This is why now, if you criticize Israel, they call you a leftist. because so many leftist organizations are like screw Israel now. There are a bunch of psychopaths.

And here it is, written by a guy who was basically like a new left. It was new left in the 70s. And doesn't appear to have gone right in his entire life. Some of the tension existing between black organizations in the Jewish community centers around this controversy, although ADL disinformation efforts managed to keep... Let me read this again. Some of the tension existing between black organizations

and the Jewish community centers around this controversy, although ADL disinformation efforts managed to either keep it swept under the rug or framed in terms of black anti-Semitism. Some of the best coverage of the ADL scandal appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, where reporters Dennis Opartney, and Scott Wienacher, covered the story almost daily from its inception. Detailed overviews appeared in April and May 1993, respectively with George Cothran and Peter

Hegarty in the San Francisco Weekly, a San Francisco tabloid, and by Robert J. Friedman in the New York Weekly, The Village Voice. Cotharine and Hegarty had this to say, quoting. Examples abound of the ADL's brazen invasion into the lives of people who happened to disagree with its political views. In 1983, the group disseminated a blacklist to Jewish campus leaders around the country that smeared scores of respected academics and Middle East peace activists as pro-Arab sympathizers and propagandists who used their anti-Zionism as merely a guise for their deeply felt anti-Semitism. This playbook isn't old. This playbook isn't new. This is 30 years ago. It's the same thing, which is probably why it's not working on most people.

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with an intense media disinformation campaign. The group claimed that it did nothing wrong and sharing information of violence-prone groups with law enforcement officials, and that it will not count in its violations of the law on the part of anyone connected with the agency. I used to be very anti-cop, just because I didn't like authority. Now I'm very anti-cop because I'm still anti-cop because they, they're in service to someone else. they're not in service to Americans.

Not saying your small town your small town sheriff isn't like that. What I'm saying is look, listen. This is where power resides. Power doesn't reside in the town I live in. It resides in places that they're describing right here. This was met with healthy skepticism by virtually all concerned. Robert J. Friedman had this to say in the village voice,

quoting, consumption. But morale is so low that its employees complain of sleepless nights and crying fits. And even as other Jewish groups circle the wagons around the ADL in a show of solidarity, many do so holding their noses. Oh, the jokes write themselves. More than a few Jewish officials privately say that the ADL has to decide whether it is a human rights group or a secret police agency. And I'm saying that I don't have the smallest nose in the world. more than a few Jewish officials privately say the ADL has to decide whether it's a human rights group or a secret police agency. I think we know what they are if you've been paying attention since October 7th especially, or since Kanye started talking a couple years ago.

Not saying Kanye is a hero. When ADL National Director Abe Foxman went on damaged control mission to West Coast news media offices and Jewish organizations, he attacked critics of the ADL in characteristic fashion, calling them anti-Semitic, undemocratic, and anti-American bastards. The ADL also enjoyed the same relationship it had with American police intelligence officials with Israeli spy agencies, the super secret Mossad, and the Shinbet. The ADL may also have played a role in the Jonathan Pollard case as well. Pollard, an American Jew, was charged in 1987 with stealing thousands of pages of U.S. military secrets and transmitting them to Israel, according to Friedman.

Pollard's handler was Avi Stella, an Israeli Air Force colonel whose wife worked for the New York ADL as a lawyer. Pollard later wrote to friends that a prominent ADL leader was deeply involved in the Israeli spy operation. Donald Trump pardoned him, and he flew. When he was released, he flew to Israel on the Adelson private jet. And when he landed in Israel, he gave an interview. telling Jews all over the world to spy for Israel. Part of the ADL's legal strategy and the various lawsuits filed against it over the years

is to claim journalistic privilege. The ADL claims to be a news and information gathering organization, and such as it is entitled to protection under the shield laws used to protect the working press from having to reveal their news sources. In no sense of the word, is the ADL on par with the New York Times or Time magazine, nor is it even vaguely related to the working press. Legally. Ideologically,

eh. Its publications are designed to support the ideological prerogatives of the organization and its constituency and not to provide news. In addition, its publishing activities are only a small part of its overall program, most of which is public relations and fundraising, along with developing and maintaining its extensive enemies files. Yet, time after time,

have bought this argument and the ADL has avoided potentially damaging discovery proceedings that would have provided ample ammunition for both criminal prosecutions and private lawsuits. Such was the case in San Francisco. The evidence that developed against the ADL was overwhelming. Not only did their paid agent take part in stealing police records, a felony, but there were numerous other infractions as well. There was active speculation that felony indictments against prominent ADL officials would be forthcoming.

They were not. Why not? Consider this. Quoting. Some close observers believe that political pressure will make it impossible to prosecute the respected Jewish organization. Mark my words, this is going to be obfuscated, obliterated, said one veteran inspector. It's going to be a classic study in how things get covered up. You don't do Jewish people in San Francisco. It's not PC, especially when you have two U.S. senators who are Jewish, Barbara Boxer and, and Diane Feinstein, and the city's chief of protocol,

Dick Goldman, a prominent fundraiser in the Jewish community. The inspector was prophetic. The ADL and its spy, Roy Bollock, were dropped from the criminal investigation, leaving only Tom Gerard against whom prosecution would be very difficult. In December 1993, the San Francisco District Attorney reached a settlement with the ADL. The ADL agreed to pay $75,000 to fight hate groups, and it surrendered documents on some 1,400 groups and individuals it had illegally obtained a mere slap on the wrist. Although the ADL is apparently off the hook in the case, the damage done to its carefully crafted reputation poses a major challenge to its staff of disinformation specialists and spin doctors.

This was the organization's closest call yet. Very likely there will be more to come. I'm sorry, Mr. Laird. Sorry, Mr. Wilcox. didn't. Nope. Not yet. We shall see. The ADL and the FBI. The history of the ADL's relationship with government agencies, including the Federal Bureau investigation, has yet to be written. However, in working through a large stack of FBI documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, it becomes clear that the organization has labored hard and long to ingratiate itself to federal

law enforcement authorities ostensibly as experts on their own enemies. Until the Reagan administration, the FBI kept the ADL at an arm's length, although they readily accepted ADL information in the same manner that they do from a wide range of informants. Under Jay Edgar Hoover, the Bureau was particularly reluctant to get into any kind of cooperating arrangements with the ADL. Hoover, for example, repeatedly declined offers to address ADL banquets, realizing that his presence would be a propaganda coup for an organization he and his agents didn't entirely trust. Well, probably considering that they had dirt on him. Yeah, well, sure.

A letter dated January 4th, 1966 to Dori Shari, National Chairman of the ADL, in which Hoover declined attendance at an ADL dinner for Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, who had not yet resigned for various improprieties. A note is appended, which reads, note, Mr. Shari is a Hollywood producer who is well known to the Bureau. He has never been investigated by Bureau files reflect that he has been a member or sponsor or contributed to or was in other ways affiliated with a number of organizations cited as CP Communist Party, could be something else, front groups, CP front groups, or which have been designated as subversive pursuant to Executive Order 10450. The reason for this distrust aside from the blatantly extremist background of certain ADL, leaders was the sheer opportunism evident in ADL tactics to compromise the independence of the Bureau and also in the shoddy quality of some ADL investigative work on its enemies, including blatant lies and misrepresentations. An internal FBI memorandum dated August 12, 1965, from Assistant Director William Sullivan to R.W. Smith made reference to an ADL pamphlet on the Ku Klux Klan.

Sullivan notes, quoting, It is stated on page six that a clan plot to assassinate Martin Luther King early in 1965 leaked out, and the FBI and other law enforcement authorities threw a heavy guard around him. This is not true. The pamphlet erroneously lists James Venable's National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan as the second most important group having the support of 7,000 to 9,000, originally formed by Venable to bring a number of small clans into one organization, the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has not realized its goal.

A year later, FBI documents referred to another erroneous ADL report, disfudging the strength of the Ku Klux Klan by some 200%, which the ADL claim was at about 29,500. The ADL also claimed in a September 1966 statement in the New York Times that KKK membership had increased by 10,000 since the first of the year. This was a fantastic overestimate of KKK strength. a typical ADL tactic. According to the FBI memorandum, while the Klan, quoteing, while the Klan has made organizational efforts in the North and Middle West, they have met with

little success. There has been no indication that Klan membership has grown to 10,000 since the first of the year. The present Klan membership is between 14 and 15,000 members. Perhaps most significantly, however, the 1966 FBI Memorandum contained the following, which is transparently evident to objective observers. Quoting, the Anti-Defamation League has vested interest in discovering and exposing anti-Semitic organizations such as the Klan and other hate groups.

Indeed, the ADL actually needs groups like the KKK and various minuscule neo-Nazi organizations. When the last clansman and the last neo-Nazzy turns out the lights and locks the doors, either the ADL cooks up an acceptable substitute or it goes the same way. Small wonder, the ADL is so frequently accused of puffery and exaggeration. Absent a scary-looking threat, the ADL finds its reason for existence dramatically diminished,

this peculiar symbiotic relationship between extremist groups and the counter-extremist groups that hate them is well established. Faced with problems like these, throughout the 1960s and most of the 1970s, the FBI practiced to healthy skepticism about ADL information. It seemed clear that there was nothing the organization would like better than to have premier federal law enforcement agency become their enforcement arm. It wasn't until Judge William Webster became FBI director in 1978 that the agency bowed to political pressures from the White House and elsewhere

and significantly stepped up its informal intelligence sharing operation with the ADL. cooperation between the ADL and the FBI increased enormously under President Reagan in 1981 and became formal with the issuance of a 1985 memo requiring all FBI field offices to develop formal liaison with some 30 ADL field offices around the nation. Let me read that again. Cooperation between the ADL and the FBI increased enormously under President Reagan in 1981 and became forced enormously. formal with the issuance of a 1985 memo requiring all FBI field offices to develop formal liaison with some 30 ADL field offices around the nation. This memo remained secret until it was uncovered in 1990 in a FOIA request to an FBI field office in Minnesota where it was released to a journalist by mistake. So it was hidden. A FOIA request by the FBI brought it out. And then it

was released by mistake. Or somebody who, somebody in that FBI field office. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking the same thing I am. The memo directed to the special agent in charge SCC of 24 FBI field offices, accompanies two ADL publications to review and instructs each SAC to contact each ADL regional office to establish a liaison and line of communication. One of the publications in question was the ADL's controversial 1984 hate groups in America. I'm going to stop right there. We'll pick it up later. There are ads during this.

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