Jeff Stillman

NEW: A witness statement, backed by multiple recordings, says Qatar promised to “look after” the ICC's Karim Khan if he sought arrest warrants for Israel's leaders. WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/karim-…

@LesBowen Why 2028? They should ask 2027 or no trade

The ADL doesn't need another press release, another "task force," or another celebrity fundraiser where they wring their hands about "rising hate". The ADL needs a reckoning. It needs a full, (potentially humiliating) but nonetheless cathartic rebrand. Strip the rainbow filters, retire the DEI seminars, and return to the one job it was built for: fighting Jew hatred and extremism without fear or favor. Elon Musk @elonmusk didn't invent the ADL's credibility crisis; he had the receipts and the platform to broadcast them. For years the ADL has played both victim and commissar. For years, it was soft-pedaling the "antisemitism" from the left to focus on Jew hatred from the "right side" of the political spectrum. October 7 exposed the grift. The same groups the ADL once platformed or excused as "activists" revealed themselves as eliminationists. The body count didn't lie. The silence, selective outrage, and pivot to "context" did. This is how the ADL saves itself: by admitting the mission creep. The pivot to woke social justice was always a category error. Jew hatred isn't a subset of "systemic oppression" bingo. It doesn't fit neatly into the oppressor/oppressed spreadsheet. It is a shape-shifting virus that thrives on conspiracy, envy, and the eternal need for a scapegoat; sometimes wearing a keffiyeh, sometimes a Hugo Boss uniform, sometimes a Che Guevara T-shirt. Pretending it's solvable through pronoun workshops and "punching up" rhetoric has left actual Jews more exposed, not less. Rebrand means refocus. Dump the "fighting hate for all" branding that turned it into just another progressive slush fund. Be explicit: the ADL's remit is the defense of Jews, Jewish institutions, and the truth about antisemitism in all its forms – left, right, Islamist, whatever. Track the funders of campus encampments that chant for intifada. Call out the Squad when they traffic in blood libels. Monitor extremism from white nationalists and from the "decolonisation" crowd that treats synagogues as settler-colonial outposts. Expose the abuse that LGBTQ+ Jews are experiencing at the hands of the so-called Pride parade. No more equations that magically make Jewish self-defense the real problem. No more partnerships with groups that view "Zionist" as a slur but "globalist" as analysis. The old ADL chased relevance by becoming the HR department for the revolution. It got thanked with betrayal. Post-October Jews learned the hard way that the intersectional coalition was never going to have their backs when the masks slipped. A leaner, meaner, single-issue ADL – transparent with its data, ruthless with its enemies, allergic to partisan capture – could actually do the work. It could pressure platforms without playing speech cop. It could expose funders of terror-adjacent NGOs instead of issuing reports that read like grievance studies. It could earn back the trust of people who now roll their eyes at every ADL presser. Musk's critique stings because it's partially earned. The ADL can moan about "billionaire interference" or it can do the uncomfortable thing: audit itself, excise the ideology that diluted its purpose, and become the sharp-eyed watchdog Jews desperately need again. History doesn't owe the organization a second act. It has to seize it. Drop the rainbow lanyards. Pick up the fight. The household name remains and must be reclaimed. And the hatred isn't waiting for your strategic plan.

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