The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) mission says the organization seeks “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment for all.”
In reality, however, the ADL seeks to set the stage for the criminalization of speech for Palestinian rights and end to Israeli genocide in Gaza. Recently, the ADL sent a letter to nearly 200 university presidents, urging them to investigate pro-Palestinian terrorism groups based on their public speech.
Where is this witch-hunt headed?
Previously, the ADL successfully lobbied Congress to pass the “material support statute” to charge humanitarian groups with ties to foreign terrorists. The material support statute, according to our guests, “accords unchecked power to the secretary of state, whose designation of a group cannot be challenged in court, except on narrow administrative grounds.”
Might the ADL coordinate with Israeli intelligence to conduct its own campus spying operations and report the information to law enforcement? It wouldn’t be the first time the ADL was implicated in a large-scale operation spying on Arab-American activists on the West Coast in the early 1990s.
Don’t let the ADL push the “material support statute” to target student activism! Rip the mask off the ADL.
Featured Guests
Co-Authors, “Terrorism Investigations on Campus and the New McCarthyism.”
Anthony O’Rourke is the Joseph W. Belluck & Laura L. Aswad Professor of Civil Justice at the University at Buffalo School of Law, State University of New York. O’Rourke teaches and writes on the intersections of criminal law and procedure, legislation, constitutional law, and legal theory. O’Rourke received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar. He clerked for Judge Raymond C. Fisher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Judge Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Wadie E. Said is Professor of Law and Dean’s Faculty Fellow at the University of Colorado School of Law. Previously, he was the Miles and Ann Loadholt Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law, as well as an assistant federal public defender. A member of the American Law Institute, Professor Said teaches courses in Criminal Law and Procedure and Human Rights, and is the author of Crimes of Terror: The Legal and Political Implications of Federal Terrorism Prosecutions (Oxford University Press).
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