[ Like the Wizard of OZ, pulling back the curtain of the ADL is a solitary person who uses stentorian language to intimidate anyone who dares question secular Israel's policies. Beware of Abe Foxman -- the denier of Armenian genocide, the feral advocate of "Hate Crimes" legislation, and the relentless persecutor of Christians everywhere. ]
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Does Abe Foxman Have an Anti-Anti-Semite Problem?
By JAMES TRAUB
The New York Times
The ADL is a one-man Sanhedrin
The Anti-Defamation League, which has an annual budget of more than $50 million, offers “anti-bias education and diversity training” through its World of Difference Institute; plays a major advocacy role in keeping church and state separate; monitors a vast array of extremist activity; publishes curricula on the Holocaust and on tolerance; and so on. But the league is, in the end, mostly Abe. Foxman is a domineering character who over the years, according to critics, has driven out potential rivals and successors. When I asked him whom else in the organization I should talk to, he couldn’t think of anyone, not even Kenneth Jacobson, the A.D.L.’s deputy national director and, others had told me, Foxman’s alter-ego. The A.D.L., for all its myriad activities, is a one-man Sanhedrin doling out opprobrium or absolution for those who speak ill of Israel or the Jews.