ADL 100th Anniversary Event | 92Y Talks

In celebration of the centennial of the Anti-Defamation League, 92nd Street Y welcomed a group of esteemed journalists in a frank and free-ranging discussion about global anti-Semitism, Israel's position in the world and the advancements the ADL has made over the past 100 years.

Look back over the history of anti-Semitism in America and at some of the defining moments in the history of ADL.

With Abraham Foxman, the ADL's longtime director, Richard Cohen of the Washington Post, John Podhoretz of Commentary Magazine and Judith Miller, who was for many years with The New York Times and is now writing for a number of different media outlets.

[bobbobson]

A group of honest individuals real honest faces

[wholeth]

The charter of the ADL preceded the creation of the Federal (not) Reserve (none) by just a few months.

Is there a connection? Was the creation of ADL in anticipation to blowback that might occur in the creation of the Fed?

[KaunasKid-vvxi]

Talk like a schmuck, walk like a schmuck, act like a schmuck, you're Abe Foxman.

[ToneHobart]

interesting a video about the anti-defamation league would mock another religious group... IE calling abe foxman king of the jews and bsically mocking christ.

[Redbaron]

Despite the fact that 'Semite applies to a multitude of peoples, it would seem only one people have appropriated the term for themselves...

Although the term anti-Semitism has wide currency, it is regarded by many as a misnomer, implying discrimination against all Semites, including Arabs and other peoples who are not the targets of anti-Semitism as it is usually understood.

Bottom line,   the Semitic Hebrew tribes were a very small minority of all Semitic tribes....so this phrase is inappropriate.
It should be either anti-Jews (the people) or anti-Israel (the country) that people are the political philosophy of Zionism. (i.e anti-Zionists)

[amini]

I like it at about 1 hour 12 minutes when the old geezer Foxman starts talking about Christians being an endangered community, subject to expulsion, dispossession and all the rest of those things which the Israelis have been doing to the Palestinians, consistently and as a matter of national ideology and policy.

[seethevolcane]

Judith Miller ("the lovely.." says sexist host) was on the Chris Matthews show July 18, 2007. 

[eliaswilson]

“The restrictions on Christians in Gaza” your friend Israel does not discriminate they restrict and kill Muslims and Christians. (Saying this as a Catholic who is half Palestinian)

[ROGERWDARCY]

After 27 years of occupancy at the Marshall hotel of Chicago even though I was payed up I was evicted by the Leader of desk clerks a Muslim from India working for the owner of the hotel a Jew. They took all of my possessions. I do not think the city hall actually accused me of racial prejudice but they did support the Hindu and the Jew. Racial prejudice is not a one way street. I hope facts are not defamation.