Abe Foxman’s retirement: End of an era

JERUSALEM POST
by Isi Leibler
July 28, 2015

I received a call recently from Abe Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, in which he castigated me for not consulting him in advance of my publishing strong criticism of his remarks. After a brief acrimonious exchange, he hung up the phone in rage. I have no regrets about criticizing what I consider to have been his inappropriate remarks. Moreover, following such an exchange, I would under normal circumstances be sufficiently offended to consider our relationship terminated….Foxman has, at times, also tended to understate that, in the current new anti-Semitism, the primary threat to the Jewish people emanates from a coalition of far leftists and Muslim anti-Semites, which far transcends the traditional sources from the radical Right, outright neo-Nazis or unreconstructed Christian Jew-haters…Foxman’s stirring call issued on his last day in office, warning of the dangers of the Iranian nuclear accord of the P5+1 nations and urging Congress to reject the deal. READ MORE

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