NO DELUSIONS, NO DESPAIR
The ADL must transform
Benjamin Kerstein
January 7, 2025

…So, the question is: What will the ADL do now? A very large number of Jews are asking this question. Indeed, they ask me this question all the time, particularly since the publication of my book on Jewish self-defense. Beneath the question lies a seething anger: Where is the ADL? they ask. Why aren’t they protecting us? Why aren’t they fighting? Why aren’t they there for us? Where are they? These are all reasonable queries. After all, in the end, the ADL has one job, which is to protect American Jews from antisemitism. In this task, it has manifestly failed. The evidence is everywhere. The antisemitic Islamist-progressive Red-Green Alliance is rising to the heights of national politics. An open antisemite has been elected mayor of New York. “Protesters” still hold their antisemitic hate rallies on a regular basis, including outside synagogues. Jews continue to be harassed and assaulted. Several murders of both Jews and non-Jews have been committed by progressive and Muslim antisemites. READ MORE