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Spencer:

I have arrived at this conclusion by my best rational assessment of what they do, whom and what they support, and what they publish. I have neither seen nor heard anything, until today, that would persuade me otherwise.

If you are saying that the org. is a carefully crafted front for conservative Jewish causes, masked as a socialist group, I say "Bravo!". Heck, where do I send my donation!

However, I'm yet inclined to believe that they used this series of legal hassles--or invented them--to obfuscate their true nature. It is no wonder to me that they have files on their own members or like-minded orgs. That's what communist parties do. The info is used to vet members who will direct the greater number of useful idiots among the subscribers.

ADL enjoys the untouchable status of "Never Again-ers" while giving license to the paradigm that allowed the slaughter twelve-million innocent non-combatants in WWII, to wit: anti-freedom; anti-individualist; anti-self-defense; anti-religious; pro-socialist; pro-Clinton; pro-compromise; pro-Liberal. Netanyahu is a war-monger, they have said. "We must have PEACE!!" They invite death.

Maybe ADL means well, but that would also mean the leadership is intellectually , historically, and religiously clueless.

If you are correct--and you may well be: my impressions are based upon no great inquiry--I'm inclined to cut a check to support those foaming-at-the-mouth conservative bastards. Maybe my donation will buy ammo for IDF.

I await your rejoinder. Enlighten me.

My point was a narrow one, and perhaps misunderstood by you. I did not mean to imply that the ADL is a conservative organization. It never has been. It has always been politicaly liberal. As far as I know, however, it has never explicitly or implicitly been socialistic or communistic. It has been a mainstream organization within the Jewish politcal spectrum. I believe that it did some good work in the 1950s and 60s when it focused on domestic Anit-Semitism--though even then it made mistakes. Its leadership in the early 1980s sometimes took sound moderate-conservative positions on public issues. Now it is run by an ultra-liberal zealot--Abe Foxman. Moreover, it has obscured its message by treating all anti-Israel thought as synonymous with anti-Jewish thought. But to call it commmunistic is to suggest that it is somehow a fringe group within American Judaism, which it clearly is not. You have made comments concerning "Never-Againism." It is possible that you are confusing the ADL with the JDL, whose slogan was/is "Never Again." The JDL is a fringe group that has never enjoyed more than miniscule support among American Jews.