ADL director in Boulder is a DISGRACE

If there were only one despicable excuse for a newspaper in this country,  it would have to be the Boulder Daily Camera, which plays host to a constant barrage of anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, antisemitic propaganda in its letters-to-the-editor. 

The latest outrageous episode at the Camera originates in the context of those attacks, with a letter to the editor from a local student currently studying abroad in Be'er Sheva. Dylan Burton offers "a few opinons and observations," developed while living in Israel:

.... I once believed that compromise was possible, I believed that a true peace could be achieved. Though after witnessing firsthand the atrocities of the Palestinian people, I feel that belief was naive an unfounded. I offer only my observations and my opinions for your considerations. The Palestinians are not an abused and beaten people, they are a fundamentalist group of ideologues who seek only the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel.

The past two days are the first with out being wrestled from my sleep by an air raid siren, or what is called here a Color Red. These alarms usually allow for a minute to a minute and a half before the impact of the rocket, which is a minute and a half to throw on what clothes I can find around me and run to the shelter. I walk to class everyday with the consideration of where and what do I sit behind in the event the sirens go off.

These are not the actions of a people who want peace. These are not the actions of a people who are understanding or forgiving.....

 

One would think that that's a fine letter, yes? It is what a young American from Colorado has learned, living in Israel. Gd bless him for being there.  The ugly part of the story takes place when along comes the Anti-Defamation League.

Amy Stein, Community Director of the ADL's satellite office in Boulder, immediately answered this young man's experiences and opinion with the following uber-liberal reproach, dripping with condescension:

..... What is unfortunate ... and unacceptable is that [Burton] chooses to share these experiences and what are otherwise valid points in a discussion of Palestinian statehood in the shadow of inaccurate and counterproductive statements about "the Palestinian people."

We are appalled by the hateful stereotypes he employs in a conversation of this complex and difficult situation. All Palestinians, like all Israelis, do not speak or act of one mind.

One would hope that Mr. Burton avail himself of the opportunity while in Israel and when back in this country to meet and know the many Palestinians who condemn violence, work for peace cooperatively with Israelis and Jews and seek coexistence of a future Palestinian state alongside the secure Jewish state of Israel....

 

Stein should be ashamed of herself for this response. The kid - okay, Mr. Burton- is risking his life at the very hands of the people she says seek "coexistence," the ones that are working "for peace."  How dare she remain silent in the face of the hatred of Jews and Israel that appears almost daily in the pages of that paper, in the same town where the University hosts Norman Finkelstein as well as a boycott/divestment campaign, where there's an application being processed for Boulder to become a sister city with Nablus ... and then... and then... pounce on the truth when it dares make a peep, castigating a young friend of Israel who asked only that she consider his personal story.

What is truly unfortunate, appalling and unacceptable is that a Jew named Stein would choose to publicly showcase her own moral bankruptcy and that of the degenerate organization she represents.

We've known for a long time that the ADL is far worse than just a failure. Established nearly a hundred years ago to "stop.... the defamation of the Jewish people," it long ago lost its way and became exactly what it was established to "stop."

Gd save us from ourselves, from the Amy Steins and the ADLs, and their disgraceful efforts to obscure the truth and replace it with useless leftie drivel. 

 

 

 

UPDATE:

Amy M. Stein, Community Director of ADL’s Boulder Office, will receive a 2011 Multicultural Award from Boulder County's Community Action Programs on Thursday, October 6 at an evening banquet in Longmont. 

The Multicultural Awards banquet, the first in the County to recognize the accomplishments of people of color, is now in its 23rd year of honoring leaders from diverse backgrounds in the fields of arts, business, community service, education, government, health, partners, science, and youth.

Amy will receive an award in the partners category,  as  [for being] a white community member who works with people of color to promote social justice around race issues.

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Congratulations, Yael. Truer words were never spoken -- or written. The ADL is morally bankrupt, and has been for years. The saddest part of this whole sad story is that Zionism was intended to put an end to the kind of Jews who cowered and cringed in corners -- the sort of Jews Bialik wrote so scathingly about. Zionism was supposed to re-incarnate the muscular Jewry of the Maccabees and Bar Kochba. It succeeded -- but only up to a point. Cowering and cringing Jews are still with us -- aplenty. They've found a haven in the ADL and a host of other Jewish organizations that prefer a craven and ignominious Jewry to the stalwart Jewry about which Nordau dreamed. Those Israelis who feel contempt for the craven and cringing Jews of the United States (who behave as if they were still living in Kishinev!) are correct to do so. I join them in their contempt.

[Ester Sarah]

Thank you so much for covering this Yael. I was so happy to see a letter from the ADL in today's paper, thinking finally, finally someone from a Jewish group would respond to the constant barrage of Jew-hatred that appears in the Camera's pages. But my optimism was short-lived of course. It's particularly enraging because the letter that the ADL chose to publicly reprimand was not one of the many letters that accuses Israel of "ethnic cleansing," of using the "holocaust industry" to hide its "crimes," etc. etc. but the lone letter to appear in ages that defended Israel. The student who wrote the letter even says "With these thoughts in mind I give my analysis that until less radical minds prevail in Gaza and the West Bank there can be no true peace, and giving them recognition will only lead to an illegitimate terrorist group gaining an international voice." So clearly he is not lumping all Arabs together; yet the ADL chose to jump all over this writer in particular while saying nary a word about the Jew- and Israel-haters who are a constant presence in this newspaper.