Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said the protesters were acting like members of ISIS and al-Qaeda.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31416536

from The Forward [Jewish publication from USA]

By Arno Rosenfeld and Jacob Kornbluh June 6, 2025

[contains links to audio of his speech]

"“We are an apolitical, non-partisan organization, but you have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see what’s happening on the left,” #Greenblatt said Friday, according to audio from the event obtained by the #Forward.

“There is a throughline from Occupy Wall Street to BLM to ‘defund the police’ to ‘River to the Sea,’” he added, referring to the Black Lives Matter movement launched a decade ago to protest police violence. “They are the same people, these are the same kind of nihilists.”"

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    23 days ago

    “You have people hiding their faces behind scarves and keffiyehs like they’re in ISIS, storming libraries, vandalizing buildings and literally – I’m not exaggerating – terrorizing their classmates,” he said.

    Wait… is he talking about the protesters or ICE here? Because it really sounds more like ICE to me.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      23 days ago

      Well he’s certainly not taking about the IDF. That involves 1000x more terrorism and actual mass-murder, instead of the general “vibe” of terrorism, felt by some genocidal fascist mouthpiece.