The Dog-Pile On Musk

In case you don't know, Elon Musk has once again crossed swords with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). CNBC reports: "Elon Musk boosts antisemitic tweet, claims ADL and other groups push ‘anti-white’ messaging." Per the article, "Musk agreed with a tweet that said Jewish people have been pushing 'dialectical hatred' against whites, and later criticized the Anti-Defamation League." More specifically, the Tweet that Musk supported "said Jewish people 'have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.'" Thus, his sins are:

First, Musk drew attention to and agreed with an antisemitic conspiracy theory, and then directly accused “Jewish communities,” the nonprofit Anti-Defamation League, and minorities of what he called “anti-white” messaging and views, without giving examples to support his accusations.

Musk's second sin:

    After Musk began to face a backlash for endorsing the antisemitic tweet, he took aim more specifically at the ADL.

    He wrote, without providing any evidence for these claims, “The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel. This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat. It is not right and needs to stop.”

 Well, it is hard to give examples in the limited space of a single Tweet, especially since there are so many to draw from. But to be short, the ADL has pushed Critical Race Theory (CRT), whose primary proponents argue that all whites are racist (see also this Tweet from Ibram X. Kendi). Being "anti-racist" under this rubric essentially requires you to be anti-white (see, e.g., this article from the National Museum of African American History and Culture on "Being Antiracist"). The ADL has released statements supporting CRT and opposing it being removed from government training (see, e.g., here and here). It has also supported the inclusion of CRT and anti-whiteness into school curricula. For instance, this 2022 op-ed in Newsweek relates:

... a Fox News Digital exposé that uncovered the fact that the curricula the [ADL] gives to schools as part of its widely popular anti-hate programs includes critical race theory (CRT) teachings about "white privilege," the need to address the problems of "whiteness," praise for the anti-Semitic Women's March group and support for the idea of contemporary Americans paying reparations to those whose ancestors were slaves. The curricula also buttresses myths about the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri that helped give birth to the noxious Black Lives Matter movement.

Ironically, the same piece also points out: 

This is shocking not merely because it is one more piece of evidence that the liberal gaslighting that CRT in the schools is a figment of the conservative imagination is an obvious lie. It's also important because due to its adherence to intersectional myths about Israelis being "white" oppressors of the "brown" Palestinians who want to destroy the one Jewish state on the planet and American Jews possessing "white privilege," CRT legitimizes anti-Semitism—something the ADL purports to oppose.

And from The Times of Israel:

    Among the organization’s supposed “far-left ideas” highlighted by Fox News: its materials’ use of the phrases “intersectionality,” “structural racism” and “white privilege”; its recommendation of articles written by award-winning journalist and MacArthur Fellow Ta-Nehisi Coates; references to gender-neutral pronouns and the Black Lives Matter movement; books about trans and gender non-conforming children, and a post praising the Women’s March, one of whose founders has ties to the antisemitic Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan. (That same founder, Tamika Mallory, also criticized Starbucks at one point for using ADL anti-bias training.)

    In a statement, an ADL spokesperson told JTA that Fox’s story “raised important issues” and said the group “plans to undertake a comprehensive, in-depth review of all of our education programs.”

 And from the Jewish News Syndicate: "After the ADL gets caught spreading woke ideology, Greenblatt must go". That piece states:

    According to the Anti-Defamation League, it’s just a mistake. A Fox News Digital exposé showed that the curricula they hand out to schools as part of their anti-hate programs included critical race theory (CRT) teachings about “white privilege,” the need to address the problems of “whiteness,” praise for the anti-Semitic Women’s March group and support for the idea of contemporary Americans paying reparations to those whose ancestors were enslaved.

    Faced with hard evidence that its lucrative “No Place for Hate” initiatives are immersed in the woke leftist ideas that are actually legitimizing racialist attitudes and granting a permission slip for anti-Semitism, the ADL had no choice but to say that the Fox News report was accurate and that “there is content among our curricular materials that is misaligned with ADL’s values and strategy.”

The author continues:

    Yet rather than admit that the inclusion of such ideas in the material they are pushing on schools reflected a broader problem in the group’s work, the ADL still insisted: “We do not teach critical race theory. Period.” That’s a blatantly dishonest and even illogical claim since the material in their curricula shows that is exactly what they’re doing.

    The upshot of this weasel-worded non-apology is that the group founded to defend the Jewish people against anti-Semitism is trying to claim that this is all somehow a misunderstanding. They want their donors, who were under the impression that the ADL was belatedly confronting left-wing anti-Semitism, to believe that the organization isn’t actually part of the problem rather than the solution.

    But no one should be buying this disingenuous line of defense.

    What Fox discovered was entirely consistent with the organization’s actions and decisions in the years since Jonathan Greenblatt took over as CEO replacing longtime leader Abe Foxman. Greenblatt has helped shift the ADL from its former stance as the nonpartisan gold standard for monitoring hate to being just another liberal activist group whose priority is helping the Democratic Party—something that makes sense for a former staffer in the Clinton and Obama White Houses. Rather than being “misaligned,” endorsements of CRT teachings are very much aligned with the way the ADL has made it a priority to stay in sync with fashionable radical ideas about race and to avoid being tagged as a bastion of Zionist privilege by their left-wing allies.

Another Jewish News Syndicate article reports that "The ADL website suggests educators or parents read Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness to children, which states that 'racism is a white person’s problem' and that kids should be taught from a young age to identify whiteness as the root of racial injustice." And from the South Florida Sun Sentinel:

    An anti-hate program used by Broward Schools is facing scrutiny from the Florida Department of Education, which questions whether it violates state law related to critical race theory and LGBTQ issues.

    Mike Blackburn, the department’s inspector general, sent a letter to former Superintendent Vickie Cartwright Feb. 3, asking for “information and clarification” regarding its Dec. 13 approval of the Anti-Defamation League’s “No Place for Hate” program. The letter said the office received a complaint alleging the program covers off-limits topics.

    “The correspondence alleged that the ‘No Place for Hate’ curriculum provided by the ADL contains topics such as Critical Race Theory, sexual orientation and gender identity ideology,” in violation of state laws passed last year, Blackburn wrote.

In other words, there is plenty of evidence that the ADL spreads hatred and ideas that are racist against whites; even Jewish authors and publications agree on that. 

    This is part of a running feud between Musk and the ADL. Earlier this year, Musk had stated that the ADL was instrumental in getting Trump deplatformed. Musk had also threatened to sue the ADL for defamation, claiming that the nonprofit organization’s statements about rising hate speech on X had caused a significant reduction in its advertising revenue. So it is no surprise that the ADL would try to claim that Musk's criticism of the ADL and its anti-white racism is "anti-Semitism" in order to get a knee-jerk condemnation of Musk from the Left and RINOs. And it seems to work as the JournoList (or whatever has replaced it) orders have gone out and there is universal condemnation of Musk as an anti-Semite (instead of anti-ADL) going out from all major news outlets.  

Related:

• "Elon Musk Names the Jew — & Candace Owens Sort of Does, Too" by Travis LeBlanc, Counter Currents. This article goes into more detail about the Twitter exchange into which Musk injected his comments. It also addresses a blow up between Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro after Shapiro (who is Jewish) attacked Owens (who is Christian) for not showing sufficient support for Israel, to which she responded with a Biblical verse that in the context suggested that Shapiro could not have fealty both toward Israel and the United States. Shapiro went ape-sh** over that comment and proceeded to engage in ad hominem attacks against Owens. 
• The video below from Paul Joseph Watson also goes into both the Shapiro-Owens feud and Musk's comments about the ADL. (And I really thought the side reference to the USS Liberty incident to be great).

VIDEO: "JUICY DRAMA"

Paul Joseph Watson (9 min.)