Stop Citing The ADL For Hate Crime Statistics, They Are A Racist Hate Group. 

Please click here and read this article before you cite the Anti-Defamation League as an authority on hate speech, or participate in any campaign they are named in.

Some highlights include: 

• The ADL has a history of going after Black power activists and civil rights groups. This included the Movement for Black Lives as recently as 2017 and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (as in, the Freedom Riders) as early as the 60s.
  
  
  
• The ADL colluded with the FBI to spy on Arab-American and Black progressive organizations in the 70s and 80s.
  
  
  
• The ADL’s definition of antisemitic hate speech includes any suggestion that the state of Israel does not have the right to control Palestinian territory, or that Israel should not be run as a religious ethnostate. It includes any endorsement of boycotts against Israeli goods or sanctions against the state of Israel for its war crimes. Given that definition, the idea of citing them for statistics on antisemitism is completely bananas. 
  
  
  
• The ADL supports apartheid in Israel as it supported apartheid in South Africa: 
  
  “The Anti-Defamation League participated in a blatant propaganda campaign against Nelson Mandela and the ANC in the mid 1980s and employed an alleged ​‘fact-finder’ named Roy Bullock to spy on the anti-apartheid campaign in the United States — a service he was simultaneously performing for the South African government. The ADL defended the white régime’s purported constitutional reforms while denouncing the ANC as ​‘totalitarian anti-humane, anti-democratic, anti-Israel, and anti-American.’”
  
  
  
• The ADL historically works with the FBI, the Israeli military, US police departments, and ICE. They ran a seminar in Israel in 2015 on “counter-terrorism” that was attended by Donald Trump’s Deputy Director of ICE. 
  
  
  
• The ADL’s primary goal is the suppression of criticism of Israel and the elimination of international support for Palestine, with the ultimate aim of facilitating Israel’s annihilation of the Palestinian people. From Lara Kiswani, executive director of the Arab Resource Organizing Committee (AROC): “The ADL’s agenda is to delegitimize Palestine solidarity. Anything they’re doing, one should see from that lens.”
  
  

I’ve seen a couple different posts circulated by leftists in recent months talking about hate crimes in the United States that cite the ADL as a major source. I cannot stress enough that the ADL is not a legitimate source, they are a white supremacist organization, they have a long and consistent history of collaboration with apartheid in the United States, Israel, and South Africa, and any infographic that draws on their data is inherently untrustworthy. White supremacists don’t yield good data. 

a further couple of really good pieces from Jewish Currents:

How The ADL’s Israel Advocacy Undermines Its Civil Rights Work

The Anti-Democratic Origins of the Jewish Establishment