May 16, 2005
For Immediate Release
For More Information, Contact: Bryan Rudnick 561-499-3201
CLINTON SUPPORTS FARRAKHAN MARCH - ADL DITHERS
Don Feder, president of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, charged that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has a double standard - one for conservatives and another for prominent liberals.
"When it comes to attacking conservatives - Pat Robertson, Mel Gibson - the ADL leaps to the fray," Feder noted. Last year, ADL National Director Abraham Foxman suggested that Gibson's film, "The Passion Of The Christ," could unleash a wave of anti-Semitism.
But when ex-president Bill Clinton endorses an upcoming march by America's most notorious anti-Semite, the ADL is circumspect to the point of timidity.
In an interview with the Amsterdam News (posted on its website on May 4th ), Clinton said Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's October 14-15 rally in Washington DC was "a very positive idea." Moreover, the ex-president asserted that Farrakhan's 1995 Million Man March was about "standing up for the dignity of the family and asking African American men and fathers to be more responsible."
Said Feder, "Yes, and it was also about black racism, virulent anti-Americanism and unvarnished Jew hatred." Farrakhan has called Jews "leeches," and "wicked deceivers of the American people," who exploit blacks and manipulate US foreign policy for their own sinister ends.
"The Clinton interview has been out for almost two weeks, and the ADL has yet to officially comment," Feder added.
A call to the ADL press office disclosed that the organization has written a letter to Clinton (presumably for a clarification) and is awaiting a response before it takes an official position.
"The ADL is in a quandary," Feder explained. "If it says nothing, its credibility will be destroyed. On the other hand, it doesn't want to attack a liberal icon that many of its members adore. Its letter to Clinton is buying time while it decides what, if anything, to do."
Increasingly, the Anti-Defamation League is seen by Middle America as a liberal organization pushing a liberal agenda, in the guise of fighting anti-Semitism.
Feder concluded, "I guess Foxman and company are too busy attacking Christianity and looking for anti-Semites under conservative beds to respond to a liberal ex-president's endorsement of the most vile and dangerous hate-monger in America."
Attached is an article by Feder ("Clinton Endorses Farrakhan's Hate-March") posted on FrontPageMagazine.com on May 13, 20005.
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