The ADL reversed its support for Trump's student deportations. You should too

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https://newrepublic.com/article/187695/anti-defamation-league-running-cover-trump

So how, with all that storied history behind it, did ADL respond to Trump’s 2024 Nazi rally? “Political rallies should be about politics and policy, not offensive jokes,” the organization wrote, in a bizarrely anodyne message that did not even name the presidential candidate for whom the rally was held.

This response was so pathetic it actually inspired criticism from ADL’s former leader, Abe Foxman—who is, to put it mildly, not a leftist. Foxman condemned Trump’s MSG rally as dangerous, writing that “the gas chambers in Auschwitz did not begin with bricks, they began with words, ugly, hateful words against Jews and other minorities.” And he went on to extend his criticism to “the American Jewish Committee, ADL, Conference of Presidents, the federations, all these institutions” for refusing to call out Trump by name for his dangerous rhetoric and actions.

Though this would be shameful enough, ADL’s culpability in this moment goes even deeper, for it is not merely staying silent on the threat Trump poses—the organization’s current leader, Jonathan Greenblatt, is actively carrying water for Trump by echoing his lieutenants’ efforts to shut down comparisons between the MAGA movement and the Nazis.

For example, Greenblatt recently called out Mehdi Hasan for saying that if people on the far right don’t want to be called Nazis, they should stop acting like them. Hasan made this reference during the now-viral CNN panel discussion in which far-right commentator Ryan Girdusky told Hasan he hoped his “beeper doesn’t go off,” implying—with an insinuation of violence—that Hasan was a terrorist for supporting Palestinians.

Though Greenblatt rightfully condemned Girdusky’s comment, he went on to immediately both-sides the exchange, saying, “It was also unacceptable for [Hasan] to make a Nazi analogy. Such comparisons are inaccurate, offensive and dishonor the memory of the six million Jews slaughtered by the Third Reich and the millions of others who also were murdered by the Nazi regime. Argue about politics and policy all day long; leave Holocaust comparisons out of it.”

Greenblatt’s statement is eerily similar to one made by Trump’s mass deportation czar, Stephen Miller. During Trump’s rally on Sunday, Miller said, “America is for Americans and Americans only,” a line that precisely parallels a quote Hitler made in 1934 that “Germany is for Germans and Germans only.” When this was pointed out, Miller responded by saying the comparison “trivializ[ed] the Holocaust” and was “a grave insult to my Jewish brothers and sisters who were murdered by Nazis.”

Greenblatt and Miller are making the same basic argument here