{"id":1725380,"date":"2022-11-06T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725380"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:26:15","slug":"fiasco-anti-defamation-league-in-hot-water-after-botched-attempt-to-partner-with-anti-semite-kyrie-irving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fiasco-anti-defamation-league-in-hot-water-after-botched-attempt-to-partner-with-anti-semite-kyrie-irving\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiasco: Anti-Defamation League in Hot Water After Botched Attempt To Partner With Anti-Semite Kyrie Irving"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffiasco-anti-defamation-league-in-hot-water-after-botched-attempt-to-partner-with-anti-semite-kyrie-irving%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725380&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>NBA star Kyrie Irving left the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with egg on its face after the group pledged to partner with Irving and his team, the Brooklyn Nets, to steer a $1 million donation to Jewish organizations following Irving promotion of an anti-Semitic documentary. Then, on Thursday, Irving said that \u2014 actually \u2014 he had nothing to apologize for.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the ADL is backtracking, with CEO Jonathan Greenblatt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JGreenblattADL\/status\/1588538039764414464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/JGreenblattADL\/status\/1588538039764414464&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667679879277000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2v2VfohuLpZFO_5Gh5kYrb\">pledging<\/a>\u00a0not to take any money from Irving but saying he is nonetheless willing to &#8220;engage in a process of healing and learning&#8221; with the unapologetic anti-Semite.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although we will not accept any funds from him, if Kyrie is open to direct dialogue to repair the harm that he has caused and to engage in a process of healing and learning in a sincere manner, [ADL] is open to engaging with him,&#8221; Greenblatt said. &#8220;Time and action will tell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Irving ignited a media firestorm last week by promoting a book and movie that denies the Holocaust occurred and portrays Jewish people as a nefarious bogeyman. Irving issued a statement admitting responsibility for the &#8220;negative impact&#8221; of his post but ultimately doubled down this week, saying during a Thursday press conference, &#8220;I cannot be anti-Semitic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The brouhaha over Irving\u2019s anti-Semitic beliefs is a blow to one of America\u2019s oldest and most respected Jewish institutions. The ADL, under the leadership of former Obama administration official Greenblatt, has been plagued by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/anti-defamation-league\/\">accusations<\/a> it provides cover to Democrats while only exerting pressure on conservative voices it sees as promoting anti-Semitic views. In recent years, the ADL has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/new-adl-guide-blasts-right-wing-anti-semites-gives-left-leaning-bigots-a-pass\">charged<\/a> a litany of conservative groups with promoting anti-Semitism while ignoring similar instances on the left, prompting some in the Jewish community to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Opinion\/Fight-on-campuses-dont-condemn-Israels-prime-minister-467845#\/\">call it<\/a> an &#8220;echo chamber of left-wing Democratic politics.&#8221; The ADL also has made overtures to the anti-Semitic Black Lives Matter movement despite its support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, as well as the far-left anti-Israel group J Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is another unfortunate misstep for an ADL that seems to have placed partisanship and even fundraising ahead of fighting antisemitism,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ymenken\">Rabbi Yaakov Menken<\/a>, managing director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cjvalues\">Coalition for Jewish Values<\/a>, America\u2019s largest rabbinic public policy group, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;After curating a false narrative tying anti-Semitism to white supremacy above all else, it rushed to take a donation from Irving instead of the real consequences that, as ESPN sportscasters have pointed out, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA star Kyrie Irving\u00a0left the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with egg on its face after the group pledged to partner with Irving and his team, the Brooklyn Nets, to steer a $1 million donation to Jewish organizations after Irving promoted an anti-Semitic documentary. Then, on Thursday, Irving said he had nothing to apologize for.<br \/>\nThe post Fiasco: Anti-Defamation League in Hot Water After Botched Attempt To Partner With Anti-Semite Kyrie Irving appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1725392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}