{"id":902057,"date":"2021-10-20T13:14:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=902057"},"modified":"2021-10-20T13:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T17:14:23","slug":"adl-under-fire-for-teaming-up-with-anti-israel-activist-who-defended-terror-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adl-under-fire-for-teaming-up-with-anti-israel-activist-who-defended-terror-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"ADL Under Fire for Teaming Up With Anti-Israel Activist Who Defended Terror Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fadl-under-fire-for-teaming-up-with-anti-israel-activist-who-defended-terror-groups%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=902057&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jonathan-Greenblatt-ADL-scaled-e1623421812127.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Anti-Defamation League is under fire for participating in a conference that will see the nation&#8217;s oldest anti-Semitism watchdog group share the stage with an anti-Israel activist who has defended the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p>ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt appeared in Pittsburgh this week for the inaugural &#8220;Eradicate Hate&#8221; conference, a summit that brought ADL together with Salam al-Marayati, a member of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, an anti-Israel organization that has advocated for Middle Eastern terrorist groups to be removed from the United States&#8217; terrorism list, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/opinion\/islamist-who-defended-murderers-of-jews-to-speak-at-tree-of-life-anti-hate-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Jewish News Service<\/a>. Al-Marayati has also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/individuals\/salam-al-marayati\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defended<\/a> Hamas and Hezbollah and accused Israelis of being responsible for the 9\/11 terror attacks. The summit, which ran from Oct. 18 to 20, is billed as a response to the 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue, where an anti-Semitic man killed 11 Jews.<\/p>\n<p>The ADL&#8217;s decision to participate in an event alongside al-Marayati is generating pushback from other pro-Israel organizations. It is the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/a-member-of-the-anti-defamation-leagues-diversity-council-is-embroiled-in-an-anti-semitism-scandal-the-anti-semitism-watchdog-has-nothing-to-say-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversy<\/a> to hit the ADL under the leadership of Greenblatt, a former Obama administration official, who critics view as undermining the ADL&#8217;s mission and turning the historically apolitical group into a partisan outfit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are horrified Salam al-Marayati, a man who claims Jews \u2018weaponize anti-Semitism&#8217; and blames 9\/11 on Israel, has been chosen as a key speaker for the Tree of Life anti-hate summit in Pittsburgh,&#8221; Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism.org, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;The Tree of Life shooter was an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist like al-Marayati; his involvement in this summit does nothing but spit on the victims&#8217; graves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ADL did not respond to a <em>Free Beacon<\/em> request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim Public Affairs Council has a long history of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic advocacy. It cosponsored a 2000 event at which attendees called for genocide against Jews, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/opinion\/islamist-who-defended-murderers-of-jews-to-speak-at-tree-of-life-anti-hate-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to JNS. The group has also excused terrorist attacks in Israel conducted by organizations like Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Marayati also has deep ties to the Democratic Party, according to JNS, including relationships with officials in the Clinton, Obama, and Biden administrations.<\/p>\n<p>Yoseph Haddad, CEO of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.b-azz.org\/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%95-4\/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%95\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Together \u2014 Vouch for Each Other<\/a>, a multicultural group of Israeli peace activists, said it is &#8220;disturbing to see someone like this speaking at a conference against anti-Semitism and about deradicalization, of all things. His previous actions and statements only prove that he himself has radical tendencies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As an Israeli Arab,&#8221; Haddad said, &#8220;I myself am a target of Hamas terrorism along with two million other Israeli Arabs. To whitewash Hamas terror is to say the lives of Israeli Arabs and Jews don&#8217;t matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anti-Defamation League is under fire for participating in a conference that will see the nation&#8217;s oldest anti-Semitism watchdog group share the stage with an anti-Israel activist who has defended &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902057","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}