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Speaker 1: I want to welcome everyone to book eight in my reading.

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The name of this book is Crying Wolf, Hate Crime

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Hoaxes in America by Lard Wilcox, twenty fifth Anniversary Edition,

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nineteen ninety four to twenty nineteen. Let's give you a

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little background on mister Wilcox, because a lot of people

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never heard of him. Lard Maurice Wilcox, American researcher of

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political fringe movements, a founder of the Wilcox Collection of

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Contemporary Political Movements, housed in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library

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at University of Kansas. He was raised in a family with,

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as he described, political intensity. His relatives politics range from

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socialists to membership in the far right John Birch Society.

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His father was a construction accountant. Family moved frequently. He

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attended University of Kansas. He joined the Students for a

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Democratic Society and later dropped out of college. Living in

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I think this is OL eight, Kansas, he worked as

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a carpenter, investigator, and writer. Basically, he accumulated four file

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drawers of literature about radical political movements, some since his teens.

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University of Kansas Library bought a portion of them for

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one thousand dollars. It's now called the Wilcox Collection of

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Contemporary Political Movements. Just keptain Kansas Collection of the Kansas

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Collection of Kenneth Spencer Research Library. So check this out.

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So this is you know, he's talking about hate crime hoaxes.

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Here are his views. Nineteen sixty eight, he signed the

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Writers and Editors War Tax Protest Pledge, vowing to refuse

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tax payments and protests against Vietnam War. He was a

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member of the ACLU since nineteen sixty one, member of

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Amnesty International since nineteen seventy. Historian George Michael described Wilcox

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in two thousand and three as a left wing libertarian.

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In nineteen ninety seven, he self published a book called

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The Watchdogs. He criticized an anti racist industry of groups

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monitoring extremism, writing that their identity and livelihood depend upon

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growth and expansion of their particular kind of victimization. He

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accused groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ADL,

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the American Anti Defamation League, and Political research Associates of

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a massive astortion extortion racket to exaggerate threats from right

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wing extremists, who he estimated at ten thousand in a

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total US population is two hundred and seventy million. Mark

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Potok of the SPLC said that Wilcox had an axe

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to grind for a great many years. Mark Potoc, if

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I remember correctly, is the guy at the ACLU who

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keeps a post it note on his computer chronicling the

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dwindling white population in the United States due to weaponized immigration.

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And yes, if you want to ask the question about Potok,

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you would be correct. Chip Burlett of Political Research Associates

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said that Willcox is not an accurate or ethical reporter.

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Historian George Michael noted that willcox examination of memoranda indicated

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a close working relationship between the ADL and the FBI.

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He passed away in two thousand and three November four,

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two thousand and three in all Off, Kansas. He was

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eighty years old. All right, so I'm going to read

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the intro to Crying Wolf. Let's make sure this is

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sharing yep. Okay, here we go and see the chapters here.

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Not going to be a long book forward. This book

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grew out of a research project I began in nineteen

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eighty eight, when the issue of racist and anti Semitic

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hoses first came to my attention in a serious way.

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I had learned in talking with the former associate in

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the civil rights movement of the nineteen sixties that a

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cross burning I had always assumed was done by white

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racists was in fact done by civil rights workers. This

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aroused my curiosity, and more extensive research convinced me that

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it may not be an uncommon occurrence. I quickly learned

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that there were almost no sources of information on the

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subject of racist and anti Semitic hoaxes. Right wing groups,

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whom one might suspect would keep tabs on this, were

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rendered almost useless by their conspiratorial approach to the subject.

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The various black and Jewish groups refused to discuss the issue.

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It was a subject that obviously had to be researched

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from scratch. In nineteen eighty nine I established a Hoaxer

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Project to bring together information on the subject. I managed

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to collect a number of newspaper clippings, and in nineteen

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ninety I published a small report entitled the Hoaxer Project Report. Altogether,

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some fifty five hundred copies of that report were circulated.

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A few readers began sending me clippings of hoaxes that

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actually made the newspaper, as well as their own accounts

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of incidents they knew or suspected were hoaxes. In time,

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this added up to some three hundred documented incidents from

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which the case is described in this book were drawn.

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I did not have the resources of a clipping service

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or a large network of monitors to assist me. If

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I had, I believe this compilation would be many times

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as large. Obviously, hoaxers are people who have exercised pretty

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bad judgment. Their acts may have been hurtful to others,

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and they have usually violated various laws. I think it's

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important to avoid as much as possible the concept of

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good guys and bad guys when considering this issue. I

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think what we have instead are those who are simply

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responding to an opportunity. I'm not trying to minimize individual responsibility,

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but rather avoid the kind of witch hunting atmosphere that

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created the problem in the first place. He apparently thinks

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that if he just take the pot, turn the the

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flame down. I wonder if he was still around, what

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he would think. Whenever an abstract ideal acquires the moral

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urgency that racial equality or opposition to bigotry has today,

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it's only a matter of time until we find individuals

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for whom the end justifies the means. The militant, moralizing

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fanatic is the stumbling block which any reasonable resolution of

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racial problems must overcome. Further, in my experience, the uncompromising

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behavior of the fanatic is often a way of compensating

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for a hidden inner ambivalence. Harold Lasswell in Psychopathology and

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Politics has said, quote dogma is a defensive reaction in

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the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he

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is unclear unaware. I think this unconscious ambivalence explains the

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apparent willingness of many so called anti racists to justify

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and practice a kind of reverse racism or counter bigotry.

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This manifests itself in the good racism of affirmative action

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and hate crime legislation, as well as stereotyping and prejudice

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prejudicial judgments about white people. I suspect the last thing

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many professional anti racists want is a truly race neutral society.

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No advances in racial equity are going to quell the

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inner turmoil of people for whom their race or religion

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and its victimization are the only things they have going

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for them and the only way they can explain their

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unhappiness and anxiety. It's very interesting because as soon as

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I started reading that sentence, I immediately thought of Uncle

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Ted and what he talked about was that there were

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what he called people of the left. They are over

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socialized and they need they need this anxiety and this unhappiness.

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Twenty years ago, one couldn't have said this. But today

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discrimination in schools, housing, jobs, and government as men, institutional

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racism is gone. In its place, a series of preferential

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policies is firmly established. Wish that he could come forward

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twenty one years and see that it's just basically been reversed.

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Something that I've been talking about recently that Stormy Waters.

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Stormy Waters really gets upset when people talk about the

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competency crisis. He says, we don't have a competency crisis.

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Says the most competent people are locked out of jobs,

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White people. The people who can do jobs, the people

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who can learn something in a month and be proficient

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at it, as long as it's not something highly specialized

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like surgery or something like that. What I see happening

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with hoaxes is a kind of market process the frequency

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of hoaxes increases with their utility and accomplishing desired ends.

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the temptations to create victimization when none exists is very strong. Conversely,

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as a number of hoaxes increases, assuming they are reported,

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a greater skepticism toward unproven and marginal victimization claims will

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probably increase as well, and hoaxes will become less effective.

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saw all sorts of hoaxes happening, and now it's you know,

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especially with the way things can be investigated almost immediately

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on the Internet, on Twitter and things like that. It's

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I mean, people are like, oh boohoop. No, I mean,

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the the people who believe these things, these you know,

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quote unquote anti racists. Of course, they're in power, and

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they control They still control academia, they still control a

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lot of different you know, the press, a lot of

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the narrative. But that's changing. Consider a college campus boiling

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with racial and generals gender sensitivity, with courses in victimization,

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organization for victims, a constant barrage of victimization propaganda, but

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no immediate and palpable victims. Anti racist vigilantes with no

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racist to hang had better get busy and make some

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and they often do. Now, everyone who doesn't agree with

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them is a racist, Everyone who is white is a racist,

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a colonizer. Yeah, all of that. In recent years, anti

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racist have proclaimed that virtually every behavior and institution in

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our society is covertly racist, but that line is wearing thin.

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Efforts to broaden the definition of racism have about reached

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their limit. Nothing like some racist graffiti or some other

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hate crime to invigorate the militants. And what the hell

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is for a good cause? Right? This is right out

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of Uncle ted. In an enterprising society such as ours,

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what is needed will eventually appear one way or another.

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Americans are not known for their ability to defer gratification

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for long. Wow, he's saying that we have high time preference. Huh,

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hence the racist or antisemitic hoax. It's as easy as

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apple pie. Finally, this look. Finally, this publication is a

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continuing project. It has anticipated that future editions will appear,

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either by myself or someone else. I would like to

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recruit you to help overcome the disadvantage I have in

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compiling information on hoaxes. If you see newspaper coverage or

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other information about a hoax in your community, please send

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it to me. LARRD. Wilcox, July nineteen ninety four. All right,

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so I'm going to get into this. A lot of

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this is just going to be one like it'll talk

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about one incident for a couple of paragraphs, it'll go

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on to the next incident for a couple of paragraphs,

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and it'll just it's going to inundate you with hoaxes

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one after another. And some people could say that this

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is just overkill, But for you know, I think it's

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good for you to pass along to people. If you're

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listening to this and you already know, you don't need

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to be convinced. I think this is going to be

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great for people that you can just pass along and say, here,

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you know, listen to this. These are all the hate

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crime hoaxes. And these were a long time ago, so

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what are they now? All right? Chapter one, The Scope

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of the problem. In January nineteen ninety four, the Anti

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Defamation League and organization devoted to defending the interests of

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Jews in the United States, reported the Anti Semitic acts

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against Jewish people and their property rose eight percent in

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the United States during nineteen ninety three. The ADL also

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reported one eight hundred and sixty seven incidents involving threats, harassment, assault, vandalism, graffiti,

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other behaviors one incident per one hundred and ninety one

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hundred and thirty nine thousand Americans. These included one arsen,

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one attempted arson, one bombing, and one attempted bombing. The

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ADL annual audit claims seven hundred and eighty eight acts

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of vandalism, one per three hundred and thirty thousand Americans,

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or slightly over two per day in a country of

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two hundred and sixty million. Look how much our population

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has grown down eight percent from the previous year. Of those,

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three hundred and twenty five involved graffiti on bridges, buildings,

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and signs, i e. Expressions of values, opinions, and beliefs

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on private property. So it sounds to me like some

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you know, some edgy kid decideds the sprays Bana swastika

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on you know, like under a bridge somewhere, and that's

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considered I hate vandalism nationwide. According to the ADL, in

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nineteen ninety three, there were only sixty arrests for any

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of this activity, revealing that the vast majority of the

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incidents were unsolved and note identified culprit was apprehended. Vandalism

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is almost always a criminal offense and could be prosecuted

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if there was anyone to prosecute. The ADL, of course,

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lobbies hard for prosecution when the perpetrators are identified. On

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the other hand, the ADL's nineteen ninety two annual audit

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of anti Semitic incidents reported in eight percent decline from

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nineteen ninety one. Thus, the nineteen ninety three increase only

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served to bring the number of incidents back to its

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nineteen ninety one level. A total of one thousand, seven

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hundred and thirty incidents were reported in nineteen ninety two

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incident per one hundred and fifty thousand Americans, including twenty

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eight serious cases of art of arson attempt at arson,

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cemetery desecration, and synagogue synagogue bombings one incident per nine

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hundred and twenty eight thousand Americans. Forty four percent of

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the incidents took place in public areas such as public

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schools or office buildings. Bene Brits CA, Canada's League for

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Human Rights, the Canadian equivalent of the ADL, also reported

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as declined in anti Semitic incidents in its nineteen ninety

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two audit. A total of one hundred and ninety six

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incidents occurred nationwide in nineteen ninety two, one per one

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hundred and ninety six thousand Canadians, down twenty two percent

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from nineteen ninety one. Half of them occurred in Toronto,

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which has the largest Jewish population in Canada. The ADL

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audit has always included many incidents that are not crimes

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one person only personal insults, such as one person telling

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another off and making reference to their ethnic identity in

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the process. ADYL national chairman Melvin Salberg said that he

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found this quote very disturbing and of great concern. This

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in your faced anti semitism may signal a new tendency

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to engage in direct confrontations with Jews and further arose

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to taboo against open bigotry. Huh interesting, huh No, other groups? Okay, okay,

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well's direct confrontations in other words, like kids, how many

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times I was called a spic when I was a kid,

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and people just you know, just screwing around, or you know,

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even in someone gets upset. Who cares? Who cares? The

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audit also includes incidents where mailings are identified on the

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basis of their alleged anti Semitic content, public expressions of

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identification with Arab radicals in Israel's occupied territories, distribution of

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Holocaust revisionist material on the campus, and other activities protected

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under the First Amendment. The NEL reported eighteen hundred and

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seventy nine anti Semitic incidents in nineteen ninety one. This

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was up from sixteen hundred and eighty five incidents recorded

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by the ADL in nineteen ninety fourteen hundred and thirty

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two in nineteen eighty nine. Bonafied anti Semitic physical violence

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against Jews is extraordinarily rare in the United States. The

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ADL reported only thirty such cases in nineteen ninety and

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sixty in nineteen ninety one. No disrespect is intended, and

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I'm sure these incidents were distressing to those who experience them,

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But these figures do not support the claim of a

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serious and significant trend toward antisemitism in a nation of

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two hundred and sixty million people. The vast majority of

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these incidents are on the order of simple graffiti, minor vandalism,

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verbal altercations, or telephone harassment. Most of these incidents remain

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unsolved in that no perpetrator was ever identified, let alone prosecuted.

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Where the perpetrator is identified, most of these offenses are

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committed by juveniles under eighteen. Many of the unsolved cases

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may be hoaxes. A single hoax or with a can

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of spray paint or a pocket full of quarters can

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can inflate statistics considerably. The ADL compiled these statistics through

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a nationwide network of regional offices, local monitors, clipping services,

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and reports from police agencies. In addition, the ADL actually

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solicited reports of anti Semitic incidents by circulating questionnaires to

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its own mailing list, hardly a disinterested group. This practice

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raises serious doubts about statistics compiled by an interested organization

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eager to promote its own agenda, especially when it's one

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that fundraises. You send out mailing to your list and

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tell them that anti Semitism is going through the roof

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and we need money to help stop this. Well, and

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would do that. Pretty much any organization that is quote

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unquote activists political in nature, social in nature, is going

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to do that. According to Leonard Larson, syndicated columnists for

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Scripts Howard's Service, the ADL statistics may be questioned on

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other grounds as well. Larson notes that among the anti

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Semitic incidents listed in an annual audit is a case

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where individuals in Boston displayed pro Palestinian anti Israel graffiti

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in the subways. Larson as that the ADL considered these

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and other incidents anti Semitic because they recount brutal acts

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of repression against Palestinians by the Israeli government quote. An

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obvious intent here is to use intimidations to silence criticism

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of Israel's political and military conduct. Larson says, it's amazing

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how this was written thirty years ago, thirty plus years ago,

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and this could be about today new heading anti Semitism

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on the Rise. Of course, there is the question of

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whether anti Semitism is on the rise or in decline.

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In November nineteen ninety one, the ADL held a two

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day conference Montreal, which produced a consensus that anti Semitism,

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both in North America and abroad, is on the rise,

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and Jews have to stop being stop keeping quiet about it.

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According to ADL executive director Abraham Foxman, I would love

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to go. No, I'm not going to do it, quoting

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there are so many you can go. And Dark Enlightenment

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has talked about Abe Foxman before. Tim Kelly has talked

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about Abe Foxman before. Quote. We have reason to be

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concerned and frightened by what seems to be a rising

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tide of anti Semitism here and around the world. The

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virus has become more active, the restraints and taboos have disappeared.

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Notice how they use the term virus there. Remember when

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I read Lorraine Gigno's essay Israel the Psychopathic Nation. Remember

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that Zionists, the Zionists, philosophers and fathers all said that

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anti Semitism was an incurable disease. If it's incurable, I mean,

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what do you what do you do? Especially if somebody

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has an incurable disease and it's a threat to you,

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how do you look upon that person? You're either going

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to do one or two things. You're going to seek

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to kill them, or you are going to do everything

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you can to medicate them and drug them. And quote unquote,

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dope them and sedate them until they're no longer a

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threat to you. In January nineteen ninety two, however, another

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Jewish organization releases this report based on detailed survey data

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that racial and religious tolerance is increasing and anti Semitism

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is declining. The American Jewish Committee reports cited data, for example,

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the American Jewish Committee is actually he's talking about this

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in nineteen ninety two. The American Jewish Committee is the

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committee that commissioned the authoritarian personality the f scale, which

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I've talked about on the show many times. The American

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Jewish Committee reports cited data, for example, which showed that

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in nineteen sixty eight, fifty nine percent of Gallipol respondents

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expressed approval of marriage between Jews and non Jews, while

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in nineteen eighty three seventy seven percent approved, according to

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media reports quote. The study found that anti Jewish attitudes

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are at historic lows. Jews were even perceived in the

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nineteen ninety General Social Survey as leading whites in general,

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Southern Whites, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and blacks in terms

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of who was regarded as harder, working, richer, less prone

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of violence, more self supporting, and more intelligent. I wonder

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how people came to that opinion. I wonder how seventy

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seven percent of the people polled could have came to

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that opinion. It's also interesting that Jews are separated from

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whites here and from Southern whites and everyone else. The

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American Jewish Committee said that the report should come to

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come as a relief to American Jews who fear a

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possible increase in anti Semitism. This was not the first

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time in recent years serious differences over the prevalence of

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antisemitism have emerged among Jewish organizations. In nineteen eighty three,

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the Any Defamation League and the Simon Wisenthal Center were

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at loggerheads over the issue. The ADL reported a fifteen

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percent decline in anti Semitic incidents in nineteen eighty two

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from the previous year, and out of eight hundred and

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twenty nine incidents, only one hundred and ninety seven involved

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vandalism at Jewish synagogues, temples, and community centers. The Weisenthal Center,

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on the other hand, claimed a total of over one

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thousand vandalism cases, asserting, for instance, that in the last

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three years, fifty to seven percent of the synagogues in

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New York had been vandalized. These are not trivial differences.

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In nineteen eighty eight, JJ Goldberg, I'm not sure if

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that's Joanah Goldberg, but I al will say it's not. Maybe.

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Writing in Jewish Week, observed a majority of the Jewish

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community's professional experts insists there is no detectable jump either

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in the rate of anti Semitic acts or in the

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level of anti Jewish feeling among the American population at large.

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Goldberg's article quotes sociologist Stephen M. Cohen. I read something

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by him recently. I can't remember what it is. Is

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who believes that an increase in reporting anti Semitic incidences

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fuels to claim that they are increasing. Cohen says, Jews

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are more sensitive to anti semitism than they've been in

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the past. So one of the reasons we may be

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seeing arise in reports of anti semitism is that local

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people see incidents as anti semitic more readily, and secondly,

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the national media give it more prominence than in the past.

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You have to conclude that to some degree Jews construct antisemitism.

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Five years later, writing in The New Republic. Goldberg said

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that the very definition of antisemitism had been changed by

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some Jewish groups in order to support their agenda. Quoting

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before World War Two, anti Semitism was defined as wanting

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to harm Jews. In the post war era, it was

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broadened to include prejudice that might lead one to wish

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Jews harm. More recently, it comes to mean any stereotype

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or disagreement with the Jewish community. The very term has

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become a weapon now. I think the meme says that

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now anti Semites are somebody that a Jew doesn't like.

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Goldberg commented on the hyping of anti Semitism by Jewish organizations,

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noting that people give money when motivated by fear. What

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I said before, quoting in private, some Jewish agency staffers

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insist the alarmist tone set by a few national Jewish agencies,

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mainly for fundraising purposes, is a key cause of Jewish anxiety. Hmm.

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Fingers point most often at the ADL in the Los

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Angeles based Simon Weisenthal Center, both of which specialize in

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mass mailing's warning of the impact of doom and urging donations.

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Really would like to go back right around this time

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and see what Israel was doing, if Israel was bombing,

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if Israel was having a war with Goza, what they

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because that's when that's when they start reporting that anti

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Semitism is up and hate crimes are up, the thing

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that we've called since October seventh or before that, but

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on a more mass scale than noticing with Twitter and

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social media. I don't know how they get a boy

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it now. A critique of alarmist tactics was circulated by

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the Jewish Telegraph Agency in nineteen ninety three. Deborah Nusbaum Cohen,

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a prominent Jewish journalist, noted that quote, the reality experts

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say is that Jews no longer face serious discrimination in

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American society, not in the community, the workplace, politics, or academia.

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Both American Jews are but American Jews are convinced more

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than ever that anti Semitism remains a serious threat, although

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if you have encountered any real bias themselves, this dilemma,

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miss Cone, is occasioned by the very organizations that promote

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awareness of anti Semitism and solicit funds to combat it.

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With apparent reference to the adl Audit, she says, quoting

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the very lumping together of graffiti and epithets with occasional

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acts of violence in order to emphasize an upward trend

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in anti Semitism may obscure the issue and raise undue alarm.

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Coen quotes a source which she identifies as a senior

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staffer at a mainstream Jewish organization, quoting again, by focusing

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on small and dramatic expressions of anti Semitism, which don't

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mean much, they're sending an alarmist message, which is at

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bottom irresponsible. The ADL's obsession with minuscule American hate groups

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has been noticed abroad as well. In October nineteen ninety one,

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the Jerusalem Post editorialized, quoting disappointingly the American definition the

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Antidefamation League, which used to take firm positions on Israel

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and devote much effort to its causes, now waste energy

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on such marginal phenomena as neo Nazi skinheads, devotes inordinate

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time to aggrandizing its executive director, and goes out of

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its way to ingratiate itself with the US administration and

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the media. Huh. In a perceptive analysis of the hate

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crime controversy appearing in Reason magazine, Associate editor Jacob Sullim,

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He's been around that long, observed that serious problems exist

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in ADL statistics. Quoting a single random event can skew

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the numbers, falsely suggesting an alarming nationwide rise. For example,

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the ADL counted twice as many anti Semitic assaults in

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nineteen ninety one as it did in nineteen ninety, but

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all but a handful of the additional attacks were associated

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with unresting Crown Heights, Brooklyn, following a car accident in

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which a Hasidic Jew killed the black boy. If that

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incident hadn't happened, the number of assaults would have been

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roughly the same. Solom also observes that the statistics constructed

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by the ADL failed to provide a necessary perspective. In

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nineteen ninety, the same year the ADL counted thirty anti

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Semitic assaults, the FBI counted nearly one million arrests for

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assault nationwide. Jews represented about two point represent about two

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point four percent of the population, and let's assume that

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they suffer a proportionate number of assaults. That means that

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every assault motivated by anti semitism Jews experienced roughly eight

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hundred assaults for other reasons, assuming that every assault led

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to an arrest. Faced with growing criticism of his statistics

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from within the Jewish community and without, the ADL commission

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another study to support its agenda. Amazingly, the May nineteen

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ninety two ADL study reported quoting one in five adult

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Americans hold strong prejudicial attitudes against Jews, and anti Semitism

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is most prevalent among blacks and the elderly. According to

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a survey released Monday, overall, twenty percent of Americans in

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the survey fell into the most anti Semitic category. Thirty

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seven percent of blacks were in the category, compared with

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seventeen percent of whites. The study used a series of

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eleven questions to gauge anti Semitism. Included among these were

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Jews stick together more than other Americans. Fifty one percent

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agreed Jews always liked to be at the head of things.

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Thirty nine percent agreed, man a bunch of fascists. How

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could you agree with that? Ugh? The other questions related

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to Jewish loyalty to Israel, Jewish business practices, and Jewish

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power in America, etc. In order to be entirely free

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of antisemitism or respondent could not agree with more could

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not agree with more than one of the eleven questions,

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agreeing with more than six but one in the hardcore

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of haters who are unquestionably anti Semitic. Debry Nus bond

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Cone observed in Jewish Week that the survey question about

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Jews sticking together more than other Americans was quote a

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quality that could be regarded as ambiguous, if not positive,

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by non Jews and Jews alike. The problem is now,

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is that you're a white supremacist if you stick together

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with your people and you're white. But if you notice

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that Jews do that, then you're anti Semitic. Other questions,

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such as the one implying Jewish leadership ability, are equally troublesome.

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This could easily be taken as a compliment. By injecting

473
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,359
these two ambiguous questions into the survey, the ADL survey

474
00:32:44,519 --> 00:32:48,480
seriously fudged the results. A more interesting result might have

475
00:32:48,559 --> 00:32:51,160
been obtained if the questions were posed to an equal

476
00:32:51,279 --> 00:32:57,200
number of Jews. That's that's a good uh, that's a

477
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:01,559
good point. Another critical account of the ADL survey was

478
00:33:01,599 --> 00:33:06,240
penned by Richard Cohen. A lot of Cohen's A Lot

479
00:33:06,279 --> 00:33:12,119
of Kings in the Washington Post magazine. He observed, you

480
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,640
may even want to publicly agree with one of the

481
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,319
statements with which the surveyors caught anti Semites. In the

482
00:33:18,359 --> 00:33:21,799
process of thinking anti semitically, Jews pretty much run the

483
00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:24,559
movie in television industries. I would have said yes to

484
00:33:24,599 --> 00:33:28,599
that myself. Cohen ads that he could cite several books

485
00:33:28,599 --> 00:33:30,559
to back up his position, and that Hollywood has been

486
00:33:30,599 --> 00:33:33,000
dominated by Jews so completely, and their influence in the

487
00:33:33,119 --> 00:33:36,359
entertainment business is so vast that to name them would

488
00:33:36,359 --> 00:33:39,079
take up the remainder of his column. In short, to

489
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:44,039
agree with this statement is simply not evidence of anti Semitism. However,

490
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:50,279
Cohen admonishes, but non Jews know better than the comment

491
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,039
about what is before their very eyes. Should they answer forthrightly,

492
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:59,319
they might be denounced for anti semitism, a very good point.

493
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,279
In fact, in the ADL survey, they were what many

494
00:34:03,319 --> 00:34:06,759
critics have pointed out as a perverse and manipula double

495
00:34:06,799 --> 00:34:13,280
standard in perceptions of anti Semitism is clearly evident new

496
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:17,840
heading hate crime in perspective, the ADL statistics have their

497
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:22,119
problems and similar complications of hate motivated incidents compiled by

498
00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:25,880
other interested parties such as the NAACP and Clan Watch

499
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,639
are also flawed. Perhaps the most glaring flaw in these

500
00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:34,199
statistics is the practice of counting unsolved incidents. Doubtless numerous

501
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:39,320
hoaxes are included among them. Other crime statistics helped to

502
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,800
put these figures in perspective. For example, five hundred and

503
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,840
seventy individuals, mostly young minority males, have died in violent,

504
00:34:47,039 --> 00:34:51,519
often interracial gang warfare in Los Angeles in the twelve

505
00:34:51,519 --> 00:34:55,559
months in nineteen eighty nine. In addition, there were three

506
00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:58,960
thy eight hundred and nineteen gang related reported assaults with

507
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,719
deadly weapons, ninety three rapes, in eight hundred and fifty

508
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:07,000
one robberies. The perpetrators of this year of carnage, which

509
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000
certainly surpasses to death toll from racist and anti Semitic

510
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,679
hate crimes in twentieth century America, have also been mostly

511
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:19,119
young minority males, primarily Hispanics and blacks, and not white racists,

512
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:24,719
Neo Nazis, ku klux klanmen, or skinheads. But of course

513
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,840
when you point that out, they just start making excuses

514
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:32,639
like socio economics, because the white racists and the neo

515
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,159
Nazis and the Ku Klux clan members and the skinheads.

516
00:35:35,519 --> 00:35:39,760
They don't have to deal with socio economics or economics

517
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,880
in general. Apparently everybody who's white is just born rich,

518
00:35:44,639 --> 00:35:50,920
which is never mind. The issue of black gang violence

519
00:35:51,039 --> 00:35:54,679
was graphically illustrated by a thirty second TV commercial commissioned

520
00:35:54,679 --> 00:35:58,320
by the Evanston, Illinois Human Relations Commission in nineteen ninety two.

521
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,199
The commercial began with a shot of a Ku Klux

522
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,719
klansman on the left and a black gang member on

523
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,559
the right, arms crossed and looking defiant. The announcer states,

524
00:36:07,679 --> 00:36:10,400
if they were giving medals for killing black people, the

525
00:36:10,519 --> 00:36:13,639
neo Nazi would win a bronze medal, the KKK member

526
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:18,079
of silver, and the street gang member the gold. At

527
00:36:18,079 --> 00:36:20,559
this point, the following data appears on the screen under

528
00:36:20,559 --> 00:36:26,480
the klansman and the gang member. KKK murdered at least

529
00:36:26,519 --> 00:36:32,280
twenty blacks nineteen sixty to nineteen ninety one. Black gangs

530
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,840
murdered at least thirteen hundred blacks nineteen ninety one alone.

531
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,320
If you're in a gang, you're not a brother, you're

532
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:46,519
a traitor. The black community went ballistic. A public screening

533
00:36:46,559 --> 00:36:50,480
was disrupted by protesters who called it racist. Operation Push

534
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,880
Push executive director Jeanette Wilson said that the ad mistates

535
00:36:54,960 --> 00:37:02,159
the problem the NC Defamation League. The Anti Defamation League

536
00:37:02,159 --> 00:37:05,159
projects a public image of a human rights organization with

537
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,320
a particular interest in the welfare of Jews and opposition

538
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:14,440
to whatever it considers as antisemitism. Established in Chicago in

539
00:37:14,519 --> 00:37:18,280
nineteen thirteen, What happened in nineteen thirteen, What happened in

540
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,840
Atlanta in nineteen thirteen? I think I did three episodes

541
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:26,159
four episodes on that. Established in Chicago in nineteen thirteen

542
00:37:26,199 --> 00:37:29,719
as a subdivision of Bene Brith, a Jewish fraternal order.

543
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,000
The organization has grown by leafs and bounds. I love

544
00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:38,679
how it's a fraternal order and not basically a terrorist organization.

545
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:44,880
That's amazing. Today. The tax exempt organization maintains thirty one

546
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,360
offices nation widen has a budget of thirty four million,

547
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:52,679
oh at over four hundred employees, including an extensive legal staff.

548
00:37:54,079 --> 00:37:55,599
Maybe at the end of this I'll look up and

549
00:37:55,639 --> 00:37:58,039
see what that is now, Oh, it's got to be

550
00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:01,119
got to be good, or maybe I'll have that information

551
00:38:01,199 --> 00:38:05,360
for the U for the next episode. ADL budget and employees.

552
00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:13,480
Oh it's I, oh man, I'm I wouldn't be surprised

553
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:19,599
if it's in the hundreds of millions. Over the decades,

554
00:38:19,639 --> 00:38:22,880
the ADL established a reputation within and without the Jewish

555
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,440
community as a major supporter of civil rights for Jews

556
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,639
and other minorities, a staunch opponent of bigotry and all forms,

557
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,320
a fearless watchdog over racist and anti Semitic groups, and

558
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:36,480
a major educational resource on human rights issues. Little known

559
00:38:36,639 --> 00:38:41,679
was it was its far less less scrupulous espionage, disinformation,

560
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,360
and destabilization operations not only against the on Nazis and

561
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,599
klu klux Klan, but against leftist and progressive groups as well.

562
00:38:50,519 --> 00:38:53,079
The ADL charade came to a halt in January nineteen

563
00:38:53,119 --> 00:38:56,599
ninety three. A rapidly developing investigation by the San Francisco

564
00:38:56,599 --> 00:39:00,400
Police Department into the activities of police intelligence off Officer

565
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,440
Tom Girard produced evidence of an extensive network of illegal

566
00:39:04,519 --> 00:39:10,280
ADL penetration into confidential police files in San Francisco and elsewhere.

567
00:39:11,119 --> 00:39:15,320
The investigation quickly focused on Ray Bullock, a paid ADL

568
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,719
operative and well known figure in the gay community who

569
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,239
had possession of an extensive ADL enemies list of some

570
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:27,079
ten thousand individuals and one thousand organizations. Bullock, who had

571
00:39:27,079 --> 00:39:29,880
worked for the ADL for fully thirty five years and

572
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,960
who was regarded as their top spy, had an illegal

573
00:39:33,039 --> 00:39:37,360
intelligence sharing relationship with Gerard, who regularly stole information from

574
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,280
police files for transmittal to the ADL and in some

575
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:47,519
cases to Israeli intelligence agencies. Through Bullock. Other information developed

576
00:39:47,559 --> 00:39:51,840
that there were Bullock and Girard clones positioned in or

577
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:57,280
close to police departments throughout the country. At the least

578
00:39:58,119 --> 00:40:01,239
they have to be they have to be registered as

579
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:09,039
foreign agents. At the least people make the you know

580
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:14,199
it's anti semitic to make the dual loyalty comment. Okay,

581
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:15,960
then I'm not going to be anti semitic. I'll just

582
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,559
say that they have one loyalty and it's not to

583
00:40:18,599 --> 00:40:24,000
the United States. I mean, how do you read that?

584
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,800
How do you know that that happened, that that was

585
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:33,159
revealed and the ADL is more powerful than ever, That

586
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:37,480
they still exist, that they still operate in this country,

587
00:40:37,519 --> 00:40:42,320
that all of these Jewish groups still operate in this country.

588
00:40:44,599 --> 00:40:47,320
What was striking about the Enemy's list was that most

589
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:51,440
of the individuals and organizations listed were of leftist progressive persuasion.

590
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,159
Given the scarcity of bona fide racist and neo Nazi organizations,

591
00:40:55,199 --> 00:40:57,360
it is not surprising that few of them would be listed.

592
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:01,199
Also not surprising is that many Arab human rights organizations

593
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:05,000
listed were What was shocking was the range of left groups,

594
00:41:05,039 --> 00:41:09,760
which included many organizations included among the ADL's allies. Groups

595
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,519
such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Conference

596
00:41:12,559 --> 00:41:15,559
of Black Lawyers, the Black United Fund, the Center for

597
00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:19,280
Investigative Reporting, the Asian Law Caucus, and the San Francisco

598
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,719
Anti Apartheid Committee were on or on the list. Predictably,

599
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,119
this produced a howl of protests from a sector of

600
00:41:26,119 --> 00:41:28,920
the American political spectrum that might have been expected to

601
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:34,440
condone the ADL's harassment of the far right. Why leftist groups,

602
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,360
particularly human rights groups, for the simple reason that the

603
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,519
ADL fears nothing more than the American civil rights establishment

604
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:47,480
will adopt the Palestinian cause, which in certain respects resembles

605
00:41:47,519 --> 00:41:53,639
the plight of American blacks. Do you understand everything that's

606
00:41:53,679 --> 00:41:58,960
happened since October seven? It's right there. This is the

607
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,800
early nineties, as far as I know, as far as

608
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,360
I can remember from from Israeli history. They're not dropping

609
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:09,679
bombs right now. But this is why they're going after

610
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,920
the left too. This is why they went after the left.

611
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,719
This is why now if you criticize Israel, they call

612
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,079
you a leftist because it's leftists, or because so many

613
00:42:20,159 --> 00:42:23,400
leftist organizations are like, screw Israel. Now, there are a

614
00:42:23,519 --> 00:42:30,679
bunch of psychopaths. And here it is written by a

615
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:35,559
guy who was basically like a new left, was new

616
00:42:35,639 --> 00:42:38,880
left in the in the seventies and doesn't appear to

617
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:44,559
have gone right in his entire life. Some of the tension,

618
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,719
some of the tension existing between Black organizations and the

619
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:56,320
Jewish community centers around this controversy, although ADL disinformation efforts

620
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,039
managed to keep let me read this again, some of

621
00:42:59,079 --> 00:43:02,639
the tension existing between black organizations and the Jewish community

622
00:43:02,639 --> 00:43:07,320
centers around this controversy, although ADL disinformation efforts managed to

623
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,719
either cape it, swept under the rug, or framed in

624
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:14,639
terms of black anti Semitism. Some of the best coverage

625
00:43:14,679 --> 00:43:17,599
of the ADL scandal appeared in the San Francisco Examiner,

626
00:43:18,119 --> 00:43:23,599
where reporters Dennis o'partney and Scott Weineker covered the story

627
00:43:23,599 --> 00:43:27,719
almost daily from its inception. Detailed overviews appeared in April

628
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,239
and May nineteen ninety three, respectively, with George Cothine and

629
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:35,880
Peter Haggerty in the San Francisco Weekly, a San Francisco tabloid,

630
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,039
and by Robert J. Friedman in the New York Weekly

631
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:43,800
The Village Voice. The Village Voice, Cuthine and Haggarty had

632
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,960
this to say, quoting examples abound to the ADL's brazen

633
00:43:48,039 --> 00:43:50,840
invasion into the lives of people who happened to disagree

634
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,639
with its political views. In nineteen eighty three, the group

635
00:43:53,639 --> 00:43:58,599
disseminated a blacklist to Jewish campus leaders around the country

636
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,400
that smeared scores of respected academics and Middle East peace

637
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,800
activists as pro Arab sympathizers and propagandists who use their

638
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,559
anti Zionism as merely a guise for their deeply felt

639
00:44:10,679 --> 00:44:19,360
anti Semitism. This this playbook isn't old. This playbook isn't new.

640
00:44:21,519 --> 00:44:26,159
This is thirty years ago. It's the same thing, which

641
00:44:26,199 --> 00:44:29,880
is probably why it's not working on most people. The

642
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:34,119
only reason it works is because they have power that

643
00:44:34,199 --> 00:44:36,239
has to come to an end. I think a lot

644
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:43,199
of our friends or allies, let's say allies understand this.

645
00:44:44,679 --> 00:44:47,559
The ADL responded to the adverse publicity with an intense

646
00:44:47,599 --> 00:44:51,079
media disinformation campaign. The group claimed that it did nothing

647
00:44:51,119 --> 00:44:54,039
wrong in sharing information of violence prone groups with law

648
00:44:54,079 --> 00:44:59,559
enforcement officials, and that and that it will not count

649
00:44:59,559 --> 00:45:01,440
in as viole relations of the law on the part

650
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:05,280
of anyone connected with the agency. I used to be

651
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:10,639
very anti cop just because I didn't like authority. Now

652
00:45:10,679 --> 00:45:15,559
I'm very anti cop because I'm still anti cop because

653
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:21,400
they they're in service to someone else. They're not in

654
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,679
service to Americans. Not saying your small town cop, your

655
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:30,440
small town sheriff isn't like that. What I'm saying is, look, listen,

656
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,400
this is where power resides. Power doesn't reside in the

657
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:39,400
town I live in. It resides in places that they're

658
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:44,519
describing right here. This was met with healthy skepticism by

659
00:45:44,599 --> 00:45:47,559
virtually all concerned. Robert J. Friedman had this to say

660
00:45:47,559 --> 00:45:51,079
in The Village Voice, quoting that's what the ADL says

661
00:45:51,119 --> 00:45:53,599
for public consumption, but morale is so low that its

662
00:45:53,599 --> 00:45:57,079
employees could complain of sleepless nights and crying fits. And

663
00:45:57,119 --> 00:45:59,639
even as other Jewish groups circle the wagons around the

664
00:45:59,679 --> 00:46:02,800
ADL in a show of solidarity. Many do so, holding

665
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,800
their noses of the jokes right themselves. More than a

666
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,920
few Jewish officials privately say that the ADL has to

667
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,239
decide whether it is a human rights group or a

668
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,559
secret police agency. And I'm saying that what I don't

669
00:46:15,559 --> 00:46:20,440
have the smallest nose in the world. More than a

670
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,639
few Jewish officials privately say the ADL has to decide

671
00:46:23,639 --> 00:46:26,239
whether it's a human rights group or a secret police agency.

672
00:46:27,599 --> 00:46:28,840
I think we know what they are. If you've been

673
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:33,360
paying attention since October seventh, especially or since Kanye started

674
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,559
talking a couple of years ago. I'm not saying Kanye

675
00:46:35,599 --> 00:46:39,920
is a hero. When ADL National Director Abe Foxman went

676
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:43,519
on damage control mission to West Coast news media offices

677
00:46:43,559 --> 00:46:46,960
and Jewish organizations, he attacked critics of the ADL in

678
00:46:47,079 --> 00:46:53,239
characteristic fashion, calling them anti Semitic, undemocratic, and anti American bastards.

679
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,239
The ADL also enjoyed the same relationship it had with

680
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:02,119
American police intelligence officials with Israel spy agencies, the Super

681
00:47:02,159 --> 00:47:05,800
Secret Masad and the shin Bet. The ADL may also

682
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:09,000
have played a role in the Jonathan Pollard case as well.

683
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,320
Pollard and American Jew, was charged in nineteen eighty seven

684
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,320
with stealing thousands of pages of US military secrets and

685
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,679
transmitting them to Israel. According to Friedman, Pollard's handler was

686
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,360
Avi Stella, an Israeli Air Force colonel whose wife worked

687
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,559
for the New York ADL as a lawyer. Pollard later

688
00:47:26,599 --> 00:47:29,800
wrote to friends that a prominent ADL leader was deeply

689
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:36,440
involved in the Israeli spy operation. Donald Trump pardoned him

690
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:41,559
and he flew. When he was released, he flew to

691
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:46,880
Israel on the Adelson private jet, and when he landed

692
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,559
in Israel, he gave an interview telling Jews all over

693
00:47:50,599 --> 00:47:55,840
the world to spy for Israel. Part of the ADL's

694
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,760
legal strategy and the various lawsuits filed against it over

695
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,679
the years, is to claim analistic privilege. The ADL claims

696
00:48:02,679 --> 00:48:05,519
to be a news and information gathering organization, and such

697
00:48:05,599 --> 00:48:08,559
as it is entitled to protection under the shield laws

698
00:48:08,639 --> 00:48:11,039
used to protect the working press from having to reveal

699
00:48:11,079 --> 00:48:14,519
their news sources. In no sense of the word is

700
00:48:14,559 --> 00:48:17,079
the ADL on par with the New York Times or

701
00:48:17,199 --> 00:48:19,760
Time magazine, or is it even vaguely related to the

702
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:28,760
working press. Legally, ideologically, its publications are designed to support

703
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,800
the ideological prerogatives of the organization and its constituency, and

704
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:36,320
not to provide news. In addition, its publishing activities are

705
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,639
only a small part of its overall program, most of

706
00:48:39,679 --> 00:48:43,039
which is public relations and fundraising, along with developing and

707
00:48:43,079 --> 00:48:48,000
maintaining its extensive enemies files. Yet, time after time, judges

708
00:48:48,039 --> 00:48:50,719
have bought this argument, and the ADL has avoided potentially

709
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:55,840
damaging discovery proceedings that would have provided ample ammunition for

710
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,719
both criminal prosecutions and private lawsuits. Such was the case

711
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:03,599
in San Francisco. The evidence that developed against the ADEL

712
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,719
was overwhelming. Not only did their paid agent take part

713
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,840
in stealing police records, a felony, but there were numerous

714
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:13,519
other infractions as well. There was active speculation that felony

715
00:49:13,559 --> 00:49:17,239
indictments against prominent ADL officials would be forthcoming. They were not.

716
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:24,960
Why not consider this, Quoting some close observers, believe that

717
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,639
political pressure will make it impossible to prosecute the respected

718
00:49:28,679 --> 00:49:33,239
Jewish organization. Mark my words, this is going to be obtuscated, obliterated,

719
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,480
said one veteran inspector. It's going to be a classic

720
00:49:36,519 --> 00:49:39,159
study in how things get covered up. You don't do

721
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,920
Jewish people in San France. You don't do Jewish people

722
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,119
in San Francisco. It's not PC, especially when you have

723
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two US Senators who were Jewish, Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein,

724
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,599
and the city's Chief of Protocol Dick Goldman, a prominent

725
00:49:52,639 --> 00:49:57,519
fundraiser in the Jewish community. The inspector was prophetic. The

726
00:49:57,559 --> 00:50:00,679
ADL and its spy Roy Bollock were dropped from the

727
00:50:01,159 --> 00:50:04,719
or dropped from the criminal investigation, leaving only Tom Girard,

728
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,599
against whom prosecution would be very difficult. In December nineteen

729
00:50:08,639 --> 00:50:11,440
ninety three, the San Francisco District Attorney reached a settlement

730
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,280
with the ADL. The ADL agreed to pay seventy five

731
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,800
thousand dollars to fight hate groups, and it surrendered documents

732
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,920
on some fourteen hundred groups and individuals it had illegally

733
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,760
obtained a mere slap on the wrist. Although the ADL

734
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,480
is apparently off the hook in the case, the damage

735
00:50:28,519 --> 00:50:32,400
done to its carefully crafted reputation poses a major challenge

736
00:50:32,559 --> 00:50:36,599
to its staff of disinformation specialists and spin doctors. This

737
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,280
was the organization's closest call, yet very likely there will

738
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:47,440
be more to come. I'm sorry, mister Laird, Sorry, mister Wilcox,

739
00:50:48,039 --> 00:50:54,639
didn't Nope, now yet, we shall see the ADL and

740
00:50:54,679 --> 00:50:58,320
the FBI. The history of the ADL's relationship with government agencies,

741
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:02,119
including the Federal Bureau Investige, has yet to be written. However,

742
00:51:02,119 --> 00:51:04,760
in working through a large stack of FBI documents obtained

743
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,679
under the Freedom of Information Act, it becomes clear that

744
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:11,840
the organization has labored hard and long to ingratiate itself

745
00:51:12,039 --> 00:51:15,400
to federal law enforcement authorities, ostensibly as experts on their

746
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:19,719
own enemies. Until the Reagan administration, the FBI kept the

747
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:24,679
ADL at an arms length, although they readily accepted ADL

748
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,840
information in the same manner that they do from a

749
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,880
wide range of informants. Under J. Edgar Hoover, the Bureau

750
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:32,480
was particularly reluctant to get into any kind of cooperating

751
00:51:32,559 --> 00:51:36,519
arrangements with the ADL. Hoover, for example, repeatedly declined offers

752
00:51:36,559 --> 00:51:39,800
to address ADL banquets, realizing that his presence would be

753
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,800
a propaganda coup for an organization he and his agents

754
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:47,880
didn't entirely trust, well, probably considering that they had dirt

755
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:53,760
on him. Yeah, well, sure, A letter dated January fourth,

756
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:57,519
nineteen sixty six, to Dori Shari, national a chairman of

757
00:51:57,559 --> 00:52:00,559
the ADL, in which Hoover declined at then set an

758
00:52:00,559 --> 00:52:04,440
ADL dinner for Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, who

759
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:10,000
had not yet resigned for various improprieties. A note is

760
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:15,239
appended which reads, note mister Shari is a Hollywood producer

761
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,840
who is well known to the Bureau. He has never

762
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:22,039
been investigated by Bureau. File by Bureau flyles reflect that

763
00:52:22,079 --> 00:52:24,519
he has been a member or sponsor, or contributed to,

764
00:52:25,039 --> 00:52:26,960
or was in other ways affiliated with a number of

765
00:52:27,039 --> 00:52:32,000
organizations cited as CP Communist Party, could be something else,

766
00:52:32,599 --> 00:52:37,440
front groups, CP front groups, or which have been designated

767
00:52:37,519 --> 00:52:40,679
as subversive pursuant to Executive Order one oh four to

768
00:52:40,679 --> 00:52:44,199
five zero. The reason for this distrust, aside from the

769
00:52:44,199 --> 00:52:48,320
blatantly extremist background of certain ADL leaders, was to sheer

770
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:52,960
opportunism evident in ADL tactics to compromise the independence of

771
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,480
the Bureau, and also in the shoddy quality of some

772
00:52:55,599 --> 00:52:59,639
ADL investigative work on its enemies, including blatant lawes and

773
00:52:59,679 --> 00:53:05,480
mis representations. An internal FBI memorandum dated August August twelfth,

774
00:53:05,559 --> 00:53:09,639
nineteen sixty five from Assistant Director William Sullivan to R. W.

775
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,480
Smith made reference to an ADL pamphlet on the ku

776
00:53:12,559 --> 00:53:18,199
Klux Klan. Sullivan notes, quoting, it is stated on page

777
00:53:18,199 --> 00:53:20,679
six that a Klan plot to assassinate Martin Luther King

778
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:23,480
early in nineteen sixty five leaked out and the FBI

779
00:53:23,519 --> 00:53:26,360
and other law enforcement authorities threw a heavy guard around him.

780
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:31,000
This is not true. The pamphlet erroneously lists James Venables's

781
00:53:31,199 --> 00:53:33,719
National Knights of the ku Klux Klan as the second

782
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,440
most important group, having the support of seven thousand to

783
00:53:36,519 --> 00:53:40,559
nine thousand. Originally formed by Venable to bring a number

784
00:53:40,599 --> 00:53:44,239
of small clans into one organization, the National Knights of

785
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:48,280
the ku Klux Klan has not realized its goal. A

786
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:52,239
year later, FBI documents referred to another erroneous ADL report,

787
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:55,119
this fudging the strength of the Ku Klux Klan by

788
00:53:55,159 --> 00:53:58,360
some two hundred percent, which the ADL claim was that

789
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:02,199
about twenty nine thousand, five hundred. The ADL also claimed

790
00:54:02,199 --> 00:54:04,400
in a September nineteen sixty six statement in The New

791
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,519
York Times a KKK membership had increased by ten thousand

792
00:54:07,639 --> 00:54:10,440
since the first of the year. This was a fantastic

793
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:15,119
over estimate of KKK strength, a typical ADL tactic. According

794
00:54:15,119 --> 00:54:18,440
to the FBI memorandum, while the Klan quoting, while the

795
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:22,039
Klan has made organizational efforts in the North and mid Middlewest,

796
00:54:22,519 --> 00:54:25,079
they have met with little success. There has been no

797
00:54:25,159 --> 00:54:28,239
indication that clan membership has grown to ten thousand since

798
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:30,800
the first of the year. The present clan membership is

799
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:36,840
between fourteen and fifteen thousand members. Perhaps most significantly, however,

800
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,880
the nineteen sixty six FBI memorandum contained the following, which

801
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:45,960
is transparently evident to objective observers. Quoting, the Anti Defamation

802
00:54:46,039 --> 00:54:49,960
League has vested interest in discovering and exposing anti Semitic

803
00:54:50,079 --> 00:54:54,000
organizations such as the Clan and other hate groups. Indeed,

804
00:54:54,039 --> 00:54:57,760
the ADL actually needs groups like the KKK and various

805
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:02,440
minuscule Neo Nazi organizations. When the last Klansmen in the

806
00:55:02,519 --> 00:55:06,159
last Neo knots turns out the lights and locks the doors,

807
00:55:06,519 --> 00:55:10,159
either the ADL cooks up and cooks up an acceptable substitute,

808
00:55:10,519 --> 00:55:13,239
or it goes the same way. Small wonder the ADL

809
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,880
is so frequently accused of puffery and exaggeration abs in

810
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:19,719
a scary looking threat, the ADL finds its reason for

811
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:25,639
existence dramatically diminished. This peculiar symbiotic relationship between extremist groups

812
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:29,559
and the counter extremist counter extremist groups that hate them

813
00:55:30,039 --> 00:55:33,760
is well established. Faced with problems like these. Throughout the

814
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,559
nineteen sixties and most of the nineteen seventies, the FBI

815
00:55:36,639 --> 00:55:41,079
practiced a healthy skepticism about ADL information. It seemed clear

816
00:55:41,119 --> 00:55:44,039
that there was nothing the organization would like better than

817
00:55:44,079 --> 00:55:47,760
to have premier federal law enforcement agency become their enforcement arm.

818
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:52,800
It wasn't until Judge William Webster became FBI Director in

819
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,840
nineteen seventy eight that the agency bowed to political pressures

820
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:59,559
from the White House and elsewhere and significantly stepped significantly

821
00:55:59,599 --> 00:56:03,400
stepped up its informal intelligence sharing operation with the ADL.

822
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:09,719
Cooperation between the ADL and the FBI increased enormously under

823
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:12,719
President Reagan in nineteen eighty one, and became formal with

824
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,639
the issuance of a nineteen eighty five memo requiring all

825
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:21,400
FBI field offices to develop formal liaison with some thirty

826
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,559
ADL field offices around the nation. Let me read that again.

827
00:56:27,559 --> 00:56:30,800
Cooperation between the ADL and the FBI increased enormously under

828
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:34,159
President Reagan in nineteen eighty one, and became formal with

829
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:37,480
the issuance of a nineteen eighty five memo requiring all

830
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:41,840
FBI field offices to develop formal liaison with some thirty

831
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,280
eight L field offices around the nation. This memo remained

832
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,599
secret until it was uncovered in nineteen ninety in a

833
00:56:47,639 --> 00:56:51,880
foyer request to an FBI field office in Minnesota, where

834
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:57,360
it was released to a journalist by mistake. So it

835
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:04,480
was hidden. A foyer request by the FBI brought it out,

836
00:57:05,039 --> 00:57:08,880
and then it was released by mistake or somebody who

837
00:57:11,199 --> 00:57:16,000
somebody in that FBI field office. Yeah, yeah, I know

838
00:57:16,039 --> 00:57:18,760
what you're thinking. You're thinking the same thing I am.

839
00:57:19,199 --> 00:57:22,360
The memo directed to the Special Agent in Charge SAC

840
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:26,119
of twenty four FBI field offices. The companies two ADL

841
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:31,119
publications to review and instructs each SAC to contact each

842
00:57:31,239 --> 00:57:35,519
ADL regional office to establish a liaison and line of communication.

843
00:57:36,039 --> 00:57:39,320
One of the publications in question was the ADL's controversial

844
00:57:39,719 --> 00:57:43,800
nineteen eighty four Hate Groups in America. I'm gonna stop

845
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:48,079
right there. We'll pick it up later. There are ads

846
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847
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848
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849
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,639
You get an RSS feed. Gum Road you can play

850
00:58:00,719 --> 00:58:04,800
right on play right on their website. I'm pretty sure

851
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,960
even with the phone off. Get it through my website

852
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:11,039
where you get the file and what's the other one?

853
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,360
What's the other one? Can remember? Subscribe star where you

854
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:18,920
get the file. All right, that's it. I hope you're

855
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:22,599
I hope you're intrigued by this. There will be a

856
00:58:22,599 --> 00:58:26,000
lot more and yeah, I look forward to this. Take

857
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:27,920
care everybody, see ye right,