Lefties loved the Anti-Defamation League as long as it focused on supporting trans rights, fighting Islamophobia and advocating for “undocumented” immigrants, but the minute it returned to its original purpose — combatting antisemitism — it became their new enemy No. 1.
After Zohran Mamdani’s big win Tuesday, the ADL announced it’s starting a “Mamdani Monitor” to hold the mayor-elect and his administration “accountable,” given his “long, disturbing record” on issues of concern to Jewish New Yorkers.
Progressives exploded with outrage.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations called the “special monitor” a “hypocritical act of anti-Muslim bigotry . . . unhinged, desperate,” and that it was uniquely established to “harass” Mamdani.
Ha! CAIR runs its own “Monitoring and Combating Islamophobia” project, with files on dozens of supposedly Muslim-hating organizations, politicians, journalists and advocates — including the late Charlie Kirk.
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Top local progressive honcho and Mamdani adviser Patrick Gaspard posted on X, “This is gross . . . Just gross.”
Others just called the ADL “fascist.”
In other words, the ADL never won a bit of lasting love for abandoning its mission to curry favor with the social-justice warriors.
In October, as the FBI broke its long ties to the ADL, bureau chief Kash Patel called it a “political front masquerading as a watchdog” — perhaps thinking of how the ADL (like CAIR) included the extremely pro-Israel Charlie Kirk in its database on extremism.
It’s good to see the ADL returning to its actual purpose: It’s certainly right about the need to keep a close eye on the Mamdani administration.
Maybe if the Anti-Defamation League sticks to its knitting and keeps its eye on the recent explosion of antisemitism — from the right and left — it will gradually win back the credibility it’s been squandering.