100+ organizations have joined the call to #DropTheADL. The campaign urges groups to rethink their relationship w/the Anti-Defamation League, which has a long history of spying on Black, Palestinian, & left-wing activists and undermining the rights of marginalized communities.
As early as the 1930s, the ADL spied on movement organizations, feeding information to the FBI. This surveillance continued for decades and targeted the Black freedom movement, activists against South African apartheid, Palestinian activists, and others.
In 1993, the San Francisco District Attorney investigated the ADL and found that an ADL-hired agent had been spying on and infiltrating movement organizations in seven different cities. Over 10,000 activists and 700 organizations were targeted. latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
The ADL agent reportedly received stolen police files and collected information on various Black, anti-apartheid, Arab, and pro-Palestinian groups. droptheadl.org/the-adl-is-not…
Today, the ADL partners with law enforcement as part of what @jvplive calls a “deadly exchange” program in which U.S. police go to Israel to train w/occupation forces, promoting repressive & discriminatory policing & surveillance practices. deadlyexchange.org
The ADL is no civil rights organization. It contributes to campus repression, Islamophobia, regressive narratives, and racism. That’s why many groups say it’s time to #DropTheADL. More resources can be found on the campaign website below droptheadl.org/resources/
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