How the ADL Controls its Opposition

How the Anti-Defamation League Controls its Opposition
Case History: 2004 Duke University Palestine Solidarity Conference
By Charles E. Carlson

The Anti-Defamation League is one of the most aggressive protectors
of Jewish and Israeli interests. Its name is an oxymoron, for the
ADL does its work almost exclusively through the practice of
defamation and intimidation. Oddly, its seems bent on protecting
tens of millions of professing Christians from finding out that they
are actually practicing secular Judaism, or Pharisaism, as Christ
called it. They irrationally support Israel's occupation and prison
wall agenda in Palestine. We Hold These Truths and this writer have
recently found ourselves a front row center target of an Anti-
Defamation League attack. (Link1) It defamed us to obscure our
message from the students, why Judaized Christians are Israel's most
radical cheerleaders.

"Christian Zionism" (Judaized Christianity) was to be one of the
workshop offerings at the Palestine Solidarity Movement Conference at
Duke University, and this writer was asked to be a primary
presenter. But a week before the conference was to take place, the
ADL became involved, whereupon the student leaders removed "Christian
Zionism" from the agenda and withdrew their invitation for Carlson to
participate in the conference.

There is evidence that the ADL manipulated and probably intimidated
the student committees through the Anti-Racist-Action Network (ARA)
to remove the one topic that would expose Judaized Christianity, the
ADL's primary sacred cow, and the handmaiden of world Zionism.
WHTT's program reveals how self-defeating it is for professing
Christians to carry out world Zionist aims. This is a good reason
for the ADL not to like it.

The purpose of this paper is to help our friends learn how to
identify their allies and keep others at arm's length. It is an
object lesson for Palestinians and indeed for all Muslims, and for
anyone else who considers it a moral imperative to save the lives of
the remaining Philistines, and tear down the obscene wall, paid for
with our own money. Your author is a friend of the Philistines, the
truly pro-Palestine students, and Duke University, because all are
the underdogs, and all need our support. This paper is not a
criticism of any of these parties or their efforts.

In order to remove Christian Zionism as a workshop topic, the ADL
chose to defame We Hold These Truths and its founder. It is no
surprise to be targeted by the Anti-Defamation League; in fact, we're
surprised it took them so long to put WHTT on their front page. The
ADL has mentioned us on its website from time to time; the last time
was when we wrote in support of Mel Gibson's film, "The Passion."
ADL President Abe Foxman used to be on our weekly mailing list (we do
not know how he got there), but he removed himself some months ago,
we are sorry to say.

This writer's first experience with the ADL came almost six years
ago. It proved to be a height of arrogance I had not seen before in
my years.

I was seated at the head table at a small luncheon and could not help
but notice a man across from me, who, during most of the speech,
ignored the speaker and even his own lunch, while reading from one of
several Journals I had written. He read intently with undisguised
signs of agitation. I learned from others he was a local lawyer who
had signed in under the name of Friedman.

A few nights later, to my surprise, the same Friedman called me at
home and introduced himself, explaining he was a volunteer for a
national organization whose task it was to watch over the actions of
a list of organizations that included newly formed We Hold These
Truths. Friedman identified Grand Canyon University as another of
the organizations he monitored, and over which he said, proudly, he
had considerable influence, even though he was a Jew and they were a
Baptist college. Friedman then referred to my various articles
featured in the Journals he had digested and made this amazing
statement that I could never forget:

"We can not allow you to continue to print this kind of thing."

Friedman was talking about hard copy articles, all of which are still
available today on our website. In them, I had written critically
about those who are now called "Christian Zionists" (a term that did
not exist then), and U S Foreign aid to Israel. One was entitled
Using Christians to Make War. Another was The Warmakers' Attack on
Religious Fundamentalism ("Warmakers" being a synonym then for what
are today's Neo-Cons). Others were America's First War of Aggression
(Iraq 1991), Missionaries, Mercenaries, Missiles and Money, the
Untold Story of the War on the Children of Sudan, and One Nation
Under Israel, an exposé of Israeli influence over our Congress.

Friedman's words made it clear that by "we," he meant the unnamed
organization that I learned the next day was the Anti-Defamation
League, and that his manner meant he considered it within his power
to prevent me from writing, though he never suggested how. He seemed
to fully expect me to comply with his suggestion, and repeated more
than once, "We can not allow you to continue to print this kind of
thing."

I offered to make factual corrections of any untrue statements Mr.
Friedman or his organization could find but told him I did not feel
like giving up my work, as he suggested. Mr. Friedman responded that
they had no interest in editing my work. He even called a second
time, again at night, to see if I had changed my mind. This is
terrorism, ADL style. Surveillance and confrontation followed by
veiled intimidation, is how it starts.

The ADL's audacious demand elevated the value of my work in my own
eyes, and Mr. Friedman's arrogance convinced me I would need a new
media to distribute any ideas worth their salt. Our Board decided a
printed journal could not go far enough, due to established censors
like the ADL and the controlled press. Instead, WHTT began to reach
out on the infant Internet, which we have used ever since.

Looking back at my first writings, I can see why the ADL operative
might want to censor titles like The Warmaker's Attack on Religious
Fundamentalism and Attacking Islam. While these said little directly
about Israel or Jews or Zionists, much was said about Judaized
Christians. These articles began an exposure of Israel's surrogate
Enablers--the Judaized Christian Church--who supported and made
possible the implementation of Israel's entire public policy.

Sadly, the students at Duke allowed their program to be diluted.
This became inevitable when they first allowed Jewish anti-Zionist
members into their decision-making committees; no doubt they did so
to avoid the label "anti-Semitic" and to add respectability. It is a
formula that usually backfires.

The ADL has also defamed the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM)
members, who it manipulated into transforming their conference into a
seminar on "divesture." In a future issue we will discuss divesture
as a winning or losing tactic. However divesture is a financial
solution to a moral problem, therefore it has limited value. Not
everyone with moral values has money to withdraw from Israel. Israel
will obtain its entire budget to build a $9 billion prison wall
around the West Bank Palestinians from the American taxpayer, via the
Bush Administration in just one year. This is the money that must be
divested, and everyone has an interest in it. The Judaized Christian
vote keeps Israel afloat.

We applaud and support the few mainline churches including the
Presbyterians (PCUSA) who have denounced Israeli treatment of the
Palestinians. Theirs is a giant and courageous step forward in the
name of Christian values. The Anti Defamation League is cranking up
the pressure on the PCUSA in response. National Director Abraham
Foxman went into orbit when on October 21, 2004, the Presbyterian
leaders listened to Hizbullah's side of the story in Palestine. This
is exactly what Christians should do, seek the truth and hear all
sides. But The ADL is attempting to paint the PCUSA as "terrorist"
sympathizers because they talked to Palestinian resistance leaders.
Again, we see the ADL tactics repeated. (link2)

The ADL used its well-known system of observe, infiltrate, and
intimidate, and finally divide and control. The students yielded to
the ADL's smear of Carlson. PSM affiliates were also responding to
pressure from a second radical "anti-racist" group known for its
violence--Anti-Racist Action--a member of the PSM. (link 3) The ARA
repeated almost the exact words the ADL in denouncing this writer,
and the students accepted its judgment.

When one considers Mr. Friedman's boldness and understands that
intimidation and defamation are the ADL's methods of preventing any
speech that is negative toward Jews, Israel, or Zionism, or any of
their allies, however truthful it might be, then it is not hard to
see why 21-year old students--especially Arab students, might yield
to pressure from the likes of Mr. Friedman and his Anti-Defamation
League. These students are already profiled as likely or potential
terrorists and have reason to fear based on what they have seen and
heard.

Not only did the Palestine Solidarity Movement withdraw their
invitation to Carlson... they removed entirely the most important
agenda item on their schedule--Christian Zionism. Unless one
understands Christian Zionism, there is no way to understand the
power structure that has made and will continue to make life and
peace for the Palestinians impossible. Without understanding it, it
will not be changed, which is what the ADL wants.

STUDENTS ARE DISCREDITED BY ADL
As soon as the student leaders helped discredit Carlson they found
themselves examined by the ADL for signs of "terrorists." In an
article entitled Duke University: Next Target of Anti-Israel
Activists,(Link 1) the ADL profiled each Arab leader of PSM, quoting
minutiae from their own writings, shaded in terrorist tones. Groping
for anything, they even quoted from letters to the editor. One
dangerous "anti-Zionist" Jewish student gained his stripes by
throwing a pie at an Israeli leader.

Curiously, the same article failed to quote a single word from
WHTT.org or Carlson. You would think we had never written anything!
The WHTT website contains over 100 articles by Carlson, with no less
than 21 specifically referencing the Anti-Defamation League and many
more making references to Israel and Zionism. There is even a four-
part series on the so-called suicide bombings! Surely the ADL could
have found something there to quote from the WHTT.org website. As
Mr. Freidman let me know years before, the ADL does not want people
to go there. Here are some of the ADL denunciations in its
statements on October 5th:

"Charles E. Carlson, co-founder of We Hold These Truths, an Arizona-
based, conspiracy-oriented anti-Semitic group"

"Carlson's group also arranges anti-Israel protests and
demonstrations in the Southwest."
(Project Strait Gate is a mission activity that holds vigils for
peace at some of the largest Judaized Christian churches and meetings
from coast to coast, which the ADL could have pointed out, is
detailed on the WHTT website...but they didn't.)

"[Carlson] has spoken at white supremacist gatherings organized by
groups ranging from the neo-Nazi National Alliance to the Holocaust-
denying Institute for Historical Review."

The ADL made no mention of what Carlson said at these alleged
gatherings. The Institute for Historical Review posted Carlson's
speech for anyone who wants to listen to it. Surely if this speech
was such a crime, the ADL should have been able to find something
juicy to quote from it. But no, they didn't quote a phrase. That
speech contains the same material to be presented at the Duke
seminar. (Link 4)

The students, especially the Palestinians probably knew enough not to
be influenced by the ADL. I suspect they were influenced instead by
the two Jewish "anti-Zionists" on their Board. It is one thing for
Jewish students to resist the wanton killing of Palestinians and it
is another to defy the Rabbi or the ADL.

To further discredit the students and Duke University, on October 12
the Israeli "Hate BUS 19" (link 5) was driven onto the Duke campus
and parked in front of the University Chapel. The purpose of this
bombed-out hideously decorated gift from Israel is to graphically
portray every Palestinian who resists Israel as a maniacal advocate
of child-killing. Anti-Palestinian organizers then brought on Neo-
Con Daniel Pipes to further discredit the Palestinians in a story
entitled Duke University's Weekend Hate Fest. (link6)

LESSON FOR SURVIVAL
American Palestinians and all Muslims need to learn to identify their
friends from their enemies based on logical objectives and moral
values. Jesus was referring to Pharisee leaders when he warned, "be
not unequally yoked with disbelievers." Until Palestinians learn
this lesson, their people will perish by American-made weapons.

We remind anyone who is foolish enough to judge WHTT based on who we
talk to instead of what we say, that Jesus was twice recorded giving
major lectures to prostitutes. WHTT is a group of mostly Christ
followers that has a message for everyone, especially non-
Christians. Time and money permitting, we talk to any organization
that gives us a fair audience. The "notorious" Institute of
Historical Review was quite constructive to this speaker, and most
listeners seemed to absorb every word. Several ended up helping us.
I am grateful that they recorded my speech because it exposes the ADL
for what it is--a practicing word-terrorist group that resorts to
lies and intimidation to advance its plot to liquidate Palestinians
and any other group that stands in their way.

The students sadly have no idea what it means to allow the ADL axis
to dictate who can and who cannot speak to their group. They fail to
realize the anti-skinhead, Anti-Racist-Action Network, which talks
and acts like Bolsheviks, is closer to the ADL than it is to
themselves. The PSM has its "Mr. Friedman" inside their group,
planted there to wreck its agenda. American Palestinians need to
know this.

WHAT WHTT IS DOING TO HELP
Many have sent letters to the students trying to warn them. I will
be posting some of these wonderful and insightful letters, which
should be helpful to the PSM.

We have e-mailed our report, Israeli Hate-Bus Tours Churches, which
we have studied in detail, to 9000 Duke University students and
faculty, local pastors, religious leaders, media and others in
Durham, NC. All the addresses were collected by volunteers.

A follow up broadcast will be made of the article Judeo-Christians'
Role--Mr. Sharon's Final Solution. (link 5) Later we will send this
article and others about Judaized Christianity (one at a time) to
many additional leaders worldwide.

We have decided to make a Power Point presentation over the
Internet. The Source of our War Problems: Why Judaized Christians
Cannot Demand Peace, will soon be available to anyone worldwide who
want to see it. A year old version of "Chuck's Speech" can be heard
in audio on our homepage.

Our efforts have been made possible by individual gifts. We thank
those who have helped. Let us know if you can help with money or
work. Cash is faster; labor is more permanent; we need both, and
will use them well.

(links to articles on http://www.whtt.org)

Duke University: Next Target of Anti-Israel Activists
Church group meets Hizbullah
Anti-Racist-Action Network (ARA)
Carlson audio on Judaized Christianity
Israeli Hate-Bus Tours Churches (
Judeo-Christians' Role--Mr. Sharon's Final Solution

For detailed information on how AIPAC goes about influencing our
congress see "One Nation Under Israel." Chapter 10 has a character
study of terrorist now President, Ariel Sharon. Then President
George Herbert Walker Bush admitted in a media interview in 1991 that
he had been virtually blackmailed to grant a $10 billion dollar loan
guaranty to the State of Israel, compliments of the American
taxpayers. He described his contact as an agent of "AIPAC... a very a
very strong Jewish lobby", ... Mr. Bush later approved the loan
without objection from Congress.
http://www.whtt.org/articles/onui.htm.

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