The New York Times, a propaganda arm of the power elites, accused Elon Musk of antisemitism because he told the truth about the Anti-Defamation League, or the ADL. On Monday, the Times published a guest essay by David Austin Walsh titled “Elon Musk Has Crossed a Line.” Walsh wrote, “In an outburst on his platform on Monday, Mr. Musk claimed — without presenting any evidence — that ad revenues on Twitter are down 60 percent ‘primarily due to pressure on advertisers by the ADL.’… The problem, according to Mr. Musk, is the Jews.”
This is incendiary and false commentary.
On Sept. 4, Musk did tweet that X advertising revenue was down 60 percent ”primarily due to pressure on advertisers by @ADL.” Two days later, he retweeted a post by the ADL showing that the “Jewish advocacy” group did tell potential advertisers not to spend money with X because “we are profoundly concerned about antisemitism and hate on the platform.”
Mr. Walsh may want to brush up on his research skills — and for that matter, on his critical thinking abilities. His accusation is an absurd perversion of reason.
Even Jewish voices have said the ADL’s only concern is radical politics and not the Jewish community. In August of 2020, the Jewish magazine Tablet published a piece titled “The Mind-Bendingly Insane, Completely Craven, Utterly Unconscionable Redemption of Al Sharpton” in which the author accuses the ADL of choosing “faddish politics” over the safety of Jews. The article documents how the ADL lied when they said that anti-Jewish violence spiked in 2017 by 57 percent. Once an accurate methodology was applied, the truth turned out to be very different: Attacks against Jews actually decreased by 47 percent that year.
Last month, Newsweek published an opinion piece by Orthodox Jew Ron Coleman titled “The ADL Has Lost Its Way. Elon Musk Is Right to Stand Up to Its Censorship.” Coleman wrote that the ADL “has become part of a great online censorship machine that is being exposed day after day as an anti-free speech enterprise. The national ADL … is now merely a tax-exempt cadre of the national Democratic Party.” Furthermore, he wrote, “Anyone paying any kind of attention knows this. And as the Democratic Party has moved further into the fringes of Left-wing lunacy, the ADL has moved with it—whether a Jewish ‘antidefamation’ issue is at stake or not. The party requires it.”
Here at The New American, we disagree. The ADL hasn’t lost its way. It has always served as a censorship arm of the Uniparty, one that conceals its true agenda behind a phony façade as an “advocacy group.” Furthermore, the ADL is actually an organization whose business is exactly what it purports to be against: It is an organization dedicated to defamation.
In 2000, David Eisenberg reported for The New American magazine that in April of that year, a jury found that the ADL had publicly defamed a Colorado couple when it falsely accused them of mounting an antisemitic campaign. The couple, William and Dorothy Quigley, was awarded $10.5 million in damages.
Eisenberg, a Jewish member of The John Birch Society, also mentioned how the ADL falsely accused the JBS of being antisemitic, going back to its 1967 report called “The Radical Right: Report on the John Birch Society and Its Allies.” But it turns out that the ADL did more than lie about the JBS. Earlier this year, author and left-wing historian Matthew Dallek, who wrote the book Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right, said the ADL went so far as to physically infiltrate the Society. Back in May, NPR’s Terry Gross asked Dallek how exactly the ADL infiltrated the JBS. Dallek said:
The agents had – there were agents. They had codenames – Bos No. 2, Bos No. 4, short for Boston. I don’t know their real names. Some of them – one of them pretended to be a chapter leader from New Jersey who was just in town visiting headquarters to pick up literature. Other times, they were interested in joining the society. Some posed as white supremacists or as out-and-out racists. So, you know, really, it ran the gamut.
Despite what the ADL and its cohorts in the Deep State-controlled mainstream propaganda machine say about the JBS, it was never an antisemitic organization. Antisemitism is a collectivist element. It dehumanizes people by putting them into groups. This is what the Left does. That’s why they’re mindlessly obsessed with groups. Antisemitism, like all other forms of bigotry, is anathema to the core values of the Society. Birchers are individualists. Birchers believe that people should be judged by their actions, not by the color of their skin, their race, or who they’re related to. The antisemitic accusation was dispelled long ago. A 1963 report on the JBS by the California Senate Fact-Finding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities affirmed that the Society wasn’t bigoted or anti-American. In fact, the investigation noted, the Society had had Jewish and black members going all the way back to its early years.
The reason the ADL attacked the JBS could be the same reason it is attacking Musk. Someone of Musk’s stature having sympathy for “conspiracy theories” is unacceptable.
On May 16, CNBC’s David Faber asked Musk about his belief in conspiracy theories. “I mean, you do some tweets that seem to be or at least give support to some … conspiracy theories,” Faber said.
Musk replied, “Well, yes, but I mean, honestly, you know, some of these conspiracy theories have turned out to be true.”
Which ones? Faber asked.
Musk said the Hunter Biden laptop conspiracy theory was right. Faber agreed. Musk also mentioned the government-induced suppression of online speech at Twitter. And then — this is the part that really got him in trouble — he said that George Soros hated humanity and he wanted to erode the very fabric of society, which is true. Soros is supposed to be untouchable. There’s a pile of articles in online circulation that essentially say people who believe Soros is a malign force are antisemitic. This is nonsense. Jewish or not, Soros has been working to destroy the fabric of Western civilization for quite some time. He is a cancer on humanity.
Musk has also become somewhat chummy with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who, despite some of his positions on the environment and affirmative action, is one of the most red-pilled public figures.
Are the attacks on Musk from the Deep State-controlled media an indication that he is not on the side of the international power elite?
This article is taken from the Sept. 14, 2023 episode of The New American TV. Watch it HERE. You can learn more about The John Birch Society with this FREE e-booklet.
