JVP has put out this call to its supporters:
The largest labor union in the U.S. just voted to cut all ties with the ADL. Let them know we have their back.
The 3 million-member National Education Association voted on July 6 to cut all ties with the ADL, stating that it “is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”
The NEA delegation cited the ADL's history of:
- Smearing advocates for Palestinian rights
- Purposely conflating anti-Zionism and antisemitism
- Attacking anti-racist organizing, including the Black Lives Matter and South African anti-apartheid movements.
“Allowing the ADL to determine what constitutes antisemitism would be like allowing the fossil fuel industry to determine what constitutes climate change,” said one NEA delegate.
The ADL only pretends to be a civil rights organization. In reality, it operates as a pro-Israel lobbying group, focused on co-opting and abusing accusations of antisemitism to smear criticism of the Israeli government as bigotry.
Email the NEA now to thank them for taking this historic step.
Here's where you can add your message: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/support-the-neas-decision-to-cut-ties-with-the-adl/
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