What was awful about Abraham Foxman

The former left-wing head of the shoddy ADL has passed on, and Liz Berney's telling what was wrong with his conduct, which unshockingly sold out to Islam, in example:

When I heard of former ADL (Anti-Defamation League) National Director Abe Foxman’s passing, I initially thought: this is a time to mourn. It seemed pointless and inappropriate to bring up the damage he caused to important efforts to combat Jew-hatred and Israel-hatred.

But a few days later, I received a mass email from The Focus Project (a group that ADL is a major member of) calling for “emulating” Mr. Foxman, including Foxman’s public opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addressing Congress in March 2015; and Foxman’s condemnation of President Trump’s 2024 Madison Square Garden rally. That email changed the calculus. Mourn, yes. But it is immoral to remain silent about those actions that we must not emulate going forward, when certain groups say that we must emulate them. I’ll start the below list of “what not to emulate” with the two items mentioned in The Focus Project mass email.

Foxman posted that the Trump rally used “ugly hateful words against Jews and other minorities” like those that led to “the gas chambers in Auschwitz,” and demanded condemnation of the rally’s “blatant words of hate ,racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny” [sic] But Foxman cited no actual hateful words spoken at the rally. Nor could he. The rally was pro-Israel, with Jews openly wearing kippahs and waving Israeli flags. The crowd cheered, when, for instance, rally speakers such as former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said: “I’m on the side of Israel. You’re on the side of Israel. Donald Trump’s on the side of Israel.”; Congresswoman Elise Stefanik condemned skyrocketing antisemitism on college campuses; and radio personality Sid Rosenberg said that he just got back from Israel, and that Israelis love Trump and Bibi. Condemning a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish rally as Nazi-like should not be emulated. [...]

One of my first projects when I joined ZOA’s staff in 2014 was working to stop the Met Opera’s production and AMC’s planned broadcast of the antisemitic, anti-Israel opera “Death of Klinghoffer.” The opera belittled the Jewish passengers on the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise ship as small-minded materialists; contained libels that Jews get fat from the poor, cheat, exploit, pollute virgins, defame, break laws, and are idolators; glorified the terrorists (who murdered wheelchair-bound Jewish American Leon Klinghoffer) as “men of ideals”; and promoted outrageous lies about Jewish Israelis’ treatment of Arabs in 1948. Leon Klinghoffer’s daughters publicly spoke out that the opera exploited their father’s murder and was antisemitic.

I personally called AMC and persuaded them to cancel the planned worldwide broadcast of the opera. I also worked with a group of strong pro-Israel activists to publicize the opera’s antisemitism and to arrange huge protests outside the Met against its 8 live performances of the opera. We probably could have succeeded in stopping the Met’s live performances – but then Abe Foxman got involved. Foxman announced that the opera was “not antisemitic” – which severely damaged our efforts to stop the performances that spread antisemitic blood libels. To add insult to injury, in order to try to show that he was doing something useful, Foxman claimed credit for my successful effort to stop the AMC broadcasts.

Giving “kosher stamps of approval” to blatantly antisemitic productions is obviously something that should not be emulated.

It's bad enough Foxman would give telling hints he's a self-hater. But even worse:

When Yasser Arafat – the unrepentant murderer of countless Jews and Jewish children – was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for signing the Oslo Accords (which Arafat promptly used to rapidly increase terrorism), many people were appalled. Relatives of Arafat’s victims protested along with liberal U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer; Kare Kristiansen resigned from the Nobel committee in protest; ZOA president Morton Klein called the award “repugnant and revolting,” the OU called the award “offensive”; Likud party leader Netanyahu stated that “the fact that the prize is given to the person who invented international terrorism turns the prize into a farce,” etc. By contrast, Foxman stated that although he was not a saint, Arafat “earned the prize.” Similarly, in a televised debate against Mort Klein, Foxman asserted that Arafat “deserved and earned the prize.” Defending honoring monstrous terrorists is unjustifiable and should not be emulated.

I think that says all you need to know just what a monster Foxman himself was, and it's chilling to think how many more people like him could've been pro-jihadists. And what's so wrong in his mind with being "islamophobic"? He obviously never read the koran either, or if he did, made up his mind where he stood on its content. Foxman was a most repulsive man, and while it may be a shame he's gone, that doesn't excuse his most offensive actions, which were clearly meant to undermine the USA and Europe as much as Israel. With his passing, it's to be hoped the ADL will dissolve along with him. Such movements as his should not be supported in any way.