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Source: https://jewishjournal.com/news/united-states/347530/adl-ceo-anti-zionism-is-antisemitism/
ADL: "Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism"
(Los Angeles Jewish Journal) Aaron Bandler - Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt told the ADL's 2022 Virtual National Leadership Summit on May 1: "To those who still cling to the idea that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, let me clarify this for you as clearly as I can: anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. Anti-Zionism as an ideology is rooted in rage" because it aims for "the negation of another people, a concept as alien to the modern discourse as white supremacy. It requires a willful denial of even a superficial history of Judaism and the vast history of the Jewish people." "When campus organizations like SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine] interrupt speeches, disrupt events and call for an end to any action that normalizes any relationships, or programs associated, with Israel or Israelis...that is extremism. When groups like Jewish Voice for Peace tweet out 'Jews, hands off Al Aqsa,' when they absolutely know that such language is inflammatory, that the community literally is nowhere near the Al Aqsa Mosque, let alone even permitted to pray there, that is extremism." When the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) promulgates conspiracy theories "of interconnected Jewish organizations that supposedly are planning and plotting to harm Muslims, including the groundless accusation that the Israeli military secretly trains U.S. police to harm people of color...that is extremism."