ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt often acts more as a partisan actor in the Israel-Palestine conversation than a neutral source of information. Greenblatt led the push to drive Harvard’s first black female president, Claudine Gray, out of office due to a row over alleged anti-Semitism. The attack on Gray was described in January by the former Executive Director of Harvard Hillel, Bernie Steinberg, as, “The cynical weaponisation of anti-Semitism by powerful forces who seek to intimidate and ultimately silence legitimate criticism of Israel and of American policy on Israel.”
Furthermore, the editors noted that Greenblatt has called US anti-Zionist student protesters Iranian “proxies”; compared the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf to a swastika; and is said to have praised Elon Musk just days after the owner of X reportedly endorsed an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory as the “actual truth” in November 2022.
Bankrupt, since the outset
and learned at knee, as child
A bigotry unscheduled
A “democracy” unripe