The Selective Fight Against Antisemitism is Endangering Us All

The Hypocrites Who 'Fight' Antisemitism and cause more problems between Blacks and Jews, Part 2

Data comparing views on antisemitism from the 2015 ADL Global 100 report showing results from Muslim community is no longer readily accessible. Source: Screenshot.

The ADL is America's oldest Jewish civil rights organization, founded as the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith in 1913. But over the last decade or more, the ADL has often been a left-wing propaganda tool, which, sadly, IBSI has had to address in the past. (See Africa-Israel Weekly’s: The Hypocrites Who 'Fight' Antisemitism…and cause more problems between Blacks and Jews).

On April 18, 2025, the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) published a piece by author Dr. Andrew Bostom and national president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), Mort Klein, entitled ADL quietly purged data on European Muslim antisemitism. From the piece:

The ADL has a 20-year record of determining “extreme antisemitism” in different places and among different groups, and for the last 10 years, it has released findings in its “Global 100: An Index of Antisemitism.” Countries are ranked based on how many antisemitic stereotypes out of a total of 11 statements people there agree with. Those who agree that six or more statements are “probably true” are considered by the ADL report to be “harboring” antisemitic views.

Over the years, the report has included results from religious groups, including Christians and Muslims in Western Europe (such as in 2004, 2015…2019, and 2023). Yet that data, which shows Western European Muslims harboring significantly more antisemitic views than others in Western Europe, is now missing from the ADL’s website.

After compiling the results of ADL survey reports from 2015 to 2023, we found a grossly disproportionate, two-to-four-fold excess prevalence of Jew-hatred among the Muslims in the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

According to the JNS piece, the ADL’s reasoning for hiding the Muslim antisemitism results, “religious affiliation,” was less generalizable, and that the ADL was waiting for “internal research and peer-reviewed analysis.” Klein and Bostom responded:

These claims are disingenuous and ring hollow. First, there is copious independent data from Western European academic and governmental surveys that confirm ADL’s findings of excessive antisemitism within the Muslim vs. non-Muslim populations of Western Europe.

Second…almost 20 years ago, when the ADL allowed outside investigators access to their raw data for appropriate statistical analysis and peer-reviewed publication, the Western European religious affiliation data ADL had concealed indicated Muslims were 8-fold more antisemitic than Christians.

Since Klein and Bostom exposed the ADL’s “disingenuous” explanation for concealing the truth, we are forced to assume that the ADL had other motives. As a progressive institution, not wanting to be called Islamophobic is surely one of those motives. Yet, when the ADL has gathered information measuring the levels of antisemitism within ethnic groups, especially Black Americans, there was no such concern or misguided need to protect the Black community. Further, while the ADL has sought to shield presumably certain Muslim antisemites in general, it has had no problem singling out Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan or Rizza Islam, to name two. The ADL has also spared no hurt feelings in calling out the radical Black Hebrew Israelites. Therefore, it would appear that the ADL’s biased, dishonest reporting on Jew-hatred is also driven largely by whether the group in question is Arab — or at least not Black.

To be clear, the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI) has consistently, publicly condemned Jew-hatred and anti-Israel propaganda coming from the Nation of Islam, the radical Black Hebrew Israelites, Black Lives Matter, Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, Candace Owens, and more. This piece is not a defense of Black leaders who wantonly attack Israel and the Jewish people. Not addressing these individuals and organizations would make IBSI the very hypocrites we are criticizing. This piece is about the ADL and other leftwing pro-Israel, anti-Jew hatred organizations selectively choosing to do their jobs, especially where the subject of Islam or non-Black Muslims is concerned.

The ADL’s research on and measurement of antisemitism is cited as authoritative by religious organizations, businesses, international governments, colleges and universities, and more. The data informs the policies and procedures for those leaders who want to be sure they are guarding against the scourge of Jew hatred among their ranks. Deceiving those individuals by hiding factual, relevant data on antisemitism is akin to promoting antisemitism. Again, it runs cover for certain ethnic or religious groups — Arab Muslims — while focusing on what appears to be more acceptable targets — Black Americans.

The ADL is not alone in serving as an apologist for Arab Muslim antisemitism. In a separate research paper, Andrew Bostom noted this about journalist Bari Weiss:

Not surprisingly, ADL heavily promoted…Bari Weiss’ 2019 pocket book, “How To Fight Anti-Semitism.” Weiss disregarded the salient findings of ADL’s 2014 global survey: namely, that the 16 most Antisemitic countries in the world were all Arab Muslim, with a prevalence of extreme Antisemitism of from 74% to 93%, and that Muslims worldwide exhibited a 2- to 3-fold excess prevalence of extreme Antisemitism, relative to those professing Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, or no faith. Bari Weiss’ reductio ad absurdum “assessment” omitted those data noting (p. 141), in lieu, “a 2014 ADL survey which looked at attitudes toward Jews in 100 countries found that…only 8% of respondents in the Middle East and North Africa had heard of the Holocaust and believed it actually happened.”

This politicization of information is not relegated to selective research and reporting. Over the years, IBSI has found that the process of combating Jew-hatred is, generally speaking, political throughout the pro-Israel world. Consider the subject of the Mizrahi or North African and Middle Eastern Jewish community. With the notable exception of groups like StandWithUs or works by The David Project, the persecution, killing, or expulsion of nearly 1 million Jews from Arab or Muslim lands is rarely discussed within Israel advocacy. One reason for this is, again, political correctness. Simply stated, the nemesis of the Holocaust of 6 million Jews of Europe were German Nazis. The nemesis of the Mizrahi Jewish tragedy were Arab Muslims, Arab Muslims who formed their own Nazi movement with the same goals as Adolf Hitler. In this age of the Islamophobia deception, the Mizrahi story makes far too many left-leaning Israel advocates uncomfortable. So it is often ignored.

While IBSI Founder and CEO Dumisani Washington was on staff with Christians United for Israel (CUFI), he and his colleagues produced the short film series The Mizrahi Project. In his interview and discussion with Jewish Americans whose families fled Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Turkey, and Libya, Dumisani heard an oft-repeated message. Relatively little was known about the Mizrahi community, in part because many of their non-Mizrahi (or European) brethren did not want to hear about it. One Mizrahi Project participant whose family members fled Egypt and Iraq noted that she attempted for years to get a key pro-Israel organization to share the Mizrahi story as part of their efforts. They refused. Another participant explained that, when he discussed how his family fled Iran at the beginning of the Ayatollah-led revolution of 1979, another Jewish friend whose family fled Nazi Europe asked him, “When are you going to get over it?”

Dumisani shared this story about his 2016 visit to the Iranian Jewish Federation of Los Angeles to discuss the upcoming Mizrahi Project:

It was important to my CUFI colleagues and me that we made sure we were not speaking for our Jewish friends. The short film series was to feature them in their own words. After presenting our idea, I opened the floor for questions and discussion. The group sat in silence for several moments. Somewhat stunned, one woman asked in disbelief, “You want to hear our story?”

“Yes, ma’am. We do.”

“No one ever wants to hear our story.”

Both Western Europe and the United States are experiencing antisemitism and anti-Israel bias not seen since World War II. While these attacks on the Jewish people are coming from people of varying political, ethnic, and religious persuasions, the ADL’s omitted data tells us that the chief driver is coming from the Arab Muslim community. That far too many believe stating this fact is somehow anti-Arab or anti-Muslim shows how psychologically compromised the Western world has become. Tragically, nefarious Islamic groups like the Council on Arab Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Muslim Brotherhood affiliates are exploiting the West’s unwillingness to speak the truth. In so doing, the West is losing the ideological battle against political Islam. The signs are virtually everywhere, from our college campuses to the lack of discussion around the international genocide of Christians and other religious minorities at the hands of Islamic terrorists.

How does America and the West fight increasing Israel and Jew hatred when the primary sources of that hatred — Arab Muslim antisemitism — are denied? We do not. That is the persistent problem. Only an infusion of much-needed moral courage will ensure we win this battle.