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For more than a century, ever since Adolph Ochs purchased the New York Times in 1896, his newspaper has proudly. After crossing swords with James Kilpatrick, intellectual mastermind of the South’s “massive resistance” campaign against public school desegregation, Friedman was caught in the crossfire between the ADL’s New York office and Virginia’s Jewish community, fearful of antisemitic backlash. He fell on his sword, resigning and moving to Philadelphia to head the American Jewish Committee’s regional office. For more than 40 years, he distinguished himself as a community activist and historian of Philadelphia’s Jewish community, and of the national Black-Jewish civil rights coalition, whose “collapse” he chronicled in a still-impressive 1995 book. ....
Author and known conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf claimed during an April 19 interview on Fox News Primetime that Dr. Anthony. Ajlouny is also the former director of the Ramallah Friends School; that school’s summer programs introduced American youth to members of the terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. When considering recent claims of antisemitism, Ajlouny began by saying, “I’m reminded of the boy who cried wolf.” She advanced a quasi-conspiracy theory about the formulation and adoption of the IHRA definition, referring to it as “a plot” carried out by Israel-connected advocacy groups that act like “a well-oiled machine.” ....
In a democracy worthy of the name, the mentally invalid are not judged. But in a true democracy, one is. I expect Arab propagandists to spread such lies. I don’t expect the falsehoods to come from an academic center that was founded by a pro-Israel scholar, and is funded in part by donations from pro-Israel members of the Philadelphia-area Jewish community. The April 20 program is responding to, in part, the ongoing debate over the definition of antisemitism that has been crafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), and accepted by numerous governments and Jewish organizations around the world. Some left-wing academics, including Stern, object to the IHRA definition because it includes demonization of Israel as an example of antisemitism. ....