Unpacking Zionism

• From Above: the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with Alex Kane

  In this episode we are looking at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with journalist Alex Kane, senior reporter at Jewish Currents. This is the first of several episodes we'll have on the ADL, in an effort to grapple with its scale and long history. Lots of links in the show notes.History:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y-w8y83byMLcxFd1gvI1xqpcDUaCo1WW/view?usp=sharinghttps://jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-democratic-origins-of-the-jewish-establishmenthttps://www.bostonreview.net/articles/emmaia-gelman-anti-defamation-league/https://criticalzionismstudies.org/2024/10/26/from-the-new-antisemitism-to-the-ihra-definition/Reporting & Analysis:https://jewishcurrents.org/adl-shutters-flagship-anti-bias-programhttps://jewishcurrents.org/scoop-internal-adl-memo-recommended-ending-police-delegations-to-israel-amid-backlashhttps://jewishcurrents.org/examining-the-adls-antisemitism-audithttps://jewishcurrents.org/how-the-adls-israel-advocacy-undermines-its-civil-rights-workhttps://criticalzionismstudies.org/2024/05/28/the-anti-defamation-league-counterinsurgency-and-the-palestinian-liberation-movement/https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/educators-beware-the-anti-defamation-league-is-not-the-social-justice-partner-it-claims-to-be/https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45918Resistance to the ADL:www.droptheadl.orgRelated episodes:Unpacking Zionism: Mothers Against College AntisemitismBattling the IHRA Definition: The new 'terror' billAlso mentioned:Canary MissionAmcha InitiativeAmerican Jewish Committee

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• From Above: National Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) with Amira Jarmakani

  In this episode, we discuss the National Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) with the veteran of this podcast Amira Jarmakani, who is the ICSZ collective member and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies at San Diego State University. NCRI is an important case study because by presenting itself as a research institute interested in studying false and hateful narratives online, NCRI often flies under the radar as a Zionist organization. But in this conversation, Amira Jarmakani debunks NCRI’s claims that it’s a small, neutral, not-for-profit institution and clarifies that it is actually an online surveillance organization, closely tied with major US policy-making institutions, and a purveyor of the war on terror. We look at the work of NCRI and specifically the reports they produce that demonize leftist organizing, conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism, attack BDS, and label Palestine solidarity organizing as terrorism.Also mentioned in this episode: Anti-Defamation League (ADL), AMCHA Initiative, Hetz, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), Charles Koch Foundation (CKF)Resources:Cox, Joseph. “Inside ICE’s Database for Finding ‘Derogatory’ Online Speech.” 404 Media. October 24, 2023.Poulson, Jack. “The Australian ad-tech firm secretly fueling 'psychological warfare' against U.S. university students.” All Source Intelligence substack. June 10, 2024.NCRI received $335,000 from Israel on Campus Coalition in 2021 “for a grant to build social media analysis.ICE contracted Giant Oak from 2014-2022 to flag people for deportation, according to AFSC.On FARA: Fang, Lee and Jack Poulson. “Leaked Israeli Docs Reveal Effort to Evade Foreign Agent Lobbying Law.” August 17, 2024.ISGAP received 80% of its annual revenue from the Israeli government (Aiden Pink/ The Forward)Joel Finkelstein's presentation to DHS,The FBI identified SNA as a valuable tool for law enforcement as early as 2013.Stop LAPD Spying, "The Algorithmic Ecology"Stop LAPD Spying, "Before the Bullet Hits the Body"Hate with Dylan Rodriguez Terror with Arun Kundnani

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• From Above: Simon Wiesenthal Center with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition

  This episode with Akhil Gopal and Matyos Kidane of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition looks at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is the parent organization of the Museum of Tolerance and a go-to Holocaust education provider. We look at how its work relates to what L.A. organizers call the "stalker state", and how anti-poor and racist politics – especially policing – are interwoven with Zionist politics and the War on Terror.Also mentioned: The Anti-Defamation League.

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• From Above: Academic Engagement Network with Sean Malloy and Meira Gold

  In this episode, Sean Malloy and Meira Gold discuss the Academic Engagement Network (AEN), which has been working behind the scenes on campuses, advising many of the administrators who have been imposing the repressive measures that we've seen throughout the Israeli genocide. AEN claims to have trained 3000 university administrators since 2020 and set up presence on 320 campuses. Along with the ADL, the AEL has now turned its attention to scholarly associations -- sites of growing solidarity with Palestine, and accordingly sites of concern for Zionist institutions.Also mentioned: Anti-Defamation League, Israel on Campus Coalition, Faculty Against Antisemitism Movement, ISGAP, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Israel Action Network, Brandeis Center, Hillel, Betar, MEMRI, Canary Mission, Amcha Initiative, Milstein Fund, Schusterman Fund, Marcus Fund, Heritage Foundation, American Jewish CommitteeResources:On Project Esther -https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/jvp-rejecting-project-esther/Previous episode discussion AEN - https://criticalzionismstudies.org/2024/04/01/amira-sean-dei/

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• From Above: Helen Diller Family Foundation with JAWS UCSC

  In this episode of “From Above,” we discuss the Helen Diller Family Foundation – an organization that claims to support “global Jewish needs.” And while it indeed funds Jewish Studies Programs as well as hospitals, art museums, and playgrounds, what the Helen Diller Family Foundation is actually invested in is Zionist global needs. We will talk about the Helen Diller Family Foundation’s massive financial contributions to Zionist, reactionary, and far-right white supremacist organizations directly responsible for the genocide in Palestine. Our guest today is an organizer with JAWS, Jews Against White Supremacy, at UC Santa Cruz, Max Sárosi.Max Sárosi is a founding member of Jews Against White Supremacy UCSC and an undergraduate student of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Agroecology at the University of California Santa Cruz. Max is passionate about cultivating diasporic and decolonial Jewish community and comradery in solidarity with the Palestinian movement for liberation. Max's research interests include the entanglements of race, whiteness, and zionism as well as the histories, radical possibilities, and limitations of Jewish agroecologies.Also mentioned in the episode: Jinsa, Regavim,  Jewish Community Federation, Jewish Community Relations Council, Jewish Family and Children's Services, ADL, AIPAC, the Canary Mission, Friends of the IDF, The Israel Fund, CAMERA, The David Horowitz Freedom Foundation, AFDI, TPUSA, Beitar.Resources:JAWS UCSC @ UC Peoples' Tribunal: Testimony on Helen Diller FoundationThe Worst Evictors of San Francisco and OaklandNotorious landlords support attack campaigns against rent control ballot measures : IndybayUC Berkeley's Helen Diller Anchor House dorm sparks controversyNew UCSF hospital gets boost from the Diller Family FoundationHelen and Sanford Diller Family Endowment for Jewish StudiesMidwife who worked in Gaza punished in California for watermelon pin

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