“This week, the ADL released its annual audit of antisemitic incidents. Predictably, the organization repeated its familiar mantra that the Palestine solidarity movement was the chief culprit behind a precipitous, record-shattering rise in antisemitic incidents in 2024.

This year’s audit takes the absurdity to new heights, listing Jewish Voice for Peace as a perpetrator behind 313 “antisemitic incidents” across the US. According to the ADL, a Jewish group is responsible for more antisemitism in the United States than the white nationalist Goyim Defense League, and is the fourth-largest institutional culprit of antisemitism overall.

A particularly ridiculous and potentially embarrassing case suggests that  the ADL lacks a basic understanding of a long standing and widely practiced Jewish religious ritual.”

Read more at Religion Dispatches.

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