SPECIAL EPISODE: How the ADL Abandoned its Stated Mission in Order to Weaponize Anti-Semitism Accusations for the Online Censorship Regime and the Neoliberal Establishment | SYSTEM UPDATE #142
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 6 September 2023
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| 0:00.0 | The Good evening. It's Tuesday, September 5th. Welcome to a new episode of |
| 0:18.2 | System Update. Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at |
| 0:22.0 | 7 PM Eastern exclusively |
| 0:24.2 | year on rumble to free speech alternative to YouTube. |
| 0:27.0 | Tonight, the Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 and its |
| 0:31.8 | central mission was as clear as it was noble to combat the spread of |
| 0:36.0 | anti-Semitism and the accompanying false demonization of the Jewish people on which |
| 0:41.0 | anti-Semitism has always depended. |
| 0:44.0 | Over the last century, the ADL has built a reputation as a credible and serious group that |
| 0:48.9 | both fought against one of humanity's longest and most toxic |
| 0:52.6 | bigotries while also steadfastly defending |
| 0:55.8 | core civil liberties and in particular the virtues of free speech. |
| 1:00.8 | But like so many institutions of authority in the United States after 2016, which entail the |
| 1:06.2 | dual traumas of the UK's departure from the EU and then the far more traumatic defeat |
| 1:11.8 | still of Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump, the ADL has now |
| 1:15.4 | radically transformed into something much much different. Indeed, in many ways it |
| 1:21.6 | has become an utterly fraudulent organization. |
| 1:24.5 | Its work now has very little to do with combating anti-Semitism. |
| 1:28.8 | That's just the marketing costume or the pretext it uses to wield power. |
| 1:34.2 | The real mission of the ADL could not be clear. |
| 1:37.4 | It's to advance the interests of the Democratic Party, to ensure the empowerment of Democratic |
| 1:42.0 | Party leaders, and to protect and preserve the dominant ideology |
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