Anti-Defamation League

Emmaia Gelman is guest faculty in Social Sciences at Sarah Lawrence College. Her research and writing investigate the history of ideas about race, queerness, safety, and rights, and their production as political levers in the realm of hate crimes policy, surveillance, anti-terror measures, and war. She is the co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism, the Founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, and a longtime activist in New York City on Palestine, policing, antiracism, and queer issues.C. Heike Schotten is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a member of the #DroptheADL working group, the organizing collective of tthe US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and the founding collective of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She is the author of Nietzsche’s Revolution: Décadence, Politics, and Sexuality (Palgrave, 2009) and Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony (Columbia University Press, 2018).

'A stunning, urgent, and utterly convincing volume. The effect of the impressive scholarship collected here is to radically challenge the public role the ADL has assumed during times in which the critique of the state of Israel and the expression of support for Palestinian lives and freedoms is increasingly criminalized, and genocide is tactically normalized. We should all be grateful to this book for finally making the case we all needed to hear and know'

• Introduction - Emmaia Gelman and Heike SchottenA Note on LanguageI. The ADL’s First Hundred Years1. Settler Roots, Cold War Branches, and Astroturfing: the ADL’s First Hundred Years - Emmaia Gelman2. An American Judenrat at the Rosenberg Trial: The ADL’s Embrace of McCarthyist Antisemitism - Max Greenberg3. Policing Palestine, Black Power, and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement: The ADL in the 1960s-70s - Abdeen Jabara, with Charlotte Rosen4. The ADL, Neoconservatism, and the ‘New Antisemitism’ - Heike Schotten5. Not Quite Right? The Challenge of Ideologically Situating the ADL - A.J. BauerII. The ADL’s Repression of Antiracist and Social Justice Movements6. The Arab Terrorist and the Black Antisemitic Demagogue: The ADL as a Racist Intelligence Agency - Stephen Sheehi7. The ADL against Migrant Justice - Sophia Elena Gurulé8. The ADL and ‘Indigenous Sovereignty’ - Kevin Bruyneel9. The ADL and ‘Fighting Islamophobia’ - Hatem Bazian10. The ADL’s Panic over Jewish Voice for Peace: Who Speaks for Jews? - Lesley Williams11. Zionist Gentrification, Pinkwashing, and Colonial Violence: The ADL in San Francisco - Mama GanuushIII. Education as Battle Terrain: The ADL in Schools and on Campus12. The ADL, Conservative Megadonors, and the Repression of Speech in Higher Education - Isaac Kamola13. The Assault on K-12 Antiracist Education: From conservative ‘Anti-Bias’ Training to Anti-CRT - Nora Lester Murad and Merrie Najimy, with Emmaia Gelman14. The ADL’s War on Ethnic Studies - Jody Sokolower15. The ADL, Anti-Bias Education, and Holocaust Education - Sol Brager16. The ADL’s Role on College Campuses - Carrie Zaremba17. The ADL, IHRA, and ‘Zionist Identity Rights’ - Amira JarmakaniIV. The ADL and Surveillance, Policing, and War18. How to Hide a Genocide: The ADL’s Violence in Gaza - Muhannad Ayyash19. The ADL and the Anti-Palestinian Origins of U.S. Terrorism Law - Darryl Li20. Criminalizing Dissent: The ADL’s Role in Countering Violent Extremism Programs - Nicole Nguyen21. Targeting Our Communities, from CVE to ‘Black Identity Extremists’- StopLAPD Spying Coalition22. The ADL and the ‘Hate Crimes’ Framework - Dean Spade23. To Know the Enemy: Counterinsurgency, Lexical Warfare, and the ADL - Dylan RodríguezV. Conservative Megadonors and Corporate Clout: The ADL and Capital24. The ADL, DEI, and Big Tech - Lau Barrios25. The Non-Profit Industrial Complex and Conservative Capital: The ADL as a product of U.S. classstructures - Ahmed Moor26. The ADL’s War on Socially Conscious Investing - Felice Gelman