What the Globe Left Out

Hate Group Gets New Leader
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

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ADL hires replacement for former leader who broke ranks - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe
August 19, 2008 12:19 PM

By Globe Staff

The Anti-Defamation League announced today that it hired a New England regional director to fill the position vacated by Andrew H. Tarsy, who broke ranks with the organization's national leadership last year over the acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide.

Derrek L. Shulman, the former chief of staff for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs, will begin serving as ADL regional director in early October, according to a statement. The post had been filled by an interim person since December, when Tarsy resigned.

"We conducted an exhaustive search and are fortunate to have found a leader of Derrek's caliber," said James L. Rudolph, chairman of the ADL's New England Regional Board, in a statement. "This is an exciting time for ADL New England, and Derrek has all the qualifications, contacts and leadership skills to ensure our organization performs its crucial mission of fighting anti-semitism and hate."

Tarsy was fired in August 2007 after he spoke out against the national ADL's refusal to acknowledge that the Ottoman Turks committed genocide when they slaughtered as many as 1.5 million Armenians from 1915 to 1923. It became an issue when Watertown, which has a sizeable Armenian-American community, pulled out of the ADL's No Place For Hate Program in protest.

Tarsy spoke publicly against the national ADL's position and was fired. Under pressure, the National ADL changed course and said the massacre was "tantamount to genocide." Tarsy was rehired two weeks later but resigned in December. In an interview at the time, Tarsy did not share why he was leaving but said it was "professional judgment based on knowing when it's your time."

The hiring of Shulman will strengthen the ADL in New England as it moves forward, the organization said in the statement.

"We are entering a growth period at ADL, and Derrek is the perfect choice to lead us through it," said Esta Gordon Epstein, chair elect of the ADL's New England Regional Board. "Derrek has the vision, people skills, and experience to enhance our ability to build bridges between ADL and other groups and communities, and to promote diversity and appreciation for our differences."

The Jewish Advocate | This Weeks Issue | Editorial

Leadership in Boston

Friday August 22 2008

The Boston Jewish community is made up of many component parts. From synagogues and schools to agencies, organizations and publications, the leaders of each have their hands full doing everything to keep their respe ctive ships afloat.

From fulfilling missions and raising money to developing new leaders and maintaining continuity, each of the many Boston institutions that work to promote and enhance Jewish life have their own set of challenges.

At the New England Anti-Defamation League, Derrek Shulman was named the new executive director this week following the able leadership of interim director Jonathan Kappel. As the former political director of AIPAC, Shulman knows all too well the passions that accompany strongly held social and political positions.

Following a long national search, he is no doubt the right man for the job. His appointment fills an important position in the community and the Advocate wishes him luck in the ADL's mission of fighting hatred and promoting unity and understanding among people of different faith backgrounds.

Indeed, the Greater Boston community has a great deal of diversity, and its many faith and ethnic groups have and continue to learn a great deal from one another.

COMMENTS

Note that the Globe fails to inform its readers about the revolving door connecting Jewish communal/"anti-racist" organizations, Israel lobby organizations, and government agencies. In this case neglecting to mention that Shulman joins the ADL after working at AIPAC as political director is an amazing omission, for AIPAC is in fact one of the main agents of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim demonization in the USA. As political director, Shulman almost certainly approved every racist hateful item disseminated during his tenure.

Why is the ADL a Hate Group?

The ADL sits on its hands when a "Jewish" organization like The David Project engages in Arabophobic or Islamophobic incitement.  See Emails show pro-Israel anti-Mosque Campaign in Boston .

During his keynote address, Boston Regional Meeting of the National Lawyers Guild, Suffolk Law School, "Can Muslims Build Mosques in Post 9/11 America?,"  Howard Cooper disclosed that he approached the ADL with prima facie evidence of David Project conspiracy against rights, but there was no response or action from the ADL.

Flings Accusations of Anti-Semitism -- Ignores Arabophobia and Islamophobia

In fact, the ADL even incites anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racists by adding its own Arabophobic and Islamophobic attacks.

I look at the cartoons that the ADL cites for anti-Semitism in the following articles:

• Extremists Attack John McCain as 'Pawn of Jews' or
• The U.S. Presidential Candidates: Cartoons in the Arab Media

The messages seem completely reasonable. We should have more like them in our media.

In contrast, the ADL does not condemn the demonization and dehumanization of Arabs that (very often Jewish) political cartoonists introduce into our media. See Making the US Islamophobia Central.

In other words in the case of Arabs and Muslims, not only does the ADL refrain from fighting hate, but the organization even stokes the animosity.

Note that I consider the Ramirez cartoon cited in Making the US Islamophobia Central to be completely reasonable

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