On Sept 11, 2023, The New York Times came out with this broadside against Musk. It’s clear the establishment is enraged by Musk’s defiance, and is closing ranks to bring him to his knees. Smears is one of their favorite tools.
Mike Whitney Interview with Ron Unz
Question 1: The Nature of the ADL
Let’s talk about the ADL. Some of your readers may not know that you have written extensively on the ADL and that your analysis prompted Paul Craig Roberts to call you “the bravest man I know.” What Roberts was referring to, I think, is your riveting 2018 account of the ADL’s shadowy history as well as its controversial activities and methods. Here’s a short excerpt from a piece you wrote in 2018 that helps to illustrate what I’m talking about:
In January 1993, the San Francisco Police Department reported that it had recently raided the Northern California headquarters of the ADL based upon information provided by the FBI.* The SFPD discovered that the organization had been keeping intelligence files on more than 600 civic organizations and 10,000 individuals, overwhelmingly of a liberal orientation, with the SFPD inspector estimating that 75% of the material had been illegally obtained, much of it by secret payments to police officials. This was merely the tip of the iceberg in what clearly amounted to the largest domestic spying operation by any private organization in American history, and according to some sources, ADL agents across the country had targeted over 1,000 political, religious, labor, and civil rights organizations, with the New York headquarters of the ADL maintaining active dossiers on more than a million Americans.”
This is shocking information that perhaps only a handful of Americans know anything about. The recent dust-up with Elon Musk has put the ADL’s methods under a microscope particularly their alleged role in censoring people on the Internet. So, my question to you is this: What is the ADL? Is it really a civil rights organization that “combats extremism and antisemitism” or is it something else altogether?
Ron Unz—Founded in 1913, the ADL—the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith—is a very formidable Jewish activist organization that has great influence over the media and other important elements of American society, and therefore is widely feared in elite circles. As I explained in my 2018 article:
In our modern era, there are surely few organizations that so terrify powerful Americans as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith, a central organ of the organized Jewish community.
Mel Gibson had long been one of the most popular stars in Hollywood and his 2004 film The Passion of the Christ became among the most profitable in world history, yet the ADL and its allies destroyed his career/
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Because of its media influence, the ADL’s coverage has almost always been extremely favorable, portraying it as one of America’s leading watchdogs against dangerous extremism, especially anti-Semitism or racism. Given this powerful, positive image, the ADL successfully gained the role of content gatekeeper at some of America’s largest Internet companies, helping to determine what may or may not be said on such important platforms as Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter. Indeed, a few years ago Silicon Valley’s San Jose Mercury News profiled the ADL Director who was responsible for policing “hate speech” across the American-dominated global Internet.
Meanwhile, that same media influence has ensured that only very few people have ever become aware of the organization’s long history of illegal spying upon enormous numbers of Americans, including such notable figures as Martin Luther King. Jr. I discussed this in my 2018 article:
The choice of the ADL as the primary ideological overseer of America’s Internet may seem natural and appropriate to politically-ignorant Americans, a category that unfortunately includes the technology executives leading the companies involved. But this reflects the remarkable cowardice and dishonesty of the American media from which all these individuals derive their knowledge of our world. The true recent history of the ADL is actually a sordid and disreputable tale.
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Not long [after the 1993 SFPD raid], an ACLU official who had previously held a high-ranking position with the ADL revealed in an interview that his organization had been the actual source of the highly controversial 1960s surveillance on Martin Luther King, Jr., which it had then provided to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. For many years Hoover had been furiously denounced in the national media headlines for his use of tapes and other secret information on King’s activities, but when a local San Francisco newspaper revealed that an ADL spying operation had actually been the source of all that sordid material, the bombshell revelation was totally ignored in the national media and only reported by fringe organizations, so that today almost no Americans are aware of that fact.
I know of no other private organization in American history that has been involved in even a sliver of such illegal domestic espionage activity, which appears to have been directed against almost all groups and prominent individuals—left, right, and center—suspected of being insufficiently aligned with Jewish and Israeli interests. Some of the illegal material found in the ADL’s possession even raised dark suspicions that it had played a role in domestic terrorist attacks and political assassinations directed against foreign leaders. I am no legal expert, but given the massive scale of such illegal ADL activities, I wonder whether a plausible case might have been made to prosecute the entire organization under RICO statutes and sentence all of its leaders to long prison terms.
Instead, the resulting government charges were quickly settled with merely a trivial fine and a legal slap on the wrist, demonstrating the near-total impunity provided by massive Jewish political power in modern American society.
In effect, the ADL seems to have long operated as a privatized version of our country’s secret political police, monitoring and enforcing its ideological doctrines on behalf of Jewish groups much as the Stasi did for the Communist rulers of East Germany. Given such a long history of criminal activity, allowing the ADL to extend its oversight to our largest Social Media platforms amounts to appointing the Mafia to supervise the FBI and the NSA, or taking a very large step towards implementing George Orwell’s ” Ministry of Truth” on behalf of Jewish interests.
*[DrB] It was from information gathered in this raid I learned that my group Citizens in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador had been spied on by the ADL since 1981.
Via https://www.greanvillepost.com/2023/09/13/elon-musk-and-the-true-history-of-the-adl/
Just going through some old emails. I get backlogged...
Elon Musk is getting attacked because he supports free speech, which of course allows information that counters the official narrative. Full stop. There may be people genuinely offended by things he says, but they WON'T get any traction if the powers that be don't care.
The powers that be are pursuing a globalist agenda. Beats the hell out of me who really is The Powers That Be. Biden and company are just puppets, pawns in the game, if you will. They are transparently being used to demolish the US. It kind of looks like the Chinese are doing it.
Now that doesn't mean the WEF, backed by the Rothchild's, aren't trying to rule the world either. And the Rothchild's (or some similar group) COULD have been pulling a lot of strings 30 years ago, which is the timeframe the bulk of your quoted article is about.
As an aside, goodness knows the ADL seems to be targeting people on the right these days (I'm including Gibson on the right since he's a Christian, although many Catholics in the US may still be Dems). ADL seemed to have not realized that Muslims may not be their friends, nor leftists brainwashed in the university systems. There was a truly bizarre opinion poll in the NYTimes recently showing how support for Israel vs Hamas varies depending on whether one identifies on the very conservative to very liberal spectrum. Most very liberal people prefer Hamas! In every other group more Americans lean toward Israel. (Or maybe just hate Israel less, or think that's a better answer...)
Anyway, Musk has been recently targeted by the NYTimes and the MSM for basically agreeing to an "X" that said many Jews were paying the price for embracing multiculturalism, if I remember the rather tortured post right. Nevermind that James Kunstler had an interesting article saying the same thing, and Henry Kissinger said in one of his last interviews that Germany made a big mistake in inviting in so many immigrants of different religions. I guess only Jews are allowed to criticize Jews, which I disagree with. We need to have open debates.
Media Matters did a hit job on Musk, running all sorts of tortuous combinations to get ads to show next to "extremist" content. I hope Musk bankrupts them with his lawsuit.
PS I'm sure you would agree that Israel knew darn well the attacks were coming. I read an interesting article today that said that not only was Hamas a pawn in the game, so was Israel! It pointed that a lot of US/CIA money is going to both places. (And of course Biden and co are deeply compromised by China and who knows who else.) Who is pulling the strings, indeed?
PPS The three top leaders of Hamas live in Qatar and are worth $11 billion between them. The world sends all this money to Gaza to keep the Gaza people alive, and some huge amount gets siphoned off to these three. Quite the racket. Something tells me those three and their families will be allowed to live and keep all their assets. Something like the head of the CIA going to Qatar to "negotiate" with those guys.