ADL's
Ties with the Mossad 
ADL National Director Abraham H Foxman
(right)
CONSIDERABLE suspicion exists that the
Anti-Defamation League not only serves as
an "unofficial" propaganda arm of the
Israeli government -- a role its National
Director Abe Foxman unabashedly
claims -- but that it also provides
information on Palestinians and
Arab-Americans to the Israeli government
and its intelligence service, Mossad. The suspicions increased when a Chicago
resident, Mohammed Jarad, whose
named appeared in Roy Bullock's
files, was arrested and accused of being
an agent for Hamas, upon his arrival in
Israel to visit relatives in the occupied
territories. Also, as revealed in an interview with
the FBI, former ADL Los Angeles operative,
David Gurvitz, acknowledged that
having "learned from a law enforcement
contact that a known member of the
Democratic Front for the Liberation of
Palestine," was about to travel from San
Francisco to Haifa, he "called the Los
Angeles Israeli Consulate and advised the
Deputy Consul General." Later, a
Hebrew-speaking individual from the
Consulate called back to confirm the
information. Both Bullock and Gurvitz, however,
denied that there is any direct link
between the ADL and Mossad. However, a
letter written by then National Director
of the ADL, Benjamin Epstein on
July 7, 1961, would indicate otherwise.
Epstein was writing to Saul Joftes
who was, at the time, the Executive
Secretary of the International Council of
B'nai B'rith, the ADL's parent
organization, requesting additional
funds. "Our
information," wrote Epstein, "in
addition to being essential for our own
operations, has been of great value and
service to both the United States State
Department and the Israeli government.
All data have been made available to
both countries with full knowledge that
we are the source." Joftes, a 22-year veteran with B'nai
B'rith did not believe that this was the
proper business of the ADL and balked; at
which point B'nai B'rith decided to fire
him. Joftes turned around and sued
Rabbi Kaufman, the responsible
B'nai B'rith executive, and entered
Epstein's letter as an exhibit in his
behalf. In an affidavit filed in that action,
Joftes stated: - "B'nai B'rith has
become an international organization
engaged, by Rabbi Kaufman's admission,
in other things besides charitable
religious and educational activities.
It is no longer non-profit. It engages
in international politics and more
often than not does the bidding of the
Government of Israel. Its leaders make
frequent trips to Israel for
indoctrination and instructions. I had
tried to prevent this change. That is
why Rabbi Kaufman tried to fire
me.
- "He was
making B'nai B'rith a servant of the
Israeli Government."
That was 1961. On May 6, 1993, the ADL's
representative in Jerusalem sent a memo to
National Director Abe Foxman informing him
that he had attended "a small, farewell
luncheon that Shimon Peres gave for
Bill Harrop (the outgoing U.S.
ambassador). According to Wall, "There
were no other American Jewish
representatives invited."
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