The media's bizarre new obsession with (allegedly) rising anti-semitism looks like a classic moral panic with dubious empirical grounding.
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Nobody takes two seconds to wonder: is there really a sudden reemergence of this phenomenon, can it be attributed to political trends, etc.
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We *know* indisputably that Muslims and Arabs have been disproportionately victimized by recent policy. And yet media dwell on this sideshow
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Organizations like ADL have been roundly mocked in the past for their obvious alarmism/cynicism around anti-Semitism. Now they're Good again
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wow, speaking of simplifying narratives. has it occurred you that maybe the ADL got better since Foxman left and Greenblatt came?
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ADL has not gotten any better about Palestine look at how they smeared Keith
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i'll agree with that! but given foxman's record, doubt he would have been as aggressive re: trump
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organizations can change, is what i'm trying to say
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ADL has yet to indicate that they deserve anything close to the benefit of the doubt
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agreed. but greenblatt has, even if just on a superficial level, shown a greater willingness to be combative
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So then if we agree what's the issue?
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Replying to @mtracey @ZaidJilani
i think there's a reason that matters to a lot of people behind the adl being Good again
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