ADL´s Ties With
Mossad
Middle East Labor Bulletin, Vol. 4 No. 3 Fall 1993
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.I" 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."
Source: Middle East Labor Bulletin, Vol. 4 No. 3 Fall
1993
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