pjmedia.com By Robert Spencer
Upon finding out on Tuesday that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) had deleted its entire “Glossary of Extremism and Hate,” I felt like a convict who has given up all hope of ever getting out of prison suddenly noticing that the door to his cell is unlocked and the guards are gone. For while popular indignation against the far-left defamation group for listing Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) as an extremist group led the hatemongers to realize that they had gone too far, TPUSA was not the only unjust and unwarranted entry in the “Glossary.” I, for one, was on it, too.
As Rick Moran noted Thursday, the ADL “removed its ‘Glossary of Extremism and Hate’ from its website after numerous complaints from conservatives, including Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr.” And in a revealing indication that the ADL was well aware of how dodgy the whole enterprise really was “rather than remove the entry, the ADL deleted the entire Glossary and said that it no longer considers TPUSA an ‘extremist group.’”
This is yet another indication of how much the cultural tide is turning, and how quickly. Just under two years ago, a lawyer wrote to the ADL on my behalf, calling upon the ADL to remove me from its Glossary of Extremism. The letter said: “Robert Spencer personally challenges ADL to produce one statement of his or of Jihad Watch that treats Muslims with ‘hatred or intolerance’, or which denigrates them based on their identity or immutable characteristics.” This was in reference to my opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, which opposition the ADL deplored as “extremism.” In response, though the ADL did not deign to support any of its false and defamatory claims, the organization flatly refused to remove them…
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