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Tony Judt Speech Shut Down by ADL
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 in News by Matt Barganier|
Historian Tony Judt, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU, writes,
I was due to speak this evening, in Manhattan, to a group called Network 20/20 comprising young business leaders, NGO, academics, etc, from the US and many countries. Topic: the Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy. The meetings are always held at the Polish Consulate in Manhattan.
I just received a call from the President of Network 20/20. The talk was cancelled because the Polish Consulate had been threatened by the Anti-Defamation League. Serial phone calls from ADL President Abe Foxman warned them off hosting anything involving Tony Judt. If they persisted, he warned, he would smear the charge of Polish collaboration with anti-Israeli anti-Semites (= me) all over the front page of every daily paper in the city (an indirect quote). They caved and Network 20/20 were forced to cancel.
Whatever your views on the Middle East I hope you find this as serious and frightening as I do. This is, or used to be, the United States of America.
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2006/10/04/tony-judt-speech-shut-down-by-adl
Posted : 04/10/2006 5:30 pm
Serial phone calls, huh? I don't suppose they recorded any of these threats by Abe, correct?
I wish someone would and then "not" back down and play the recorded threats for everyone to hear. This extortion by the ADL has got to stop. There has to be a way to take them down somehow.... :box: 
"Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest within the state than this race, which impoverished the people by their fraud, usury and money-lending and commits all deeds which an honorable man despises. Subsequently they have to be removed and excluded from here as much as possible."
MARIA THERESA, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (1771 - 1789)
Posted : 04/10/2006 7:41 pm
Tony Judt Speech Shut Down by ADL
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 in News by Matt Barganier|
Historian Tony Judt, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU, writes,
I was due to speak this evening, in Manhattan, to a group called Network 20/20 comprising young business leaders, NGO, academics, etc, from the US and many countries. Topic: the Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy. The meetings are always held at the Polish Consulate in Manhattan.
I just received a call from the President of Network 20/20. The talk was cancelled because the Polish Consulate had been threatened by the Anti-Defamation League. Serial phone calls from ADL President Abe Foxman warned them off hosting anything involving Tony Judt. If they persisted, he warned, he would smear the charge of Polish collaboration with anti-Israeli anti-Semites (= me) all over the front page of every daily paper in the city (an indirect quote). They caved and Network 20/20 were forced to cancel.
Whatever your views on the Middle East I hope you find this as serious and frightening as I do. This is, or used to be, the United States of America.
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2006/10/04/tony-judt-speech-shut-down-by-adl
But hey! We have the internet! We have our MOUTHS! We have smoke signalling!
We all know what needs to be done to stop the enemies of free speech from continuing to stifle the truth.
Posted : 04/10/2006 7:47 pm