>Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League CEO, repeatedly compared pro-Palestinian student protesters to Islamist terrorists in comments to Republican attorneys general and said the left harbored the “real deal threat” to Jews.
>“You have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see what’s happening on the left,” Greenblatt said Friday, according to audio from the event obtained by the Forward.
>“There is a throughline from Occupy Wall Street to BLM to ‘defund the police’ to ‘River to the Sea,’” he added, referring to the Black Lives Matter movement launched a decade ago to protest police violence. “They are the same people, these are the same kind of nihilists.”
>The “real deal threat” was rather “this convergence of what I call the radical left and, like, Islamist groups here in the U.S.,” which he said was resulting in the worst expression of hate against any group in the country for the last 100 years.
>He also sought to connect the fight against antisemitism to broader conservative concerns, arguing that left-wing protesters and opponents of Israel were seeking to undermine the entire country.
>“They’re not just opposed to Jews, although they are,” he said. “They’re opposed to the West, they’re opposed to capitalism, they’re opposed to America.”
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