The Anti-Defamation League, one of the most prominent Jewish advocacy and anti-hate organizations in the US, has been the center of a rightwing pressure campaign that intensified on Wednesday when the FBI director, Kash Patel, denounced the group and said the agency would cut ties with the non-profit.
Patel’s announcement followed days of attacks by rightwing influencers and Elon Musk on the ADL over its online database on extremism, which included a page on slain far-right pundit Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA and the organization’s links to far-right extremists. On Tuesday, the ADL deleted its entire Glossary of Extremism, a flagship project which contained more than 1,000 entries on groups and movements with connections to hateful ideologies. The move failed to quell the backlash.
