In a striking move for an administration that caters to the State of Israel and its American supporters, the FBI has severed its ties with the staunchly pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League (ADL), with Director Kash Patel saying the bureau refuses to team up with “political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.”
The move comes after the ADL found itself facing a conservative uproar over including the recently-assassinated Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA in its “Glossary of Extremism and Hate.” On Tuesday, the ADL announced it was retiring the glossary, a measure that failed to spare the 102-year-old group from an extraordinarily rare rebuke from a senior US official.
Categorized under “Extremism, Hate or Terrorism,” the ADL’s now-deleted entry on Turning Point USA claimed the group had a history of “bigoted statements,” “attract racists” and offers a “vast platform for extremists and far-right conspiracy theorists.”
The FBI was taking their “hate group” definitions from ADL, which is why FBI was investigating Charlie Kirk & Turning Point, instead of his murderers … https://t.co/xTAfSY8vqr
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