Secrets and mysteries of the «B'nai B'rith»

The most important Jewish international
organization – The foundation – Forming cadres – Political influence of the
“B’nai B’rith” – Current influence of the “B’nai B’rith” - The “B’nai B’rith”
and Freemasonry – The rule of the secret – The cardinal of the “B’nai B’rith” –
The B’nai B’rith” and communism – The B’nai B’rith” and Zionism – The
B’nai B’rith” helps the recognition of Israel – the hardest task: to
avoid assimilation – The regret for the ghetto and the dangers of emancipation –
The “Anti-Defamation-League”: or the armed wing of the “B’nai B’rith” – The
A.D.L. and private espionage in the USA – A book of condemnation
The most important international
Jewish organization
Emmanuel Ratier presents to us a very interesting study on the “B’nai B’rith”.
Nothing so complete, detailed and well documented had been written on this
subject before. It was indeed very difficult to talk about the “B’nai B’rith”,
because nothing concerning this association could be found ‘open to the public’.
Not even in the National Library in Paris, except for three small booklets from
1932. Nevertheless, according to the ‘Encyclopedia Judaica’ (1970), the “B’nai
B’rith” is the “most ancient and numerous Judaic organization of mutual aid,
organized in lodges and chapters in 45 nations. The total number of members is
about 500,000”.
It is strange that such an important
organization, founded in the USA in 1843, has never published anything about
itself. If we read the collection of magazines, 4 copies of which must be
displayed by law at the National Library every time they are issued, we can see
that the “B’nai B’rith” has never done this, despite being supposed to do so by
law. Despite this precaution, the author of the study presented by Ratier was
able to study a certain part of the publications of the American and European
“B’nai B’rith”. In this article I only review this book and I invite the reader
to go back to the book for consultation.
The foundation
On the 13th October 1843 the “B’nai B’rith” was founded in the Sinsheimer Café,
in the Wall Street area of New York. It was then called “Bundes-Brueder” (which
means the “League of brothers”); it was a German name because the founders were
Jewish-German and they only spoke German and Yiddish. The “B’nai B’rith” is
therefore one of the oldest American association that still exists.
The founder, Henry Jones, recruited his co-founders in the Synagogue, of which
he was in charge. The “B’nai B’rith” itself acknowledges that at least four of
its founders were Freemasons. The order of the “B’nai B’rith” was reserved to
Jewish people by choice of the founders.
The founders wanted to create an Order
able to join all American Jewish and ‘enlighten’ the ‘whole world like a
lighthouse’. A month after the creation of the Order, its base was established
in New York. The building chosen for the first New York Lodge wasn’t a room in
the Synagogue, but the Masonic temple at the corner of Oliver Street and Henry
Street, in order to show its Masonic origin. The founders decided to change the
name of the association, thinking that a Jewish Order should have a Jewish name.
They kept the initials B.B., but changed the name from ‘Bundes-Brueder’ (League
of Brothers) into “B’nai B’rith” (Children of the Alliance). The Order’s Motto
was: “Benevolence, Brotherly love and Harmony”. The symbol of the Order was the
‘menorah’, the seven-branched candelabrum that represents light.
Forming cadres
Henry Jones sensed the need for a tight unity in the American Jewish community,
considering its future increase, given the growing number of emigrants; it was
therefore necessary to create an organization that provided them with
accommodation and support. He joined the religious principles of Judaism to the
philanthropic ideas of mutual aid of Freemasonry. Jones’ plan was to select the
best elements among the immigrants, in order to build ‘cadres’ or elites; they
were necessary to the role that American Judaism was to have in the whole world,
that of priest of the humankind at its service, as ‘noachide’ or proselytes of
the door! For this purpose it was necessary to keep the religious character of
Judaism but at the same time avoid any theological dispute.
The Synagogue in America, though, was
deeply divided and it couldn’t accomplish this task. The Lodge had to mediate
and join what the synagogical disputes had divided. The “B’nai B’rith” had to be
the great instructor of American Jewish and elevate them to their natural role,
viz. the lighthouse of the humankind! It had a two-fold function: it was a
bastion against the secularization and the loss of the Jewish identity and at
the same time it had to avoid any danger of division because of theological
disputes. To help this union, the Order followed the Freemasonry principles and
placed itself above parties and theological Jewish currents. It became the
center of all the business of the American Jewish world and the meeting point of
liberal and orthodox Jewish.
Thanks to its pluralist and
non-exclusivist characteristic, the “B’nai B’rith” was able to join what the
Synagogue had divided. Furthermore, the “B’nai B’rith”, in order to preserve its
vitality, showed a great adaptability to the changing circumstances.
Political influence of the
“B’nai B’rith”
Among the role of protecting the Jewish minorities, the Order put a lot of
pressure in favor of the Jewish persecuted in Russia, Romania, Germany, etc,
through the channel of American diplomacy. For example in 1903 president
Roosevelt prepared, together with the “B’nai B’rith”, a letter of complaint to
send to the Russian Czar, condemning the Russian pogroms. The requests contained
in the letter, transmitted by the American Secretary of State, were not accepted
by the Czar; on the contrary, since the Jewish lead the Russian revolutionaries,
he subjected foreign Israelites to a special passport regime, in order to watch
them. America repeated its diplomatic pressure on the Czar, but Nicholas II
refused once again to accept the Jewish protests. The Great President of the
“B’nai B’rith” at the time, Krans, wrote that one of the members of the “B’nai
B’rith” declared on that occasion: “If the Czar doesn’t want to give our people
the freedom that they wish, then a Revolution will install a Republic in Russia,
so that we can have our rights.” Prediction or premonition?
Current influence of the “B’nai
B’rith”
In the USA, presidential campaigns inevitably pass through the “B’nai B’rith’s”
assemblies; both democratic and republican candidates go to give their messages
of support of Israel. For example in 1953 vice president Richard Nixon was the
main political speaker at the Convention’s banquet; president Dwight Eisenhower
sent a warm encouragement message to the Lodge.
Eisenhower took part to the banquet for
the 40th anniversary of the A.D.L. (Anti-Defamation League of “B’nai B’rith”),
the ‘armed wing’ of the “B’nai B’rith”. In 1963, in occasion of the 50 years of
A.D.L., the guest of honor was president John Kennedy. Months later the new
president Lyndon Johnson was invited by the Order, too. Finally, the president
of the “B’nai B’rith”, Label Katz, met in a private audience pope John XXIII in
January 1960. Thanks to Jules Isaac (member of the “B’nai B’rith”) the Order had
a prominent role in the preparation of the document ‘Nostra Ætate’ by the
Vatican Council II.
The “B’nai B’rith” and
Freemasonry
Today the members of the “B’nai B’rith” try not to talk about their link with
the Freemasonry, but we have already seen how at least four of its founders were
Freemasons who gathered in Masonic Temples. Ratier, on this subject, studied
what Masonic or philo-Masonic authors or magazines wrote about the “B’nai
B’rith”. Here are some examples. Daniel Ligou, the “Dictionnaire de la franc-maçonnerie”
(1932); the “Almanach maçonnique de l’Europe”; Jean-Pierre Bayard, the magazine
“Globe”, according to which the “B’nai B’rith” is the ‘Jewish branch of
Freemasonry’; Daniel Bereniak, the “Guide de la vie juive en France”, which,
referring to the “B’nai B’rith”, talks about “Judaism-colored Freemasonry”;
finally, “Tribune Juive” according to which they (the “B’nai B’rith”) plan to
create a kind of ‘Masonic obedience reserved to Jewish’. For the last few
decades, though, the people in charge of the “B’nai B’rith” have been trying not
to show the Masonic aspects of their Order.
The rule of the secret
Officially the “B’nai B’rith” should have abandoned the rule of the secret in
1920; still in 1936, though, Paul Goldman, president of London’s first Lodge,
spoke about the secret or silence on the Lodge’s activity, in an article about
its history. Ratier also explains how there are some ‘open meetings’ in the
“B’nai B’rith” where profane can attend; then there are the ‘true meetings’,
closed or secret, reserved to the brothers.
The cardinal of “B’nai B’rith”
On the 16th November 1991, cardinal Albert Decourtray, Archbishop of Lion and
Primate of France, received the international Prize of humanitarian action from
the district XIX (Europe) of the “B’nai B’rith”. In the speech pronounced for
the consignment of the medal to Decourtray, Marc Aron, president of the French
“B’nai B’rith”, made an interesting allusion to the evolution of the
relationships between the Jewish people and the Vatican: “Then Jules Isaac came,
a “B’nai B’rith”; his meeting with pope John XXIII is the tip of the iceberg;
the Vatican II, Nostra Ætate, the conciliar directions for the eradication of
any anti-Judaic idea in the catechism and liturgy.”
Cardinal Bea
The philo-Jewish attitude of cardinal Bea caused him to be accused of being a
secret agent of the “B’nai B’rith”. Someone, like Leon de Poncins summed up,
accused Bea of being of Jewish origins, being called Beja or Behar and acting in
the Council as a secret agent of the “B’nai B’rith”. To date, there aren’t any
serious proofs of this.
Freud and the “B’nai B’rith”
The author writes that S. Freud was a member of the “B’nai B’rith” Lodge in
Vienna and that the “B’nai B’rith” influenced the development of
psycho-analysis, founded on the cabala.
The “B’nai B’rith” and communism
The author’s question is: did the “B’nai B’rith” oppose or support the communist
revolution in 1917? Globally, by reading the “B’nai B’rith’s” press, we can say
that they supported it. They didn’t have any fears for the development of the
Russian Israelite community, except the anxiety for a possible assimilation of
the Jewish people in the communist State and the difficulty of the religious
practice. Besides these two points, in the press of the “B’nai B’rith” of the
time we can’t find any evidence of condemnation of the communist dictatorial
regime for its ideology. The ‘elimination of the orthodox Jewish was led by the
Jewish section of the communist party, the ‘Evsekzija’; we suffered the sad
sight of Jewish people undressing their own brothers’.
The “B’nai B’rith” and Zionism
The “B’nai B’rith” can be considered a pre-Zionist movement. Since its origins
and because of its nature, the “B’nai B’rith” is an Order of Zionist
inspiration, although this word didn’t exist in 1843. Paul Goldman, president of
the First Lodge of England, wrote a small booklet on the history of such a Lodge
in 1936. In this pamphlet we find important information on the influence of the
London Lodges of the “B’nai B’rith” on the development of Zionism.
“In Palestine – Goldman wrote – the
“B’nai B’rith” had a unique role, before Zionism turned it into the bases of the
Jewish State”. In 1865, twenty-three years before the world Zionist organization
of Herzl, the “B’nai B’rith” organized a big campaign to help the Jewish victims
of a cholera epidemic in Palestine. After that, the Order has never stopped
supporting financially the private initiatives in Israel (in 1948 they sent more
than four million dollars to Israel). There was, though, an anti-Zionist
minority among the Jewish people; the “B’nai B’rith” has always tried to avoid
controversy and division among Israelites and therefore it hasn’t officially
taken side (until September 1947) in favor of the Zionist thesis. They still
defended them and participated actively to all the Zionist conferences.
The “B’nai B’rith” helps the
recognition of Israel
The “B’nai B’rith” caused the actual State of Israel to be recognized by the
American president Harry Truman, who was hostile to a quick process; because of
his ‘delay’ he was accused of being a traitor by Zionist executives. In those
occasions, none of the Zionist leaders was received at the White House; none,
except for Frank Goldman, president of the “B’nai B’rith”, although he didn’t
manage to persuade the president. Goldman then called the lawyer Granoff,
Jacobson’s counselor and personal friend of Truman. Jacobson was a member of the
“B’nai B’rith”, although he wasn’t a Zionist; he wrote a telegram to his friend
Truman asking him to receive Weizmann (president of the world Zionist Congress).
The telegram didn’t have a reply. Jacobson then asked for a personal meeting at
the White House. Truman told him he would be happy to see him on condition he
didn’t talk about Palestine. Jacobson promised and set out. When he arrived at
the White House, as Truman itself wrote in his ‘Memoirs’: “Big tears trickled
down his eyes. I told him: ‘Eddie, silly idiot, you promised me not to talk
about what’s happening in the Middle East’. Jacobson answered me: ‘Mister
president, I haven’t said a word, but every time I think about the Jewish people
without a homeland, I start crying’.
I then said to him: ‘Eddie, stop it’.
And we talked about other stuff, but now and again a big tear trickled down his
eyes. Then he left.”
Not long after, Truman secretly received
Weizmann and radically changed his opinion, deciding to immediately recognize
the State of Israel. On the 15th May 1948 Truman asked the representative of the
United States to recognize de facto the new State. When the President signed the
documents for the official recognition of Israel, on the 13th January 1949, the
only observers not belonging to the U.S. government were three leaders of the
“B’nai B’rith”, Eddie Jacobson, Maurice Bisyger and Frank Goldman.
The hardest task: to avoid
assimilation
We know already that the “B’nai B’rith” has the purpose to join Israelites and
help human progress. Therefore the Order tries to develop the moral and
intellectual character of its coreligionists. Nevertheless, by studying the
matter further, we can read a kind of Jewish ‘racism’ in such programs. The
Order of the ‘Children of the Alliance’ presumes a complete loyalty to Judaism,
because it strengthens the Jewish consciousness. One of the highest tasks of the
Order is to preserve the Jewish people from any danger of assimilation from
other countries, which would cause them to lose their identity.
The “Anti-Defamation League – A.D.L.”
writes that they believe in integration, that is the acceptance of Jewish people
as equals. But this is opposite to assimilation, that is the loss of the Jewish
identity. One of the principles of the Order is that ‘there’s no room in the
“B’nai B’rith” for a Brother that keeps his children away from the Israelite
Community’.
The regret for the ghetto and
the dangers of emancipation
In the “B’nai B’rith’s” publications of the past years, we could still see a
kind of nostalgia of the ghetto as a warranty of their identity; some members
even thought that ‘the mortal enemy of Jewish is not anti-Semitism but
assimilation’.
The “B’nai B’rith” also fights against
mixed marriages where one of the two is a ‘goy’, even when it is celebrated in a
Synagogue.
The ‘Anti-Defamation League’: or
the armed wing of the “B’nai B’rith”
The A.D.L. was founded by the “B’nai B’rith” in October 1913 to fight defamation
and discrimination against the American Jewish community. Many US presidents,
such as Truman, Eisenhower, J. Kennedy, Johnson and Reagan have praised the
A.D.L.
The association regularly makes a file
on those who have expressed non philo-Israelite opinions. In Italy, last summer,
the journalist Maurizio Blondet sensationally managed to publish the A.D.L. list
of 1993; among the others we find the names of the Members of Parliament Pivetti
and Miglio and the cardinals Ruini and Pappalardo. The MP Pivetti presented a
parliamentary interrogation asking the Minister of the Interior an inquest on
the matter, but she didn’t receive a reply.
A.D.L. and private espionage in
the USA
On the 10th December 1992 and 8th April 1993 the building of the A.D.L. of the
“B’nai B’rith” in San Francisco and Los Angeles were simultaneously searched by
FBI agents; many documents prove that A.D.L., through its section of documentary
research (Fact Finding Division) directed by Irwin Svall since 1962, has been a
wide network of espionage, not only against vaguely anti-Semitic political
militants, but also against several religious confessions, clubs and local
association that have nothing to do with anti-Semitism.
American police found out that most of the men or associations spied by the
A.D.L. had never had any direct or indirect link with the Jewish community; they
didn’t even have a clear position pro or against Israel.
In Italy, for example, cardinal Ruini
has been filed as an anti-Semite because he wrote that Jesus was crucified by
Jewish. Cardinal Pappalardo was filed for using the scriptural expression
‘Synagogue of Satan’.
Such network of espionage has been
established thanks to the friends of A.D.L. among policemen, sheriffs and even
FBI agents. The power of the Jewish community is such that the A.D.L. building
in Los Angeles had to be searched by the San Francisco police, because the local
police refused to cooperate directly with the inquest. The Attorney General of
San Francisco, Arlo Smith, said that it was ‘the biggest network of espionage
working on a national scale’.
Two reporters of the ‘San Francisco
Chronicle’, Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, wrote that the A.D.L.’s dossier in
San Francisco, seized by the Los Angeles police, is ‘only the tip of the iceberg
of a national system of espionage and indiscretions programmed by the security
services’. The two journalists also state that ‘policemen from at least other
six cities are equally involved in the sale of confidential police files’.
Another practice used by the A.D.L. is to infiltrate in American groups or
parties.
Some Jewish students of the University
of San Francisco, as reported by the ‘San Francisco Weekly’, have admitted of
spying, on behalf of the A.D.L., other students or professors, systematically
writing down their observations about Israel or Jewish people. It seems logical
to suppose that the A.D.L. files every person who expresses critical feelings or
opinions about Israel. It seems that the link between the A.D.L. and the police
goes back to the preliminaries of the American declaration of war in 1941. When
the US declared war, the A.D.L. files became a goldmine for the FBI, which could
control enemy agents.
This practice hasn’t stopped: the A.D.L. has provided the FBI with lists of
people or organizations considered ‘racist’. Indeed, the A.D.L. organized
seminaries of formation where American policemen were invited to identify and
file ‘anti-Semites’ or presumed to be as such. In 1989 the chief of FBI William
Sessions participated to the annual assembly of the A.D.L., offering them his
professional experience.
In order to obtain the favors of
repressive powers and facilitate its penetration in the police apparatus, every
year the A.D.L. sponsors many seminars especially dedicated to the so-called
‘white extremists’; here many officials of the police, FBI agents, sheriffs and
general Procurators of the thirteen States participate.
The «’technical’ publications of A.D.L.,
which are often a true filing of people criticizing Zionism, are indeed destined
to be used by the police, as the advertising catalogue of A.D.L. itself
specifies».
Provocative operations are organized on
behalf of the A.D.L.; they are carried out inside extreme right wing groups, in
order to discredit them and at the same time to attract the public opinion’s
attention on the existence of a serious racist and anti-Semite danger, which
doesn’t in actual fact exist.
A book of condemnation
In the summer 1992 a book called ‘Les droites nationales et radicals en France’,
appeared in France, published by ‘Presses universitaires de Lyon’ (P.U.L.); it
is written by two young authors, Renè Monzat and Jean-Yves Camus (both born in
1958). On the back cover it is written: «Book published with the support of the
French “B’nai B’rith”». The president of the French “B’nai B’rith”, doctor Marc
Aron, an influent Lyonais personality, signed the preface titled: “the vicious
circle of the extreme right”. The work is mainly made by the transcription of
police files (from page 61 to page 100) and it is a book of condemnation of
parties, personalities, bulletins, associations, etc.
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Brotherly
Love?
In California court case,
ADL still delaying disclosure of where it got and what it did with personal data
on Anti-Apartheid and Pro-Palestinian activists
Washington Report on
Middle East Affairs December 1997, Page 57 By Kurt Holden
In late 1992, the FBI informed the San
Francisco police that one of its officers, Tom Gerard, had been secretly
cooperating with a "spy," Roy Bullock, who had been secretly paid by the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith for over 30 years to infiltrate
organizations which the ADL deemed hostile to Israel.
Gerard was believed to have illegally
turned over to Bullock material gathered from police files. Worse, the police
previously had been ordered to destroy those files, which a court had ruled
violated the civil rights of the people upon whom files had been opened.
Bullock's job was to collect facts about
"enemies of Israel" which were then organized in central ADL files in Los
Angeles and New York, and used for confidential dissemination to the "active"
Jewish community, which could be counted on to take "counter-action" to
neutralize or discredit these "enemies."
In the 1980s, Bullock's assignments had
been expanded to include surveillance of individuals and organizations opposed
to apartheid in South Africa, presumably because Israel and South Africa were
allies, drawn to each other because both were resisting United Nations human
rights resolutions regarding the Palestinians and indigenous South Africans.
Bullock would ingratiate himself into
Arab-American and anti-apartheid groups by indicating he was in sympathy with
their goals. Attending their meetings and going into their homes, he would note
their car license plates and, through "official friends" who were police
officers or who had access to government records, try to get drivers' license
numbers, P. O. boxes and criminal investigative reports, if such existed.
FBI officials had become interested in
1992 when they discovered that in addition to collecting information for the ADL,
Bullock and Gerard were selling information to South African intelligence
agents.
The San Francisco police, made up of
officers largely of Irish and Italian ethnic backgrounds (and certainly not
aware of the enormous political clout of the Jewish community), obtained search
warrants and seized some 12 boxes of records at the ADL headquarters in Los
Angeles and San Francisco in early 1993.
[Under a separate "Arab" category he
kept 77 files on 58 Arab-American organizations; among 647 groups described as "pinko,"
multiple files were maintained on the African National Congress and 47 other
anti-apartheid organizations, both here and South Africa-based. His surveillance
of the latter reflected the ADL's desire, as part of Israel's "unofficial" U.S.
propaganda arm, to neutralize critics of Israel's military and economic ties to
the apartheid state, an effort, which, the records show, was largely successful.
This eventually led him to do similar
spying for the South African intelligence service together with his buddy, now
retired San Francisco police inspector Tom Gerard who kept his own set of files
(which is more than just a departmental no-no and has him already indicted and
facing a possible conviction).
Among the hundreds of other groups spied
upon were such diverse organizations as the NAACP, the National Indian Treaty
Council, Greenpeace, the Japanese-Americans Citizens League, the Centro Legal de
La Raza, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Earth Island Institute and the
Harvey Milk Gay and Lesbian Democratic Club. A half dozen American Jewish and
Israeli groups also received his attention including the Jerusalem-based
Alternative Information Center, Americans for Peace Now, Friends of Yesh G'vul,
the International Jewish Peace Union and Israelis Against Occupation.
There were also files on 20 Bay Area
labor unions, plus the San Francisco Central Labor Council, the Coalition of
Black Trade Unionists, the Boycott Shell Committee, the Green Giant Frozen Food
Workers Committee and the San Francisco Chapter of the Committee for Labor Union
Women. In alphabetical order, files were maintained on: AFSCME Local 3218, AFT
151, AFSCME Local 3506, Carpenters Local 22, NABET Local 51, HERE Local 2, IAM
Local 565, ILWU, ILWU Local 6, NALC Local 214, OCAW, OCAW 8149, Plumbers &
Fitters Local 93; SEIU Local 535, SEIU Local 616; Teamster Local 921 (S.F. TDU),
United Farm Workers and UTU Local 1730.
In addition, records were kept on the
Bay Area Network on Central America, the Portland Labor Committee on Central
America, the Free South Africa Labor Committee and the Labor Committee on the
Middle East.
In Bullock's computer, all were labeled
"pinko," (which in his interview with SFPD inspector Roth, he equated with "left
wing.")]
Subsequently they sent notices to some
12,000 people and organizations whose names were found in ADL's files. In at
least two cases, they also provided such individuals with excerpts from ADL's
files on them which obviously had come from confidential government records.
Both individuals, Jeffrey Blankfort and
Steve Zeltzer, were prominent Jewish advocates of fairness to Palestinians and
for ending apartheid in South Africa. From those activities they already were
aware that the ADL worked in cooperation with Israel's Mossad.
The ADL worked in cooperation with
Israel's Mossad
In 1993 they and 17 other plaintiffs
filed a class-action lawsuit in the San Francisco Superior Court. The suit has
become known as Audrey Parks Shabbas, et al., plaintiffs, vs. Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith, et al., defendants. In addition to the three above-named
plaintiffs, others are Victor Ajlouny, Yigal Arens (son of former Israeli
Defense Minister Moshe Arens), Amal Barkouky-Winter, Manuel Dudum, Colin
Edwards, Carol El-Shaib, George Green, Paula Kotakis, Stephen Mashney, Helen
Hooper McCloskey, Margaret Ann McCormack, Donald McGaffin, Anne Poirier, Agha
Saeed, Jock Taft and Marianne Torres. Attorney for the plaintiffs is former
Congressman Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey, who practices law in Woodside, California.
In fact, the suit was filed on behalf of
two classes of individuals--those who opposed Israeli policies toward the
Palestinians and those who opposed apartheid in South Africa. The lawsuit
alleged an invasion of their privacy, citing a California law which imposes a
minimum of 2,500 Dollars in punitive damages for each act of publication of
confidential information obtained from governmental files.
The ADL responded by arguing that it is
a newsgathering organization and thus entitled to the reporter's privilege of
keeping sources of information secret.
Under California law and a famous
Supreme Court ruling known as the Mitchell decision, a plaintiff is barred from
obtaining what a reporter claims is "privileged" information until the plaintiff
can show that he has exhausted all other reasonable means of obtaining the facts
necessary to prove his case, and has met four other requirements. For four and a
half years, ADL refused to produce the information.
An Order to Disclose
Depositions were taken of ADL employees
and law enforcement personnel, but ADL was able to withhold the information
until Aug. 19, 1997, when Judge Alexander Saldamando of San Francisco ruled that
ADL and the San Francisco police would have to disclose to the plaintiffs the
illegally obtained information, from whom it had been obtained, and to whom it
was sent.
ADL has announced it will seek a writ
from the Court of Appeals to block enforcement of Judge Saldamando's order. The
result should be known by Oct. 30, which is the date ADL is required to produce
the information.
The stubborn refusal of ADL to reveal
where it received its information, and to whom and for what purposes it was
disclosed, promises many more revealing insights on the methods and motivations
of this American-incorporated organization which has been working diligently on
behalf of the governments of Israel and apartheid South Africa.
Kurt Holden is a free-lance writer who
divides his time between the U.S. and the Middle East.
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