The ADL used to state clearly that E. Michael Jones was not a racist. That situation changed on July 14, 2023, when the ADL posted a revised profile on me which contained the following assertion:

In his writings, Jones has claimed that his views on Jews are not based on racial theories and that he is “anti-Jewish” but not “antisemitic.” During an April 2023 podcast, however, Jones undermined his claim when he stated, “The Jewish people are defined by their DNA. They have defective DNA so they can’t help themselves but be subversive people.”

On they same day, Jonathan Greenblatt opened the same culture war on the religious front when he tweeted: “The idea that Judaism is treacherous toward Christianity – including Catholicism – is antisemitic and false. Conspiracy theories like the ones E. Michael Jones spreads put Jews in danger and we must fight these hateful messages.”

Andrew Torba picked up Greenblatt’s use of the word “treacherous” and posted the following tweet:

Talmudic Judaism of today is nothing at all like the Judaism of the OT—which ceased being a religion in 70 AD when the temple was annihilated as Christ said it would be. No temple, no OT Judaism. Something new took its place and was formed by the Jews who rejected and continued to reject Jesus Christ. All you have to do is read the book of Acts to see how the Jews who rejected Christ persecuted first century Christians—including ethnically Jewish believers. You can also read the Talmud to see all of the treacherous things it has to say about Goyim (non-Jews). Or simply look how Jews like you treat Christians like myself and @EMichaelJones1 today. Nothing has changed in 2,000 years. Same song and dance. Repent and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, Jonathan. This is my sincere and honest prayer for you.

I then joined the discussion by tweeting:

Andrew Torba’s analysis has forced Jonathan Greenblatt to sail into dangerous waters. We know that Greenblatt is an expert at defamation. That is his job as head of the ADL. But to engage in this fight, he’s going to have to become an expert on Catholicism and its foundational texts, all of which support Torba’s contention that the Jews rejected Christ and persecuted Christians, and that they continue to do it to this day.

This exchange put Greenblatt in a bind. Unable to come up with any documentation that would refute what Torba said about Christianity, Greenblatt had to revert to playing the race card, but unfortunately for him the claim that I held racial views was based on a lie. The ADL deliberately misrepresented my description of anti-Semitism as racial as something that I espoused, when in fact the context of the quote cited on the ADL website made it clear that I espoused the opposite position.

Here is what I actually said on that podcast. After my assistant Mike Bagiackas asked, “Dr. Jones, if you had a catholic definition of antisemite, what would that be?” I responded by saying:

It’s the original definition of the term, which is basically that the Jewish people are defined by their DNA. They have defective DNA, and so they can’t help themselves, [they can’t help] but be subversive people because of a form of biological determinism. That’s what anti-Semitism means; that’s what Wilhelm Marr was talking about when he came up with the term in 1870-1871. Because he was a revolutionary, he didn’t want to use the classic Catholic arguments, so he came up with this biological determinist argument, [but] it makes no sense! If you go to traditional discussions, Catholic discussions of anti-Semitism, they will say, basically; well, look, everybody, there’s a big drama going on here in Jerusalem at the time of Christ, and you’ve got two groups who are duking it out; they’re battling each other. Both the Jews who accepted Jesus Christ as the Messiah, and the Jews who rejected Christ as the Logos incarnate have the same DNA. They are indistinguishable from each other racially, and so racial distinctions make no difference here. So, if you were to say, that the Gospels are anti-Jewish, well, you’re right! You’re absolutely right. The Gospel of St. John is anti-Jewish, there’s no question about it, because it’s that conflict I just described to you. But whenever they say that, there’s always a sleight of hand that switches to anti-Semitic, anti-Semitic means racial, and suddenly you’ve got the Catholics guilty of racial hate crimes. That’s what has to be clarified; that’s the distinction that has to be made and we should not allow ourselves to be railroaded into a position we don’t take.

That, however, is precisely what Greenblatt’s ADL tried to do here. He took the racial position which I had articulated as the opposite of what I believed and claimed that I held the position that I set out to refute, in the hope that no one would go back to the original source and discover Greenblatt’s mendacity, or his chutzpah, in trying to pull off this flagrant misrepresentation of what I believed. In order to turn me into a racist, the ADL had to lie about me and say that I said the exact opposite of what I said. But it didn’t work. Greenblatt overplayed his hand.

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Once the original video got posted, the ADL tried to back away from what they had just said about me by removing my original quote and replacing it with the following parenthetical statement. “A previous version mistakenly stated that E. Michael Jones endorsed racial antisemitism,” hoping that no one would notice their sleight of hand. Well, a lot of people did notice, and even more people noticed after I tweeted:

The ADL backs down. Caught with its pants down, @ADL amended its website attack on me to say “(A previous version mistakenly stated that E. Michael Jones endorsed racial antisemitism.)” while deleting some defamatory accusations but adding other inflammatory language. If the ADL were truthful, it would delete its entire piece on me and substitute a legend that said: “A previous version mistakenly said that E. Michael Jones is an anti-Semite. We apologize.”

As the comments on their Tweet made clear, the ADL does not apologize. They are in the defamation business, and the risks involved in that business involve a certain amount of damage control to avoid lawsuits—hence, their disclaimer—but legal jeopardy is only one of Jonathan Greenblatt’s problems. He now has to deal with the fact that he has accepted my definition of anti-Semitism. If, as he put it, anti-Semitism can be defined by the claim that “The Jewish people are defined by their DNA. They have defective DNA so they can’t help themselves but be subversive people,” then he is admitting that I have been right all along in defining anti-Semitism as a form of biological determinism. Proof that Greenblatt and the ADL accepted my biological definition is the fact that they used it to defame me. As soon as they were caught in that lie, they had to admit that I never held that position, which means that, according to their definition, I am not an anti-Semite. More than that, they have admitted that being anti-Jewish is not the same as being anti-Semitic, which means in effect that those who base their criticism of Jews on theological and not biological grounds, as Andrew Torba did, cannot be accused of anti-Semitism. Then, after bringing up the race vs. religion distinction, the ADL tells us to ignore it because Jones’s “hate-fueled rhetoric. . . makes any such distinction academic.”

Not so fast, Jonathan! Thanks to Jonathan Greenblatt we now understand the sleight of hand behind the accusations of anti-Semitism which have been used to cow the goyim into submission for over a century now. Greenblatt’s admission is important because it paves the way to sue the ADL for its reckless use of the term anti-Semitism. Now anyone who is slandered by the ADL can point to Greenblatt’s admission that anything other than the biological determinism definition they tried to pin on me is not anti-Semitism and therefore clearly defamatory.

It also allows American citizens to defend themselves against the hate crimes legislation that the Biden Administration is now planning. In May of 2023, the Biden Administration released the first U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, a document which President Biden claimed “represents the most ambitious and comprehensive U.S. government-led effort to fight antisemitism in American history.” The historical significance of this document diminished considerably in light of the legal disclaimer which preceded any of its content. According to that disclaimer: “The U.S National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism does not supersede, modify, or direct an interpretation of any existing federal, state, or local statute, regulation, or policy.”

By now it should be obvious that this disclaimer isn’t worth the paper on which it has been written. If Greenblatt gets its way, American citizens will go to jail for espousing what the ADL erroneously, according to their own admission, calls anti-Semitism. God, however, has used the Jews’ traditional blindness to lure them into a trap of their own making. In an example of what Hegel called “the cunning of reason,” we can now hold the ADL to what is now its own definition of the term. If they charge you with anything other than some form of racial biological determinism, their definition of anti-Semitism does not apply. At this point we should thank Jonathan Greenblatt for his intransigence. By not apologizing for slandering me, he has substantiated a definition of anti-Semitism that leaves those who are anti-Jewish off the hook.

Notes

https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/e-michael-jones

https://twitter.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1680631883049181189

https://twitter.com/BasedTorba/status/1680679614568443904

https://twitter.com/EMichaelJones1/status/1680717849583550466

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Video Link

https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/e-michael-jones

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/U.S.-National-Strategy-to-Counter-Antisemitism.pdf