ADL: Response of anti-Israel groups ‘shocking and shameful’

The ADL decries the “conspicuously silent” reaction of what it dubs US-based “anti-Israel groups” to the slaying of Naftali Fraenkel, 16; Eyal Yifrach, 19; and Gil-ad Shaar, 16.

“It is shocking and shameful that the same groups who swiftly condemn in the strongest terms any perceived misdeed by Israel do not seem to have an ounce of moral outrage left to speak out against the murder of three innocent Israeli teenagers,” says Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director. “It is easy for these groups to pay lip service to principles of justice, human dignity and nonviolence. The tacit condoning of the kidnapping and murders shown by the silence of these anti-Israel activists confirms they are only willing to speak out on the side of human rights when it serves them to do so. Those principles apparently do not extend to Israel.”

In a survey of over 25 websites and social media profiles, the organization found that only the Jewish Voice for Peace condemned the incident, but quickly qualified the acknowledgment with six paragraphs on Israel’s uneven response, it said.

“Most of the organizations surveyed — including Students for Justice in Palestine, Adalah-NY, American Muslims for Palestine and If Americans Knew — only mentioned the kidnapping in order to condemn Israel’s alleged ‘collective punishment’ operations in the West Bank in an effort to find the boys and their kidnappers,” the ADL says.