Its not true that the ADL overlooks Islamic anti-semitism.  The ADL for years has diligently tracked anti-semitic rhetoric and images in the Arab and Islamic world.  (The ADL is most certainly not holding its tongue in criticizing American Islamic anti-Semitism out of political correctness.  In the 1990s, the ADL pulled no punches and spared no hyperbole in going after the National of Islam or any African-American politician who remotely associated with the NOI.  And anyone who thinks that the ADL's fundraising would decline if it found a few juicy quotes from an Brooklyn-based imam is kidding themselves.) 

The problem is that the ADL is increasingly getting caught up in Israel advocacy at the expense of its core mission.  (And I say this as a proud Zionist who supports the work of Jewish and interfaith Israel advocacy groups.)  If you go to the ADL's webpage, you can see a clear example of this.  The homepage is dominated by a campaign to free the Israeli soldiers held hostage by Hamas and Hezbollah.  A very worthy campaign for every American Zionist from MeretzUSA to the ZOA to get behind, but should it really be the top priority for the ADL?   The homepage also features Foxman's inagural blog post, in which he pontificates on how the U.S. and Israel should relate to Fatah in light of Hamas' takeover of Gaza.  When did Foxman become an expert on Middle East diplomatic and security issues?  (Around the same time David Brooks because an expert on pop music?)

Its understandable how the ADL began its mission creep into Israel advocacy.  Part of the ADL's core mission does involve policing the attacks on the Jewish state.  The ADL should, and does, monitor anti-Semitism in Arab and Iranian state media.  The ADL should unmask anti-Semitism cloaked in anti-Zionist rhetoric.  (Which is why the ADL's efforts to oppose selective boycotts of Israeli academics is appropriate, if not beyond questioning.)  But the ADL has gotten significantly offtrack when its agenda becomes virtually indistinguishable from the AJC or the JCPA - and in the case of the Armenian genocide, AIPAC and JINSA.  What has made the ADL such an effective organization in comparison to the rest of the American Jewish Alphabet Soup (AJAS) is that it had a clear mission and stuck to it, and that clearly placed the Jewish struggle for anti-Semitism in the context of the larger struggle against bigotry and discrimination.  It needs to get back to that mission.