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Urgent Update: We Bloody Freakin WON!!!! ADL Goes Down!

By John DiMascio / August 15, 2007

The Town of Watertown is the first community in the nation to officially sever ties with the Anti-Defamation League and the No Place For Hate program. Watertown rescinded the certification of No Place For Hate tonight with a vote of 8-0.

Here are some jewcy details:

Andrew Tarsy, New England Director and Minister of Disinformation for the Anti-Defamation League, got up and repeatedly lied about the ADL’s lobbying effort to defeat the congressional resolution. He then tried to interrupt an Arab American woman who was describing all the civil rights violations the ADL commits against Arab Americans. He was finally booed out of the Council Chambers.

Rumor has it, one Armenian fellow who is shorter than me (I'm 5 ft tall in my shoes) actually chased him down the hall. I didn't see it, but an unnamed member of the executive branch of our municipal government told me the story at an after hours meeting of the tri-lateral commission in a secret undisclosed location.

All told over 100 people were there. Mostly Armenians but a lot of others stood shoulder to shoulder with them. I suggested we take the sign down and ship it back to the ADL postage due. Other's took a less caustic approach and simply read from Foxman's anthology of asinine quotes. Suffice it to say that when the vote was finally taken the room exploded in applause. One Councilor asked the Town Manager to have the sign taken down first thing in the morning. But, within one hour of the vote, the sign was down thanks to an exceptional department of public works.

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  • By Bill 9/21/07 at 11:25 a.m. UTC

    You idiots obviously have a hard on for jewish people. I hear nothing but jealous rages going nowhere fast. Enjoy your losing battle and whining thoughout your miserable, bitter lives. Go screw yourself!

  • By Ralph Filicchia 8/15/07 at 12:41 p.m. UTC

    For the record, the Confederate flag went up before the Armenians got involved with the issue. It was my protest symbol objecting to the Town Council’s refusal to take down the sign and rescind the NPFH proclamation. The original complaint against the NPFH program was the possible criminalization of any individual who might have a variant view on any social, cultural or moral issue. In short: You cannot criminalize the other guy’s opinion–unless you live in Joe Stalin’s Russia, or North Korea.

  • By Pants Wearer 8/15/07 at 11:47 a.m. UTC

    I'm just curious: What lies was Tarsy telling about the ADL's lobbying? And what civil rights violations has the ADL committed against Arab Americans?

  • Izzy Grinspan
    By Izzy Grinspan 8/15/07 at 11:25 a.m. UTC

    What does the Confederate flag have to do with an Armenian community in New England?  Was the guy protesting the sign because of his problem with the way Abe Foxman runs the ADL, or because of some kind of "actually, this IS a place for hate" statement?  This movement might create some really uncomfortable alliances.

  • By Anonymous 8/15/07 at 5:41 a.m. UTC

    Perhaps Jewish organizations in Watertown will lose their nonprofit status next

  • By Bill Levinson 8/15/07 at 2:23 a.m. UTC

    Maybe this will teach ADL that it can have honor and consistency (i.e. condemning hate and genocide wherever they are perpetrated, and no matter by whom or against whom they are perpetrated), or it can behave like a cheap political prostitute, but it can't do both at the same time.

    If I lived in the area, I'd have shown up myself to tell the Town Council what ADL has become on Foxman's watch. I will never forget how ADL whitewashed genuine in-earnest anti-Semitic hate speech at MoveOn's Action Forum, but MoveOn's hate speech didn't actually kill anyone. The Ottoman Turks did. For ADL to downplay this or cover it up is reprehensible.

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