Anti-Defamation League’s Director to Retire After Leading Group for 27 Years.
Abraham H. Foxman, a Holocaust survivor whose 50-year tenure battling anti-Semitism made him one of the visible and influential leaders of the American Jewish community, announced on Monday that he will retire next year as national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
Mr. Foxman, who has headed the organization since 1987, played a central role in most of the major controversies involving Israel and the Jewish community in recent years, and has stirred up a few of his own. He was frequently lionized as a forceful defender of Jews and Israel, but periodically criticized as too quick to call criticism of Israel anti-Semitic and too hesitant to label the early 20th-century killings of Armenians in Turkey as genocide.
In a telephone interview, Mr. Foxman, 73, said he was ready for a change. . .
Mr. Foxman said he viewed as his organization’s biggest single accomplishment one that took place before his arrival: the passage of a so-called anti-mask law in Georgia, designed to prevent Ku Klux Klan members from wearing hoods.
“Our Constitution guarantees you the right to be a bigot, but if you want to be a bigot, you have to take responsibility for your bigotry,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/us/anti-defamation-leagues-director-to-retire-after-leading-group-for-27-years.html?hp
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But sometimes ANONYMITY is GOOD..... aka OWS
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But most of the rest was rubbish. A water war that many in the rest of the world do not recognize or choose not to has been a study in religious deciet. . Been studying water in school - a lot of studying = little planetary water.
Why do you think they cut down orchards?
He did good things, but allowed MANY bad things.....
to a statesman I do not fully agree with.