After Oct 7, the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt course corrected away from his previous appeasement of the anti-Israel Left. And while there were still plenty of things wrong with the liberal group, Greenblatt told the DEI people brought into the ADL that if they were anti-Israel, they could leave.
While the ADL under Greenblatt was still a long way from what it was under Foxman (which was still very liberal and weak on most issues except opposing conservatives), it did tepidly push back against the anti-Israel Left.
When Trump announced the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia student leader in a movement that had called for ‘Death to America’ and supported the Hamas murder of Jews, the ADL approved.
It did so at a time when Amy Spitalnick, a former J Street anti-Israel activist running the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, and the Jewish Democratic Council of America, denounced the move.