00:00:41.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:49.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:25.000They used to say, hey, we're here to fight anti-Semitism, but that's changed.
00:01:29.000The ADL is nothing more than a weapon of the Marxist left run by a man by the name of Jonathan Greenblatt.
00:01:38.000Now, if you go to their website, adl.org, it's hard to find anything you disagree with.
00:01:42.000They say, unless you go further, they say, we fight anti-Semitism.
00:01:46.000In fact, their byline is Fighting Hate for Good.
00:01:52.000ADL.org, run by this guy, Jonathan Greenblatt.
00:01:54.000Now, this goes to a theme, though, is that there's a supply and demand issue with hatred and racism in America.
00:02:00.000The same goes for the civil rights machinery or Leviathan that was built in the 1960s and early 1970s.
00:02:07.000We start to see that you build these massive institutions all around trying to fight racism and fight injustice and fight anti-Semitism.
00:02:16.000And eventually you realize the country that you're waging this war in, it's actually a rather decent country.
00:02:23.000So you have to come up with hatred where it doesn't exist.
00:02:28.000So ADL.org, their entire mission statement to their donors and to their employees and to their members is that there's more hate than ever before and give us more money so we could fight hate for good.
00:02:43.000And they call themselves the Anti-Defamation League.
00:02:45.000Now, ironically, they actually do more defaming than almost anybody else.
00:02:50.000They smear, for example, libs of TikTok.
00:03:00.000They run advertisements against Turning Point USA trying to say that we are, you know, not alt-right, but we play footsie with the alt-right and that we are akin to radical right-wing forces.
00:03:13.000We have a whole page right here on ADL.org.
00:03:29.000So this is a multiple page thing at ADL.org.
00:03:33.000And they pick their targets and they smear you relentlessly.
00:03:37.000Now, it really hasn't bothered me or bothered us at Turning Point.
00:03:40.000Yes, they run SEO ads trying to misrepresent us.
00:03:44.000But they do this, and this is the important thing, is they believe they are untouchable.
00:03:50.000They believe that you cannot criticize the ADL or the Anti-Defamation League.
00:03:57.000You're not allowed to push back on them.
00:03:58.000You're not allowed to say, hey, what you're doing is wrong.
00:04:01.000Now, understand this is their business model.
00:04:03.000The business model of the Anti-Defamation League, the ADL, is they will go after voices, companies, and they will try to destroy them if they do not suppress speech that they don't like.
00:04:19.000So, this all bubbled up when the head of ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, met with the head of X, or always be Twitter to me, Linda Yaccarino.
00:04:29.000And when that meeting happened, all of a sudden this erupted on social media saying, hold on a second, we know what the ADL is trying to do here.
00:04:35.000The ADL is going to try to pressure Twitter to shut up, shadow ban, and blacklist dissident voices that they don't like.
00:04:44.000Now, the ADL does this all under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism.
00:04:50.000They basically say that you are not allowed to criticize the ADL or any of their activities.
00:04:56.000And if you do, then you must hate Jews.
00:05:00.000This is one of my most frustrating developments in the modern narrative war: how you're somehow not allowed to criticize an organization or a person because all of a sudden they'll say, Well, I'm Jewish.
00:06:01.000Jonathan Greenblatt argues, he brags in his Zoom calls that they talk to the FBI every single day.
00:06:12.000The ADL is an adjunct to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, telling them of what extremists to find, what people that you have to try to suppress.
00:06:22.000You go to the ADL website, for example, they say hate on display, quote, a hate symbol.
00:07:21.000And they all work together, the ACLU, the SPLC, the ADL.
00:07:26.000You must understand that these 501c3 nonprofits that are funded by major corporations, billionaire donors, donor-advised funds, their full-time job is to try to wage war on the United States Constitution.
00:07:39.000These are formerly civil rights groups that have become commissars for the Marxist regime.
00:08:44.000I know my respect for the Jewish people, for the Torah, for Israel, my admiration of some of the most amazing Jews in public life.
00:08:54.000But I'm not going to stop short of criticizing the ADL because you guys are going to say, oh, you're an anti-Semite because you criticize the ADL.
00:09:06.000The ADL and BLM use the same exact playbook.
00:09:12.000So now Elon Musk is speaking out against them.
00:09:17.000This story has been growing and growing and growing over the weekend where we are one of the first Twitter accounts to really put a light and an accelerant on saying that the ADL really needs to be put on defense.
00:09:32.000In fact, Elon Musk is now saying he's going to sue the Anti-Defamation League for defamation.
00:09:38.000Just so you understand, this is what the ADL does.
00:09:40.000They threaten people who don't get in line with their ideology and they try to destroy your life.
00:09:45.000Finally, there's some fight in the conservative movement.
00:09:47.000It doesn't matter what names you call us.
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00:11:58.000For those of you that care about the welfare and the well-being of the Jewish people, which I certainly care about outspokenly, it does you no good to cover stories this way.
00:13:13.000Elon Musk is engaging with white nationalists and anti-Semites who ban the Anti-Defamation League from Twitter on the influential social media platform he now calls X.
00:13:55.000The ADL, our Center for Technology and Society, works actively with all the kind of companies of Silicon Valley, from Apple to Zoom, if you will, from Amazon to Microsoft to Meta and indeed to Twitter.
00:14:12.000We've dealt with them for years, helping them tackle the challenges of hate speech on their service.
00:14:21.000But what we've said again and again and again, and we need these companies to engage constructively, smartly, use their innovation to tackle hate speech.
00:14:33.000That contradicts what we're seeing at ADL.
00:14:36.000We've seen anti-Semitic speech stay out there longer than ever before.
00:14:41.000Just so everybody understands, there's entire armies of religious Jews that loathe the ADL.
00:14:49.000The more devout of a Jew that you are, the more loathsome the ADL has become.
00:14:55.000I've received text messages from rabbis, from Orthodox Jews all across the planet this weekend thanking me for what we've done against the ADL.
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00:17:50.000Yeah, look, you know, the ADL is an organization that was founded to fight anti-Semitism, but now it operates mostly as an organization that just seeks to advance leftism.
00:18:00.000You never hear them say a word about the BDS movement on campuses, which has threatened and imperiled Jewish students on college campuses all across America.
00:18:10.000But every time there's a leftist cause, they jump to the forefront and attach their name to it.
00:18:15.000I think this has become particularly true since 2015, when a guy named Jonathan Greenblatt, who used to be a special assistant to Barack Obama, took over the group.
00:18:25.000But the ADL is a sad shell of what it once was.
00:18:28.000It should be condemned by all for what they're doing, whether it's on censorship or just generally promoting leftism.
00:18:34.000And I think Elon Musk is exactly right that it's time for a reckoning.
00:18:39.000So kind of just talk about they're incredibly aggressive, and they say that their mission statement is to fight anti-Semitism.
00:18:48.000And I actually, I mean, I am all on board for fighting anti-Semitism, legitimately.
00:18:53.000I actually think they do a disservice in that fight.
00:18:56.000They have here on their website that numbers 1 through 11, 109, 110, 12, 13, 13, 52, 1390, 14, 1423, 212.
00:19:07.000Literally, it's like 50 numbers are hate symbols.
00:19:10.000I mean, Will, at some point, they're getting to a place where there's a supply and demand problem here.
00:19:17.000While you ignore the legitimate Jew hatred of Elon Omar and Rashida Talib in the Democrat Party, they're trying to tell us that basically half the numbers, 1 to 100, are hate symbols.
00:19:28.000Yeah, look, it's an organization that's just tragically lost its way.
00:19:33.000It was founded, obviously, in the early 1900s when there was certainly a lot more anti-Semitism in America than there is today.
00:19:40.000I think organizations like that can serve a valuable purpose, calling out legitimate anti-Semitism like we've seen from Elon Omar, as you said.
00:19:49.000But what that organization exists to do right now is just advance leftist dogma and shut down any speech on the right under the guise of combating anti-Semitism.
00:20:00.000You know, you may know a couple months ago, my friend Josh Hammer and I founded a group called Jews Against Soros.
00:20:07.000Because every time someone on the right, every time a conservative criticizes George Soros, they get attacked and condemned as anti-Semite.
00:20:15.000We don't oppose George Soros because he's Jewish.
00:20:18.000We oppose him because he's an evil man who's done terrible things to the world.
00:20:24.000But that's the sort of campaign that the ADL has been involved in is tarring and feathering conservatives for speaking out against Soros.
00:20:43.000The ADL is pushing forward very radical ideas on gender and sexuality and politics.
00:20:52.000Is it fair to say that the ADL operates a lot more as a political activist group for kind of almost quasi-cultural Marxist ideas than anything to actually fight Jew hatred?
00:21:04.000Yeah, there's nothing, almost nothing uniquely Jewish about the organization anymore.
00:21:09.000It's just another leftist auxiliary in the political wars that we're fighting on any number of fronts.
00:21:16.000Now, this is an organization that, as I said, was founded with great motives, but you know this as well as anybody.
00:21:21.000All organizations, all institutions that are not explicitly conservative have become leftist over time at those Sullivan's first law.
00:22:05.000So I want to broaden this for a second, Will, that I think is interesting.
00:22:09.000You have the SPLC, you have the ADL, you have the ACLU.
00:22:13.000Talk for a second how there is this infrastructure of 501c3 nonprofits that almost do, or they've become the research arm for the police state and the administrative state.
00:22:25.000Yeah, so as we've taken back the courts under President Trump, as the conservative legal movement has made it progressively tougher for government actors to engage in political censorship, to engage in political discrimination, the left has been remarkably effective at using nonprofits, primarily 501c3s, as you said, to do the job that they could use government censors for a generation or two ago.
00:22:51.000So whether it's the ADL, whether it's the ACLU, they all believe themselves to be a part of this bigger network, and they view their goal as ensuring leftist hegemony all across America and every facet of our lives.
00:23:06.000The guy on that clip that you just showed, that's Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the ADL.
00:23:12.000He was a special assistant to Barack Obama.
00:23:14.000He's never worked with Jewish organizations before becoming the head of the ADL.
00:23:20.000He was put in there to take that organization in a leftist direction, and that's exactly what he's done.
00:23:25.000That's what's so scary about the way the modern left is organized and what we ultimately all need to be willing to fight against.
00:23:33.000A really smart point, Will, that I haven't heard anybody make is that because of work that you did and Leonard Leo and Federalist Society really taking the courts seriously the last 20 or 30 years, all of a sudden being able to outwardly use the blunt force instrument of government has become harder, thankfully, right?
00:24:05.000So that you're not allowed to use Visa if you're on our hate list.
00:24:08.000Like, that's a really weird but creative and darn effective way of doing this.
00:24:13.000So talk for a second, Will, that the modern left, they use lists, they use rankings as then this fake standard to be able to then prohibit very basic activities and freedoms: banking, access to social media, credit card processing, Will Sharf.
00:24:36.000I mean, that's what we've seen with SPLC, with ADL.
00:24:40.000What they do is they take the NAACP, frankly, they take established brands with a history and civil rights fight or other causes that at one time were noble causes, and they leverage those brands to wage political warfare in highly leveraged, highly effective, oftentimes ways against us.
00:25:02.000The SBLC hate list started out as calling out neo-Nazis and folks like that.
00:25:08.000They took it in a direction where the Alliance Defending Freedom, major pro-religion, pro-religious liberty nonprofits were suddenly deemed hate groups.
00:25:18.000It's the same with what we've seen with the ADL, where anyone they don't like, they just are as an anti-Semite now, like Elon Musk.
00:25:26.000But this is all part of a much bigger network of organizations and a much bigger plan on the part of the left.
00:25:32.000And that's where you get into the Soros network, the Arabella Advisors Network.
00:25:38.000They have effectively insulated themselves from a lot of the victories we've been able to achieve politically and with the courts in the last two decades because their key actors are no longer governmental actors.
00:25:50.000They're private actors working in this highly effective network way to shut down conservative speech and to imperil conservative organizations doing really good, important work.
00:26:01.000And it's too bad because it cheapens, it waters down the necessary, but should be rarely used, but pointed label of an anti-Semite.
00:26:16.000But if everyone becomes an anti-Semite, then the word means nothing.
00:26:19.000And that's too bad because then there's no differential, there's no distinction.
00:26:24.000When they call me an anti-Semite, first of all, it's not true.
00:26:26.000And I just laugh it off, but then it's also really sad.
00:26:29.000It's like then someone who actually does hate Jews, they'll be able to say, oh, well, everyone is that, then no one is.
00:26:37.000Time to take a stand for life, everybody.
00:26:38.000We can say we're pro-life, but what does that actually mean?
00:26:41.000In a pro-Roe versus Wade world, there are states that are more radically pro-death than ever before, aborting babies up until the moment they draw their first breath.
00:27:42.000Yeah, look, you know, calling someone a racist who's actually racist should have power and should have meaning.
00:27:49.000But when folks on the left just call every conservative, every Republican a racist, when they call Mitt Romney, the most milquetoast guy on the planet, a racist, it destroys the power of the word and it takes any meaning, any comprehensibility out of it.
00:28:05.000I mean, to me, that's doing far more damage to the real fight against racism or anti-Semitism in our world than just about anything else.
00:28:15.000That, as you said before, if everybody's a racist, nobody is.
00:29:05.000Yeah, so the only difference between that and the ADL is the ADL wouldn't have called the cook an anti-Semite unless they knew he was a Republican.
00:29:36.000And to me, that's just a damning indictment of where the organization is at.
00:29:40.000And it's a terrible, terrible statement on where they've arrived at the point they've arrived at after being started with, I think, once noble intentions.
00:29:51.000One of the reasons why Seinfeld is one of the most effective shows ever is it was self-deprecating about kind of single Jewish culture in New York in the 1990s.
00:30:00.000And in some ways, Seinfeld would warn about something that would be happening in certain, and he's basically the subtext of that is like, hey, guys, you can't call everything anti-Semite, the Semitic, right?
00:30:10.000That's the subtext of that 30-second clip there because it's obviously outrageous, right?
00:30:16.000It's like, hold on, there's other things at play here.
00:30:20.000And, you know, Seinfeld does it in such a lighthearted, hilarious way where he just interjects there.
00:30:26.000And what's important, though, is, and you make the most critical point, is that they'll ignore the blatant Jew hatred if the card says Democrat.
00:30:37.000If they use the card, the card says Democrat, they're like, oh, well, maybe we can work with you.
00:30:42.000I went to the ADL website in the break.
00:30:44.000There is not a whisper about the Muslim Jew hatred, about Elon Omar, about BDS.
00:31:43.000The first couple seasons of The Office are exceptional.
00:31:46.000I can pinpoint just on the top of my head 10 or 12 episodes of Frasier, Seinfeld, or The Office that would not be allowed on television today, would not be allowed.
00:31:58.000One, for example, if you want to see how America has become a less fun country, a less free country, I encourage you to watch a single episode called Diversity Day.
00:32:14.000Do you know what I'm talking about, guys?
00:32:16.000It is one of the most irreverent, hilarious, politically incorrect.
00:32:21.000You cannot believe that it was allowed on television, on NBC, just 10 or 12 or 13 or 14 years ago.