Leaked email reveals ADL spied on Black organizer who opposed links between US police and Israeli military

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) regularly surveils activists, who oppose Israel’s interests in the United States, according to a report by The Guardian based on a leaked email.

According to the mail, which dates back to May 2020, the ADL has surveilled activists and “regularly tracks, profiles and sends threat assessments of individuals” it perceives as a problem.

The email was sent from ADL’s head of security to chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt and unspecified employees of the pro-Israel organization.

According to the report, the email proves that the ADL gathered information about Tatjana Rebelle, a black activist, who worked in a campaign called ‘Deadly Exchange’, against an ADL-backed program to send US police officials for training with the Israeli military.

The email described as “a radical with antisemitic and hateful views” but was “not a threat” to the organization. It recommended her file to be referred to the organization’s Center on Extremism, which tracks, in its words, “extremist trends, ideologies and groups across the ideological spectrum”, according to the report.

ADL, which calls itself the “leading anti-hate organization in the world”, has accused pro-Palestine Jewish groups, Black Lives Matter, Palestinian rights groups and other organizations critical of Israel of antisemitism.

In 1993, the ADL faced multiple lawsuits and an FBI investigation over a nationwide intelligence network it developed over the span of several decades. The network spied on the United Auto Workers union, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, neo-Nazi groups, Mother Jones magazine, the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP and many more and sold personal information on US politicians and others to the apartheid South African government.