The ADL, the nation’s foremost organization tracking and combating anti-Semitism, was also excluded from planning the event: “We were not asked to participate in any of the panels ... you should ask the administration why our experts were not included.”
Trump went largely unmentioned at the event, which took place at the Justice Department’s headquarters and lasted for most of the day. Instead, speaker after speaker took aim at pro-Palestinian college activists, including those who support boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning Israel, a movement known as BDS.
Also in attendance was Eugene Kontorovich, a controversial legal scholar at George Mason University and a vociferous BDS opponent, and Jonathan Tobin, a pro-Israel journalist. The Anti-Defamation League, the nation’s foremost organization tracking and combating anti-Semitism, was also excluded from planning the event. “We’re attending and deeply appreciate the fact that the Department of Justice is focused on the important issue of rising anti-Semitism in the U.S. and around the world,” an ADL spokesman told Yahoo News. “We were not asked to participate in any of the panels, however. You should ask the administration why our experts were not included.
The conference began with U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who described the college anti-Israel movement as one of several threats facing American Jews.
“Israel is light to the region,” she said. “But we all know it’s surrounded by jihadists who embrace evil and who deny Israel’s existence and violently work to wipe it off the map.” She then denounced BDS, which she said was being propagated by “bullies” who harbored anti-Semitic, not merely anti-Israel, convictions.
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