Apartheid Defense League
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]In reference to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)'s defense of Israeli treatment of Palestinians. Attested since 1999, but grew in popularity in the 2020s.
Proper noun
[edit]- (slang, derogatory) The Anti-Defamation League
- 1999 March 11, John McCarthy, “To RLA re: racist Gov”, in talk.politics.mideast[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 March 2025, message-ID <27fIxnZeB-AJ>:
- It is admirable Matthew that you are so concerned about the plight of Blacks
in America, who, much as Jews themselves once were a long time ago, are
still to this day victims of racism and oppression, but you are very, very
wrong when you suggest that the neo-conservative "private" front for the intelligence community known as the A.D.L. (short I think for the Apartheid
Defense League) shares your concern[.]
- 2023 April 23, Wayne Coffey, “One Jew’s Journey”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly[2], archived from the original on 1 June 2023:
- El-Kurd has referred to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as the “Apartheid Defense League” and likened the Israeli occupation of Palestine to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- 2024, Saqib Iqbal Qureshi, Being Muslim today: reclaiming the faith form orthodoxy and islamophobia[3], Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN:
- The ADL (aka “The Apartheid Defense League”), in fact, “has a long history of labelling Muslim community groups as ‘terrorist sympathisers’, doing whatever it can do to delegitimise them,” as well as funding [Steven] Emerson’s work.
- 2025 March 13, Mahmoud El-Yousseph, “Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil abducted by ICE over Columbia University protests”, in Free Press[4], archived from the original on 13 March 2025:
- Meanwhile, in a statement posted to X, The Apartheid Defense League (ADL) praised the government action to curb antisemitism and hailed ICE agents' abduction of Columbia University student protester Mahmoud Khalil and the revocation of his green card by ICE over Columbia University protests[.]