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To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all
But
as Zero Hedge noted in yesterday's article, conservative Jews such as
Chaya Raichik, who runs the popular Libs of TikTok X account, have found
themselves in the ADL's sights as well.
The case that sparked the
growth of the ADL is instructive here, particularly since the
organization just brought it up, causing a minor controversy on Elon
Musk's site.
Remembering Leo Frank
Leo Frank, who was
Jewish, was the manager of a pencil factory in Georgia where a 13 year
old employee (labor laws were different then) named Mary Phagan was
found strangled to death. Frank was tried and found guilty of the
murder, and sentenced to death. After numerous appeals, the governor of
Georgia commuted Frank's sentence from death to life imprisonment.
Following that, a group of outraged Georgians broke Frank out of prison
and lynched him.
Last month, the ADL commemorated the anniversary of Frank's death with post quoted below (z"l is an abbreviation of a Hebrew phrase meaning "of blessed memory").
One
of Elon Musk's innovations was adding "Community Notes" to posts on X,
where designated users can offer factual corrections to tweets. A
community note questioned the ADL's use of "unjustly convicted", noting
there was copious evidence at the time of Frank's guilt. Clicking on their post now, it appears the ADL successfully made that note disappear.
Was Frank Guilty?
The software entrepreneur, researcher, and editor Ron Unz (himself Jewish), addressed that question in a very long post
on his site earlier this year ("American Pravda: The Leo Frank Case and
the Origins of the ADL"). His short answer was "yes", but below is a
brief excerpt elaborating on that answer. Following that, we'll close
with a new update on that biotech trade we discussed here recently.
After mentioning a commemoration of the centennial of the ADL's founding, Unz writes [emphasis mine],
In
the past, Frank’s name and story would have been equally vague in my
mind, only half-remembered from my introductory history textbooks as one
of the most notable early KKK victims in the fiercely anti-Semitic Deep
South of the early twentieth century. However, not long before seeing
that piece on the ADL I’d read Albert Lindemann’s highly-regarded study The Jew Accused, and his short chapter on the notorious Frank case had completely exploded all my preconceptions.
First, Lindemann demonstrated that there was no evidence of any anti-Semitism behind Frank’s arrest and conviction, with Jews constituting a highly-valued element of the affluent Atlanta society of the day, and no references to Frank’s Jewish background, negative or otherwise, appearing in the media prior to the trial. Indeed, five of the Grand Jurors who voted to indict Frank for murder were themselves Jewish,
and none of them ever voiced regret over their decision. In general,
support for Frank seems to have been strongest among Jews from New York
and other distant parts of the country and weakest among the Atlanta
Jews with best knowledge of the local situation.
Furthermore,
although Lindemann followed the secondary sources he relied upon in
declaring that Frank was clearly innocent of the charges of rape and
murder, the facts he recounted led me to the opposite conclusion,
seeming to suggest strong evidence of Frank’s guilt. When I much more
recently read Lindemann’s longer and more comprehensive historical study
of anti-Semitism, Esau’s Tears, I noticed that his abbreviated
treatment of the Frank case no longer made any such claim of innocence,
perhaps indicating that the author himself might have also had second
thoughts about the weight of the evidence.
Unz
goes on to discuss the details of the case, but basically, the other
main suspect was a black janitor at the factory, and for white
Southerners 110 years ago to convict Frank instead of a black man
suggests they weren't motivated by bias, as Lindemann demonstrated
above. If the American South had been a hotbed of antisemitism, the
Confederacy wouldn't have had a Jewish man, Judah P. Benjamin, as its Secretary of War.
Why Does The ADL Keep Bringing Up Leo Frank?
Every
time the ADL mentions the Frank case, particularly when they say he was
unjustly convicted, without offering evidence in support of that claim,
it generates a lot of hostile commentary, some of which could be
construed as antisemitic. So why does the ADL do it?
Here's a theory: they do it precisely to generate hostile commentary, which they can then use to argue for more censorship.
