How They Sell War, Silence Critics, and Call It Democracy (Fri. June 12) Emmaia Gelman Book Talk & Film Showing

“The Occupation of the American Mind is an historical piece that has us understand now.”
–John Riley, WBAI producer, Out-FM ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Listening to WBAI and Malcolm X is where I got my real information. The Occupation of the American Mind refreshes our understanding and fills in the gaps in the history of this nightmare.”
–Stahimili Paulette Mapp , WBAI producer, Out-FM ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“It was the second time that Israel had invaded Lebanon. They first did it in 1978 and then again in 1982–1983, and they really decimated Lebanon at the time. That was another catastrophe–just absolute–17,000 Lebanese and Palestinian people were killed in 1982 alone.”
–Russell Eliot Dale Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY, Retired; Long-time instructor for the NYC Marxist Studies Collective ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Emmaia Gelman’s gripping book sent chills down my spine. In meticulous detail, she documents how the Anti-Defamation League, in the name of combating hate, terror, and antisemitism, has defended Israeli policies of dispossession and ethnic cleansing, attacked the Left, assailed Black, Brown, and queer movements, given cover to US imperial crimes, and become a mouthpiece for neoconservatism. But this is not the tragic story of an organization that lost its way. Rather, the ADL was born of the belief that the best protection from antisemitism was admission into the white racial state and waging a vigorous defense of capitalism, individual rights, and the West against communists and barbarians. And it has never looked back.”
–Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

“It is impossible to overstate the importance of this book for these times. Well-researched and deeply informed, The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State shows how the ADL leads the way in undermining abolition and other anti-violence and redistributive efforts by making policing and lawfare appear as socially good violence.”
–Jodi Melamed, Professor of English and Race, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies at Marquette  University

“A gutsy, razor-sharp demystification of a powerful organization.”
–Publishers Weekly