The ADL is just a phony "shake-down" organization which has nothing to do with Jews, Judaism, or the State of Israel.
It actively promotes "anti-Semitism" so it can hoodwink and manipulate good, decent, and unsuspecting Jewish Americans into making "donations" to it in their misguided belief that Abe Foxman & Co. are actually working to promote brotherhood and end bigotry.
Just a different version of Jesse Jackson's "Rainbow Coalition" fraud.
Perhaps at its inception, the ADL was a serious organization with good intentions, but it has now rendered itself not only useless, but actually harmful to the Jewish People.
Jews have a long history of persecution and today suffer tremendous psychological trauma as a result; making them easily manipulated by con-men who play on their deepest fears.
It is indeed unfortunate that Foxman and the ADL use the media to act as if they represent American Jews.
The Jews who actually do represent Torah Judaism and Jewish values are boycotted by the media.