“The Anti-Defamation League & the Racial State”
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Rm 1009
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Date & Time
Mon, May 04 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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2633 State Street
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Rm 1009
Monday, May 4 at 5:30 p.m. at UC Santa Barbara-RSVP
Social Sciences & Media Studies, Rm 1009
Emmaia Gelman, author of the new book The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, will be speaking at UCSB at an event sponsored by the Central Coast Antiwar Coalition, Academics for Justice in Palestine, Ethnic Studies Council and others. .] Emmaia is the founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) once sought to portray itself as a defender of civil rights aligned with movements for racial justice in the United States. In this groundbreaking study, Emmaia Gelman exposes the ADL’s alliance with American white supremacy and western empire and its historic investment in Cold War anticommunism. Her definitive account shows how the ADL as a Zionist organization has advanced and supported pro-state policing, a hate-crimes framework that obscures racialized structures of power, and a “War on Terror” that has stoked anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia.
