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 Jonathan Greenblatt is an Obama mouthpiece who should never have been selected to run the ADL and who obviously spent exactly no time digging into everything that occurred on the CNN set or off camera. Indeed, CNN has been a notoriously anti-Israel propaganda operation for decades, and especially since October 7. Yet, Greenblatt reflexively comes to the defense of, in my opinion, one of the most contemptible antisemites and Israel-haters in media. The question is why would CNN give a platform to Hasan in the first place? Greenblatt doesn’t ask. He must not give a damn.  

As Greenblatt’s party is using Hitler and the Third Reich to smear conservatives and Republicans and tens of millions of Americans infinite times a day (including Jews who support Donald Trump), you’d think the ADL would be the loudest and an unrelenting voice in condemning this blasphemy. But no. Girdusky, who I don’t know and for whom I’m no special pleader, is targeted. Odd priority. 

Greenblatt is in the wrong job at a time when Jews need a loud, consistent, and principled voice to confront the Jew-hatred. Greenblatt needs to go.