Mapping the ADL's Origins in Settler-Colonial Liberalism, State Power, & Civil Rights as Cover with Emmaia Gelman

In this episode we are joined by Emmaia Gelman , author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, a critical history of the ADL as a Cold War neoconservative institution. Gelman excavates the Anti-Defamation League's origins as a white, settler colonial institution founded by German-Jewish elites—not to combat antisemitism broadly, but to manage class respectability and suppress Eastern…