Coulter’s Reprehensible Comments About ADL

Coulter's Reprehensible Comments About ADL, Ellison Provide Further Evidence That She Should Be Disinvited From Networks

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following Ann Coulter's insistence that she wears criticism from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as a "badge of honor" during a FOX News interview and the release of her despicable column, entitled "How Long Before the A.D.L. Kicks Out All its Jews," the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) stepped up its call for broadcasters to stop inviting Ann Coulter as a guest.

"If broadcasters continue to invite Ms. Coulter as a guest - knowing full well that she spews lies and traffics in offensiveness- they will be partially culpable for her on-air behavior,"said NJDC Executive Director Ira N. Forman. "Furthermore, no one should believe network brass if they act surprised the next time she slanders a reputable organization like ADL or a fine public servant like Rep. Ellison."

The reprehensible statements in Coulter's latest column, "How Long Before the A.D.L. Kicks Out All its Jews," are almost too many to enumerate. Some particularly troubling quotes:

"For liberals, Jews are just so ‘last Holocaust.'"

"The relevant organs of pious liberal society were promptly rounded up to censure [Dennis] Prager ... Do they have [Rep. Keith] Ellison on the record acknowledging whether the Holocaust happened?"

"... [Y]ou might be better off if you had adopted the preferred approach of liberals' new friends the Muslims and simply slit the Jew's throat. At least the ADL wouldn't object."

".. the ADL viciously attacks conservatives ... in order to hide the fact that anti-Semites are the ADL's best friends ..."

"The Democratic party sleeps with anti-Semites every night ..."

When asked in a recent FOX News interview about her notorious comments on CNBC - and the ADL's condemnation - Coulter said she wears the criticism "as a badge of honor." Coulter also said that the controversy over her remarks "is the same old fight we see all the time with the irreligious trying to stir up trouble with the religious."

In a further claim, Coulter boasted to have the support of "1,000 Orthodox Rabbis," apparently referencing comments by Rabbi Yehuda Levin of the Rabbinical Alliance for America and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada - a fringe group which is notorious for declaring that "Reform and Conservative [Judaism] are not Judaism at all." To claim that this group represents 1,000 rabbis is ludicrous.

"'Jews for Coulter?' You could hold that convention in the backseat of a Volkswagen Bug," said Forman. "We hear shifting explanations from Ms. Coulter for her comments all the time. Pretty much the only thing we have not heard from her is an apology."

After initially saying that Jews should be "perfected" and that America would be better off were Judaism "thrown away," Coulter has continued to change her story in response. In one interview she claimed to have said that America would be better off were everyone Christian or Jewish - a misquotation of herself which is offensive to Americans of other faiths. In another, she said the Jews believe that my savior, a Jew, was a raving lunatic, and you don't see me sniffling and crying."

NJDC has called on the Republican presidential candidates to condemn Ms. Coulter's comments and renounce her support for Republican candidates and the party. In addition, we are circulating a petition to ask the mainstream broadcast networks to stop inviting her to be a guest.

A transcript of Coulter's interview with CNBC - which started the controversy - is available on Mediamatters.org.