Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt entirely missed the root of the online anti-semitism problem. His solution silences pro-Jewish conservatives and allows anti-semitic leftist voices to fill the void.
Speaking on the Misgav Mideast Horizons Podcast on Nov. 7, Greenblatt accurately called out Big Tech platforms for relying heavily on Qatari-government-funded Al Jazeera and on Wikipedia, which MRC Free Speech America exposed one day prior for its abundant use of Al Jazeera as a source. 
Greenblatt agreed that biased online platforms present a real problem in the public conversation. For example, Greenblatt explained that young people today use ChatGPT as their standard of truth, but that ChatGPT “itself is drawing information to its large language model from Wikipedia and Al Jazeera. Like, that is really troubling.” Indeed, MRC Free Speech America has published several studies that revealed Wikipedia’s inherent and aggressive bias against conservatives.
Greenblatt’s solution to the clear bias problem is just as troubling — more censorship of conservatives.
In response to Greenblatt’s comments, MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider said: “Greenblatt has been a liberal activist for so long, he struggles with seeing the best solution to antisemitism online. Jew hatred is predominantly a problem on the left, so when Big Tech suppresses right-leaning media outlets and silences conservatives, it creates a vacuum that is then necessarily filled with leftwing activists and reporters who have a much higher propensity for antisemitism. If Greenblatt is serious about addressing antisemitism online, he should call for an end to suppressing right-leaning media. That would do more than anything else to quiet the anti-Semites at NPR, the AP, ABC News and The New York Times.”
Greenblatt appeared to initially echo Schneider’s concerns, admitting that it is “kind of out of fashion these days for them to be ‘policing’” language. Yet he went on to insist it must be done anyway. He claimed that it is not “cancel culture not to platform Nazis” or “jihadists.”
Greenblatt’s point that “[i]f we are going to solve this problem, we need to get upstream, and we’ve got to figure out how to get these companies to do the right thing” misses the mark, Schneider warned. To Greenblatt, the “right thing” is silencing the right, but that only amplifies the anti-semitism from the left. The real solution is to stop censoring the most pro-Jewish voices, those of conservatives.
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