The ADL’s strange view of anti-Semitism around the world - and in Hebron - - Haaretz
By Amira Hass
Published 19.05.14
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The Anti-Defamation League and the company that conducts surveys for it consider it appropriate to ask a Polish person, a Chinese person and a Palestinian person the same 11 questions to measure anti-Semitism around the world.
The pollers provided 11 statements reflecting anti-Jewish stereotypes. Anyone who said that six or more of the statements were true was defined as anti-Semitic. News reports on the survey pretty much shouted with glee that the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were the most anti-Semitic of all.
Last Tuesday afternoon, Israeli websites published their stories about this enormous survey (there were 53,000 respondents, which tells us something about the ADL’s financial resources).
At about 10:30 P.M. that night, army troops broke into the home of the Saddam Abu Sneineh family in Hebron’s Old City, which is dominated by a couple of thousand Jews – settlers and soldiers.
Only on Wednesday morning did I see a text message I had received about the break-in. As soon as I saw it, I was overwhelmed with feelings of guilt. Two weeks earlier, when the incident involving Nahal soldier David Adamov went viral, army troops arrested – under false pretense – Abu Sneineh, one of two Hebron residents whom Adamov had threatened with a cocked rifle.
At first, Abu Sneineh, 20, didn’t want to talk about the 24 hours he spent in detention and the abuse he suffered. He feared that it would only provoke the soldiers, Adamov’s friends, to attack him again. Several young Palestinians and I tried to persuade him that the publication of articles about the ordeal was a form of protection.
The Israel Defense Forces Spokesman’s Office chose not to comment on my questions about Abu Sneineh’s false arrest and the soldiers’ abuse of him. And now, four days after my article on him was published (on May 9), soldiers appeared at his home.
I was told they had come to arrest him again. The soldiers beat him, members of his family tried to prevent his arrest, the soldiers beat them also, and they arrested Jibril, Saddam’s 30-year-old brother.