The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State: Emmaia Gelman on Tour
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) once sought to portray itself as a defender of civil rights aligned with movements for racial justice in the United States. In this groundbreaking study, Emmaia Gelman exposes the ADL’s alliance with American white supremacy and western empire and its historic investment in Cold War anticommunism. Her definitive account shows how the ADL as a Zionist organization has advanced and supported pro-state policing, a hate-crimes framework that obscures racialized structures of power, and a “War on Terror” that has stoked anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia.
“The ADL was born of the belief that the best protection from antisemitism was admission into the white racial state and waging a vigorous defense of capitalism, individual rights, and the West against communists and barbarians. And it has never looked back.” – Robin D.G. Kelley
About the Author
Emmaia Gelman is the founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She has taught social and cultural analysis at NYU and social sciences at Sarah Lawrence College. Her writing appears in Jewish Currents, Boston Review, The Forward, and elsewhere.
Where can I get the book?
Method 1:
Get a signed & dedicated copy by donating $100 or more to this fundraiser by filmmaker, teacher, and translator Fida Qishta.
Email a screenshot or receipt for your donation to emmaia@criticalzionismstudies.org, along with the name and address for the signed book. You’ll receive an email confirmation, and the book will be mailed to you.
Method 2:
In stores June 16, 2026. Pre-order with code UCPSAVE30 at University of California Press.