It is actually true that Abe Foxman spoke out strongly: per this Talk2Action article and in fact an official press release from the Anti-Defamation League detail the increasing concern regarding dominionism.  

This is part of a general trend--among other things, Salon Magazine has written on how the Jewish community is getting leery of the "Christian Zionists"; Max Blumenthal has also written on the subject and in fact one of my first posts on Talk2Action was how the President of the Union for Reform Judaism put out an even stronger statement than Foxman's (Rabbi Eric Yoffie actually termed the actions of dominionists as blasphemous).

Shortly after this, the dead-agenting started:

a) Conservative Jews (including a few "Messianic Jews") who are known apologists for dominionists (including Rabbi Daniel Lapin--now infamous for his connections to the Abramoff scandal--and Don Feder, who operates a group that is explicitly apologist towards dominionists) begin condemning Abe Foxman in the press, including in WorldNet Daily.

b) In a move resembling that of a Mafia-style protection racket, the American Family Association's Don Wildmon issued a statement claiming that dominionists would withdraw support for Israel if Foxman did not retract his statements regarding dominionists (as it is, Foxman specifically mentioned the AFA as one of the dominionist organisations in question trying to "Christianise America")

c) In a shocking statement (none the least because of the use of a racial slur), Tim LaHaye (as in the guy who co-authored the"Left Behind" books, and also as in his wife founding "Concerned Women for America", both being central to founding of both the Coalition for National Policy and Coalition for Revival; yes, the premillenial-dispensationalist Tim LaHaye) issued a statement in his webpage (written by Stan Goodenough, who is a dominionist columnist) which literally stated that Jewish people who worked for peace and were leery of the "Christian Zionists" were "not-to-be-trusted yids".

d) Herbert Zweibon, a member of a group connected to "Christian Zionist" groups called Americans for a Safe Israel, threatened a mass outbreak of antisemitism if Israelis withdrew from the maximum historical extent of Israel.  Other dominionists have made similar statements.

e) The whole "War on Christmas" thing is largely a dead-agenting of the ADL; this post and this post detail this.

f) I have a large post (which I'll be repeating here) on groups which have specifically dead-agented the ADL.

by dogemperor on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 10:10:31 AM EST
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Sadly, post-announcement by the ADL that they are taking a stand against dominionism, there are now multiple groups (including, sadly, some Jewish groups that are friendly to dominionist organisations--often not realising that many of those same groups have conversion of Jews to "kosher pentecostals" as part of their reason for support, as well as the specific role of Israel in their end-times eschatology) that are "dead-agenting"--performing character assassination on--the ADL:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140545,00.html

http://mediamatters.org/items/200412100002

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/hardright.cgi/A_Very_Merry_UnChri.writeback

http://www.thbookservice.com/products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6824

http://mediamatters.org/items/200511140002

http://mediamatters.org/items/200511100014

http://mediamatters.org/items/200511030005

http://mediamatters.org/items/200510240015

http://mediamatters.org/items/200511140004

http://www.keepchristmasalive.org/ (and specifically http://www.keepchristmasalive.org/kca.html tells of its dominionist intent)

http://www.savemerrychristmas.org/

(ALL of these on the "ADL is trying to destroy Christmas" myth)

http://www.adl.org/Civil_Rights/christmas_oped.asp (on Alliance Defense Fund dead-agenting)

There is also a lot of dead-agenting going on by dominionists claiming the ADL has an "anti-Christian agenda":

http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110007597 (article by David Brog, assistant to Sen Arlen Specter (R), also Christian Zionist linked with dominionist groups on several levels)

http://moderntribalist.blogspot.com/2005/11/anti-defamation-league-attacks.html

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/klinghoffer200511170832.asp

http://www.jews4fairness.org/ (website for a quisling group in the Jewish community actively courting dominionists, and which actually seems to be fostered by a dominionist group)

http://www.christian-adl-inc.org/ (group founded to be confusingly similar to the ADL and is a pro-dominionist legal group which also seems to be involved with military personnel; interestingly, the "supporters" page is the only dead page)

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35732 (dead-agenting of the ADL in the "they're trying to destroy Christmas" canard--this is now heavily being used in general to dead-agent the ADL)

http://naacd.com/ (another dominionist group claiming to be a "Christian alternative to the ADL" (think about that for a minute--they're claiming to be a dominionist alternative to a Jewish group fighting antisemitism) and list the ADL as an "enemy" along with most other progressive groups)

http://www.okieonthelam.com/?p=970 (from dominionist whinging about the ADL's stand against dominionism; mentions writer who blatantly has promoted "Messianic Judaism" and has written a series of articles advocating a religious theocracy)

http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=11659 (mentions dominionists, including a former Christian Coalition worker who is now on the "Democratic Leadership Council" (great, now we have to worry about dominionists in BOTH major political parties), claims ADL is "overreacting")

http://mediamatters.org/items/200504130003 (history of blatant antisemitism in AFA journals)

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/2/222005d.asp (dead-agenting of ADL for relation to party suing Michael Marcavaige)

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/102005a.asp (dead-agenting of ADL for promotion of tolerance education for children)

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/afa/292005c.asp (blatant dead-agenting of ADL for opposition to dominionist candidate associated with Illinois Family Institute)

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/afa/142002c.asp (dead-agenting of ADL over their being a party in a lawsuit against a group practicing "stealth evangelism" targeted at children)

http://www.catholicleague.org/05press_releases/quarter%204/051107_ADLfears.htm (dominionist group in Catholic community dead-agenting ADL over stand against dominionism)

http://mediamatters.org/items/leftsidefront/n4/200511210003 (attempts to dead-agent multiple groups including ADL)

http://www2.townonline.com/bedford/opinion/view.bg?articleid=373595 (evidence that opinions columns are starting to dead-agent ADL)

http://washingtontimes.com/culture/20051123-104302-8072r.htm (ADL dead-agenting by Washington Times, which is newspaper controlled by the Moonies)

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20051117-123109-5175r.htm (dead-agenting of ADL leaders for call for national Jewish congress on subject of dominionism)

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=15008 (dominionist-apologist again dead-agents ADL for statements against dominionism)

http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/105/2996/2005-11-24.asp?wid=105&nid=2996 (pro-dominionist, very-right-wing site demonises ADL for statements against dominionism)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/17/opinion/main1053538.shtml (yet more dead-agenting by pro-dominionist writer Klingenhoffer against ADL)

http://www.thejewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=5688 (dominionist-apologists in Jewish community dead-agent ADL for statements against dominionism)

http://leverkuhn.redstate.org/story/2005/11/16/201522/33 (dominionist dead-agents ADL, essentially claiming "hey, it's not like we're doing actual Nazi-style progroms or anything")

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643703.html (detailing dead-agenting of ADL for "possibly driving our most devoted supporters away" (no matter that their "supporters" merely want to convert them); article writer is supportive of ADL)

Another person to watch besides Feder is David Klingenhoffer, who is a frequent champion of dominionist causes, including trying to bully the Smithsonian Institution to include creationism aka "intelligent design" in its exhibits, and even borderline antisemitic claims such as a claim that the Holocaust was divine punishment against the Jewish people.  Klingenhoffer, of note, is one of those who has been performing a bit of dead-agenting  of the ADL in regards to the latter's rejection of dominionism.

As it is...the Southern Poverty Law Center has now been the target of similar "dead agenting"/character assassination in dominionist press after beginning to report on dominionism (dating back to being a party in a lawsuit against Roy Moore, and the attacks stepped up especially after Chaldecon, American Vision, and Family Research Institute being formally listed as hate groups by SPLC).

Nor is ADL likely to be the only Jewish group targeted in such a manner.  Firstly, the ADL has called for a national congress of all Jewish congregations to discuss the threat of dominionism to the Jewish faith in America and worldwide; secondly, the head of the Reform Judaism congregation in the US has condemned dominionism as well and  it is strongly suspected that the Conservative Judaism congregation heads will issue a similar statement soon.




by dogemperor on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 10:22:58 AM EST
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