Emmaia Gelman is guest faculty in Social Sciences at Sarah Lawrence College. Her research and writing investigate the history of ideas about race, queerness, safety, and rights, and their production as political levers in the realm of hate crimes policy, surveillance, anti-terror measures, and war. She is the co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism, the Founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, and a longtime activist in New York City on Palestine, policing, antiracism, and queer issues.

C. Heike Schotten is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a member of the #DroptheADL working group, the organizing collective of tthe US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and the founding collective of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She is the author of Nietzsche's Revolution: Décadence, Politics, and Sexuality (Palgrave, 2009) and Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony (Columbia University Press, 2018).

Introduction: What Does it Mean to #DropTheADL? - Emmaia Gelman and Heike Schotten

I. The ADL's First Hundred Years

1.Settler Roots, Cold War Branches: The ADL's Imperial Throughline - Emmaia Gelman

2. An American Antisemitism: How the ADL's Embrace of Cold War Anticommunism Produced a New McCarthyism - Max Greenberg

3.'It's Emphatically not a Civil Rights Organization': Abdeen Jabara and the Long History of ADL Conservatism - Abdeen Jabara, with Charlotte Rosen

4. The ADL, Neoconservatism, and the 'New Antisemitism' - Heike Schotten

5. Not Quite Right: The Challenge of Ideologically Situating the ADL - A.J. Bauer

II. The ADL's Repression of Antiracist and Social Justice Movements

6. The Arab Terrorist and the Black Demagogue: The ADL as a Racist Intelligence Agency - Stephen Sheehi

7. The ADL's Collision Course with Black Freedom Struggle: From Cooptation to Policing - Khury Petersen- Smith

8. Playing Indian: The ADL's Indigenous Masquerade - Kevin Bruyneel

9. The Anti- Defamation League: Islamophobia and the Racial-Political Architecture of US Power - Hatem Bazian

10. Who Speaks for the Jews? The ADL, Jewish Voice for Peace, and the Quest for Cross-Movement Solidarity - Lesley Williams

11. Networked Pinkwashing, Queered Gentrification: Manny's and the ADL in San Francisco - Mama Ganuush, with Emmaia Gelman and Heike Schotten

III. Education as Battle Terrain: The ADL in Schools and on Campus

12. The ADL, Conservative Megadonors, and the Repression of Speech in Higher Education - Isaac Kamola

13.Freedom to Teach, Right to Learn: Antiracist and Rank-and-File Educators for Palestine Confront the ADL - Nora Lester Murad and Merrie Najimy, with Emmaia Gelman

14. The ADL, Knowledge Regimes of Holocaust Education, and How I Got Fired - Solomon Brager

15. Compliance State University: How the ADL Scripted a War on Student Dissent - Carrie Zaremba

16. Waging Repression with the IHRA Definition - Amira Jarmakani

IV. The ADL and Surveillance, Policing, and War

17. How to Hide a Genocide: The ADL's Violence in Gaza - Muhannad Ayyash

18. The ADL and the Anti-Palestinian Origins of U.S. Terrorism Law - Darryl Li

19. Criminalizing Dissent: How the ADL Exploits Antiterrorism Programs to Repress Palestinian Advocacy - Nicole Nguyen

20. The ADL and the Stalker State: The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition - The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition

21. How does the ADL's "Anti-Hate" Advocacy Perpetuate Violence? - Dean Spade

22. To Know the Enemy: Counterinsurgency, Lexical Warfare, and the ADL - Dylan Rodríguez

V. Conservative Megadonors and Corporate Clout: The ADL and Capital

23. The ADL and Big Tech: Collaborators in Zionist Death-Making - Lau Barrios

24. The ADL, Oligarchy, and Repression - Ahmed Moor

25. The ADL's Palestine Exception to Socially Conscious Investing - Felice Gelman

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