The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) held its annual summit on antisemitism last week in New York City.
Thousands of well-intentioned activists, influencers, and policymakers gathered at the "Never is Now" Conference in what is being called the largest gathering on "antisemitism and hate."
The two-day event featured speakers plucked from Bravo TV's Real Housewives celebrity circuit to more substantive thought leaders, such as author and host of the "Call Me Back" Podcast, Dan Senor.
While the conference agenda contained notable breakout sessions on improving Christian-Jewish relations and combating anti-Jewish hate in healthcare, scant notice was paid to how mass migration assisted in fueling the latest pandemic of antisemitic violence.
For the ADL to resist tying the rise of antisemitism to importing foreign-born Islamists into our country just days after ISIS-linked Mohamed Jalloh opened fire at an Old Dominion University classroom confirms that the group remains rooted in ignoring the most consequential issue affecting current threats targeting Jews.
The organization's reluctance to confront unfettered immigration's impact in fomenting anti-Jewish brutality is especially glaring given that less than two hours after Jalloh murdered ROTC Leader Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, Muslim terrorist Ayman Mohamed Ghazali drove his car into a Michigan synagogue.
The heroic actions of the on-duty security guard saved the lives of over 100 preschool children who were at Temple Israel earlier this month.
It is worth noting that the month of March was frontloaded with a series of Islamic terror plots.
The events unfolding that Thursday follow the earlier actions of two aspiring Jihadists, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, whose families hail from Turkey and Afghanistan.
The young pair threw a pair of explosive devices into a sparsely attended anti-Muslim gathering in New York City on March 7th while reportedly yelling "Allahu Akbar."
On March 1, gunman Ndiaga Diagne was wearing a "Property of Allah" T-shirt when he gunned down two Americans at an Austin bar.
Diagne is originally from Senegal and, like Jalloh and Ghazali, was a naturalized US citizen.
The flow of unvetted immigrants has tracked with a rise in extremist attitudes and radical behavior toward Jewish Americans.
The common thread behind the latest attacks is that the terrorists themselves or their families are naturalized US citizens hailing from Muslim-majority countries.
Legacy Jewish organizations such as the ADL and the American Jewish Committee (AJC) can hold forums and speak in platitudes about tackling antisemitism, yet contemporary efforts must meet modern-day realities.
The developments over the last several weeks affirm that Jewish establishments can no longer reduce the importance that lax immigration laws play in facilitating antisemitic violence against Jews in America.
Far from integrating stringent immigration restrictions into their platform, many prominent Jewish institutions continue to advocate for loosening migration laws while granting compassion for foreigners espousing dangerous sentiments.
The American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) CEO publicly laments on TV about the crisis facing Jews in this country.
However, strong rhetoric carries little heft when weighed against an institution's historic advocacy for expanding asylum laws and its repeated denunciation of U.S. President Donald Trump for his administration's limiting and restricting travel from many third-world nations.
Some of America's leading Jewish figures are wrapped in an illusion that tolerance for antisemites will buy the community they are tasked to defend safety and reprieve.
It's an organizational strategy whose failures are reverberating across the country.
American Jewry is facing the consequences of the policies pushed by the very institutions whose role was to defend Jewish interests.
Since the election of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the ADL has appropriately admonished the socialist leader for accommodating antisemitic activists, and the group has launched a "Mamdani Monitor" to track the new mayor's agenda and political appointments.
Still, its meeting this week failed to adequately address the influence that foreign radicals have in advancing anti-Jewish extremism.
Conference sessions focused on consensus-driven issues, including fighting antisemitism in the media and the importance of youth advocacy.
A wealth of worthy action items doesn't discount the reality that a resistance to making immigration reform a threshold issue will result in much of the liberal Jewish establishment fading into irrelevance.
Their fate will reflect what happened to the storied organization once known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
Shortening its name to "HIAS" in 2014, the group's globalist "Welcome the Stranger. Protect the Refugee" sloganeering spilled into a fervent crusade to flood America with foreigners who have no allegiance to the United States.
It's hard to wage a meaningful campaign against antisemitism without acknowledging that some of the naturalized citizens welcomed with warmth are now part of the jihadi ecosystem permeating our country.
It's equally insincere to follow up feigned shock regarding pro-Hamas encampments with disbelief and disappointment over deporting foreign terrorist sympathizers.
There's no measure more critical to safeguarding the future of Jews in America than securing our nation's border.
Neglecting to associate mass migration with American Jewry's deteriorating security situation is symbolic of an institutional squeamishness that fits neatly into a liberal paradigm that Jewish Americans can no longer afford to overlook and dismiss.
Irit Tratt is a writer and former Co-Chair of the Trump47 National Women’s Leadership Coalition. Read more Irit Tratt Insider articles — Click Here Now.
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