2025-09-19 5:31 PM <br/> Tags: #people #AmericanJewry ![[image-125.png|824x457]] *(1951) L-R: Barney Balaban (Paramount Pictures president), [[David Ben-Gurion]], Louis Novins (ADL board member), Meier Steinbrink (ADL chairman), and Benjamin Epstein (ADL Director)* # Benjamin Epstein (1912-1983) - Benjamin Epstein was the national director of the [[ADL]] for three decades from 1948-1978. - Epstein joined the ADL's foreign language department in 1939. - That same year he caught wind of future US Senator Alan Cranston translating [[Hitler]]'s Mein Kampf. - Epstein, who had been in Germany from 1933-34, took it upon himself to publish an annotated version of Mein Kampf, emphasizing the most "antisemitic" passages. - Hitler sued and won. *This is not the ADL's only involvement with Mein Kampf. Look up Mein Kampf on Amazon. There is only one result for the actual book. The forward is written by longtime ADL leader Abraham Foxman. The text is translated by Ralph Manheim, also Jewish.* #### ADL Under Epstein - Under Epstein the ADL became a much more aggressive and politically active organization. - Epstein, with his close associate and top ADL lawyer [[Arnold Forster]], worked to infiltrate extremist/antisemitic groups and report on their activities. - To this effect, beginning in the mid 40s they worked with Jewish gossip journalist Walter Winchell, feeding him embarrassing information on antisemites. - Epstein, and thus the ADL, were huge proponents of the 1960s civil rights movement. - Epstein supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act. - Epstein was allied with the [[NAACP]]. - In 1963 Epstein was photographed with MLK, LBJ, RFK, Roy Jones of the NAACP, among others. - Epstein personally marched with MLK in 1965 in the Selma-Montgomery marches. - The Selma-Montgomery marches featured hundreds of black participants donning yarmulkes in solidarity with their Jewish compatriots. - It is noted that thousands more were ordered as the demand for yarmulkes was massive. #RedPill *Enough said*. --- - During the 1950s and 60s Epstein co-authored a number of books with [[Arnold Forster]]. - *Cross Currents (1956), Danger on the Right (1964)*, and *The Radical Right: Report on the John Birch Society (1967)*, were similarly oriented against perceived rumblings of antisemitism or openness to it on the right. - Epstein and Forster wrote about networks of antisemites whose actions hindered the civil rights movement. - The John Birch Society was described as "the greatest danger" to civil rights progress. - In 1974 Epstein and Arnold Forster published *The New anti-semitism*. - [[New-antisemitism]] is largely defined by the addition of anti-Zionism and anti-Israel sentiment described as old hatred of Jews in a new form. - In *The New anti-semitism* Epstein and Forster shriek that left wing/black nationalist groups are being used as a vehicle for antisemitism. *The phenomenon of Jews incubating left wing movements and subsequently getting turned on by those same movements is a tale often retold. ex. Mamdani in NY.* --- - According to a 2021 *Jewish Currents* article, in 1973 Epstein was contacted by a DNC insider to find a Jewish businessman to fill a spot in Jimmy Carter's cabinet. - Epstein supplied an ADL donor for the position. - The position came with the condition that Carter would check in with him on all matters Jewish and Israeli. - In 1981 Epstein took a stance in opposition to affirmative action quotas at US universities. - His stance was based on a perception of racial quotas being unfair for Jewish students who were already discriminated against. #RedPill *In 1981 Jews constituted ~25% of ivy league students. In 1981 Jews were ~2.6% of the US population. This means that Epstein considered it unfair for Jews to possibly lose their ~9.6x overrepresentation in the elite schools. --- >[!info] ADL Spy Ring - In 1993 the FBI raided the ADL office in San Francisco. They uncovered a vast domestic spying operation undertaken by the ADL for decades. - The spy ring uncovered in 1993 had been operational since the 1960s. Epstein was ADL director for nearly the first 20 years of the spying operation. - The primary ADL figure running the operation was [[Irwin Suall]], the ADL "fact finding" chief and associate of Epstein. - The spying operation involved corrupt cops and private investigators working for the ADL. - These ADL henchmen (Roy Bullock, and Thomas Gerard most notably) infiltrated extremist groups and compiled reports on their activity. - Bullock, who began working for the ADL in the 1960s, was an FBI informant and CIA official working in Central America by the 80s. - In total ~12,000 individuals and ~950 organizations were spied on by the ADL in the decades prior to 1993. - The intel collected by Roy Bullock and a number of ADL informants was funneled to Israeli intel services. - The corrupt police officers who supplied information were given free trips to Israel. --- - Epstein sat on the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, later revised to the [[Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA)]], while he was ADL director. - After stepping down from his position as ADL director in 1978, Epstein became ADL vice president until his death five years later. - [[Nathan Perlmutter]] succeeded Epstein as ADL national director. #### References - Al Miskin. “ADL’s Spy Ring.” _Middle East Report_, no. 183 (July/August 1993). [https://merip.org/1993/07/adls-spy-ring/](https://merip.org/1993/07/adls-spy-ring/) - “Anti-Defamation League.” _Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia._ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League?) - Wikipedia. “Benjamin Epstein.” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Epstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Epstein) - Gelman, Emmaia. “The Anti-Democratic Origins of the ADL and AJC.” _Jewish Currents_, March 12, 2021. [https://jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-democratic-origins-of-the-jewish-establishment](https://jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-democratic-origins-of-the-jewish-establishment) - Forster, Arnold, and Benjamin R. Epstein. _The New Anti-Semitism_. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. - Forster, Arnold, and Benjamin R. Epstein. _Danger on the Right_. New York: Random House, 1964. - Epstein, Benjamin R., and Arnold Forster. _The Radical Right: Report on the John Birch Society and Its Allies_. New York: Random House, 1967.