Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive and national director of the Anti-Defamation League wrote an April 3 op-ed on eJewishPhilanthropy stating that the deportation of student protesters is a violation of due process. “We should be holding people accountable for actual crimes, not Orwellian thoughtcrimes,” Greenblatt argued. “... If we sacrifice our constitutional freedoms in the pursuit of security, we undermine the very foundation of the diverse, pluralistic society we seek to defend.”
Greenblatt has been walking back his previous enthusiastic support for campus crackdowns and even the use of immigration agents to detain and silence peaceful pro-Palestinian activists. In an April 3 interview for JewishInsider, Greenblatt said, “We were glad to see the administration taking action. But the pattern of behavior since then has raised concerns that would be easy to address by being transparent about the charges.”
