If your business model involves marginalizing people by calling them names—and requires you to terrorize your funders with the specter of an exponentially-growing number of “antisemites” who need to be marginalized and insulted, leading you to deliberately set about pissing off more and more people—you will eventually reach a point of diminishing returns. Once you have marginalized the majority, it’s no longer on the margins. Once everybody’s antisemitic, nobody’s antisemitic. The magical word no longer commands its magic. It’s time to call it a day and find a new gig.
The Anti-Defamation League is fast reaching that point. And it isn’t just people like me, who have been on the receiving end of numerous ADL fatwas, who are saying it. Their supporters are saying it too.
