Anti-Defamation League

===South Africa and apartheid===
The ADL, the AJC, and other American Jewish groups asked [[Nelson Mandela]] to clarify his views on the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]] in 1990 in advance of a visit Mandela planned to the United States. The groups' leaders said they were concerned about the possibility of protests because Mandela had embraced [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] Chairman [[Yasser Arafat]] and Libyan president [[Muammar Gaddafi]]. The ADL said it was "disturbed and pained" by comments Mandela had made in a meeting earlier that year with PLO leader Yasser Arafat.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jewish Groups Question ANC Leader Over Israel |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/06/09/jewish-groups-question-anc-leader-over-israel/eef75c4e-73fd-46dd-92cc-a0db57caf6cb/ |accessdate=2023-03-26}}</ref> Mandela met with a group of the American Jewish leaders in [[Geneva]] including ADL director Abe Foxman. At the event, Mandela expressed appreciation for South African Jews who opposed apartheid, praised past Israeli leaders [[Golda Meir]] and [[Menachem Begin]], and said that the State of Israel had a right to exist. According to Foxman, Mandela told the group "I'm not angry at you and Israel because Israel was dealing with the apartheid South African government. Therefore, don't be angry at me because I was dealing with Castro and Arafat. If you can understand that, we can go forward."<ref>{{cite web |date=June 11, 1990 |title=Mandela Regrets Offending Jews, Says He is Ready to Visit Israel |url=https://www.jta.org/archive/mandela-regrets-offending-jews-says-he-is-ready-to-visit-israel |accessdate=2023-03-26 |publisher=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]]}}</ref><ref name="How Mandela Won">{{cite web |title=How Mandela Won Over the Jewish Community |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/news/how-mandela-won-over-jewish-community |accessdate=2023-03-26 |publisher=Anti-Defamation League}}</ref>

In his 2010 book ''The Unspoken Alliance'', [[Sasha Polakow-Suransky]] criticized the ADL for hiring the private spy Roy Bullock to collect information on the anti-apartheid movement in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kane |first=Alex |date=December 29, 2021 |title=Desmond Tutu's Lifelong Struggle Against Apartheid |url=https://jewishcurrents.org/desmond-tutus-lifelong-struggle-against-apartheid |accessdate=2023-03-27 |website=[[Jewish Currents]] |publisher=}}</ref> [[Glenn Frankel]], writing about the book, said the ADL "participated in a blatant propaganda campaign against Nelson Mandela and the ANC" during the 1980s but had changed its stance on Mandela around 1990 with Foxman calling him a hero.<ref name="fp1" /> South African-born Israeli journalist [[Benjamin Pogrund]] said in a review of ''The Unspoken Alliance'' for ''[[The Jewish Chronicle]]'' that the ADL and South Africa's Jewish Board of Deputies "played toadying and inglorious roles over the years in defending [[Israel–South Africa relations#Early relations: 1948–1994|Israel's ties]] and in support of the apartheid government".<ref name="thejc1" />
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