The ADL is in Hot Water After President Trump Designates Antifa a “Major Terrorist Organization”

The ADL is in hot water after President Trump designates Antifa a “major terrorist organization”. 

Guest post by Ezequiel Doiny

On September 17, 2025 the Gateway Pundit reported on President Trump on Wednesday evening announcing the designation of Antifa as a “major terrorist organization.” 

I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

The ADL is now in hot water too after President Trump designated Antifa a “major terrorist organization.”

The ADL has been hijacked by leftist operatives and  is now an anti-MAGA organization used  to suppress voices critical of the leftist agenda.

On September 18, 2023 the National File reported “ADL Coordinated Closely with Violent ‘Antifa’ Group American Iron Front”

An employee of the left-wing Jewish pressure group, the Anti-Defamation League has been identified as a close associate of the Antifa-adjacent American Iron Front, a black bloc group that advocates for the use of chemical and biological weapons against their political opponents.

John Zack Ortiz, a 24-year-old UC Berkley graduate and coordinator for ADL Central Pacific, has associated closely with the American Iron Front, a violent left-wing organization that calls for the murder of its political opponents.

Ortiz has been described as acting as a “liaison” between the ADL and the AIF and using his standing within the groups to send information both ways and to keep AIF members up to date on the latest ADL intel, which the group has then used to harass its political opponents online.  In AIF chat groups, where he was known as “johnyz715”, Ortiz flaunted his work with the ADL and his LinkedIn profile identifies him as an ADL “regional coordinator…”

The ADL’s “regional coordinator” John Ortiz speaks against MAGA in his linkedin profile. Please see image below.

The ADL has been hijacked by left wing operatives who are more concerned in fighting MAGA than antisemitism. The ADL is an anti-Maga organization, not an organization which main goal is to fight antisemitism.

The Iron Front group is an anti-Maga organization, it is not surprising that one of its operatives has been employed as a “regional coordinator” by the ADL.

On September 12, 2022 ZOA condemned the ADL for “departures from ADL’s primary stated mission of combatting antisemitism.”  Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research and Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement:

A recent Fox News investigation found that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s educational and “anti-bias” programs, which influence millions of American children and thousands of educators and officials, promote far-left and critical race theory (CRT) concepts such as “white privilege” and “systemic racism,” and promote groups such as the Women’s March and BLM – despite the virulent Jew-hating, Israel-hating and pro-Farrakhan positions of the Women’s March leaders and BLM/M4BL organization.

The investigation also found that these harmful ADL programs characterize denying white privilege as a “biased attitude”; encourage white students to view themselves as “oppressors”; and include an article indicating that white women are “justly seen as oppressive” and “enjoy unearned skin privilege,” etc, etc.

Unfortunately, this is nothing new. After Obama senior advisor Jonathan Greenblatt became ADL’s CEO in 2015, Greenblatt “refocused” ADL on far-left partisan political, legal and educational advocacy. For years, ZOA and others have raised alarm bells about ADL’s and Greenblatt’s dangerous far-left advocacy and numerous departures from ADL’s primary stated mission of combatting antisemitism…

Ezequiel Doiny is author of “Obama’s assault on Jerusalem’s Western Wall”  and “Jerusalem is the Spiritual capital of Judaism while Mecca is the Spiritual Capital of Islam”