The former top civil rights litigator at the Anti-Defamation League is making public his scorching resignation letter from the group, in the latest sign of Jewish discontent over the organization’s shifts during the second Trump administration.

Joe Berman, who chaired the ADL’s National Legal Affairs Committee from 2018 to 2022 and who volunteered in other capacities until this year, said in an interview he left because the venerated civil rights group had become a “useful idiot” for the Trump administration by failing to respond aggressively to antisemitism on the right.

“Whether intentionally or ignorantly, ADL is providing cover to people who intend great harm to our nation,” Berman said in his letter resigning from two national and one regional leadership bodies. Berman sent the lett

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