(LifeSiteNews) — FBI Director Kash Patel has announced that his agency will no longer work with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

“This FBI won’t partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs,” Patel wrote on social media.

The ADL is a left-wing Jewish organization founded in the early 1900s. It’s mission is to combat “anti-Semitism” but often it has attacked and sought to censor Christian and conservative groups that simply hold different political views to that of the ADL. It had been working with the FBI to share intelligence and train its members on what constitutes “hate speech” and “extremism.”

Patel made the announcement Wednesday following a massive upsurge in pressure after X CEO Elon Musk denounced the organization by name on his platform.

“The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is a hate group,” Musk said last week. It has “become a far left hate propaganda machine.”

In another post, Musk re-shared a post from political commentator Mike Cernovich denouncing the ADL for labelling Charlie Kirk’s Turing Point USA organization as a hate group due to its “Christian nationalism” advocacy.

“The FBI was taking their ‘hate group’ definitions from ADL, which is why FBI was investigating Charlie Kirk [and] Turning Point, instead of his murderers,” Musk wrote.

The FBI was taking their “hate group” definitions from ADL, which is why FBI was investigating Charlie Kirk & Turning Point, instead of his murderers … https://t.co/xTAfSY8vqr

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2025

Scores of other X users have posted images of the group’s “Glossary of Extremism” online in recent days as well. The index includes common phrases and images used by Christians and conservatives such as “Christ is King” that the ADL says is hateful.

On September 30, the ADL announced it would be deleting the glossary due to it being “outdated” and apparently thanks to “a number of entries intentionally misrepresented and misused.”

Patel minced no words in his decision to end his agency’s relationship with the group. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Patel rebuked former FBI Director James Comey for having “disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Americans. That was not law enforcement, it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger.”

Patel was referencing a speech Comey made at the ADL’s National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., in 2014. During his remarks, Comey congratulated the ADL for its “record of success” over the past 100 years.

“Your advocacy for such a wide range of issues and constituents is nothing short of amazing, from anti-Semitism to voting rights and immigration issues … from gender and LGBT equality to anti-Muslim prejudice … from the separation of church and state to cyber-bullying,” he said at the time.

“If this sounds a bit like a love letter to the ADL, it is, and rightly so. Since 1913, you have advocated for fairness and equality. For inclusion and acceptance. You have never been indifferent or complacent,” Comey added.

In November 2023, a recording was leaked of current ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. He had been caught sounding the alarm that Israel had “a major, major, major generational problem” with young Americans.

“The issue in the United States’ support for Israel is not left and right. It is young and old,” he said. “We really have a TikTok problem, a Gen Z problem, that our community needs to … put our energy toward,” he claimed at the time.

Attitudes among Gen-Z Americans, those who are currently under 30 years old, toward Israel have been dropping steadily in recent years. A 2022 Pew survey found that 55 percent of Americans had a favorable view of Israel but that only 41 percent of those aged 18-29 had a favorable view of Israel, compared with 69 percent of those aged 65 or older.

Greenblatt recently appeared before Israel’s legislative body, the Knesset, to emphasize the need for more censorship online. He called for creativity and for “the kind of genius that manufactured Apollo Gold Pagers and infiltrated Hezbollah for over a decade to prepare for this battle.”

Greenblatt’s goal has partly come to fruition thanks to the recent forced sale of TikTok that has allowed pro-Israel billionaire Larry Ellison to become a part-owner. The move was hailed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as  “extremely consequential” and one of the “most important purchase(s) that is going on” when he met with U.S. influencers after his speech to the U.N. last week.

“Weapons change over time … we have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefield on which we’re engaged, and the most important ones are on social media,” Netanyahu said to his Gen Z listeners.

This past spring, Dr. Jordan Peterson was criticized by Candace Owens and others for a “report” he co-authored rebuking “Christ is King” terminology for the National Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), which is tied to the Anti-Defamation League.

“Jordan Peterson wrote his … ‘Christ is King’ report for NCRI. NCRI is an ADL partner. NCRI tracks ‘domestic terrorism.’ They supporting censoring COVID-19 vaccine skeptics. Jordan is working for pro-censorship groups now, including ones targeting MAHA,” influencer Mike Cernovich said.

The NCRI was established in 2018 by Joel Finkelstein, who worked for the Anti-Defamation League from 2018 until 2020. The NCRI and the ADL partnered in 2019 to “look into how extremism and hate spread on social media.” The ADL has also partnered with PayPal.

Mint News reported that the NCRI received over $1 million from the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC), a group that seeks to promote support for Israel at U.S. colleges. The ICC, in turn, is funded by the Jewish National Fund.

In August 2023, independent journalist Kyle Clifton published a series of video clips of a conversation with ADL Director of Development Courtney Kravitz and ADL Arizona chapter Community Manager Sarah Kader. The footage shows Kader and Kravitz touting how they attempt to get so-called “extremist” content suppressed on online services ranging from social network Twitter/X and payment processors, to crowdfunding platforms and even video game streaming.