"The story here is the dangerous devaluation of a real and ugly phenomenon i.e. anti-Semitism. Equally distressing, is the fact that Foxman, one of the nation's leaders in the fight against anti-Semitism, also leads the process of its devaluation as either a meaningful term or a genuine challenge.
There is no question that Jew-hatred persists in this country along with other racial, ethnic and gender-based hatreds, and that both Foxman and the ADL have played important and even heroic roles in combating them. But with Jew-hatred on the decline in this country, and even more importantly, becoming almost exclusively the domain of the least educated and empowered segments of society; it often appears that Foxman is nothing more than a hammer in search of more nails," - Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership.