The ADL should be ashamed of itself for making such outrageous accusations, based on its careless and sloppy research. The most basic fact-checking would have determined that these accusations are without foundation. This kind of reckless behavior is simply unacceptable. The ADL should be defending Israel and the Jewish people against defamers, not engaging in defamation against fellow-Jewish organizations. The ZOA has also sent a letter to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and its chairman, Ronald Lauder, in which ZOA president Klein pointed out that the ADL's false accusations against the ZOA violate the Conference of President's 1995 guidelines on civility in Jewish communal discourse.
Public statements have consequences.
They have been and will be rejected.