Jonathan Greenblatt Says ADL Monitors Antisemitism Across Social Media and Messaging Apps 24/7
February 18, 2026
“I HAVE 40 ANALYSTS WORKING 24 HOURS A DAY.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, says his team monitors online activity across social media, crypto platforms, and messaging apps — tracking antisemitism and extremist threats.
When people hear “24/7 monitoring,”
the question becomes:
where’s the line between fighting hate and watching dissent?
In the digital age,
who’s being flagged?
Who decides what crosses the line?
Security and free speech are colliding in real time.
STOP THIS NOW.
#ADL #FreeSpeechDebate #DigitalSurveillance #JonathanGreenblatt #fyp
English Script:
Jonathan Greenblatt: So number one we measure track. Number two we monitor and disrupt. We have a whole apparatus. I have 40 analysts working full time, seven days a week, 24 hours a day monitoring extremists. We monitor them online, social media, messaging apps, video games, cryptocurrency, podcasts, short form video, Wikipedia, LLMS. We monitor these people and we share the intelligence with the FBI. You saw last month you heard about the thing that happened at Wilshire Boulevard Temple. Our analysts investigated what happened. They said they were Koreatown for Palestine.They weren’t. We were able to ascertain they were from a group called the Turtle Island Liberation Front. Turtle Island is how, like left wing activists refer to the United States. They don’t call it America. They call it Turtle Island, like the Iranians call it the Zionist entity. But they only call by its name the Turtle Island Liberation Front. We gave them a whole dossier. What is the Turtle Island Liberation Front? What are their ideas? Their goals? Who are they? We identify the people who are in the synagogue. This was on Wednesday, December the 10th. On Monday, December the 15th. This is going to ring a bell. Kash Patel announced they cracked a terror ring where they arrested four people who are playing New Year’s Eve bombings, Turtle Island Liberation Front. At least one of the people I know for certain was in the building at Wilshire Boulevard Temple, vandalizing and disrupting the event. So we’re monitoring left wing radicals like the DSA and the antiwar crazies and the pro-Palestine crazies. We’re monitoring right wing extremists like white supremacist, armed militia groups. We’re monitoring political, Islamist and Christian nationalist, all of them. And then we train. We’re the largest trainer of law enforcement in America. We train 20,000 officers every year.
