Collections : [University of Michigan. Bentley Historical Library]

The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith subseries is dedicated to case that took place in San Francisco, Calif. Anti-Defamation League (ADL), formerly known as Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith, is an organization that, among other tasks, monitors activities of extremist organizations and hate groups. The 1993 case involved a San Francisco area antique dealer Roy Bullock, who served as ADL's investigator, and San Francisco police Inspector and former CIA agent Tom Gerard. Bullock and Gerard gathered and forwarded information about individuals and organizations to ADL. Investigation revealed that through Bullock and Gerard, ADL has compiled files on thousands of individuals and hundreds of groups across the political spectrum; among them prevailed Arab and Palestinian individuals and organizations, but also such organizations as NAACP, ACLU, labor unions, ACT-UP, Mother Jones magazine, Jews for Jesus, among others. Jabara was member of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) legal team working on a lawsuit against ADL. Material in the subseries is mostly dated 1993, unless specified otherwise, and includes legal research and background materials, court documents (pleadings, summaries) and their drafts, correspondence and memoranda, material about related cases, press releases, and unsorted newspaper articles and clippings.

The Jabara vs. FBI subseries consists mainly of court documents stemming from the lengthy trial that spanned the administration of several FBI directors including L. Patrick Gray, Clarence M. Kelley, and William H. Webster. In the various suits, Jabara contended that his civil rights were violated as the FBI monitored his activities through wiretapping and surveillance. The files also contain a large amount of correspondence including that between Jabara and John H.F. Shattuck, his ACLU lawyer. Jabara eventually won his case against the FBI in 1984.