How lawmakers’ ties to a conservative group brought the Israeli military’s ‘horror movie’ to Utah

As the 2021 chair of the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, Adams sat on a panel with Israeli-American Council CEO Elan Carr, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump as the Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism — a position focusing on foreign policy. Carr told the audience that Adams was a “champion” of “fighting this scourge of Jew hatred,” which he described as “orthodoxy” on college campuses in the form of criticism of Israel.