Reporters’ Roundtable: Funding the Tent Protests; Sharpton Apologizes; the Jewish ‘Indiana Jones’
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
This week, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward opinion editor Gal Beckerman and staff writer Nathan Guttman to discuss how the New Israel Fund has been trying to support the Israeli tent protests and the protestors’ lukewarm response. Then the group considers a recent editorial written by the Rev. Al Sharpton about his role in inciting violence during the 1991 Crown Heights Riot. Lastly, is the Jewish ‘Indiana Jones’ really just a con artist?
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