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Let’s Have No Double Standards In The Marc Lamont Hill Furor
Author, academic and activist Marc Lamont Hill has been dropped as a CNN contributor because of public comments widely decried as offensive and bigoted. It could be a “political correctness strikes again” story — except that in this case, many usual critics of “political correctness” are on the other side. Hill was speaking at a…
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Opinion What Marc Lamont Hill Debacle Teaches Us About Fairness For Both Peoples
Barely 24 hours passed between the speech that Marc Lamont Hill gave at the United Nations, calling for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea,” and the announcement that CNN had fired him from his job as political commentator for the network. The move came after the Anti-Defamation League and other American Jewish…
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Opinion Marc Lamont Hill’s Jewish Problems Didn’t Start With Bashing Israel
At the United Nations on Wednesday, Marc Lamont Hill was rewarded with enthusiastic applause for his speech that ended with a call for “a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.” But once the news of his speech spread on social media, there was considerable dismay and outrage. The Anti-Defamation League soon weighed in,…
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Opinion Demonizing Israel Isn’t Anti-Semitic — But Marc Lamont Hill Crossed The Line
On Wednesday, Marc Lamont Hill, then a CNN contributor and professor at Temple University, came under fire for a speech he gave at the United Nations to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The impassioned speech was existentially critical of Israel, and Hill stated that “we have an opportunity to not…
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Opinion Trashing Marc Lamont Hill Won’t Help Israel Or The Jews
On Wednesday, CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill was fired from CNN for comments he made about Israel during a United Nations Meeting for The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. During this meeting, Hill echoed a phrase that is common in the Palestinian liberation movement: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will…
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Opinion No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Did Not Sin Against The Memory Of The Holocaust
Regular comparisons of today’s persecutions to the Holocaust rightly rankle those of us who lost family as a result of the Nazi attempt to annihilate European Jewry. Whether it’s Louis Farrakhan’s assertion that blacks have suffered a “holocaust 100 times worse” than what the Jews faced during World War II, or PETA’s impressively tone-deaf “Holocaust…
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Opinion El Al Should Apologize For Smearing The Orthodox Over Shabbat Flight Debacle
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An El Al flight was delayed and ultimately diverted because “Right Wing Ultra-Orthodox Passengers” forced others to acquiesce to their outlandish religious requests. In the most recent example, a November 15 flight from New York to Tel Aviv was so delayed that many passengers were worried they…
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Opinion Don’t Fall For ‘Both-Siderism’ Trap On Anti-Semitism
In the aftermath of the Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh, the argument over the source of danger to American Jews — the social justice left or the right’s white nationalist movement — is over. Right-wing anti-Semitism and white nationalism pose the single greatest threat to the safety of the American Jewish community. Our response…
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Opinion Stop Taking Out Your Liberal Anger On The Orthodox
In the aftermath of the Pittsburgh massacre, Jews all over the world sought to make sense of the horror that was the single greatest act of violence targeting Jews in the history of the United States of America. For some people, that meant expressions of solidarity. For some it meant turning to religion, engaging in…
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Opinion Our Country Is Burning, It’s Time To Act
‘You lost me when you spoke about human-caused climate change,” a federation executive offered at the end of my panel. “If you want people in the Jewish community to listen, you better talk about energy efficiency and not climate change.” That was at the 2009 JFNA General Assembly when climate change was too negative, too…
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Opinion One Month After Pittsburgh, This Is How We Mourn
Years from now, October 27, 2018, may be remembered as an inflection point in the way America regards its Jews, and in the way that Jews regard themselves. The brutal murders of 11 congregants at prayer in the supposed safety of a synagogue demolished any lingering, quixotic notion that anti-Semitism in this country had been…
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