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Fast Forward ADL: Tree of Life Shooting Inspired More Threats Against Synagogues
There have been multiple attempted attacks on synagogues since the shooting at Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Congregation in Pittsburgh, the Anti-Defamation League reported Monday — including at least one directly inspired by the Pittsburgh shooter. The ADL’s Center on Extremism has been monitoring the attempted attacks, all of which were thwarted. The organization found four…
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Fast Forward American Jewish Groups Targeted By Russian Spies
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Russian spies sought information during the 2016 election on leaders of two major Jewish groups, the Anti-Defamation League and the National Council of Jewish Women, a report said. BuzzFeed reported Thursday that the Russian financial crimes agency sought the information under the auspices of a joint U.S.-Russia effort to track down terrorist…
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News REVEALED: Secret ADL Memo Slammed Anti-BDS Laws As ‘Harmful’ To Jews
The Anti-Defamation League has emerged as a supporter of controversial legislation targeting boycotts of Israel. But internal ADL documents obtained by the Forward show that the organization’s own staff believed the laws could actually harm American Jews. In the summer of 2016, ADL staff wrote an internal memo arguing that legislating against the boycott, divestment…
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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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Fast Forward ADL Report On Hate-Filled Saudi Textbooks Buzzkill For New Pal Israel
Saudi school textbooks for the 2018-19 academic year instigate hatred or violence against Jews, Christians, women and homosexual men, according to an analysis by the Anti-Defamation League. Newly released textbooks were translated, and several passages were documented in the ADL’s “Teaching Hate and Violence: Problematic Passages from Saudi State Textbooks for the 2018–19 School Year.”…
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Fast Forward Sheryl Sandberg Uses Right-Wing ‘Soros’ Dog Whistles To Smear Facebook Critics
When it came out last spring that the privacy of millions of Facebook users was compromised, the company’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg needed a plan to shift the anger — so she threw George Soros’s name into the mix. The New York Times reported Wednesday that while Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg was apologizing for…
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Culture December 3: Manhattan: ‘Never Is Now’ Summit On Anti-Semitism
The Anti-Defamation League’s 2018 “Never Is Now” summit on “Antisemitism and Hate” will take place on December 3 in Manhattan. Buy tickets here. Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner will be a panelist at this year’s ADL conference, which is designed to discuss the rise in anti-Semitism and what drives it. She is joined on the roster…
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Fast Forward Federal Court Rules Against Trump’s Effort To End DACA Program
(JTA) — A federal court ruled that President Trump cannot end a program favored by multiple Jewish groups that protects undocumented immigrants brought to the USA as children. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Thursday concurred with a federal district judge’s decision from January that Trump lacked the…
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