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Opinion For A Century, White Supremacists Have Smeared the ADL. Now, The Left Has Picked Up The Habit
The Anti-Defamation League is the world’s leading institution fighting anti-Semitism. But in 2018, it has fielded staunch criticism from the left as well as the right. The situation on the left came to a head in April, after two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks for no reason other than being black. Starbucks…
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Fast Forward Hidden Children Of Holocaust Open Up About ‘Unconscionable’ Family Separation
The Anti-Defamation League has issued a statement on behalf of a group of hidden children of the Holocaust, who felt compelled to respond to the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from their parents. In a video, Rachelle Goldstein, co-director of the Hidden Child Foundation, a New York-based organization which represents Jewish Holocaust survivors hidden…
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Fast Forward 26 Jewish Groups Decry ‘Unconscionable’ Policy Separating Children From Parents
(JTA) — Twenty-six Jewish groups signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen opposing the government policy of separating children from their migrant parents. The letter, which was organized by the Anti-Defamation League, calls the policy “unconscionable.” Signers include three major Jewish religious movements — Conservative, Reform…
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Fast Forward These Jewish Groups Are Fighting Behind The Scenes — And Maybe Even Physically
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Last year, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations updated its secret rules to ban “insults, ad hominem attacks, and name-calling” among member organizations and instituted a special committee to consider complaints in strictest confidence. On May 2, the committee met, in strictest confidence, to hear three complaints. The session,…
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Fast Forward Starbucks Denies Demoting ADL From Anti-Bias Training
NEW YORK (JTA) — Starbucks denied that it demoted the Anti-Defamation League from a lead role in its anti-bias training, saying it continues to view the Jewish group as a valuable partner in future training. Reggie Borges, a spokesman for the coffee giant, spoke to JTA on Wednesday following speculation that left-wing criticism of the…
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Opinion What ADL Should Learn From The Starbucks Debacle
Last month, two black men waiting in a Starbucks in Philadelphia were arrested for the new crime of Waiting While Black. Shortly thereafter, Starbucks announced that it would undertake anti-bias training to ensure this did not happen again — which was good. The plan is to close all 8,000+ of their locations on May 29th…
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Fast Forward Starbucks Drops ADL After Pressure From Women’s March
Starbucks has dropped the Anti-Defamation League as a participant in its racial sensitivity training following pressure from Women’s March activists, POLITICO reported. The training, scheduled for May 29, was announced after two black men were arrested for loitering in a Philadelphia Starbucks. Videos of the incident were widely shared on social media, leading to criticism…
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Opinion I’ve Been Racially Profiled. The ADL Can’t Teach Racism To Starbucks
“Excuse me sir,” my mother would say in her precise and native Hebrew to the first security agent she would spot at the Israeli airport. “I am an Arab.” This was the strategy my mom had adopted to deal with racial profiling when traveling back to the US from Israel with her two children. We…
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