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Fast Forward ADL Slams GOP Rep. For Bringing Holocaust Denier To Meeting
The Anti-Defamation League has called out Rep. Dana Rohrabacher for bringing an “alt-right” journalist who has questioned the magnitude and methods of the Holocaust to a Capitol Hill meeting. “It is an insult to the memories of those killed in the Holocaust and to the Jewish community to bring a Holocaust denier to the US…
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Life I Never Experienced Anti-Semitism. Then I Traveled Around Middle America.
We were sitting on his porch, his dog yapping as people walked beneath the street lights. Over 1,000 miles from home, in Dubuque, Iowa, I was interviewing him about what it meant to be an American, about the things that everyone in our country shared. When asked about the three things all Americans need to…
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Fast Forward Schools Scrap Speech By Palestinian After Jewish Students Report Harassment
Two high schools in Omaha, Nebraska have disinvited a Palestinian speaker from giving lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after Jewish students reported that they were being harassed about her visit. Noa Carmi, a Palestinian activist from Jerusalem who is on a nationwide speaking tour, had been scheduled to speak at Advanced Placement Human Geography classes…
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Fast Forward Four NY Jewish Businesses Targeted With Nazi Mail
Four Jewish businesses in New York City were targeted on Monday with anti-Semitic fliers received in the mail that included Nazi swastikas and other hateful symbols and rhetoric. “It is disturbing that at least four Jewish-owned businesses across New York City were apparently intentionally targeted with the same piece of racist and bigoted hate mail,”…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Call For Tougher Gun Control Laws After Las Vegas Attack
(JTA) — Jewish groups responded to the mass shooting in Las Vegas by condemning the violence and calling for gun control legislation. At least 58 people are dead and more than 500 wounded in the attack at a country music festival outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Strip late Sunday night. It is…
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Fast Forward Amid #TakeAKnee National Anthem Protests, ADL Forms Sports Council
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League will work with sports leaders and athletes to promote “positive social change” as the controversy over some NFL players not standing for the national anthem rages. On Thursday, the ADL announced the formation of a Sports Leadership Council, which it said will “work directly with key leaders in the sports…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Condemn New Trump Travel Ban
(JTA) — Several Jewish groups criticized the Trump administration’s new travel ban, which tailors restrictions on eight countries — three more than in the current ban being challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court. The executive order signed Sunday by President Trump replaces one that detractors said was an attempt to keep Muslims out of the…
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Israel News Bibi’s Son And Heir Apparent Embraces The Far Right — Even When It Hates Jews
Before sitting down for dinner at the Israeli prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem in May, Donald and Melania Trump were introduced to another member of the Netanyahu family: “I want you just to meet our boy,” said Sara Netanyahu, as she called in one of her sons, Yair, who is 26 and is shaping up…
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