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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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Fast Forward White Nationalists Ramp Up Campus Outreach As Students Return
The white nationalist group Identity Evropa may be ramping up its college campus outreach ahead of the school year. The group, led by “alt-right” figure Nathan Damigo, targeted dozens of universities last year with pamphlets promoting their cause. Now, according to the Anti-Defamation League, Identity Evropa is gearing to target campuses “just as students arrive…
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News ADL Suggests Cops Infiltrate, Film Antifa Protests — Then Takes It Back
The Anti-Defamation League has retracted recommendations that police infiltrate and film antifa protests, saying they had been “posted in error.” The group deleted the advice from a primer for law enforcement on antifa, the anti-fascist protest movement that has grown in profile since the white supremacist riot in Charlottesville in mid-August. ADL has received millions…
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News ADL Tells Cops To Infiltrate Antifa — And Film Protests
The Anti-Defamation League is advising cops to plant undercover agents among antifa activists, and to film protests where the group may clash with neo-Nazis and white supremacists. The recommendation comes at the end of an ADL “primer for law enforcement” on antifa, the radical anti-fascist protest movement that has gained attention in the weeks since…
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Fast Forward ADL Hires Arab-American Former Homeland Security Official
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League has hired George Selim, an Arab-American former official at the Department of Homeland Security who worked on countering violent extremism. Selim, who served under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, resigned last month from his role as director of the Office of Community Partnerships at…
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