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Opinion ADL Says Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Students Disagree.
The Anti-Defamation League recently released the results of its annual anti-Semitism audit. The findings were staggering. Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States surged nearly 60% this past year, driven in part by an increase in such cases in schools and on college campuses. ADL found 1,986 cases of harassment, vandalism or physical assaults against Jews…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Soared In 2017 To Highest Level In Decades, ADL Says
(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States spiked in 2017, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League. There were 1,986 acts of anti-Semitism in the U.S. last year, according to an ADL audit released Tuesday. That is more than double the total from 2015, which was 942. It’s also…
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News Parkland Horror Elicits Another Communal Call For Gun Control
A tragic mass shooting that hit close to home for the Jewish community elicited a call from Jewish groups for gun control legislation. The Orthodox Union put its emphasis on expanding the program providing security grants to nonprofits, a program that has provided throughout the years funds for Jewish institutions to better address threats of…
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Fast Forward School Shooter ‘Trained’ With Florida White Supremacist Group
The alleged perpetrator of the most recent American mass shooting, which took place on Wednesday at a Florida high school, was a participant in a white supremacist group, reported the Anti-Defamation League. A spokesman for the group Republic of Florida told the ADL that Nikolas Cruz, 19, had participated in training exercises conducted by the…
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Fast Forward Paul Nehlen Blames ADL For Twitter Ban
After being banned from Twitter, “alt-right” congressional candidate Paul Nehlen said Monday that his removal from the social media service was illegal election interference done at the behest of the Anti-Defamation League and possibly the British government. Nehlen has repeatedly associated himself with white supremacists and was previously suspended from Twitter for a week for…
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News Six Months After Charlottesville, White Nationalists More Violent, Fractured
Six months since neo-Nazis, white supremacists and “alt-right” activists joined forced and took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, in a parade of hate that reverberated across America, organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally have more visibility, but not much else to show for it. An analysis prepared by the Anti-Defamation League finds that…
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Fast Forward ADL: Rep. Danny Davis Insists He Was Misquoted In Article Praising Farrakhan
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League said an Illinois congressman told the group that he was misquoted in an article claimed that he had praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. An ADL official told JTA on Friday that the group had reached out to Rep. Danny Davis, a Democrat, after an article in The Daily…
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Community Why Don’t More Local Law Enforcement Agencies Report Hate Crimes To The FBI?
The news from Charlottesville came while I was at work. I couldn’t stop staring at my laptop, watching videos of neo-Nazis and white supremacists rampaging through the streets. As tears streamed down my face, I tried to cry quietly so as not to disturb my coworkers. How could I continue working as if nothing had…
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