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Fast Forward ADL Slams Texas Gov For Saying Mass Shooting Not As Bad As Hitler
The Anti-Defamation League called Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s comments about the Sutherland Springs shootings “offensive” and “insensitive,” Chron reported Wednesday. The governor came under fire after downplaying the shooting, which killed 26 people, in the context of Adolph Hitler and other historical mass murders. “Look at what happened with Hitler during the horrific events during…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Surge: ADL Study
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League reported that anti-Semitic incidents in the first nine months of 2017 have risen 67 percent since the same period last year. If the current pace holds, they will nearly double the number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2015. There was also a 92 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in New York…
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Community 100 Years Later, The Balfour Declaration Still Resonates
For lovers of the State of Israel, this has been a year of celebrating milestone anniversaries: the 120th anniversary of the first Zionist Congress; the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration; the 70th anniversary of the U.N. Resolution supporting the founding of a Jewish state; the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War.; and the…
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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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