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Fast Forward ADL Announces Opposition To Israel’s Anti-BDS Law
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League became the second establishment Jewish organization to speak out against Israel’s new anti-BDS law. “Israel’s democracy, pluralism, open society serve as best defense against #BDS,” the group said on Twitter on Wednesday, using the acronym for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. “New law harms rather than helps.” Israel’s…
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Israel News American Critics Of Israel Anguished By Ban On Boycott Backers
American Jews who love Israel and see boycott as a tool to change the country for the better are anguished over a new Israeli law that could ban them from visiting the country they cherish. Israel’s parliament passed a law February 6 to ban advocates of the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel,…
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News What You Need To Know About The Bizarre JCC Bomb Threat Arrest
Federal agents arrested a 31-year-old disgraced former journalist on Friday morning with making bomb threats made against Jewish centers. Everything about the arrest and the charges is weird and confusing. So they got the guy making the bomb threats to JCCs? Well, yes and no. A criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Manhattan on…
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News How We Are Documenting Hate — With Your Help
In the past year, American Jews have experienced an escalating surge of anti-Semitism, from online harassment of journalists to bomb threats at schools and community centers to desecration of cemeteries. This, sadly, fits into a broader picture of increasing reports of hate crimes against Muslims, immigrants and other minorities. With all the attention paid to…
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News ADL: Presidential Aide Must Disavow Anti-Semitism of Hungarian Hate Groups
The Anti-Defamation League has called on Sebastian Gorka, a senior aide to President Donald Trump, to clearly disavow “the message and outlook” of anti-Semitic organizations such as those he worked with while living in Hungary. Gorka, whose political activities with veterans of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party and other anti-Semitic organizations and activists were detailed in…
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Fast Forward Bomb Threat Targets Anti-Defamation League Headquarters In Latest Anti-Semitic Incident
The headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League received a bomb threat on Wednesday morning, in the latest incident in a rash of violent threats targeting Jewish institutions across the U.S. In a tweet issued at noon, ADL national chairman Jonathan Greenblatt reported that a bomb threat to the group’s New York offices was under investigation. This…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Demand Action From Trump To Match Words On Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) – He hates it, he really hates it. Now what’s he going to do about it? President Donald Trump on Tuesday culminated three weeks of missed opportunities to condemn anti-Semitism and doubling down on missed opportunities to condemn anti-Semitism with a statement unequivocally condemning anti-Semitism. “The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community at…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Call On Trump To Condemn JCC Bomb Threats, Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Jewish groups called on President Donald Trump to condemn the wave of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers across the country, and to speak out against anti-Semitism. Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt applauded a tweet by First Daughter Ivanka Trump in which she called for the protection of Jewish institutions and used…
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