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Fast Forward Which States Had The Fewest Anti-Semitic Incidents? The Answer May Surprise You
The Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents was released on Monday, and came with some saddening statistics. Incidents spiked by one-third in 2016, with more than 1,200 reported acts of vandalism, harassment and assault. Things got even worse this year, with anti-Semitic events spiking 86 percent in 2017’s first quarter. Such hate crimes happened…
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Fast Forward Did Trump’s Holocaust Speech Finally End The Controversy?
Did President Trump’s Holocaust memorial speech clean up his blemished record on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust? Reactions in the Jewish world to Trump’s Tuesday morning speech in the Capitol rotunda were as varied as the political views held by activists and organizations, but the Anti-Defamation League, perhaps the gold standard in battling anti-Semitism and bigotry…
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Fast Forward ADL Blames Trump Election And Campaign For 86% Spike In Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitic incidents, from bomb threats and cemetery desecration to assaults and bullying, have surged in the United States since the election of President Donald Trump, and a “heightened political atmosphere” played a role in the rise, the Anti-Defamation League said on Monday. A sharp increase in the harassment of American Jews, including double the incidents…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Surge By 86%
(JTA) – Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States rose by more than one-third in 2016 and shot up 86 percent in the first three months of 2017, the Anti-Defamation League reported. There has been a massive increase in harassment of American Jews, largely since November, and at least 34 incidents linked to the presidential election…
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Fast Forward ADL Offers Holocaust Awareness Training For White House Staff
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League is offering to hold Holocaust-awareness training for White House staff after administration spokesman Sean Spicer was pilloried for saying Adolf Hitler never used chemical weapons. In a letter to Spicer shared with the media on Thursday, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said his organization “would be happy to conduct…
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News Mounting Criticism Of Zionist Leader Who Said ‘Blacks Are Much Better Dancers’
The president of the Zionist Organization of America is facing a mounting wave of criticism after telling the Forward that it is “simply a fact” that “blacks are much better dancers,” and that “most people know” that Asians “are smarter on average than other people in America.” ZOA president Mort Klein made the remarks in…
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Fast Forward ADL Says Jared Kushner A Growing Target Of Online Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic invective against Jared Kushner has shot up recently, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL report documents a series of anti-Semitic tweets from white supremacists directed at Kushner, an Orthodox Jew and President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law. The tweets, sent by leading anti-Semites like David Duke and Richard…
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News Jewish Leader Says ‘Blacks Are Much Better Dancers’
Mort Klein, president of a major Jewish pro-Israel group, berated a Forward reporter who called to ask about a joke Klein had made about black people being good dancers in a national magazine story. “What are you, stupid? What are you, stupid?” Klein said. “Each different peoples have different talents that everyone knows. And everyone…
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