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Breaking News ADL Gets Huge Donation Spike After Trump Victory
— The Anti-Defamation League is reporting a dramatic increase in donations since the presidential election. In the day after Donald Trump’s surprising victory alone, the watchdog group saw a 50 percent rise in donations, the Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia reported Wednesday. Todd Gutnick, the ADL’s vice president for communications, said the uptick in giving has…
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News Twitter Will Now Let You ‘Mute’ Hate Speech
Twitter just introduced a number of new features to combat online abuse. One tool lets you mute certain words, phrases, usernames, emojis or hashtags. For years, Twitter has been criticized for not doing enough to fight the rampant hate speech on their platform. Especially, during this presidential election, we have seen thousands of attacks by…
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Breaking News Anti-Defamation League in the Crosshairs as Right Wing Jews Jump to Defense of Steve Bannon
President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to make former Breitbart News CEO Steve Bannon his chief strategist has triggered a Jew vs. Jew battle — and the Anti-Defamation League is squarely in the crosshairs. Right-leaning Republican groups funded by Trump’s biggest donor, Sheldon Adelson, have jumped to defend Bannon from criticism by the ADL, the Jewish organization…
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News ADL Starts #ExposeHate Hashtag to Showcase Post-Trump Attacks
In the days since Trump became president-elect, the United States has seen a rise in racist and anti-Semitic crimes. More post-election depravity at Indiana church vandalized w/ “Heil Trump,” swastika, & gay slur graffiti https://t.co/PaHrVidC5t #ExposeHate pic.twitter.com/98EKdl7owj — Oren Segal (@orensegal) November 14, 2016 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has responded by starting a hashtag to…
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Opinion Jewish Leaders, Don’t Congratulate Trump! Normalizing Him Endangers Us All.
After America elected a man I consider a proto-fascist, a man who used blatantly anti-Semitic tropes in his closing campaign ad, I wish mainstream American Jewish organizations had paused to think before cozying up to his incoming administration. Yet the Jewish Federations of North America penned a letter congratulating Donald Trump, appreciating in particular his…
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News Bewildered, Anti-Trump Jews Resolve to Mourn, Then Organize
An outcome no one had expected has left the Jewish community’s anti-Trump activists with a sense of disbelief. And while some tried to find a middle road, understanding that from now they’ll have to deal with a Trump administration, for better or worse, others couldn’t get over the political loss. “While we do accept these…
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Breaking News Republican Jewish Coalition Slams ADL for Criticizing Anti-Semitism of Trump Backers
The day after a sweeping Republican victory, the Republican Jewish Coalition suggested that the Anti-Defamation League would have few friends in the Trump White House. The anti-Semitism watchdog might have gone too far in its criticism of Donald Trump and his supporters during the presidential campaign, said Matt Brooks, the RJC’s executive director. “We need…
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News Donald Trump’s Final Ad Evokes ‘Centuries-Old’ Anti-Semitic Dog Whistles
In his final appeal to American voters, Donald Trump is now blasting the airways in key states with a two-minute long campaign ad full of promises for a better future — and laced with unmistakable anti-Semitic dog whistles. The theme of Trump’s ad is taking back America from the political establishment that has taken hold…
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