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News Abe Foxman: Anti-Semitism ‘Sewer Covers Are Off’ — But I’m Optimistic on Trump
“The sun is still shining,” Abe Foxman boomed over the phone from Southern California, where it was “men’s week” at the Golden Door spa in San Marcos, about 35 miles north of San Diego. It was an overcast afternoon in New York. But Foxman was paying one of his twice yearly visits last week to…
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News Free Speech Advocates Warn that Anti-Semitism Bill Could Make Activism a Civil Rights Violation
After pro-Palestinian student activists set up mock West Bank checkpoints on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, Jewish groups filed a civil rights complaint with the federal government. Jewish organizations charged that the mock checkpoints, meant as a protest against the Israeli government, combined with other incidents to create a hostile…
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News ADL Says Keith Ellison’s Taped Comments on Israel ‘Disqualify’ Him From Democratic Post
A new tape in which Keith Ellison implies that Israel controls America’s policy toward the Middle East has cost the Minnesota congressman support of the Anti-Defamation League, but did not change the position of his top political supporter, Senator Chuck Schumer. In the recording, which only 35 seconds of which were published, the Minneapolis congressman,…
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Fast Forward ADL Chief Pushes Back Against ‘Full-Scale Assault’ Over Criticism of Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt urged the organization’s leading activists to counter what he said was an “organized, concerted effort” to delegitimize the group. The 900-word email sent Wednesday was a bid to counter what has been at times a fierce assault on the venerable civil rights group for its lead role…
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Opinion President Obama Shouldn’t Go It Alone on Middle East Peace
As his administration draws to a close, many have wondered whether the president will seek to lay down a permanent marker on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before President-Elect Donald Trump assumes control in January. In fact, two days ago in the The New York Times, former President Jimmy Carter urged Obama to recognize the state of…
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Fast Forward European Governments Failing To Report Hate Crimes: ADL
— The “overwhelming majority” of participating countries in the world’s largest regional security group, the Organization for Society and Cooperation in Europe, are not adequately reporting hate crimes, according to a new report. Of the 57 countries in the OSCE — its participating states are located in North America, Europe and Asia — 41 submitted official…
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Fast Forward Liberal Jewish Groups Get Surge of Donations After Donald Trump’s Win
Almost immediately after Heidi Feldman, a professor at Georgetown Law, learned that Donald Trump had been elected president, she decided to make a range of donations to organizations that supported civil liberties. “In addition to supporting more general organizations,” she said, “I thought it was important, with the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-black rhetoric, to…
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News Huffington Post: How It’s ‘Absolutely’ Possible For Steve Bannon To Be Pro-Israel And Anti-Semitic
It is “absolutely” possible for Steve Bannon to be pro-Israel and anti-Semitic at the same time, concluded a Huffington Post article about the ex-Breitbart chief who’s now President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist. Several Jewish organizations strongly criticized Bannon’s appointment, announced Nov. 13, on the grounds that he said he had made Breitbart into an online…
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