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Breaking News ADL Slams Ben Carson for ‘No Muslim President’ Stand
The Anti-Defamation League denounced Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s suggestion that a Muslim should not be allowed to serve as president. The ADL denounced the remarks, which Carson made on national television Sunday as “deeply offensive, un-American and contrary to the Constitution.” “There is no religious litmus test for candidates seeking political office, and that…
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Breaking News ADL Blasts Controversial Pennsylvania Professor for ‘Sluts’ Facebook Post
A tenured professor at a Pennsylvania university drew strong criticism on Thursday from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which issued a statement condemning his social media posts as “deeply offensive and outrageous.” Kaukab Siddique, a literature professor at Lincoln University, made derogatory comments toward women regarding rape in a Facebook post earlier this month. “Many women…
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Opinion On My Last Day as ADL Director, I’m Worried About Iran
Today is the last day of my long tenure as national director of the Anti-Defamation League. It has been a highly satisfactory and meaningful 28 years as director and 50 years as a professional at this prestigious organization. So why am I choosing to write an article on my last day? It is the same…
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Breaking News ADL Says White Supremacists Commit 83% of Extremist Killings
White supremacists have committed about 83 percent of extremist-related murders in the United States in the last decade, according to a new Anti-Defamation League report. The report, released Monday, also found that most of those murders were perpetrated for non-ideological reasons. In addition, a slight majority of the shootouts between extremists of any kind and…
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The Schmooze Abe Foxman, ‘Anti Discrimination First Responder,’ Honored at ADL Gala
If you were among the 1,200 guests in reach of Abe Foxman at the June 17th tribute gala for the departing director of the Anti-Defamation League at the Waldorf-Astoria, you got a Foxman hug your ribs will remember. The event was emceed by Katie Couric, with video greetings by President Obama and former president George…
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Breaking News ADL Raps Michael Oren for ‘Amateur Psychoanalysis’ on Obama
The Anti-Defamation League criticized Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, for an “insensitive and unjustified” attack on President Barack Obama. Oren’ should “walk back” views published in an essay posted Friday on the Foreign Policy website, the ADL said. Oren wrote that Obama’s attitudes toward Islam and American foreign policy in the…
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Breaking News What Course Will ADL Chart Without Abe Foxman?
(JTA) — If there’s one thing that can be said of longtime Anti-Defamation League leader Abraham Foxman, who is stepping down this month after nearly 30 years at the helm, it’s that he never holds back from speaking his mind. In an age of canned, anodyne statements from public figures reticent to say what they really…
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Opinion The Great Hypocrisy Behind Sheldon Adelson’s Anti-BDS Summit
Supporters of Israel oppose the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel (BDS) on the basis that many of the movement’s adherents support the one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — in other words, they call for a single, democratic state in the land now under Israel’s control, which would mean the end of…
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