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News Anti-Defamation League Stands Almost Alone Against Communal Push for Anti-BDS Measures
As many Jewish groups jump on board a push for laws to penalize businesses and groups boycotting Israel, the Anti-Defamation League, long considered a pillar of the Jewish establishment, is not just standing back — it has been opposing the tide. And now, it’s taking flack for this. In a press release calling ADL’s opposition…
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News Meet the One Jewish Group that Can Attack Donald Trump
Donald Trump poses a particular challenge to most Jewish organizations. His message stands in stark contrast to their groups’s positions on immigration, race or welfare, but the organizations can’t call him out on it due to federal tax rules limiting not-for-profits’s political speech. Bend the Arc has the answer. Join the anti-Trump mobilization its operating…
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News Application That Identifies (((Jews))) Online Disappears From Google Browser, App Store
The developer of the Google Chrome extension Coincidence Detector, which identifies Jewish individuals and organizations by putting triple parentheses around their names, pulled the application last night after several news reports exposed it to the general public. A Forward reporter was exploring the extension on her laptop in order to better write about it at…
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Fast Forward ADL To Eye Anti-Semitic Abuse of Campaign Reporters — Like Those Who Probed Donald Trump
— The Anti-Defamation League has announced a task force to look into the anti-Semitic harassment online, including death threats, of journalists covering the 2016 presidential campaign. Its members will include at least two journalists who were targeted by self-described followers of Donald Trump after writing about the presumptive GOP candidate’s campaign for president. The Task…
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News Why Is the Anti-Defamation League Calling Out Donald Trump by Name?
WASHINGTON — Even as leaders of the Anti-Defamation League gathered in the nation’s capital on May 16 for their annual meeting, hateful campaign rhetoric kept piling up in the presidential race. In the latest incident, David Horowitz, a columnist for the right-wing news site Breitbart.com, denounced Bill Kristol, an anti-Donald Trump Jewish Republican, as a…
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Fast Forward ADL To Recognize Armenian Killings as ‘Genocide’
BOSTON — The Ottoman government’s massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the early 20th century was “unequivocally genocide,” the head of the Anti-Defamation League said in the group’s strongest position on the subject. Jonathan Greenblatt, the civil rights group’s CEO, also said in a blog post Friday that the ADL will support U.S. recognition of the…
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Fast Forward How Donald Trump Became the Darling of White Supremacists
“We’re gonna take our country back, folks,” Donald Trump tells an army of white soldiers as he battles, and ultimately kills, Barack Obama and two prominent American Jews in a clumsy parody of the movie “300.” The clip, which features recordings of actual statements made by Trump and has over half a million views on…
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Israel News 17 Jewish Activists Protesting Israeli Occupation Arrested at ADL Headquarters
Police arrested 17 activists denouncing the “Jewish establishment’s support of the occupation of Palestine” on April 20 in the lobby of the Anti-Defamation League during one of a series of Passover protests organized by anti-occupation group If Not Now. Before they were cuffed and shuffled into New York Police Department vans, the young activists had…
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