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Fast Forward Donald Trump Compares Jewish Federations to White Supremacists — ADL Calls Claim ‘Obscene’
Pesidential candidate Donald Trump defended his refusal to repudiate white supremacist groups by comparing them to Jewish charities — a claim that the Anti-Defamation League denounced as obscene. “I don’t like to disavow groups if I don’t know who they are,” Trump said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” I mean, you could have Federation of Jewish…
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News ADL Enters BDS Fray With Hardline Partner
The Anti-Defamation League has announced its own new effort to oppose the boycott of Israeli goods, joining a plethora of Jewish groups that have launched similar efforts in recent months. Calling efforts to boycott, divestment from and sanction Israel an “attack on Israel and the Jewish people,” the ADL said on February 29 that it…
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News ADL Forges Partnership With European Group Led by Crony of Vladimir Putin
Facing a troubling surge in anti-Semitism in Europe, the Anti-Defamation League has entered a partnership with a powerful, and at the same time controversial, European Jewish organization. ADL announced on January 27 that it had signed an agreement with the European Jewish Congress that would “heighten ADL’s relations with European Jewish communities at a time…
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Fast Forward New ADL Chief Courts Younger Generation With Nod to Silicon Valley
(JTA) — Framed by a slide of two young guys in jeans and T-shirts playing ping-pong on the Facebook campus, Jonathan Greenblatt described an event hosted by the social media behemoth in Palo Alto, California, the week before. “Some of the stuff we’ve done has been really exciting, like in Silicon Valley,” Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation…
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Fast Forward Anti-Defamation League Urges Feds To ‘Deepen’ Probe of Tamir Rice Shooting
The Anti-Defamation League’s Cleveland office called on the U.S. Justice Department to “deepen its investigation” of the Tamir Rice case after a grand jury failed to indict two city police officers involved in the fatal shooting of the 12-year-old African-American boy. “Tamir Rice’s death is a tragedy that, along with too many other cases, have…
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The Schmooze Jane Fonda Presents Salma Hayek’s Husband With ADL Award
Francois-Henri Pinault, Chairman and CEO of Kering and husband of film star Salma Hayek, was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) at its November 18 Gala. Addressing a stellar American and French audience at the Waldorf-Astoria’s Empire Room Ashley Judd paid tribute to the tragedy in Paris — asked for a moment of silence for France,…
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Fast Forward ADL Study Sees 30% Jump in Anti-Israel Campus Activity
The Anti-Defamation League reported a 30 percent jump in anti-Israel activity on college campuses this year. According to a report released Wednesday, over 150 “explicitly ant-Israel programs” have either taken place or are scheduled to take place on American campuses. Last year, the corresponding figure was 105. The increase follows an identical 30 percent increase…
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Opinion Hope and Foreboding for Jews on Streets of Paris
I have visited Europe many times, but last week I looked at it through a new lens in my first trip as CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. I undertook the trip after an invitation to address the annual meeting of the CRIF, the representative body for the French Jewish community and a valued ADL partner….
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