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News Students said their yearbook contains a hate symbol. The district won’t remove it.
The things that make me different are the things that make me me. Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. These are among the quotes students shared on the pages of the Class of 2020’s yearbook for High Tech High School in Secaucus, N.J. But one entry said simply: “88.”…
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Fast Forward No change: Civil rights groups after meeting with Mark Zuckerberg
(JTA) — Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t changed his tune about Facebook’s stance on the spread of hate on the social media platform. That’s what the heads of several civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, said following a meeting Tuesday with Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives to discuss the demands of the advertisers that joined the…
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News At USC names of racists come down, the name of an anti-Semite stays up
As a national reexamination of monuments and memorials of flawed heroes moves along, the University of Southern California has accelerated its own efforts, aimed at past leaders whose credentials may appear ugly in the spotlight of today. Prominent among potential targets: racists. Not so prominent: anti-Semites, a fact that has many on campus concerned. Already,…
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Fast Forward Toronto restaurant uses ‘Zionists not welcome’ hashtag
(JTA) — A Toronto health food restaurant with a history of social media posts considered anti-Semitic has come under fire for using the hashtag “zionistsnotwelcome.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jamie Gutfreund (@jamiegutfreund) on Jul 2, 2020 at 7:59am PDT The owner of Foodbenders says, however, there’s a distinction between Zionists…
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Fast Forward Jewish groups to DeSean Jackson: Let us teach you about anti-Semitism
(JTA) — A coalition of Jewish groups say NFL star DeSean Jackson needs an education about “how dangerous and pernicious antisemitism and all forms of hate are” — and the groups say they are willing to teach him. Jackson in recent days posted quotes on social media attributed to Adolf Hitler and Louis Farrakhan. The…
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News She posed with a swastika on her shoulder. Now she’s studied with a rabbi. Here’s what she learned.
Every day, people get their just desserts when the Internet exposes past transgressions for all to see. While public apologies are common, not everyone takes time to grapple with wrongdoing. Ryann Milligan did. In early June, photos emerged of Milligan, a 21-year-old junior at Penn State majoring in rehabilitation and human services, posing with a…
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Community I’m Jewish. She’s Muslim. We took down anti-Semitic graffiti in less than a day
Here are two responses to an incident of anti-Semitic vandalism — from a Jewish woman and a Muslim woman — in Birmingham, England. The first is from Karen E.H. Skinazi; the latter is from Salma Hamid. (JTA) — As my husband and I were taking our regular after-dinner walk, I stopped dead in my tracks….
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News Jewish and Muslim women join forces to remove antisemitic graffiti in Birmingham, England
A group of Jewish and Muslim women, including the city’s only female rabbi, have defiantly come together to remove antisemitic graffiti which appeared overnight on a wall in Billesley in Birmingham, transforming it into positive art depicting a rainbow. Determined to show they’re “stronger together,” the women joined forces after vile and abusive words of…
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Fast Forward Columbia staff receive texts asking if they’re Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
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