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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 NFL player DeSean Jackson shares anti-Semitic ‘Hitler’ quote, then says he isn’t anti-Semitic
DeSean Jackson, a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles football team, posted quotes attributed to Adolf Hitler before later saying he has no “hate towards the Jewish community.” On Monday, Jackson shared a quote falsely attributed to Hitler on his Instagram Stories. The quote, which has been deemed inauthentic by the fact-checking site Snopes, states…
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Fast Forward GOP official apologizes for cartoon equating lockdown mask mandate with Holocaust
A rural Kansas newspaper owned by a Republican Party chairman retracted a cartoon, widely criticized as anti-Semitic, that equated the state’s lockdown rules to the Holocaust. The cartoon, posted to the Facebook page of the newspaper on Friday, depicted Kansas’ Democratic governor, Laura Kelly, wearing a face mask with a Star of David on it,…
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Fast Forward Facebook ad showed a Jewish California state senator clutching Monopoly money
(JTA) — A California trade union placed a political advertisement on Facebook about a Jewish state senator that evoked anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews and money. The State Building and Construction Trades Council later removed the ad and apologized after being called out by the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, the political news website CalMatters reported Tuesday….
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Fast Forward YouTube pages of Richard Spencer, David Duke among 25,000 removed for hate speech
(JTA) — YouTube has seen enough of the French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala. White supremacist Richard Spencer and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, too. Their channels were among more than 25,000 shut down Monday by the online video sharing platform for violating its hate speech rules. Dieudonne’s page, which was full of videos…
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Fast Forward Ice Cube tells Jake Tapper ‘Watch your mouth’ over Farrakhan criticism
Rapper Ice Cube clapped back at CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Twitter this week after the host criticized a Fox channel for planning to air a program hosted by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. “Watch your mouth Jake,” tweeted Ice Cube in response to Tapper’s tweet, which called Farrakhan a “vile anti-LGBTQ anti-Semitic misogynist”…
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