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Fast Forward 3 Large Swastikas Spray-Painted In Brooklyn Neighborhood
(JTA) — At least three large swastikas were spray-painted in a Brooklyn neighborhood. The swastikas discovered Monday in Greenpoint were painted within a block of each other. Two were accompanied by the letters “WP,” which stands for White Power. Two of the swastikas later were crossed out with red paint and the words “No Hate” spray-painted…
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Fast Forward Brett Favre Duped Into Recording Anti-Semitic Messages
(JTA) — Quarterback Brett Favre and other celebrities were duped by a group of white supremacists into making videos that included coded anti-Semitic messages. The group behind the videos calls itself the GDL, or Goyim Defense League, using the Hebrew word for a non-Jew, BuzzFeed News first reported. It is a play on the ADL,…
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Fast Forward ‘Jews Have No Business At CMU!’ Found In Library Book At Carnegie Mellon
(JTA) — A Jewish student at Carnegie Mellon University discovered swastikas and anti-Semitic comments written inside a campus library book. The vandalism was discovered last week, though it is not known when it was written in the book. Carnegie Mellon is located in Pittsburgh. Graduate student Adira Rosen, who discovered the vandalism while researching a…
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Opinion Marc Lamont Hill’s Jewish Problems Didn’t Start With Bashing Israel
At the United Nations on Wednesday, Marc Lamont Hill was rewarded with enthusiastic applause for his speech that ended with a call for “a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.” But once the news of his speech spread on social media, there was considerable dismay and outrage. The Anti-Defamation League soon weighed in,…
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Fast Forward U.S. Agency Sorry For Calling Soros ‘Non-Practicing Jew Of Flexible Morals’
The head of a U.S. government agency apologized to financier George Soros and his foundation after airing a program that upheld conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic tropes, the Washington Post reported. John Lansing, chief executive and director of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an agency that shares news abroad, sent letters to Soros and Open…
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Opinion Demonizing Israel Isn’t Anti-Semitic — But Marc Lamont Hill Crossed The Line
On Wednesday, Marc Lamont Hill, then a CNN contributor and professor at Temple University, came under fire for a speech he gave at the United Nations to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The impassioned speech was existentially critical of Israel, and Hill stated that “we have an opportunity to not…
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Fast Forward ‘Anti-Semitism Cover-up’ Rocks Sweden’s Most Prestigious Hospital
STOCKHOLM – A Jewish doctor who works at the Swedish hospital accused of covering up repeated alleged incidents of anti-Semitism by a department head says the abuse consisted of both verbal attacks and professional decisions that adversely affected his and colleagues’ careers over several years. The accused, a former department head and prominent surgeon at…
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Fast Forward 2 Jewish Boys Attacked In Brooklyn In Separate Incidents
NEW YORK (JTA) — Two Orthodox Jewish boys were attacked in Brooklyn in one day. A passerby repeatedly punched a 9-year-old in the face on Sunday evening in the Williamsburg neighborhood, police told the New York Post. The boy was walking with his mother when the attack occurred in the heavily Hasidic area. Half an…
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