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Opinion ADL Says Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Students Disagree.
The Anti-Defamation League recently released the results of its annual anti-Semitism audit. The findings were staggering. Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States surged nearly 60% this past year, driven in part by an increase in such cases in schools and on college campuses. ADL found 1,986 cases of harassment, vandalism or physical assaults against Jews…
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The Schmooze Every Jewish Moment That Happened At The Oscars
A Swarovski-encrusted, bloated night of semi-redemption, the 90th Academy Awards paid unusual attention to women and immigrants. However, the show reserved the usual amounts of attention for the kind of slavish self-praise that reminds viewers that the unifying trait for all Oscar participants is that they enjoy magnificent wealth in a world where children starve…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Tour Guide’s Home Vandalized With Jewish Star, ‘Poland For The Poles’
The home of a concentration camp tour guide was vandalized in Krakow on Friday with a Star of David and a Polish nationalist message, as public tensions increase over a new law banning certain language about the Holocaust. The Italian-born guide, Diego Audero Bottero, told Polsat Media that he found the star and the messages…
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Opinion Memo To The Left: Denounce Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan
The Anti-Defamation League recently released the results of its annual anti-Semitism audit. It found that anti-Semitic incidents in the United States surged nearly 60% this past year. These results, though dismaying, are surprising only if you’ve been living under a rock. From the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to the White House hiring…
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Fast Forward Arab Teenagers Arrested For Beating Jewish Boy Outside French Synagogue
(JTA) — Police in France arrested four teenagers who are suspected of beating a Jewish boy with a stick and taking away his kippah outside a synagogue north of Paris. The suspects were detained Wednesday night in Montmagny, the Le Parisien daily reported Thursday. Their alleged suspect, 14, was beaten after 8 p.m. outside the…
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Fast Forward Alex Jones Accused Of Anti-Semitism, Sexual Harassment
Alex Jones, one of the nation’s most prominent conspiracy theorists, has been accused by former employees of workplace harassment, including sexual groping and teasing, and anti-Semitic and racist discrimination and abuse. Jones, who runs the popular show and website InfoWars, was the subject of two separate complaints submitted by former employees to the Equal Employment…
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Community Should Israeli Politicians Be Meeting With The European Far Right?
The Israeli government and the Knesset are formulating approaches to address the rise of the far-right Austrian Freedom Party and the new Polish law regarding the Holocaust. In this effort, there is a need to address the growing gap between official Israeli policy and the actions of Israeli right-wing politicians. A recent Mitvim Institute study,…
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Fast Forward YouTube Won’t Ban Neo-Nazi Group Linked To Blaze Bernstein’s Murder
YouTube refuses to take down videos made by the neo-Nazi militia group Atomwaffen, the Daily Beast reported. Atomwaffen has cells in over two-dozen states, and has been linked to (multiple murders over the past year.](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/atomwaffen-nazi-murder-bomb-plot_us_5a70825ae4b00d0de2240328) One of it’s members, Sam Woodward, has been accused of murdering Blaze Bernstein, a Jewish teenager from California. The group…
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