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News When Hate Speech Hits Social Media
Ask Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center how he grades Twitter’s efforts to combat anti-Semitic hate speech, and Cooper, the group’s associate dean, won’t even give Twitter an F. “They haven’t even shown up to the dance yet,” said Cooper, who directs the center’s anti-hate speech efforts. Facebook, on the other hand, has recently…
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News Was Kiev Beating Anti-Semitic Act?
At about 1 a.m. on the second night of Passover, Alexander “Aron” Goncharov stepped from Brodsky Synagogue, in the center of Kiev, into the cold night air. The 25-year-old yeshiva student, who was staying at the synagogue’s hostel, never returned to his room. After hours of frantic phone calls the following day, yeshiva authorities finally…
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The Schmooze English Soccer Team To Visit Auschwitz
In an educational effort to combat the troublesome phenomenon of anti-Semitism and racism in soccer, England’s national football team will visit Auschwitz and other Holocaust-related sites while in Poland next week for the Euro 2012 tournament. According to the Algemeiner, the team will visit Auschwitz some time between its arrival in Poland on June 6…
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Culture Making Sense of Anti-Semitism
A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism By Phyllis Goldstein Facing History and Ourselves, 432 pages, $17.95 Historian Victor Tcherikover used to say that there are few things that have a history of 2,000 years. Anti-Semitism is one of them. And indeed, in our own day, the taxonomy of anti-Semitism yet includes religious and secular…
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Opinion Now He’s Going for Gaga
Remember this guy? The one who stood in front of Occupy Wall Street protests with the sign “Google: Zionists Control Wall St.”? Well, he’s back, and he may have moved on from anti-Semitic canards to pop culture. Now he wants us to Google: “Lady Gaga Demonic.” You read that right. Your guess is as good…
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News Swedish Mayor Chided for Anti-Semitism
A representative of the Obama administration scolded the mayor of Malmö, Sweden, during an April 24 meeting at Malmö’s town hall. Hannah Rosenthal, the United States special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, accused the controversial Malmö mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, of not doing enough to fight rampant anti-Semitism in this southern Swedish city of nearly…
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The Schmooze Calling Out Ricky Gervais for Anti-Semitism
Jon Stewart seemed uncomfortable with some of the things guest Ricky Gervais was saying about famous Holocaust victim Anne Frank and the Nazis on the Daily Show on April 11. But while Stewart took it no further than trying to humorously push back at Gervais during their broadcast conversation, a guy in Boston named Dan…
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The Schmooze Jon Lovitz Gets Tough On Hate Crime
We may know Jon Lovitz as a joker, but he was very serious when he tweeted about a recent anti-Semitic act perpetrated against his friend’s teenage daughter by other students from her school. It was reported that Lovitz’s posts about the incident, which took place in Northridge, California on April 3, led to the expulsion…
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