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News Facebook failing to contain content from far-right ‘Boogaloo’ movement, experts say
Facebook is failing to contain content from a growing right-wing extremist group called the “boogaloo” movement, experts say. Researchers from Avaaz, a not-for-profit that works to combat disinformation, found more than 20 Facebook pages calling for armed violence and promoting conspiracy theories about the George Floyd protests by self-identified “Boogaloo Boys,” members of an anti-government…
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Israel News Jewish Gun Control Backers Plan New Push
Jewish advocates for gun control are vowing to turn up their grassroots pressure on certain senators to change their minds, or work hard to see them turned out of office following the Senate’s rejection of an amendment that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers. Left with precious few options, supporters of gun control,…
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Opinion In Israel, Guns Signal Failure Not Strength
You know, I really do think the alliance that has emerged over the past generation between the American right and the State of Israel is a good thing. Having been born a dual citizen of Israel and America, and having spent the past two decades living in Israel and speaking Hebrew, I can understand the…
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Opinion The Gun Lobby’s Jewish Enemies List
The National Rifle Association compiled a list of its enemies and it reads like a Jewish who’s who list. The list, prepared by the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action includes 506 individuals, organizations, media outlets and corporations that “have lent monetary, grassroots or some other type of direct support to anti-gun organizations.” The groups listed…
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Opinion What Guns Mean
President Obama’s forceful package of measures to curb gun violence and promote public safety is what this country needs. It also happens to be what this country wants — at least according to numerous polls that show a clear majority of Americans in favor of a ban on military-style assault weapons, limits on ammunition, universal…
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Opinion The Right To Be Safe
So many eloquent words have been written in the aftermath of the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. that there is no need to add to the expressions of pain and anguish we have all shared as citizens, as family members, as Jews. But another kind of expression escapes redundancy: The call…
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