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News Free Speech Advocates Warn that Anti-Semitism Bill Could Make Activism a Civil Rights Violation
After pro-Palestinian student activists set up mock West Bank checkpoints on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, Jewish groups filed a civil rights complaint with the federal government. Jewish organizations charged that the mock checkpoints, meant as a protest against the Israeli government, combined with other incidents to create a hostile…
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News With Bannon on the Bill, Zionist Gala Becomes Flashpoint
Steve Bannon, the controversial hard-right media provocateur and newly appointed chief strategist to President-elect Donald Trump, is set to attend the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner in Manhattan on Sunday — and his appearance is setting off a political firestorm in the Jewish communal world. The Anti-Defamation League has called Bannon “hostile to core…
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News Is Steve Bannon a White Nationalist in the White House — or ‘Alt Light’ Sellout to Cause?
Anti-Semite? Zionist? Champion of the alt-right? In the hours after media provocateur Steven Bannon’s elevation to a senior position in president-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet, commentators and civil rights organizations slammed the move. Bannon is a complex figure. He served as a Navy officer and also worked for Goldman Sachs. He also helped run a domed…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Groups Slam McGill Paper for Banning ‘Zionist’ Opinion Pieces
— Jewish and pro-Israel groups slammed a McGill University independent student newspaper for its announcement that it does not publish articles that “promote a Zionist worldview.” The McGill Daily published a statement last week about its ban in response to an anti-Semitism complaint by members of the Montreal university’s Jewish community. “[U]pon reviewing this complaint,…
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Opinion 4 Things Breitbart Got Dead Wrong About the Forward
Aaron Klein writes on Breitbart.com that the Forward intentionally smeared his former boss and senior Donald Trump advisor, Stephen Bannon, by explaining how he can support Israel and still be associated with anti-Semitism. To quote the president-elect: Wrong. We are journalists, with a proud history extending over nearly 120 years of independent reporting. We don’t…
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News WATCH: Trump Supporter Thinks Candidate Will ‘End Zionism’
When it comes to anti-Semitic dog whistles, some Donald Trump supporters are outdoing the campaign. At a Monday rally in Sarasota, Florida, a young man at the candidate’s rally told a reporter with The Young Turks that he thought the Republican nominee would “end Zionism.” “I like Donald Trump as president, and that’s what we…
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Israel News In Israel, Voters Back Clinton — But Just Barely
Israeli voters back Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a 37%-to 34% margin, a new poll has found, with supporters of the ruling right wing Likud party bakcing Trump, while Zionist Union voters on the center-left prefer Clinton. A poll released by Geocartography, an Israeli research institute, queried 500 Israelis with a 4.4% margin of…
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Community Why I’m Not Going to College This Year
I just graduated high school with perfect grades, an acceptance letter to my number one university, and what I thought was a sense of what I wanted to do with my life. Yet, to the surprise of many, I am not attending college this year. While my friends were choosing their classes and buying textbooks,…
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