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Fast Forward ADL Says Jared Kushner A Growing Target Of Online Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic invective against Jared Kushner has shot up recently, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL report documents a series of anti-Semitic tweets from white supremacists directed at Kushner, an Orthodox Jew and President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law. The tweets, sent by leading anti-Semites like David Duke and Richard…
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News Jewish Leader Says ‘Blacks Are Much Better Dancers’
Mort Klein, president of a major Jewish pro-Israel group, berated a Forward reporter who called to ask about a joke Klein had made about black people being good dancers in a national magazine story. “What are you, stupid? What are you, stupid?” Klein said. “Each different peoples have different talents that everyone knows. And everyone…
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Fast Forward 40% More Americans Hold Anti-Semitic Views: ADL Poll
(JTA) — The number of Americans expressing anti-Semitic views rose by 40% since 2015 — although most Americans are worried about violence against Jews, according to polls by the Anti-Defamation League. Fourteen percent of Americans expressed anti-Semitic attitudes, a sharp increase from 10% in 2015, according to the data. However, 52 percent of respondents said they…
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Breaking News American Jewish Committee Calls For Investigation Of Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka
The American Jewish Committee has called on the White House to “look into new revelations” about the background of President Trump’s chief counter-terrorism advisor, Sebastian Gorka. In a statement released Tuesday, the Jewish civil rights organization cited video of a 2007 TV interview with Gorka, first reported yesterday by the Forward, in which the future…
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Opinion Google Must Do More To Pull The Plug On Online Hate
For years, the Anti-Defamation League has held the clear, unwavering stance that videos made by terrorists and hate groups have no place on the internet. Hate-filled videos mislead children, poison the online experience for everyone, and serve as an unfortunate, yet effective, tool to recruit new generations of violent extremists. Now, ADL is seeing the…
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The Schmooze 5 Surprising Things We Learned About ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt Last Night
After enduring months of targeted attacks against the global Jewish community, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Jewish Community Centers (JCC) across the country have been a consistent presence in the media for all the wrong reasons. Last night’s delightful conversation with Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, at the Manhattan JCC was a very welcome…
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Community Will AIPAC Speak Out Against Islamophobia?
Last Shabbat I found a letter in my mailbox. The address line said only, “Shabbat Shalom.” I live in the Jewish Culture House at Tufts, and the letter was meant for us. It was from a group of Iranian students. They’d heard about a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States – the overturned…
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Opinion How Jewish Groups Are Perpetuating A Myth About Trump And Anti-Semitism
The nomination and election of Donald Trump has caused a record spike in anti-Semitism. That is the narrative many Jewish groups and the media have promoted since the Republican primaries. Here’s an unfortunate fact for those continuing to press this narrative: it keeps on being proven false. First, let’s take the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) report…
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