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News Huffington Post: How It’s ‘Absolutely’ Possible For Steve Bannon To Be Pro-Israel And Anti-Semitic
It is “absolutely” possible for Steve Bannon to be pro-Israel and anti-Semitic at the same time, concluded a Huffington Post article about the ex-Breitbart chief who’s now President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist. Several Jewish organizations strongly criticized Bannon’s appointment, announced Nov. 13, on the grounds that he said he had made Breitbart into an online…
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Breaking News ADL President Says U.S. Anti-Semitism Worst Since ‘30’s
— At the opening to the Anti-Defamation League’s conference on anti-Semitism, the organization’s national director said anti-Jewish hatred in America is worse than at any point since the 1930s. Jonathan Greenblatt, speaking Thursday at the opening of the ADL’s “Never Is Now” summit in New York, said currents on both the far right and far left…
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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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Breaking News ADL Gets Huge Donation Spike After Trump Victory
— The Anti-Defamation League is reporting a dramatic increase in donations since the presidential election. In the day after Donald Trump’s surprising victory alone, the watchdog group saw a 50 percent rise in donations, the Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia reported Wednesday. Todd Gutnick, the ADL’s vice president for communications, said the uptick in giving has…
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News Twitter Will Now Let You ‘Mute’ Hate Speech
Twitter just introduced a number of new features to combat online abuse. One tool lets you mute certain words, phrases, usernames, emojis or hashtags. For years, Twitter has been criticized for not doing enough to fight the rampant hate speech on their platform. Especially, during this presidential election, we have seen thousands of attacks by…
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Breaking News Anti-Defamation League in the Crosshairs as Right Wing Jews Jump to Defense of Steve Bannon
President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to make former Breitbart News CEO Steve Bannon his chief strategist has triggered a Jew vs. Jew battle — and the Anti-Defamation League is squarely in the crosshairs. Right-leaning Republican groups funded by Trump’s biggest donor, Sheldon Adelson, have jumped to defend Bannon from criticism by the ADL, the Jewish organization…
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News ADL Starts #ExposeHate Hashtag to Showcase Post-Trump Attacks
In the days since Trump became president-elect, the United States has seen a rise in racist and anti-Semitic crimes. More post-election depravity at Indiana church vandalized w/ “Heil Trump,” swastika, & gay slur graffiti https://t.co/PaHrVidC5t #ExposeHate pic.twitter.com/98EKdl7owj — Oren Segal (@orensegal) November 14, 2016 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has responded by starting a hashtag to…
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Opinion Jewish Leaders, Don’t Congratulate Trump! Normalizing Him Endangers Us All.
After America elected a man I consider a proto-fascist, a man who used blatantly anti-Semitic tropes in his closing campaign ad, I wish mainstream American Jewish organizations had paused to think before cozying up to his incoming administration. Yet the Jewish Federations of North America penned a letter congratulating Donald Trump, appreciating in particular his…
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