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The Schmooze Candidate Talks Nazis with Reporter and Promptly Regrets It
It’s hard to have sympathy for a seasoned politician who says something obviously inappropriate to a reporter. Really hard. Particularly when he compares his opponent to Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. Jerry Brown, the 72-year-old California State Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate, was stopped while jogging several days ago by radio reporter Doug…
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Opinion Israel: U.S. Asset or Burden? Asset, Say ADL, AIPAC, 334 Congressmen. Burden, Says Mossad
One of the debates simmering just below the surface this week is the question of whether Israel is a strategic asset or burden to the United States. Pro-Israel advocates have maintained for decades that it is an asset, and a darned valuable one. This view has been emphatically restated in the past few days by,…
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The Schmooze ADL Study: ‘Passion Play’ (Still) Antisemitic
Did the world really need a research paper to determine that the once-a-decade “Passion Play” in the Bavarian town of Oberammergau, Germany, conveys anti-Jewish sentiments, as has been the general consensus since the show’s 1634 debut? The Anti-Defamation League apparently thought so. The group commissioned the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations (CCJCR), which bills…
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Life Eli Valley, Game-changer?
Has Eli Valley, Forward columnist, changed the future of Israel as we know it? This is from an article about Foxman and Avigdor Lieberman’s proposed Loyalty Oath for Israeli citizens in February: But the Anti-Defamation League, an organization that is quick to spot instances of discrimination, says Lieberman is right to be concerned about apparent…
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Film & TV ADL ‘Accepts’ Will Smith’s Clarification, JDL Supports Writers’ Strike
So the Anti-Defamation League has finally weighed in on L’Affaire Will Smith, and, I have to say, its statement is a little disappointing. To recap: Will Smith, speaking off the cuff to a Scottish newspaper, suggested — quite reasonably — that Hitler was driven by a “twisted” notion of what he thought was “good.” The…
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Life A Bipartisan Sport: Blame the ADL
The ADL has “allied itself with right-wing forces in our country.” ADL chief Abraham Foxman soft-pedals his criticism of the religious right “in the name of solidarity toward Israel.” The ADL’s positions are “usually those of the liberal wing of the Democratic party”. Foxman fights those on the religious right so strenuously that maybe they…
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Life The Glass Is 85% Full
The ADL concludes from its latest survey that 15% of Americans have “unquestionably antisemitic” views. Interestingly, this proportion matches perfectly the percentage of Americans who said, in a different survey, that they wouldn’t want a Jewish president. In any case, according to a recent Pew survey, we’re better liked than many other religious groups: 76%…
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Life ADL Cries Uncle: Okay, Okay, It Was Genocide
The Anti-Defamation League paid a heavy price of late for refusing to call Turkey’s slaughter of its Armenian population a genocide. First, its No Place for Hate program was booted from the heavily Armenian town of Watertown, Mass. Then the ADL fired its New England director Andrew Tarsy for criticizing his organization’s position. And the…
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