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New German law curbs hate speech, including Holocaust denial, on social networks – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

| July 2, 2017

BERLIN (JTA) Germanys top Jewish leader praised a new lawdesigned to curb Holocaust denial on social networks. The German Parliament passed the lawFriday in its lastmeeting before summer break.

Sen. Kamala Harris Remembers Indian-American Mother’s Journey In America – newsindiatimes.com

| July 2, 2017

Left, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, when she was a toddler, with her mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris, who came to study in America and decided to remain here and marry Donald Harris

Anti-Semitism Is Creeping Into Progressivism – TIME

| July 2, 2017

Greenblatt is CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. Last weekend, organizers of a gay pride parade in Chicago ejected three people carrying pride flags emblazoned with a Jewish Star of David. Subsequent bizarre statements attempting to rationalize their action, claiming that Zionism is an inherently white supremacist ideology only exacerbated the sense that the organizers were deaf to the concerns of the Jewish community and engaged in anti-Semitism denying Jews the same rights that were extended to other participants, basically to celebrate their identities as Jewish queer women.

Leaving antisemitism envoy post vacant would be ‘huge step backwards’ – The Jerusalem Post

| July 2, 2017

The White House. (photo credit:REUTERS) NEW YORK The Trump administration has a responsibility to appoint a special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, as has been done by every administration since 2004, those who held the position under president Barack Obama say. The former envoys at the US State Department, Hannah Rosenthal and Ira Forman, who occupied the position during the first and second terms of the Obama presidency, spoke on Monday during a briefing held by the Anti-Defamation League to discuss the Trump administrations failure to name their successor.


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