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This Week in Technology + Press Freedom: Dec. 1, 2019 – Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

| December 2, 2019

We hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday! This newsletter will be slightly shorter than usual. Heres what the staff of the Technology and Press Freedom Project at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is tracking this week

GUEST COLUMN: Why anti-Semitism has no place here – Red and Black

| December 2, 2019

This past week, swastikas were found drawn on a Jewish students door. I wont be discussing the details of this case, but rather the implications. Grady Newsource covers the issues here

FBI: No hate crimes on Mercer Island in 2018 – Mercer Island Reporter

| December 2, 2019

Recently released data by the FBI shows that an upward trend in the number of hate crimes committed in the state had a slight decline in 2018. Last year, there were 506 total hate crimes reported by law enforcement in the state

Alleged East Bay Jew-hater Ross Farca now charged with lying to US Army – The Jewish News of Northern California

| December 2, 2019

Update: At the Nov.

Amazon takes action over Holocaust-themed Christmas decorations – Wessex FM

| December 2, 2019

Published at 9:47am 2nd December 2019. (Updated at 1:43pm 2nd December 2019) Amazon has removed Holocaust-themed Christmas decorations from sale after the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum shared pictures of the items on social media

Is there a problem with meme culture? – Utahstatesman

| December 2, 2019

on November 29, 2019 at 2:36 pm Since the birth of the world wide web, creative users have whipped up images or comics with the intent of making others laugh. Within the last decade and the rise of social media, there has been an influx in meme culture that has streamlined across generations to bring small chuckles to internet users throughout the day.

Influential neo-Nazi eats at soup kitchens, lives in government housing – NBC News

| December 2, 2019

A fan of Charles Manson and follower of Hitler, James Mason published essays in the 1980s that now act as the inspiration for a militant neo-Nazi group linked to multiple murders in the U.S. Revolutionary discipline must mean that WE will be the single survivor in a war against the System, Mason wrote in 1985.

Jewish Perceptions of European anti-Semitism are Worryingly Precise – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com

| December 2, 2019

Photo Credit: Cajander via Wikimedia {Originally posted to the JNS website} The following quotes are from Jewish citizens of various European countries, gathered during a survey earlier this year on Jewish perceptions of anti-Semitism that was carried out by the European Union. Anti-Semitism and racism are like the Wiener Schnitzel

Who is a Jew? DNA home testing adds new wrinkle to age-old debate – The Jewish News of Northern California

| December 2, 2019

Part one of our three-part PAST LIVES series on Jewish genealogical research.

How did November become the Mizrahi Heritage Month? And what’s Mizrahi anyhow? – History News Network (HNN)

| December 2, 2019

by Lior Sternfeld and Arie M. Dubnov Lior Sternfeldis an assistant professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. Arie M


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