admin | November 3, 2020
While testifying before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responded to questions from Sen. Cory Gardner about tweets denying the Holocaust. Dorsey said the company does not have a misinformation policy against users posting Holocaust denials
admin | November 3, 2020
David Davies Hundreds of schools across England are to receive copies of a research-informed textbook on the Holocaust to help combat myths and misconceptions (David Davies/PA) Hundreds of schools across England are to receive copies of a research-informed textbook on the Holocaust to help combat myths and misconceptions held by students. Teachers are increasingly concerned about the levels of Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism, hate speech and extremism which young people are exposed to online, the co-author of the book has said. It is hoped the resource, which is being distributed to 1,000 English secondary schools, will counteract these destructive influences on social media which teachers and anti-racism campaigners warn are becoming more widespread.
admin | November 3, 2020
It is perhaps not surprising he has stark words about Donald Trump and the Republican Party, which he says is the worlds only large conservative political grouping to deny the existence of climate change. In an interview with The Independent to promote a new book about the urgency of the crisis and a means to transition to a non-fossil fuel economy as part of a so-called global green new deal, he says he has identified several patterns over the course of the Trump presidency
admin | November 1, 2020
TheWorld Zionist Congress (WZC), which most people have either never heard of or know little about, convenes every five years in Israel and last week concluded its first virtual session due to pandemic restrictions preventing global travel. The WZC is composed of more than 500 elected delegates from around the world, with about a third from Israel and a third from the United States. The rest are either from other Diaspora countries or are appointed by international legacy organizations such as Hadassah and Bnai Brith.
admin | November 1, 2020
There are insistent voices pointing to the decline of the Palestinian cause amongst Arabs and Muslims and its loss of its centrality within the Arab world.
admin | November 1, 2020
After two weeks of of headlines about a "hostile takeover of the World Zionist Organization" by the Right and the Orthodox, representatives of political parties, Jewish organizations and religious streams across the religious and political spectrum came together in Jerusalem last Thursday to sign a wall-to-wall coalition agreement.The signing ceremony brought together a cross section of the Jewish people, continuing the tradition of the WZO going back to the days of Theodore Herzl.Mizrachi's representative at the ceremony was Avraham Duvdevani, who has been following in Herzl's footsteps. He will leave his post as WZO chairman to become head of Keren Kayemet, both posts once held by the visionary Zionist leader.Even Herzl could not have dreamed that one day his successor would be a religious Zionist who wears a crocheted kippa. The truth is that even a decade ago, it would have been unimaginable that Mizrachi would take over such venerable institutions.This history happened not because of any back room deals in Jerusalem but because proud religious Zionists in the United States demonstrated their commitment to Israel's future by casting ballots for the Orthodox Israel Coalition in the American Zionist Movement's voting online from January to March
admin | November 1, 2020
The Academic Engagement Network and Hillel International recently launched separate initiatives to address anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on college campuses.
admin | November 1, 2020
Believe it or not, the Jewish Chronicle hasnt always looked increasingly like a racist, anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim rag.
admin | November 1, 2020
There are leading left-wing political activists who claim that Israel is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone else, implying that any form of Zionism, including progressive Zionism, is inherently sympathetic to white supremacy. But when a Jewish undergraduate is hounded off a student council (Impeach her Zionist ass, according to the social media campaign against her) she may understandably wonder whether the hoary equivalence of Zionism and racism hasnt become another pretext to target Jews.
admin | November 1, 2020
THE assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, now a quarter of a century ago, had a profound impact on Jews and non-Jews all over the world. The shock and horror of the news, when it broke, made it one of those moments forever etched in our individual and collective psyches, permanently engraved on our historical memories. I remember the day vividly
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