admin | August 17, 2017
Apple CEO Tim Cook has called for an unequivocal denouncement of the recent neo-Nazi demonstration in Charlottesville, Va., stressing he disagreed with comments by President Donald Trump that attributed the violence there to many sides and not to white supremacists. In a note to Apples employees, obtained Wednesday night by Recode, Cook also announced the company would donate $1 million each to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. Apple plans to match its employees donations to human rights groups on a 2-for-1 basis until Sept 30
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simmons | August 17, 2017
White nationalists are met by a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. Joshua RobertsReuters Greenblatt is CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. It was a small Southern town, not known for its violence, when a mob of racist and anti-Semitic men rose up, marched through the streets and claimed the life of an innocent person
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richards | August 17, 2017
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaking at the 2017 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference at the San Jose Convention Center, June 5, 2017. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (JTA) Apple CEO Tim Cook pledged that his company will donate $1 million each to the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center in the wake of the violent far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia
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richards | August 16, 2017
(JTA) The Anti-Defamation League joined critics of President Donald Trump in condemning his assertion that there was blameon both sidesin Charlottesville, where neo-Nazis faced off protesters.
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admin | August 16, 2017
Mr. Trump borrowed conservatives lingo on Tuesday, saying the alt-left bore responsibility, using a phrase popular with commentators like Foxs Sean Hannity. They think there were 300 or so racists who showed up to a rally, and who got exactly what they wanted: Violence, and violence in a way that inspires the nations elite to double down on iconoclasm in a way they hope grows their movement, said Ben Domenech, the publisher of The Federalist, an online magazine.
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simmons | August 16, 2017
Aired 8/16/17 on KPBS Midday Edition Rise In White Supremacy Groups Demands Action, Says San Diego Jewish Leader GUEST: Tammy Gillies, regional director, Anti-Defamation League in San Diego Transcript The white supremacy groups that marched with torches, carrying Nazi and Confederate flags through the streets of Charlottesville was not an isolated incident, but rather a movement gaining momentum, including in San Diego, said Tammy Gillies, director of the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League. I liken it to somebody taking the lid off of the sewer, Gillies said
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richards | August 16, 2017
Leaders of San Diego's Jewish community on Tuesday night condemned white supremacists and hatred in response to the deadly violence that broke out during a rally by neo-Nazis and other extremist groups in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. Speaking in front of hundreds of people during a forum at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, local rabbis and others evoked the horrors of the Holocaust to underscore the importance of speaking out against hate
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richards | August 16, 2017
WASHINGTON The head of the Anti-Defamation League said Tuesday the fatal car-ramming that claimed a young womans life in Charlottesville, Virginia resembled the kind of terror attacks Israel has long experienced. Appearing on MSNBC, Jonathan Greenblatt was asked to explain the recruiting techniques that white nationalist groups use to attract more people to its cause. Extremism is a problem in any form, he said
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simmons | August 16, 2017
In the search for answers after a white supremacist rally in Virginia devolved into deadly violence Saturday, attention turned to a New Mexican. Dillon Hopper, a native of Roswell, heads the far-right organization Vanguard America that seemed in the chaos of the moment to have some sort of link to the man police say drove a car into a group of anti-racist demonstrators, leaving one woman dead
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simmons | August 16, 2017
Share This Article: The Anti-Defamation League, Leichtag Foundation and the San Diego RabbinicAssociation are hosting a forum called No Place for Hate. Photo courtesy ADL In the the aftermath of thedeadly white nationalist violence in Virginia, the Anti-Defamation League, Leichtag Foundation, and the San Diego Rabbinic Association are hosting a Stand Up to Hate forum on Tuesday, Aug. 15.
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