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Antisemitism in European soccer on the rise

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June 08, 2021 Just as Jewish individuals and institutions have been targeted with antisemitism during the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas in many European cities, antisemitic incidents have also occurred in European soccer stadiums and antisemitic vitriol has reached unprecedented levels online. Antisemitism has always been present in European soccer. Fans have written antisemitic, racist, neo-Nazi slogans on banners, sung them in songs, and shouted them during physical attacks on…
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Los jóvenes judíos europeos enfrentan el antisemitismo y el odio relacionados con el conflicto en Israel

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June 07, 2021 Los jóvenes judíos en Europa han experimentado un aumento del antisemitismo, odio y amenazas durante la crisis en Israel y la región. Los incidentes antisemitas en las manifestaciones, la quema de banderas israelíes frente a sinagogas y centros comunitarios judíos, las amenazas violentas y el vandalismo contra instituciones judías han hecho que se cuestionen su seguridad como judíos.  Bini Guttmann, presidente de la Uni…
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ADL Statement on Facebook Decision To Ban Former President Trump for An Additional Two Years

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New York, NY, June 4, 2021 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) today responded to the decision by Facebook to suspend former President Donald Trump for an additional two years following his comments inciting violence in the wake of the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, issued the following statement: "While banning former President Trump is a step in the right direction, this simply doesn't go far enough. President Trump used…
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Antisemitic Cartoons on the Mideast Crisis

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May 21, 2021 By David Andrew Weinberg In recent days, political cartoons in Middle Eastern publications have understandably focused extensive attention on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.  Unsurprisingly, some of these cartoons crossed the line from legitimate political satire to trafficking in antisemitic imagery and messages.  Common anti-Jewish tropes applied to Israel’s conduct by some of these cartoons included depictions of Jews being bloodthirsty…
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Prominent Voices Demonize Israel Regarding the Conflict

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May 20, 2021 In response to the recent conflict in Israel and Gaza, as well as the tensions in Jerusalem that led up to the violence, there have been some prominent voices, including among NGOs and activists, who have engaged in problematic rhetoric about Israel. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always engendered strong passions and differences of opinion.  In a crisis, such differences are of course heightened.  And while exchanges of views - even harsh disagreements - are…
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Incendiary Sermons in Saudi Arabia

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Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Sudais
May 14, 2021 By: David Andrew Weinberg  Less than a year ago, a high-profile sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca fueled speculation Saudi Arabia might be prepared to follow some of its neighbors’ footsteps by making peace with Israel.  However, clerics at Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mosque in Mecca as well as the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina sent a starkly different series of messages this week, in how they…
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Young European Jews face Antisemitism and Hate Related to the Conflict in Israel

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May 14, 2021 Young Jews in Europe are experiencing a spike in antisemitism and hate and threats as the crisis in Israel and the region escalates. Antisemitic incidents at demonstrations, the burning of Israeli flags in front of synagogues and Jewish community centers, violent threats and vandalism of Jewish institutions are causing them to question their safety as Jews.   Bini Guttmann, President of the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS), the umbrella organization…
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Israel in crisis: A view from Jerusalem

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by: Carole Nuriel | May 14, 2021 The Times of Israel JERUSALEM — The State of Israel and Israeli society are currently in the throes of a major crisis, one of the gravest ever. For several weeks, we have been witnessing events that one after the other have escalated the situation. Now we have reached a point where Israel is engaged in direct warfare with Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, along with a dangerous conflagration inside Israel that threatens to shred the…
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Antisemitic Incidents at Anti-Israel Events and Actions Around the World

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Antisemitic Graffiti on a Synagogue Door in Norwich, UK
Updated: June 1, 2021 Since the start of the May conflict between Israel and Hamas, there have been numerous antisemitic incidents around the world related to the conflict. The perpetrators of these attacks deliberately targeted Jewish institutions in order to express their anger towards Israel.   Whenever anti-Israel actions target synagogues, Jewish community centers, kosher restaurants, Jewish owned businesses, or individual Jews – in other words, holding Jews…
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The Unique Challenges of Audio Content Moderation Part One: To Record or Not to Record

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May 13, 2021 This blog post is the first in a series of three articles that will explore the unique challenges audio content moderation poses for platforms creating audio-focused digital spaces. This first article focuses on the choices around recording audio, and includes recommendations regarding Clubhouse’s current practices around recording. The second will discuss reviewing audio. The third will be on current approaches and models of audio content moderation that have been publicly…
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Center on Extremism: As It Happens

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May 12, 2021 Some at Anti-Israel Protests Express Antisemitism, Support for Terror Antisemitism and support for terror among a small but vocal segment of protesters at nationwide demonstrations sparked by ongoing violence in Israel and Gaza Last Update: 5/23/21 10:30 am ET   5/22/21 Philadelphia, PA:  Video from a protest in Philadelphia shows a demonstrator declaring, “Israel controls the media.” Such a claim plays into the…
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Iran's Khamenei Exploits Twitter for Al Quds Day

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Khameni's Twitter feed
May 07, 2021 By David Andrew Weinberg On the last Friday of Ramadan every year, the Government of Iran organizes what it calls Global Quds (i.e. Jerusalem) Day, which it uses as an opportunity to spread horrific propaganda calling for the destruction of the State of Israel, as well as messages of support for terrorist organizations and a deluge of antisemitic hate speech.  This year was no exception. On Friday, May 7, the main English-language Twitter account attributed to Iran…
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Facebook upholds Trump ban; Former head of Neo-Nazi group sentenced for swatting; NYC synagogue vandal arrested on hate crime charges

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May 07, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Four months after his ouster from Facebook and Instagram, the suspension of former president Donald Trump was upheld by the Facebook Oversight Board. A former leader in a violent neo-Nazi group was sentenced Tuesday to 41 months in prison for harassing journalists who reported on his activities and others. Police arrested a 29-year-old man on hate crime charges in connection with the vandalization of several Bronx synagogues, which included the…
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ADL Statement on Facebook Oversight Board's Decision to Uphold Trump's Suspension from Platform

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New York, NY, May 5, 2021 … ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt issued the following statement today regarding the Facebook Oversight Board’s decision to uphold Facebook’s suspension of former President Donald Trump from the platform: We did not need four months and an unaccountable, secretive process to tell us what we already knew: Donald Trump should be immediately and permanently banned from Facebook. Six months will not change the fact…
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Pandemic gives rise to antisemitic ‘Zoombombing’; Federal hate crime charges filed in Ahmaud Arbery death; NY synagogues vandalized

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April 30, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 ADL counted 196 cases of antisemitic “Zoombombing” attacks in the U.S. last year, including 114 against Jewish institutions, according to its annual report released this week. Three Georgia men were indicted on federal hate crime charges in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was shot to death while jogging through a South Georgia neighborhood last year. Authorities in New York City are looking for the…
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BDS Co-founder Omar Barghouti Advocates Anti-Israel Litmus Test for Interfaith Dialogue

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Omar Barghouti
April 14, 2021 Appearing on a March 31, 2021 webinar organized by University of California-Berkeley lecturer and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) board chairman Hatem Bazian, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement co-founder Omar Barghouti veered into troubling rhetoric, expressing support for what is essentially a litmus test conditioning Jewish participation in interfaith dialogue on condemnation of Israel. Barghouti stated, “Interfaith dialogue is perfectly fine so…
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ADL Applauds Introduction of Social Media Transparency Bill

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Calif. legislation would require social media companies to publicly disclose corporate policies and key data and metrics on enforcement New York, NY, March 30, 2021...ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) welcomed the introduction of legislation from California State Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel that would require social media platforms to publicly disclose their content moderation policies regarding online hate/racism, disinformation, extremism, harassment and foreign interference, as well as key…
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Asian-Americans Experience Rise in Severe Online Hate and Harassment, ADL Survey Finds

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ADL announces REPAIR plan to hold social media platforms accountable New York, NY, March 24, 2021… Asian-Americans experienced the largest single rise in severe online hate and harassment year-over-year in comparison to other groups, with 17 percent having experienced sexual harassment, stalking, physical threats, swatting, doxing or sustained harassment this year compared to 11 percent last year, according to a new survey released today by ADL (the Anti-Defamation League). Fully…
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Twitter Must De-Platform Iran’s Supreme Leader

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March 19, 2021 By David Andrew Weinberg Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of Iran and an active presence on various social media platforms in multiple languages.  And although he uses these accounts to spread hatred, violence, and dangerous disinformation – let alone his calls to destroy the State of Israel – these platforms allow him to keep doing so in seeming violation of their own policies. This is in purported deference to his status as a political…
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Aqsa Week 2021 Features Inflammatory, Anti-Israel Rhetoric

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March 18, 2021 From March 6-12, 2021, anti-Israel groups American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and UK-based Friends of Al-Aqsa held an all-virtual Aqsa Week, described on AMP’s website as “programs and educational webinars... that focused on Jerusalem, its Islamic significance...the Prophetic connection to Palestine to[sic] the dark era of the Crusades and US/UK policy towards Jerusalem.” Many events, however, featured speakers who veered into inflammatory rhetoric,…
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