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Antisemitism and Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric Mar Poland’s Presidential Election

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July 20, 2020 Incumbent President Andrzej Duda defeated Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, 51%-49%, for a second five-year term.  While the presidency is supposed to be non-partisan, the contest clearly pitted the nationalist populist Law and Justice party, which supported Duda, against the pro-European liberal supporters of Trzaskowski.  Duda was the early favorite, but the race tightened as election day neared.  In response, Duda’s campaign turned negative, including the…
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Webinars to Support Holocaust and Genocide Education

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For Educators Explore the library of webinar recordings from our Holocaust education program, Echoes & Reflections. These one-hour webinars focus on an array of topics, all designed to increase participants’ knowledge of Holocaust history, explore and access classroom-ready content, and support instructional practice to promote student learning and understanding of this complex history and its lasting effect on the world. Echoes & Reflections utilizes unparalleled expertise…
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“Day of Rage” Rallies Demonize Jews, Israel

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July 10, 2020 Image source: https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2020/07/07/day-of-rage-demands-no-annexation-of-palestinian-land/ Anti-Israel groups have held at least thirty-five rallies in cities across the U.S. since July 1, 2020, ostensibly to express their opposition to the potential annexation by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of parts of the West Bank, which had been expected to be announced as early as July 1. Although many of the protestors limited their…
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Roger Waters Extends His Legacy of Antisemitic Rhetoric

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June 22, 2020 For nearly two decades, rock music icon Roger Waters has been one of the most prominent and outspoken supporters of the BDS movement. He has refused to perform in Israel and urged fellow artists to follow suit, and has often used inflammatory rhetoric against the country. ADL has repeatedly called out Waters for his hateful rhetoric, dating back to an open 2013 letter suggesting that his anti-Israel views may be colored by antisemitism.     In a recent…
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Civil Rights Campaign Targets Facebook Ads; SCOTUS Upholds Federal Law Protecting LGBTQ Workers; Hezbollah School Textbooks Promote Antisemitism and Terrorism

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June 19, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 ADL convened a coalition of civil rights groups encouraging corporate advertisers to pull spending from Facebook during the month of July to protest the company’s failure to make its platform a less-hostile place. The Supreme Court ruled that federal civil rights law protects gay, lesbian and transgender workers from discrimination. School textbooks used in institutions controlled by the terror group Hezbollah are teaching children “egregious…
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Justice, Life, and Memory After the Holocaust

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The Nuremberg Trial
Echoes & Reflections GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening The purpose of this unit is for students to explore the concepts of justice, trauma, memory, memorialization, and human behavior. With a firm understanding of the events of the Holocaust, students are now tasked to understand the lasting effects the Holocaust has had on our understanding of human actions and how the way we remember the Holocaust…
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Analysis of Hezbollah Textbooks Shows Lengths Group Will Go to Indoctrinate Hate Against Jews

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ADL calls for new sanctions in response to terrorist indoctrination and ‘shocking’ antisemitic content in schools New York, NY, June 18, 2020 … School textbooks used in Lebanon by the terrorist group Hezbollah to teach history and other core subjects to children are filled with systematic and egregious incitement to antisemitism and support for terrorism, according to a new report from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) issued today. The report, “Teaching…
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Historical Antisemitism

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Nazi Propaganda and Ideology Taught to Students
Echoes & Reflections GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening In this unit, students learn about the origins of antisemitism and how this hatred was exploited by the Nazis during the 1920s and 1930s as part of their racist ideology. Students define the terms antisemitism and stereotype, review text and video sources, and create a timeline reflecting examples of antisemitism throughout history. Students will…
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Numerous Nakba Day Commemorations Descend into Extremism and Antisemitism

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June 12, 2020 Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) Day, held on May 15 each year, is marked by Palestinians and their supporters, including many anti-Israel activists, as a day to mourn the creation of the State of Israel and advocate for the Right of Return of Palestinian refugees. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations and activists went virtual with events such as webinars featuring anti-Israel activists and academics, most of which ran from May 14 through May 21. In…
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Usual Suspects: Iran and Turkey’s Scapegoating of Minorities during Covid-19

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June 11, 2020 By Tugba Tanyeri Erdemir and David Andrew Weinberg The global pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to governments around the globe.  But the Middle East in particular is one of the regions where majoritarian governments and their supporters are responding to the medical, societal and economic challenges of Covid-19 by doubling down on scapegoating minorities in order to whitewash the state’s own governance failures.   In the Middle East, Turkey…
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The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) in Its Own Words

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The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) is a global organization of Islamic scholars that was founded in 2004 by Egyptian scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi.      The IUMS brings together scholars from over 50 countries across the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Its membership includes both Sunni and, to a lesser extent, Shia scholars.     The organization is headquartered in Doha, Qatar, and has historically been funded by the Qatari…
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The "Final Solution"

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Jewish Women and Children Selected for Death
Echoes & Reflections is dedicated to reshaping the way that teachers and students understand, process and navigate the world through the events of the Holocaust. They partner with educators to help them introduce students to the complex themes of the Holocaust and to understand its lasting effect on the world. GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening The purpose of this unit is for students to learn about one of humanity&rsquo…
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The Sbarro Bomber on Social Media

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April 29, 2020 A notorious terrorist who is on the FBI’s list of Most Wanted Terrorists was kicked off of several social media platforms this week after ADL sounded the alarm about her gratuitous, hateful and terrorizing social media presence. ADL provided to Twitter and Instagram information about the social media activities of Ahlam al-Tamimi, an international fugitive wanted for her key role organizing and carrying out Hamas’s 2001 suicide bombing at a Sbarro pizzeria in…
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Antisemitism After the Holocaust

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A poster that reads "Well done Israel, Hitler would be proud
Echoes & Reflections: Teaching the HolocaustGRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language The lessons in this unit increase students’ understanding of Jewish people and awareness that antisemitism did not end after the Holocaust, and provide them with opportunities to learn about the persistence of antisemitism in its contemporary forms. Students investigate the ways in which old ideas about Jews and Judaism have…
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Coronavirus: Antisemitism

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April 23, 2020 As the coronavirus continues to surge globally, virus-related conspiracy theories are proliferating online. These antisemitic, xenophobic, hateful messages spread misplaced blame and misinformation, making it more difficult to access accurate information while elevating fear and anxiety. While some of these messages are new, many are simply old tropes repackaged for a modern pandemic. The coronavirus is a tool for Jews to expand their global influence Many antisemitic…
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ADL and GWU Experts Release New Report on White Supremacist Terrorism

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Experts say U.S. should continue to explore designating other white supremacist groups as foreign terrorist organizations. New York, NY, April 6, 2020 … Today, as news reports indicated that the U.S. Department of State will – for the first time ever – designate a white supremacist group as a terrorist organization, experts from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and George Washington University’s Program on Extremism released a joint report on white…
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Complicity and Responsibility

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Painting by Felix Nussbaum - The Refugee
Echoes & Reflections is dedicated to reshaping the way that teachers and students understand, process and navigate the world through the events of the Holocaust. They partner with educators to help them introduce students to the complex themes of the Holocaust and to understand its lasting effect on the world. GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening This unit provides an opportunity for students to examine the complex issues…
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Battling COVID, Iran Regime Makes Jews its Bogeyman

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Khanemei
April 03, 2020 By Shaya Lerner and David Andrew Weinberg This article originally appeared on IranWire.com To date, Iran has had the highest number of reported deaths from the COVID-19 global pandemic out of any country in Asia other than China.  While battling this virus, the regime has once again become the number one state sponsor of scapegoating Jews, baselessly blaming world Jewry for the disease’s spread. Indeed, this crisis has led the regime to engage in…
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International Scapegoating of Israel and Jews for Spreading COVID-19

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March 25, 2020 As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, examples of those seeking a scapegoat for the virus continue to proliferate. As ADL and other groups have explored, there have been numerous cases of xenophobia in the US related to the virus, particularly attacks against Asian individuals and groups. Internationally, there have also been many attempts to link COVID-19 to Israel, Zionists and Jews, with some people baselessly claiming the virus is part of a…
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ADL Statement on Potential of Forced Cremations During Coronavirus Oubtreak in the UK

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New York, NY, March 23, 2020 ... ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) released the following statement today concerning the Coronavirus bill currently circulating in the House of Commons that would allow local authorities to cremate a body against the wishes of the deceased. ADL supports the efforts of Jewish and Muslim communities to assure that religious rights and sensitivities are accommodated within government public health measures, in particular with regard to cremation, when…
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