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Some 250 employees say the tech giant must state its support for the Palestinians amid “Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights.”
Condemnation came swiftly from local politicians and Jewish groups. It was one of several area incidents that have occurred in recent days that appeared to be targeting Jews.
“The underlying instigator for the Farhud and for what we have seen this past week is raw anti-Semitism,” said former Knesset member Michal Cotler-Wunsh.
“We live in an era of conspiracy myths, rising anti-Semitism and xenophobia, and a disturbing recurrence of Holocaust denial online and offline,” said president of the World Jewish Congress Ronald S. Lauder.
“We look at anti-Semitism around the world today, the rise in Europe—double-digit increases. But one place, it’s different. In one sector of the world,” said Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations executive vice chairman Malcolm Hoenlein.
In a now-deleted tweet, the Democratic Majority for Israel wrote that Nancy Kaufman, the former head of the National Council for Jewish Women, has too often “enabled, rather than battled, anti-Semitism.”
Managing director of global communications at the American Jewish Committee Avi Mayer praised the decision, tweeting: “Kudos for rejecting hate.”
The house, in the Freemont neighborhood of Seattle, has a mezuzah on its doorpost, making the home identifiably Jewish.
They were not limited to a particular geographic location, though the majority occurred in Ontario and Quebec.
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal filed a lawsuit on behalf of the state against the Township of Jackson, claiming that its zoning laws have prevented Orthodox Jews from freely practicing their religion.
“Too often in Democrat and leftist circles, we witness a singular focus on white supremacy to the exclusion of radical leftist anti-Zionism and radical Islamist Jew-hatred,” said Ellie Cohanim, deputy special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism during the Trump administration.
Despite people shuttered at home during coronavirus lockdowns, 2020 still managed to record the third-highest number of anti-Semitic incidents since the organization began keeping track in 1979. The pandemic, said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, didn’t stop hate but “reshaped” it.
