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The possibility of doing so caused some pushback from some State Department officials, lawmakers and the Anti-Defamation League.
Brian Maiorana, 54, threatened to kill protesters, politicians and others because of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
“I am ashamed that Jews do not feel safe wearing a kippah on the streets. I am ashamed that Jewish places of worship need protection,” said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
“These posts are not who I am as a person,” said Ryan Hemsley. “It is absolutely disgusting, and I did not post them.”
Iranian Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization announces a new Holocaust-denial cartoon contest to showcase the “hypocrisy” of the West.
The platform had moved to ban several pro-Trump groups comprised of Russian American Jews, raising questions over the role social-media companies play in the current free exchange of ideas.
“The Internet can be tremendous force for good. It can bring people together and allow everyone a voice,” said Michael Gove, a member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. “But it is also the case that the Internet can be a cause for evil” and recruit “susceptible minds” to the “gospel of evil.”
The survey, conducted by the American Jewish Committee, also found that most U.S. Jews and the general public view the Republican Party as more anti-Semitic than Democrats.
“I’ve been called a genocide supporter, a white supremacist and harassed; all for being publicly Jewish. And all of this in front of the administration—who did nothing,” said student Ian Katsnelson.
The two-page document states that “Arabs and Jews are both Semitic peoples that are threatened by hatred or intolerance toward Semitic peoples,” and that “all peoples of the Middle East should aspire to coexist in tolerance and mutual respect.”
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers has led a movement to discourage vitriolic, menacing speech online—what he terms “H speech”—that he views as having been a contributing factor in the atrocity.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam seem to be in Washington’s crosshairs over their affiliation with the BDS movement.
