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Five other defendants also pleaded guilty to charges against them related to the scheme.
“ViacomCBS condemns bigotry of any kind, and we categorically denounce all forms of anti-Semitism,” said the company in a statement.
“And what we need to do, perhaps more than anything, is remove these people ... from our country,” said a hate-speech-laden flier.
Regarding Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, he said “every time I’ve heard him speak, it’s positive, it’s powerful, it’s uplifting … for whatever reason, he’s been demonized.”
“All public figures who utilize their influence on social media, regardless of intent, to perpetuate language that reinforces myths and stereotypes must learn how to communicate better these issues,” said the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.) urges investigating whether the Ivy League school’s MacMillan Center has been violating the Higher Education Act by receiving grant money and demonizing Israel.
The reply? “If the Trump administration wants to provide us with photos from closed-door meetings ... to discuss illegal annexation and unilaterally redraw the map of the West Bank, we’d gladly use those.”
Schools with one or more incidents involving expression challenging the definition of anti-Semitism were more than twice as likely to host acts of Israel-related behavior targeting students for harm and the more such expression, the more Israel-related acts of harassment.
The team said it has spoken with Jackson about the posts and called them “offensive, harmful and absolutely appalling.”
Esteban Lizondo apparently also remarked that the State of Israel’s creation was a surrender to the “Zionist lobby” in exchange for money.
“I acknowledge the imagery in my recent editorial cartoon … was deeply hurtful to members of a culture who’ve been dealt plenty of hurt throughout history,” said Dane Hicks, owner of “The Anderson County Review.”
Black allies of the pro-Palestinian camp spoke of how “the black and Palestinian struggles for freedom stand together against structural racism.”
