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“Rabbi YY Rubinstein’s courageous and principled decision to resign as a broadcaster at the BBC is just the latest sign of the collapse in the Jewish community’s confidence in the corporation,” Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) said in a statement.
A CAA spokesman said that “for years” the watchdog group has offered to provide anti-Semitism training to the BBC and asked the broadcaster to adopt the IHRA definition.
The young influencers, who have a combined following of 30 million, will also learn how to combat comments delegitimizing Israel on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
“When a globally recognized organization allows anti-Semitism to creep into its reporting, it makes it all the more insidious and dangerous,” says Wiesenthal Center head Rabbi Marvin Hier.
Keynote speaker Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Meta (formerly Facebook) and partner Tom Bernthal donate $5 million to the Israeli lifesaving organization.
The MEPs said that on Nov. 9, which was also the anniversary of Kristallnacht, they tested Facebook’s “reactivity” to flagged anti-Semitic content by reporting posts that contained blood libels, conspiracy theories tying Jews to the COVID-19 pandemic and Holocaust denial.
In an editors’ note, the newspaper acknowledged that its reporting did not accurately reflect the facts.
Christopher Stephen Brown, 37, allegedly sent a message to Chabad via its website on Dec. 2, calling for the death of all Jews and threatening to kill members of the beit din, a Jewish rabbinical court.
They chanted “BBC, where the proof? BBC, tell the truth” in response to an on-air report during Hanukkah about an attack on a bus full of Jewish teens in Central London.
Jordan Allison, campaign manager for Show Racism the Red Card charity, says Scottish soccer clubs need to do more to establish anti-racism protocols at soccer stadiums to prevent anti-Semitism from being displayed among fans.
The choice of the 40-year-old Green Party member leaves analysts and the media unsure over effects on the domestic Jewish community, anti-Semitism and Israel policy, among other things.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and director of global social action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said the administration’s response did not go far enough and will be included in the center’s annual list of the “Top 10” worst anti-Semitic incidents.
