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“They see me as today’s comedian. Thank God, I stunk for such a long time and was invisible, so I could be discovered,” said the rabbi-turned-funnyman in 1988 of his comeback.
With audiences in 190 countries, the critically acclaimed show about undercover commandos and the war on terror is considered the strongest TV brand exported by Israel.
“We have seen that what starts online eventually finds its way offline onto the streets,” said Israeli Intelligence Minister Elazar Stern.
“No faculty member, no teacher, no staff should have that kind of conduct,” said Alyza Lewin, president of the Brandeis Center. “It should be unacceptable.”
“It is just good news after good news; who wouldn’t want that, especially in times like this?” according to David Wiseman and Shari Wright-Pilo, who created a Facebook page to chart the journey of Israeli Olympic athletes and their designated sport.
Canadian Parliament member Anthony Housefather: “I have never in my lifetime seen the levels of anti-Semitism as I have in recent weeks.”
The group had been working for more than a year on a documentary titled “We Were Never Lost” about lesser-known Jewish communities around the world.
“As an independent ad server built for television, Innovid is making a big investment in the technology to power this next wave of streaming content—live TV,” says company co-founder and CTO Tal Chalozin.
Hamas criticized Facebook for the move, saying it goes against the “freedom of expression.”
“The lack of boundaries, combined with the growing success of this platform, makes it an ideal virtual home for hate speech and extremist content,” it concluded.
“No one has given a serious thought to the problem,” says Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, former chairman of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee.
“We condemn the disgraceful comments made by [Omar] in a CNN interview in which she accused her Jewish congressional colleagues, along with the Jewish people as a whole, of not being committed to the pursuit of justice,” said the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
