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“ ‘Rise Up Ocean County’ has been operating under the pretense of opposing overdevelopment; in reality, the group was dedicated to disparaging Orthodox Jews, using ugly tropes that have plagued society for too long,” said Avi Schnall, executive director of Agudath Israel’s New Jersey office.
“Settlers are terrorists by definition,” says Professor Amiram Goldblum, who’s labeled IDF soldiers “Jewish terrorists” • Students file complaint.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum and Houzz founder Adi Tatarko will host friends, colleagues, youth and other members of the Silicon Valley community in their homes for intimate discussions with Holocaust survivors.
All Muslim nations will oppose the U.S. peace plan, says Iran’s supreme leader • Pentagon: 50 U.S. troops suffered brain injuries in the Iranian missile strike on Ain al-Assad air base in Iraq.
Google took down Gmail and Google ad accounts tied to “American Herald Tribune” • Twitter removed the site’s account.
“It was appalling to watch Orla Guerin hijack a segment dedicated to remembering 6 million murdered Jews and use it to desecrate the memory of the Holocaust with her hatred of the Jewish state,” said Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
The revealing images came from the estate of Johann Niemann, a deputy commandant at the camp who was one of 10 SS-men killed by inmates during the October 1943 uprising.
The error was corrected within the hour, with “Siri” now saying that “Reuven Rivlin is the president of Israel.” The company has yet to formally comment on the issue.
In testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee, ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt says more needs to be done to curb online hate.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) warned that amid the increasing tension between the United States and Iran, “Donald Trump is taking us pell-mell towards another war.”
“What I will NEVER do is pretend that honest criticism of Israeli apartheid policies is anti-semitism. So you won’t see me calling out criticisms of Israeli ethnostatist polices as anti-semitism, because that’s not anti-semitism,” tweeted William Byatt.
The museum also said that 900,000 users follow its account on Twitter, and more than 300,000 use the museum’s profile on Facebook with 80,000 on Instagram.
