Antisemitism
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“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.
“These fees impose a significant burden on elderly Holocaust survivors, victims and heirs who often rely on these payments to meet their everyday needs,” Acting Superintendent Adrienne Harris said in a press release on Wednesday.
The museum shared a link to their guidelines and resources for teaching Holocaust history in schools, and added that educating youngsters about the Holocaust “can inspire students to think critically about the past and their own roles and responsibilities today.”
Both fliers said, “Report Anti-Vaxxers, because you care and they don’t,” and included a telephone number that, according to a local media outlet, went to a restaurant in Hollywood.
The attorneys who testified in front of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into possible judicial and police misconduct during the investigation of French Jewish woman Sarah Halimi’s murder share the series of omissions that led to the perpetrator, Kobili Traore, evading trial.
Responding to the Illinois decision, Yinam Cohen, the consul general of Israel to the Midwest, said, “Israel has always claimed that any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must be reached through direct, bilateral negotiations between the two sides.”
In 1939, Lilly Cassirer Neubauer sold Pissarro’s 1897 painting “Rue St Honoré, Après-Midi, Effet De Pluie” to the Nazi appraiser of her property in order to get visas for her and her husband to flee Germany.
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.
“The long-term damage done by this instructor is impossible to measure at this time in terms of the trauma inflicted on students involved,” said Roz Rothstein, CEO StandWithUs and the daughter of Holocaust survivors.
“The ECAJ 2021 Antisemitism Report” recorded 272 attacks—physical assaults, verbal harassment, vandalism and graffiti—and 175 threats in the year ending in September, up from 331 in the previous 12 months.
The Illinois Investment Policy Board is scheduled to vote on divesting its pension funds of investments in Unilever at its meeting on Wednesday morning in Chicago, multiple sources told JNS.
