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Convergence and Divergence in U.S. and Israel Policy on Iran

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Adl, Anti-Defamation League, Benjamin Netanyahu, America, Iran, Israel, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, World News

Both Americans and Israelis must question the likelihood of success of an attack on Iran, and the potential for dire consequences. But the conclusion each reaches may once again differ significantly because of divergent starting points.

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Wannsee at 70: The Lessons of Hatred Endure

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Shoah, Anti-Semitism, Jews, Nazi Final Solution, Nazi Germany, Abraham Foxman, Anti-Defamation League, Jewish, The Holocaust, Adl, Wannsee Conference, Adolf Hitler, Berlin, World News

As we commemorate the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, that infamous meeting where the Nazis formally adopted the "Final Solution", let us focus on what was unique about the Holocaust amid the other atrocities of the modern era.

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Will Pat Buchanan Return To MSNBC After Book Tour?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: The Backstory, Pat Buchanan, ColorOfChange.Org, Pat Buchanan MSNBC, Video, Adl, Al Sharpton, Anti-Defamation League, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck Gbtv, Lou Dobbs, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Fox Business Network, Martin Bashir, Media News

NEW YORK -- Pat Buchanan, the longtime conservative pundit, has been making the TV rounds in recent weeks promoting his latest book, "Suicide of a Sup...

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Arizona's Attorney General Says Ethnic/Mexican American Studies "Must Be Destroyed," Quoting Cato's Call for War

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Ethnic Studies, Cesar Chavez, Mexican American Studies, Cleon Skausen, Adl, Tom Horne, Arizona, Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Education, Immigration, Education News

Speaking on a public panel in Phoenix on Saturday, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne invoked the infamous words of warfare by Roman statesman Cato and called for the destruction of Tucson's Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Studies Program.

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Lawsuit: Florida Voucher Measure Misleads By Using Language Of Religious Freedom

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Education News, Aclu, Religion, Voucher Backlash, Education, Adl, Voucher, Anti-Defamation League, Milwaukee Voucher Schools, Douglas County Voucher Lawsuit, Florida Education Association, Education Reform Backlash, School Choice, Florida Education Association Lawsuits, Separation of Church and State, Education News

Florida's largest teachers' union joined the American Civil Liberties Union and several rabbis and ministers seeking to halt a 2012 ballot measure the...

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Six Words That Could Change History

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Adl, Anti-Defamation, Jewish State, Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Abu Mazen, World News

Israel, if it stands for anything in the Arab mind, is an assertion of Jewish equality. This is difficult for Arabs and Muslims to swallow under any circumstances, but particularly so because that assertion is being made in the heartland of the Arab world. But they must.

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Abu Mazen: Man of Peace?

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Nakba, Adl, Anti-Defamation League, Middle East, Abraham Foxman, Two-State Solution, Israel, Abu Mazen, World News

Abu Mazen's case for going to the U.N. for support of a Palestinian state because there is no other way is a gross distortion of events, which again raises questions about his intent.

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Europe's Contradictions on Iran Sanctions

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Abe Foxman, Adl, Anti-Defamation, Islamic Republic of Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Germany, United States, Angela Merkel, Iran Sanctions, Iran, Eu, Iran Nuclear Program, World News

"Sanctionable" is one of a few English words to have two contrary meanings: legally punishable and ethically approvable. The contradiction appears to translate well into three European languages: German, Italian and Spanish.

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Miral's Rula Jebreal: The Palestinian Woman who wrote the Book that Started this Big Screening War

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rula Jebreal Miral, Gaza, Julian Schnabel, Miral United Nations, Palestinians, Miral, Miral Un, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Julian Schnabel Miral, Rula Jebreal, Israeli Settlements, Israel Miral, Israeli Government Miral, Julian Schnabel Israel, Israeli Government, United Nations, Sean Penn, East Jerusalem, Exodus, Yitzhak Rabin, Un, Hadassah, Adl, Adl Miral, Anti Defamation League, Ajc Miral, Hatikva, Jerusalem, Anti-Defamation League, Rula Jebreal Peace, Screening Un, Robert De Niro, Politics News

This week, days before Miral's release, I talked to Rula Jebreal about her life, her story, the film, violence, and her optimism for a peaceful future for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

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ADL Condemns Beck For Comments About Branch Of Judaism

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adl, Anti-Defamation League, Glenn Beck Jews, Glenn Beck Judaism, Adl Glenn Beck, Media News

The Anti-Defamation League condemned Glenn Beck on Wednesday for comments he made about Reform Judaism. Speaking on his Tuesday radio show, Beck br...

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Conspiracy Theories, Anti-Semitism, and the Delegitimization of Israel

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Middle East, Conspiracy Theories, Abe Foxman, Adl, Anti-Defamation League, Israel, Wikileaks, John Mearsheimer Stephen Walt Israel Paper, Israel Lobby, John Mearsheimer, Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, World News

We are living at a time when conspiracy theories are flourishing. And when conspiracy theories are broadly popular they almost inevitably end up focusing on Jews.

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The Arab Press' Nazification of Israeli Leaders

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abe Foxman, Adl, Anti-Defamation League, Nazification, Muslim World, Editorial Cartoons, Arab Press, Abraham Foxman, Israeli Prime Minister, Nazi, Holocaust, World News

The use of such Nazi imagery serves a dual purpose: It trivializes the actual events of the Holocaust while labeling Israel's actions against the Palestinians as "Nazi-like."

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Helen Thomas Reveals Her True Colors, Once Again

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Protocols of Elders of Zion, Anti-Israel, Abe Foxman, Helen Thomas Israel, Adl, Israel, Zionism, Helen Thomas, Media News

In defending the remarks that led to her ouster, Helen Thomas recently claimed that "Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists." She may be calling them "Zionists," but we all know who she means.

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WikiLeaks, and Mideast Realities

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Adl, Wikileaks Documents, Anti-Defamation League, Diplomatic Cables, Abe Foxman, Julian Assange Wikileaks, Iran, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Wikileaks, Barack Obama, World News

What is so clear from these documents, what some of us were saying all along but were often criticized for allegedly simply expressing the Israeli view, is that the threat of a nuclear Iran is indeed the greatest threat to civilization.

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Fox News Must Fire Glenn Beck for Mocking a Holocaust Survivor

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latinos, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Anti-Semitism, Jews, Adl, Nazi Germany, George Soros, Holocaust, Abraham Foxman, TV Advertising, Lgbt, Aipac, Politics News, Politics, Arabs, Kristallnacht, J Street, Nazis, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Racism, Muslims, Glenn Beck, Israel, Media News

All of us should be concerned about Glenn Beck's verbal assault on George Soros and his mocking of the Holocaust. Yet, this is more than a Jewish issue.

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UPDATE: ADL's Foxman Condemns Glenn Beck

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Adl, Antisemitism, Glenn Beck, Soros, Foxman, Israel, Media News

I am not saying Beck is anti-Semitic. I think he is so utterly ignorant of Jewish history and the history of Germany 1933-1945 that he is unaware of what he is doing in his three-part series on George Soros.

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Dialogue Leads to Breakthrough in Relations Between Jews, LDS

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adl, Anti-Defamation League, Abe Foxman, Mormons, Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Jewish-Mormon, Lds, Abraham Foxman, Religion News

At first blush, one might think that Mormons and Jews have little in common beyond their status as minority faiths in America. But over the past few y...

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The Organization That Cries Wolf

Josh Ruebner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Israel, Anti-Defamation League, Pro-Israel Advocacy, Adl, Israel, World News

Sadly, the ADL has strayed from its original core mission "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all."

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Shilling for the Israeli Occupation: The ADL's New Mission Statement?

Ahmed Rehab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zionism, Jvp, Adl, Mas, Cair, Abe Foxman, Anti-Israel, Israel, Jewish Voice for Peace, Answer, Anti-Defamation League, Politics News

An organization that describes itself as "the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency" is spending its resources decrying American organizations that are not blindly supportive of a foreign government it likes to align itself with.

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Why Would the ADL Honor Rupert Murdoch?

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Politics, Adl, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Media, Israel, Civil Rights, Abraham Foxman, Anti-Semitism, Media News

Why would a prominent civil rights organization supposedly dedicated to fighting bigotry and discrimination present an award to a man whose cable network profits from race-baiting and hatred?

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Prominent Park51 Opponent: Stop Anti-Muslim Bigotry

Adam Chandler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hypocrisy, Adl, Ground Zero Mosque, Fareed Zakaria, park51, New York, Abraham Foxman, Fareed-Zakaria-Adl, park51-Ground-Zero, Islamophobia, Islamic Cultural Center, 2010 Midterm Elections, Jackass, Tea Party, Politics News

With Park51 retreating under a cloud of Tea Party witchcraft and midterm election white noise, Foxman's crucial reaffirmation of the need for tolerance arrives at the exact moment when it is least needed.

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Any Common Ground in the 'Ground Zero Mosque' Debate?

Parvez Ahmed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Islam, Ground Zero Mosque, Adl, Mayor Bloomberg, Cordoba House, Imam-Feisal-Abdul-Rauf, American Muslims, Cordoba Initiative, Fareed Zakaria, Ground Zero, Religion News

Some will never be convinced of the moral legitimacy of Muslims seeking a place of worship close to Ground Zero. Yet many may change. Giving that moderate center a fair chance rests partly with the organizers of the Cordoba Center.

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My Experience With the ADL

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adl, Palestinians, Israelis, Jewish, Anti-Defamation League, Palestine, Paul Wolfowitz, Abe Foxman, Israel Palestine, Hamas, Israel, World News

if the ADL is committed only to stopping the defamation of the Jewish people while participating in the defamation of the Muslim community, then it has clearly gone against its own goals and vision.

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After Zakaria, What About Other ADL Humphrey Prize Recipients?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tim Rutten, Jon Meacham, Marvin Kalb, Charles Krauthammer, Adl, Lesley Stahl, Tolerance, Fareed Zakaria, Clarence Page, Floyd Abrams, Bernard Lewis, Hubert Humphrey, Cordoba Mosque, Larry King, Muslims, George Will, Mortimer Zuckerman, Arabs, Bernard Shaw, C-Span, World Trade Center, Discrimination, Daniel Pearl. Bob Schieffer, Dan Rather, Ground Zero, Bill Moyers, Martin Peretz, Anti-Defamation League, Nat Hentoff, Media News

I don't necessarily believe in follow-the-leader, but knowing how other recipients feel about the ADL controversy and the Cordoba mosque could be instructive and important.

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Urge the ADL to Change Its Position on the 'Ground Zero Mosque'

Rabbi Arthur Waskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abraham Foxman, Adl, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Ground Zero Mosque, Adl Ground Zeor Mosque, Anti-Defamation League, Judaism, Abraham Foxman Ground Zero Mosque, Anti Defamation League Ground Zero Mosque, Anti Defamation League, Religion News

The Shalom Center, after consultations with a remarkable array of rabbis and other Jewish leaders from a broad spectrum of Jewish life, supports the building of the mosque and strongly disagrees with the ADL's position.

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