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| DATE | 2016-11-24 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS]
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On 11/18/2016 08:43 AM, mayer ilovitz wrote:
>
> http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/adls-greenblatt-never-is-now-as-anti-semitism-spikes-in-america/2016/11/18/
>
> ADL’s Greenblatt Steps Back on Bannon Accusations, Says Anti-Semitism
> Spiking in America
> The ADL is sounding the alarm on all channels: Anti-Semitism is spiking
> in America.
> By: Hana Levi Julian
> Published: November 18th, 2016
>
> Protesters demonstrate in front of Trump Tower in NYC more than a week
> after Donald Trump is elected president-elect of the United States.
> Photo Credit: DS LEVI PHOTOS
>
> The ADL, which planted itself right in the middle of the battle against
> Former Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon, has taken a first step back and
> clarified that they “are unaware of any anti-Semitic statements from
> Bannon.”
>
> Nationally syndicated talk show host Dennis Prager called the initial
> accusations against Bannon “libel” and said that the ADL had damaged
> itself with the false claims.
>
> The ADL’s remaining complaints against Bannon are primarily ideological
> and editorial, they are not happy with Breitbart giving a platform to
> right-wing authors such as Pamela Geller or that some of Breitbart’s
> headlines are sensationalist.
>
> In opening remarks at the ‘Never Is Now’ Summit on Anti-Semitism held
> Thursday (Nov.17) in New York City, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO
> Jonathan Greenblatt, who was formerly an aide to President Barak Obama,
> had a grim warning about a spike in anti-Semitism in America, and the
> incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
>
> Greenblatt commented that the organization had never before convened a
> summit “like this” on anti-Semitism, describing its presence under the
> surface of society “like a persistent and nagging ache,” chronic but
> still one that Americans knew about and simply tried to keep under
> control. This, he said, worked out.
>
> “By and large, America and American life have been remarkably tolerant
> and welcoming,” he said, “And yet, today, I think all of us fear that
> something has changed. There are troubling signs. Now they may be
> subtle, they may go unnoticed by the vast majority of Americans, but we
> see them. We know.”
>
> But Greenblatt then went on to say this year’s presidential election in
> the United States saw the kind of hate “unlike anything we have seen in
> recent history.” He added that the American Jewish community hasn’t seen
> “this level of anti-Semitism in mainstream political and public
> discourse” since the 1930s.
>
> And he blamed the candidates; in particular, the winning candidate.
>
> “This was an election where a presidential candidate criticized Israel
> in a manner that evoked a blood libel; where another unapologetically
> tweeted a sinister Star of David meme that had been created by white
> supremacists; it promoted a campaign slogan that evoked the phrase most
> associated with notorious Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh, and
> sponsored a closing television ad that echoed anti-Semitic conspiracies
> that have been used to justify anti-Jewish persecution for centuries,”
> Greenblatt claimed.
>
> “During this political season, we saw white supremacists use a triple
> parentheses to target Jews online and simultaneously, relentlessly
> harass and intimidate Jewish journalists on social media with
> anti-Semitic tropes and horrific images of the Holocaust.”
>
> Greenblatt alleged that the incoming administration of President-elect
> Donald Trump is planning the first steps of what appears to be an ethnic
> registration program targeting Muslim citizens of the United States. He
> used the claim, misquoting several campaign promises by then-candidate
> Donald Trump and demonizing the incoming Trump administration before it
> has even entered office, before it has taken any action at all.
>
> “There recently have been reports that the new Administration plans to
> force Muslim-Americans to register for some sort of master government
> list. Look, Islamic extremism is a threat to us all. But as Jews, we
> know what it means to be registered and tagged, held out as different
> from our fellow citizens.
>
> “As Jews, we know the righteous and just response. All of us have heard
> the story of the Danish king who said if his country’s Jews had to wear
> a gold star…all of Denmark would too.
>
> “I pledge to you right here and now, because I care about the fight
> against anti-Semitism, that if one day in these United States, if one
> day Muslim-Americans will be forced to register their identities, then
> that is the day that this proud Jew will register as a Muslim. Because
> fighting prejudice against the marginalized is not just the fight of
> those minorities. It’s our fight. Just as the fight against
> anti-Semitism is not only the fight of us Jews. It’s everyone’s fight.”
>
> The son-in-law and daughter of President-elect Donald Trump would
> undoubtedly agree: They are both observant, modern Orthodox Jews raising
> their children in American society. And despite claims to the contrary,
> new White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is also a strong advocate
> for Israel and Jews, according to Jewish journalists who have worked
> with him, and his own statemetns and actions in the past.
> ---------------
> http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/miscellaneous/adl-statement-trump-appointment-priebus-bannon.html#.WC5Cs9V95Ea
>
> http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/17/bannon-breitbart-anti-defamation-league-backs-down/
>
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Greenblat is an asshole who has dragged the ADL into the trenches and
should just shut up.
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