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Mourners take part in a vigil for the victims of the shooting at Tree of Life Congregation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 29. (Governor Tom Wolf/CC BY 2.0)

I wish we could mourn Pittsburgh as one Jewish people — but we can’t

I keep hoping that our Jewish leaders will take one moment to do what they say they are here to do: defend Jewish lives when we are under attack. But they haven’t. By Simone Zimmerman I want to mourn with my people. I want to mourn with all of my beloved Jewish people in Pittsburgh…

By +972 Magazine October 30, 2018

A member of Jewish Voice for Peace is arrested during a protest action at the Anti-Defamation League's offices in New York, November 9, 2017. (Courtesy of JVP)

Why I got arrested at the ADL

Jewish Voice for Peace activists are arrested protesting ADL exchange programs that bring together American law enforcement with Israeli military and police, a swapping of ‘worst practices’ that strengthens the repression of communities of color in both places. By Talia Baurer In my professional life, I teach workshops about healthy relationships and consent to middle…

By +972 Magazine November 10, 2017

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man argues with an Israeli police officer during a demonstration against businesses that operate on Saturdays in Jerusalem, August 12, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

What’s dividing Israeli society? Just don’t mention the occupation

Is it possible to discuss the sources of Israeli disunity without addressing the country’s military regime in the West Bank and siege on Gaza? Can Israelis ever accept Palestinians as part of that conversation? The plight, let alone the very existence of millions of disenfranchised people living under Israeli military rule, was nowhere to be…

By Edo Konrad October 24, 2017

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Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka seen wearing a medal from the Vitzei Rend, a Hungarian group listed by the State Department as having collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. (Fox News screenshot)

ADL demands Trump advisor disavow ‘anti-Semitic hate groups’

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka following a series of investigations that began with reporting by Lobelog, and published on +972. By Eli Clifton Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka has had a rough two weeks. It began with LobeLog’s report that he wore the medal of Vitezi…

By +972 Magazine February 26, 2017

Tsitsernakaberd, a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide in 1915, Yerevan, Armenia. (Shutterstock.com)

ADL’s Armenian genocide recognition sends powerful statement — to Israel

A major Jewish-American organization breaking with Israeli policy, especially regarding Jewish universalism and the Holocaust, is a statement in and of itself. The Anti-Defamation League, American Jewry’s foremost civil rights organization, has made a powerful statement recognizing the Armenian genocide by the crumbling Ottoman regime in the early 20th century. Last Friday, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt posted…

By Dahlia Scheindlin May 15, 2016

IfNotNow activists seen in a police van following an anti-occupation demonstration inside the Anti-Defamation League's offices. (photo: Gili Getz)

23 young Jews arrested in anti-occupation protests across U.S.

Hundreds hold ‘Liberation Seders’ outside (and inside) major Jewish American institutions in five major cities, demanding that the Jewish community take a stand against Israel’s occupation. ‘The history of Jewish oppression is not an excuse to oppress Palestinians, but rather an imperative to fight for freedom for all people,’ one arrestee tells +972. BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA…

By Edo Konrad April 24, 2016

Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox Jews and a mosque's minaret. (Photo: Shutterstock.com)

A distorted portrait of Palestinian ‘anti-Semitism’

With a discriminatory system that includes two separate legal systems, what is a Palestinian supposed to answer when he’s asked if Jews don’t care what happens to anyone but their own kind? The ADL’s world anti-Semitism survey presents a distorted view of the world. By Inna Michaeli The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) – a Jewish-American organization…

By +972 Magazine May 19, 2014

Illustrative photo of a bombed out building in Homs, Syria (FreedomHouse/CC)

U.S. Jewish groups use Holocaust guilt to push for Syria strike

A policy decision on American military action in Syria cannot be justified by an analogy between Syrian suffering under Assad and Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. Two weeks after a chemical attack in Syria killed at least 1,400, including 400 children, and one week after U.S. President Obama announced he favors a limited military strike…

By Mairav Zonszein September 5, 2013

Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked of Jewish Home at the party headquarters on election day 2013

Israeli racism and American Jewish hypocrisy

On the U.S. Jewish establishment’s double standard regarding what gentiles can say about Jews and what Israeli Jews can say about Arabs and blacks. The Anti-Defamation League and the rest of the American Jewish establishment owe Jesse Jackson an apology. They put the man through the wringer, they made him apologize in every possible forum…

By Larry Derfner August 13, 2013

A U.S. passport (Illustrative photo: Shutterstock.com)

How American Jewish leaders are undermining two-state solution – via Jerusalem

Considering the U.S. sees East Jerusalem as the future capital of a Palestinian state within the framework of any viable two-state solution, mainstream American Jewish leaders’ insistence that Israel should be listed as the birthplace in Jerusalem-born American citizens’ passports undermines U.S. foreign policy and the two-state solution. This article was originally published in The…

By Mairav Zonszein July 28, 2013

Is Europe seeing a new wave of Jew-hatred?

While the murders in Toulouse are evidence that anti-Semitism certainly subsists in Europe, there is no reason to believe that European Jews need to be saved. In fact, the reality is that Jews are increasingly open and confident about expressing their Jewish identity. By Dov Waxman Reading much of the media commentary in Israel and…

By +972 Magazine March 25, 2012

Jeffrey Goldberg (L) with Andrew Sullivan at the Aspen Ideas Festival (Photo: The Aspen Institute)

Publisher’s Obama assassination call tips ‘Israel-firsters’ debate

Andrew Adler, publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, urged Israel to consider assassinating President Obama. In doing so, he resolved a silly debate Andrew Adler is the publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, and soon he’ll have to spare some time from his busy schedule to answer questions from Secret Service agents. Why? Because, when…

By Yossi Gurvitz January 21, 2012

Blood Libel illustration in the Nazi Newspaper Westdeutchen Beobachter of Cologne

Why didn’t Abe Foxman condemn Palin’s “blood libel” slur?

Sarah Palin’s calculated use of the phrase “blood libel” is yet another example of her canny mastery over American media. Dating back to the time of the Crusaders — and used to justify centuries of anti-Jewish terror — “blood libel” stands as one of the most vile symbols of anti-Semitism ever to plague the Jewish…

By +972 Magazine January 15, 2011