MSNBC’s Chris Hayes made light of recent outcry against Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan Tuesday, joking those in his district should vote against him.
Law professor David Bernstein refuted claims from GQ magazine correspondent Julie Ioffe and others that President Donald Trump’s rhetoric has incited anti-Semitic attacks.
The Anti-Defamation League was criticized in the pages of Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal for stepping away from its mission of fighting anti-Semitism to focus on partisan issues such as fighting the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
The foundation run by Pennsylvania Democratic congressional candidate Scott Wallace has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to organizations that promote the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
Women’s March co-founder Tamika Mallory attacked the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Tuesday in a series of tweets where she accused the Jewish organization of attacking black people, prompting agreement from a Black Lives Matter co-founder.
Democratic obstruction in the Senate has left the Department of Education without leadership in its office of civil rights at a time when anti-Semitism has risen by 94 percent in U.S. schools.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) told the Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday that his wife recently got a “very disturbing” voice mail from a stranger, and the lawmaker stressed that crimes against all different types of people merit urgent attention.
Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States have soared 86 percent in the first quarter in 2017, with harassment incidents increasing 127 percent, according to a report from the Anti-Defamation League.
The FBI on Friday arrested a man in St. Louis, Missouri accused of making at least eight threats against Jewish Community Centers and schools across the country.
Sen. Rand Paul’s (R., Ky.) office deleted a “student reading list” that promoted anti-Israel books from his official Senate website this week, shortly after the Weekly Standard published an article last Friday highlighting the controversial recommendations.
