Opinion | Happy 80th, Bob Dylan! We re thinking about the government taxing you more washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
May 27, 2021
The Anti-Defamation League says there s been a sharp rise in reports of antisemitism during the conflict in the Middle East.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT
A group of Jewish House Democrats is calling on the White House to take more concrete action to address antisemitism amid a recent spike in attacks against Jewish people in the U.S. and elsewhere.
In a letter signed by four Democratic Congress members, they say a united effort is needed to fight antisemitism. They note that the increase comes during a recent conflict in the Middle East, but stress there is no excuse for harassing people because they are Jewish.
The Washington Post doesn t just want a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol. It also wants a commission to investigate how the pandemic response was bungled. (These words appear in the subtitle of the Post s editorial, paper version.) The Post s goals are the same for both commissions: to attack Donald Trump and to divert attention from the failure of the Biden administration to come to grips