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The Combat Anti-Semitism Movement has grown quickly since its creation in 2019, attracting members of Congress and mayors of major cities to its online events and building a coalition of more than 300 Jewish organizations. It presents itself as apolitical, though its coalition skews conservative and includes the Clarion Project, which has been labeled an anti-Muslim hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, or JILV, also states that it is nonpartisa...

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Jewish Harpers Letter Signers Stand Behind Tradition of Debate, Communitys Leaders Say On 5/5/21 at 8:57 PM EDT By late afternoon on Wednesday more than 200 notable thinkers, intellectuals and activists from the American Jewish community expressed their support for freedom of expression and the condemnation of alleged "suppression of dissent" among Jews. They did so by signing whats been dubbed the "Jewish Harpers Letter," a document organized by the newly formed Jewish Institute for Liberal Va...

Anyone who’s anyone, living or dead, vile criminal or ancient sage, can add their name to the “Jewish Harper’s Letter” — and they are. The initial letter from the newly-minted Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, which slammed “suppression of dissent” among Jews, was unveiled with such notable signatories as Bari Weiss, Bret Stephens and Rabbi David Wolpe. The missive, which at press time drew signatures from over 300 Jews the world over, but was mocked by many for arguing that Je...

Journalists seem unwelcome at protests now, but it wasnt always so | Matters of Fact Replay Video Protesters on the far right do not like journalists. We know, because they scrawled "murder the media" on the Capitol door on Jan. 6. A dead giveaway. Nor is it difficult to see why. The mainstream media, in their coverage, utterly failed to demonstrate that Donald Trump was the legitimate presidential winner in 2020. They failed to expose the theft of the election, or prove that the vote cer...

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The Kremlin’s buzzword now is Russia looking East Updated: Updated: The Greater Europe concept has gone, with the emphasis on Russia’s sovereignty and independence Share Article The Greater Europe concept has gone, with the emphasis on Russia’s sovereignty and independence Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared last month that although the European Union (EU) was Russia’s biggest trading and investment partner, Moscow was “ready to break ties” with the EU after criticism ...

is an occasion. If youre a racehorse, or a sailor at the equator, it might be cause to celebrate. If you are the nations best-known newspaper, it might call for a more sober response. For instance, the milestone op-ed piece that ran in the New York Times, on Sept. 20, 2016, marking one of its own editorial decisions. It was about a certain word. "A loaded word," admitted Liz Spayd, then the papers public editor. But in this particular case, "it passes my smell test." The word was lie. ...

>> this was always the concern about targeting russian outlets like rt which is backed by russian intelligence services that they would go after our government owned media stations like the voice of america, like radio for europe and into which we invest far more than the russian government does into theirs. the reason it was still a good idea to go after outlets like rt is that even if they cut down on radio free europe and voice of america, youre still 1,000 u.s. channels like fox that beam in...