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Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty ImagesLeader of the Arab-Israeli Joint List parliamentary group Ayman Odeh attending a protest outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel, March 23, 2020 A remarkable thing happened in the Knesset, Israels parliament, on April 21, as the assembly was marking the countrys Holocaust Memorial Day. Mansour Abbas, a Knesset member of the Joint List, the bloc of Arab-Israeli parties, took the podium and delivered a speech commemorating the Holocausts Jewish victims. As a religious Palestinian and a Muslim Arab, he said, I have empathy for the pain and suffering over the years of Holocaust survivors and the families of the murdered.
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The Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City and The Interfaith Alliance of Oklahoma will host Fighting Hate Online, a ZOOM event scheduled for June 25 at 7 p.m.
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CHICAGO (CBS) Serious concerns have been raised over Illinois police officers with ties to right wing extremist groups. CBS 2s Charlie De Mar investigated whether the officers believes in conspiracy theories affect their police work. Meantime the Chicago Police Department and COPA are investigating a Chicago officer spotted wearing an extremist face mask while working a protest last weekend
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The national protest movement that has erupted in the wake ofGeorge Floyd's death hasrekindled a fire under the culturaltinderbox known as the American Confederacy. In the past week, public officials, military leaders and sports executives have made moves to take down Confederate statues and ban the Confederate flag, iconography that remains inextricably linked to the Southern cause that launched the Civil War: the preservation of a way of life anchored to slavery. While such efforts have flared in recent years, historians say the Black Lives Matter protest movementonce again sweeping the nation after Floyd's death has catapulted the issue to a place of unprecedented visibility that is likely to have lasting effects
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Its five months to Election Day and America is in the midst of at least two national crises. The unrest reverberating throughout the land from the coronavirus pandemic and the killing of George Floyd is plunging Donald Trumps polling numbers. The president trails the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, by 14 points, according to a CNN poll that lawyers for the Trump campaign have tried to repress.
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Dr. Amy Acton resigned as director of the Ohio Department of Health on Thursday, a little more than three months after the state's first confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus.(Photo: Samuel Greene/The Enquirer) COLUMBUS Dr. Amy Acton didn't take the job of Ohio's health director to become a heroine in a white lab coat
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WILLIAMSPORT The July 18 National Socialist Movement (NSM) rally in Williamsport has been canceled but the organization says it is exploring several options. Mayor Derek Slaughter has denied permits for all mass gatherings during July due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Police Chief Damon Hagan said.
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The left, of course, is not alone in reaching into the violence of the past for its rhetoricnor are leftists necessarily the worst offenders, despite the recent ubiquity of the guillotine meme. The right-wing pundit Erick Erickson infamously argued for the installation of dictators in Latin American countries in 2018, noting he was hoping for some helicopters in this plan, a reference to erstwhile Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochets death flights, a series of extrajudicial killings in which the regimes political opponents were thrown to their deaths from helicopters and airplanes.* Until late 2019, Amazon soldT-shirts with slogans like Wanna Take a Ride?emblazoned over an image of a body falling from a helicopteras Pinochets Helicopter Tours gained vogue as a reference for the right. At the Charlottesville, Virginia, Unite the Right rally in August 2017, far-right marchers chanted, You cant run, you cant hide, you get helicopter rides
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Open Carry Texas protesters prepare to pose for a group photo outside of the bar Big Daddy Zanes, on June 6, 2020 in Odessa, Texas. Photo: Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP Donald Trump is right.
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