admin | March 13, 2020
Suzanne Riley begins her yearlong course on Holocaust literature by asking her 11th and 12th grade students, Why do we study the Holocaust? Everyone has the rote answer of So that it never happens again, says Riley, an English teacher at Lowell (MA) High School
admin | March 13, 2020
Right now, The Times reports, colleges seem to be leading the way in the national experiment with remote learning. Many schools are set to start virtual instruction after spring break, lasting at least through March.
admin | March 13, 2020
Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) For years and years, black people and people of color all over America have been calling for white supremacist terrorism to be given the same energy as Islamic terrorism. Recently, our concerns have been vindicated as weve seen report after report after report of government officials, on both the state and federal levels, finally coming to glory on the matter and elevating the threat level of white nationalist extremism. Now the U.S.
admin | March 13, 2020
(JNS)-The Boston-based Jewish Federation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP), recently honored a local activist with ties to the anti-Israel group IfNotNow.
admin | March 9, 2020
Jacqueline Landaverde was 16 years old when the Trump administration issued an order lifting temporary protected status for El Salvadoran immigrants living in the United States. The news meant her parents could be forced to leave within the next two years. I was devastated, Landaverde told the crowd of 150 gathered Sunday afternoon in the campus center of the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she attends school.
admin | March 9, 2020
At the beginning of February, the Anti-Defamation League exposed that the coronavirus outbreak was used by extremists to spread conspiracy and antisemitic theories, especially using platforms such us Telegram and 4chan. Finally! Science has discovered a cure for the most insidious disease of our time Jewishness, wrote one extremist on the encrypted instant-messaging service Telegram, according to the ADL. The same person also referred to a news report that three Israelis were quarantined as possible coronavirus carriers with the message 3 down, 5,999,997 to go!A month later, as a cluster of cases of COVID-19 (COronaVIrus Disease 2019) emerged in the New York-area Jewish community, as well among participants at the AIPAC conference in Washington, many are concerned that the epidemic might become yet another excuse for a spike in antisemitic rhetoric and episodes
admin | March 9, 2020
A sweep of arrests of a neo-Nazi group in the US has dealt a major blow to an organization associated with at least five murders and raised questions as to whether the extreme far-right movement the group is at the center of has been largely undone by pressure from law enforcement, journalists and anti-fascist activists.
admin | March 9, 2020
The desire to get back at a gaming competitor through swatting has had deadly consequences. In 2017, a Wichita police officer shot and killed 28-year-old Andrew Finch after someone falsely reported a hostage situation. The caller had claimed Finch had shot his father in the head and was holding his family at gunpoint
admin | March 4, 2020
Shutterstock Right-wing extremists were responsible for a majority of extremist-related murders in the United States last year, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
admin | March 4, 2020
In the spring of 1945, as the war in Europe was drawing to a close, a US Army unit began the liberation of Buchenwald, one of Nazi Germanys largest concentration camps. It was the first such camp American forces had encountered. They alerted the office of General Dwight D.
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