Elon Musk threatens to sue ADL for billions of dollars, blaming Jewish group for lost revenue

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Elon Musk threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League for up to $22 billion on Monday as he joined a growing number of white supremacists and trolls in posting invective about the group. The legal threat of indeterminate seriousness — Musk frequently does not follow through on his stated intentions, although he sometimes […]

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Elon Musk is amplifying a self-declared antisemite’s call to ban the ADL from X

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Elon Musk is engaging with white nationalists and antisemites who want to ban the Anti-Defamation League from Twitter, the influential social media platform he now calls “X.” Musk on Saturday asked his followers whether he should poll the platform about a hashtag, #BanTheADL, embraced in recent days by white nationalists and others […]

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Netanyahu welcomes Black Democratic Congress members as he angles for White House invite

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with 10 members of the Congressional Black Caucus as he tries to improve his standing with the Biden administration and among Democrats. The meeting Sunday in Jerusalem was part of a visit sponsored in part by the American Israel Education Foundation, an affiliate of the American […]

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Meta’s handling of ‘SpongeBob’ Holocaust denial post is taken up by independent Oversight Board

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Meta’s independent Oversight Board is scrutinizing a post featuring a “SpongeBob SquarePants” character, in what could be a landmark case for how its platforms Facebook and Instagram moderate Holocaust denial. The board, which issues non-binding rulings on the company’s moderation decisions, announced on Thursday that it has taken up a case involving […]

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Berkeley AEPi shellfish dump wasn’t antisemitic vandalism, police and fraternity say

(J. Jewish News of Northern California via (JEWISH REVIEW)) — Police investigating shellfish dumped on the grounds of the Jewish fraternity at the University of California, Berkeley, say they are no longer treating the vandalism as a potential hate crime. Alpha Epsilon Pi had said it interpreted the strewn shellfish as “act of antisemitic vandalism” […]

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Holocaust survivor group claims victory after Christie’s cancels second auction of jewelry linked to Nazi plunder

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Christie’s has announced that it will not follow through with plans to hold a second auction of jewelry from an estate that was partially built on Nazi plunder. The announcement on Thursday comes following a campaign led by Jewish groups against Christie’s that began earlier this year, when the elite auction house sold […]

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2 Jewish teens harness the power of their peers to address social problems — and spark a movement

In mid-2021, as the COVID pandemic raged, high school student Lily Messing noticed that the social ills plaguing her native Tucson, Arizona — including domestic violence, drug abuse and homelessness — all seemed to be getting worse. Meanwhile, Jake Hammerman, a teenager in Lafayette, California, a suburb in the San Francisco Bay area, saw firsthand […]

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