RNC

The RNC Jumps On The 'Occupy Wall Street Is Anti-Semitic' Bandwagon

Jillian Rayfield | October 19, 2011, 11:00AM

The Republican National Committee is joining in with the right-wing bloggers who have sought to paint the Occupy Wall Street protesters as an anti-Semitic mob, condemning Democrats who it says "have spent the last week championing the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement, yet in the midst of protestors' extreme anti-Semitic, anti-Israel comments, they've been silent."

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California

California Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill To Prevent Male Circumcision Ban

David Taintor | October 3, 2011, 2:15PM

California Gov. Jerry Brown

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed a bill that prevents the state from banning the practice of male circumcision, Reuters reports.

An organization -- dubbed the Male Genital Mutilation Bill -- led an effort to make the practice of circumcising minors a misdemeanor crime. The group hoped to put the measure to a vote on a November ballot, and garnered thousands of signatures in support of the initiative.

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WallBuilders

Top Social Conservative Reportedly Sues After Dems Link Him With White Supremacists

Jillian Rayfield | September 22, 2011, 6:30AM

David Barton

The social conservative and right-wing historian David Barton has reportedly filed a libel and defamation lawsuit against two Texas Democrats, because he alleges they falsely portrayed him as a sympathizer with white supremacists.

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Anti-Defamation League

ADL: Beck Comparing Reform Judaism To 'Radicalized Islam' Is 'Bigoted Ignorance'

Jillian Rayfield | February 23, 2011, 3:37PM

Fox News host Glenn Beck

Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League has responded to Glenn Beck's comment on Tuesday which likened Reform Judaism to "radicalized Islam." Foxman said in a statement Wednesday that Beck's comments demonstrate his "bigoted ignorance."

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Anti-Defamation League

Anti-Semitism Envoy Responds To ADL

Rachel Slajda | August 25, 2010, 12:02PM

Special Envoy and the head of Office To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal

Hannah Rosenthal, the president's special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, responded to criticism by the Anti-Defamation League that she shouldn't have accompanied a group of Muslim-American clerics on a visit to former concentration camps in Europe.

ADL director Abe Foxman, after reports that he had lobbied U.S. officials not to go on the trip, said he had simply "raised the question" of why Rosenthal attended, saying she should be dealing solely with other governments.

Rosenthal doesn't see it that way.

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Anti-Defamation League

Did ADL Director Lobby Against Interfaith Trip To Concentration Camps?

Rachel Slajda | August 23, 2010, 6:17PM

Abraham Foxman, Director, Anti-Defamation League

Earlier this month, several imams joined U.S. officials to visit the Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps, a trip which resulted in the clerics issuing a statement condemning anti-Semitism and vowing "to make real the commitment of 'never again.'"

The eight Muslim-American clerics were joined by Hannah Rosenthal, the presidential special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, and a handful of other officials from the Obama, Bush and Reagan administrations.

But according to Politico, "Organizers of the trip say they were dismayed that the Anti-Defamation League's Abe Foxman lobbied U.S. officials against participating."

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'Ground Zero Mosque'

Anti-Defamation League Comes Out Against Ground Zero Mosque

Rachel Slajda | July 30, 2010, 11:54AM

Abraham Foxman, Director, Anti-Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish organization whose programs "counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry," has released a statement excoriating plans to build an Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero.

"Proponents of the Islamic Center may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen the site to send a positive message about Islam. The bigotry some have expressed in attacking them is unfair, and wrong," the statement reads.

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