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The Dallas Morning News
To the Editor:
Re: “Transgender battle — Patrick draws boos, again calls for superintendent’s ouster,” Thursday news story.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s rhetoric was filled with untruths as he advocated against the Fort Worth ISD policy, which allows transgender students to use restrooms in accordance with their gender identity. Patrick’s assertion about student safety is fictional. There simply is no…
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The following letter was written in response to an op-ed that appeared in the New Jersey Jewish News on April 28, 2016. Letters to the Editor
New Jersey Jewish News
Dear Editor:
Jared Silverman’s commentary mischaracterizes the issue and underscores the very reasons the Anti-Defamation League continues to educate and advocate for a compassionate response to the refugee crisis.
By conflating refugees with migrants and immigrants, Silverman confuses the issues and undermines…
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The Washington Free Beacon
To the Editor:
Adam Kredo’s article, “ADL Pursuit of Meeting with Anti-Israel Activists Proves Fruitless,” (April 26) distorts ADL’s role in responding to a protest last week and misrepresents our offer of dialogue with the left-wing Jewish activist group, IfNotNow, when they held a protest in the lobby of the building where ADL’s offices are located.
Kredo’s portrayal of “entreaties for a…
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The Salt Lake Tribune
To the Editor:
Derek Monson is incorrect when he asserts that the proposed hate crime legislation (SB 107) would impact Utah's historic compromise on workplace and housing discrimination protections. ("New hate-crimes bill does not reflect spirit of 'Utah Compromise,'" Feb. 6). In fact, by its terms the bill treats all of the listed personal characteristics, such as race and religion, equally. No category is given favorable treatment over…
En la madrugada del 7 de octubre de 2023, tras un periodo de ataque con misiles, unos 3.000 terroristas de Hamás invadieron Israel desde Gaza y atacaron brutalmente 22 comunidades civiles israelíes cercanas a la frontera de Gaza, un festival de música y una docena de bases y puestos de las FDI. Este ataque, que se produjo en una mañana de Shabat de la festividad de Simjá Torá, tomó a Israel por sorpresa. Los hombres armados masacraron sin piedad…
El eslogan es profundamente problemático en dos niveles. En primer lugar, afirmar que la existencia de Israel representa el colonialismo es anular la conexión histórica de los judíos con la tierra de Israel. Los judíos han vivido, se han sentido vinculados y han anhelado la repatriación a Israel durante miles de años, incluso en sus oraciones, liturgia y rituales diarios. No se puede separar al pueblo judío de la tierra. Por tanto,…
Decir que Hamás tiene derecho a resistir por cualquier medio necesario es en realidad una justificación de las bárbaras acciones del 7 de octubre —incluidos el asesinato y secuestro de bebés, ancianos, hombres, mujeres y niños— así como de otras formas de terrorismo utilizadas contra Israel, entre ellas atentados suicidas, tiroteos, apuñalamientos y misiles dirigidos contra núcleos de población civil. …
El eslogan hace referencia a dos periodos de violencia palestina contra Israel —a finales de la década de 1980 y entre 2000 y 2005— en los que terroristas palestinos cometieron actos de violencia indiscriminada contra israelíes, incluyendo atentados suicidas, tiroteos y apuñalamientos, dirigidos contra civiles que viajaban en autobuses urbanos, comían en restaurantes o estaban en discotecas, y con el resultado de más de 1.000 muertos. Este lema se…
El sionismo es el movimiento de liberación nacional del pueblo judío, que defiende el derecho de los judíos a autodeterminarse en su patria ancestral, Israel. Durante 4.000 años, Israel ha estado arraigado en la identidad judía, y ha sido un rasgo de la oración, el aprendizaje, el ritual y las costumbres judías. A pesar de haber sido exiliados de la tierra en repetidas ocasiones, los judíos siempre han buscado regresar a Israel, y…
La situación humanitaria en Gaza es desgarradora y es trágico ver tanto sufrimiento entre los palestinos inocentes. Sin embargo, es vital entender que Hamás es el responsable de esta crisis.
Aunque puede haber críticas legítimas a determinadas políticas israelíes (y egipcias) respecto a Gaza, las acciones y el odio de Hamás son responsables de las difíciles condiciones que soporta la población de Gaza.
Desde que tom…
Quienes plantean el tema de las causas profundas del 7 de octubre suelen afirmar que la supuesta opresión de los palestinos por parte de Israel fue lo que provocó —e incluso justifica— el ataque de Hamás.
El conflicto palestino-israelí tiene décadas y es profundamente complejo. De hecho, se puede argumentar que las "raíces" del conflicto se remontan al rechazo por parte de los líderes palestinos y árabes del derecho del…
El hecho de que 1.200 personas fueran brutalmente asesinadas, mutiladas, quemadas, violadas y profanadas por terroristas de Hamás, y que 240 personas fueran secuestradas de sus hogares y llevadas como rehenes a Gaza, es innegable e incontrovertible.
Parte, pero solo parte, de las pruebas de estas atrocidades proceden de la propia Hamás, que ha compartido con orgullo videos filmados por ellos mismos en los que los terroristas celebran alegremente los asesinatos, las…
The slogan is deeply problematic on two levels. First, to charge that Israel’s existence represents colonialism is to erase the historic Jewish connection to the land of Israel. Jews have lived in, felt connected to, and yearned for repatriation to Israel for thousands of years, including in their prayers, liturgy, and rituals every day. One cannot separate the Jewish people from the land. Therefore, calling Israelis colonialists, as if they were simply interlopers usurping a…
Saying that Hamas has the right to resist by any means necessary is effectively a justification of the barbaric actions of Oct. 7, including the murder and kidnapping of babies, the elderly, men, women and children – as well as other forms of terrorism used against Israel – including suicide bombings, shootings, stabbings and rocket fire directed at civilian population centers. Whatever one’s view of Israeli policies and the Palestinian condition, support for violence,…
The chant is a reference to two periods of Palestinian violence against Israel – in the late 1980s and from 2000-2005 – which saw Palestinian terrorists commit indiscriminate acts of violence against Israelis, including suicide bombings, shootings and stabbings, targeting people on city buses, eating in restaurants or out at nightclubs – resulting in over 1,000 people killed. This slogan is generally understood as a call for indiscriminate violence against Israel, and…
Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, which advocates for the right of Jews to self-determine in their ancestral homeland, Israel. For 4,000 years, Israel has been embedded in Jewish identity, and has been a feature of Jewish prayer, learning, ritual and customs. Despite being repeatedly exiled from the land, Jews have always sought to return to Israel, and were finally able to do so in large numbers in the second-half of the 19th century. Zionism is not…
Those who raise the theme of root causes of October 7 are usually claiming that that Israel’s alleged oppression of the Palestinians is what led to – and even justifies – Hamas's attack.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is decades long and deeply complex. Indeed, one can argue that the “roots” of the conflict go back to the rejection by Palestinian and Arab leaders of the right of the Jewish people to self-determination and statehood in their…
The fact that 1200 people were brutally murdered, mutilated, burned, raped and desecrated by Hamas terrorists, and that 240 people were abducted from their homes and taken hostage inside Gaza, is undeniable and incontrovertible.
Part, but only part, of the evidence for these atrocities comes from Hamas itself which proudly shared self-filmed videos of terrorists gleefully celebrating murders, humiliations and seizing innocents as hostages. Others come from videos from security…
In the early morning of October 7, 2023, following a period of rocket fire, an estimated 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded Israel from Gaza and brutally attacked 22 Israeli civilian communities near the Gaza border, a music festival and about a dozen IDF bases and posts. This attack, which occurred on a Shabbat morning that fell on the holiday of Simchat Torah, took Israel by surprise. The gunmen mercilessly massacred at least 1,200 people, mostly civilians, who were shot, mutilated, burned,…
The sovereign citizen movement is a large anti-government extremist movement whose adherents believe that they can ignore laws, regulations, court orders and taxes because they have divorced themselves from what they claim is an illegitimate, tyrannical government.