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Three Los Angeles Synagogues Evacuated Due to Bomb Threats

By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Los Angeles — June 11, 2017 … Bomb threats against Jewish facilities in the US continue as three Los Angeles synagogues were evacuated following a series of online bomb threats. The hate crimes disrupted normally scheduled Shabbat activities on June 10. The Glazer and Irmas campuses of Wilshire Boulevard Temple… Read More »

ADL Files Papers Against Trump’s Muslim Refugee Ban

By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency New York, NY, February 6, 2017 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit supporting the State of Washington’s challenge to President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on immigration and refugees. ADL’s brief urges the… Read More »

ADL: Ellison’s Racist Comments Disqualifies Him To Lead DNC

Ellison was responsible for defending 12 Muslims from Minneapolis who wanted to join ISIS. By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency New York, NY — December 1, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which only last month defended and described Rep. Keith Ellison as “a man of good character”, has now decided to expose Ellison for racist comments he has… Read More »

ADL, Israel: Social Media Companies Must Eliminate Growing Online Hate, Terrorism

By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency New York — September 7, 2016 … Christopher Wolf, Chair of the Anti-Defamation League’s Task Force on Cyberhate, addressed the U.N. Forum on Global Anti-Semitism. Wolf joined Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon and several other human rights leaders at the UN demanding that the UN and social media companies take immediate… Read More »

Trump Will Not Condemn Death Threats On Jews

By Herb Brandon Israel News Agency New York — May 5, 2016 … In an interview with Wolf Blitzer yesterday, Donald Trump refused to condemn death threats that his supporters hurled at Jewish journalist Julia Ioffe. Ioffe received calls from “people playing Hitler speeches” and was told that she “should be burned in an oven, told she… Read More »

ADL Secures Correction From Sanders on Gaza War Casualties

Greenblatt: “Accuracy and accountability are essential for the voting public.” By Israel News Agency Staff New York — April 8, 2016 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the clarification by presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of his misstatement about Palestinian casualties during the 2014 conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. After a phone… Read More »

US Republican Jewish Community Endorses Ted Cruz

Israel welcomes Senator Ted Cruz, not prepared to meet Donald Trump who proposes bans on religions. By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency New York — February 29, 2016 … Donald Trump is a master at marketing but he is not Presidential material. That is the opinion of most Republican Jews from New York to Los… Read More »

Huckabee Correct To Compare Iran With Holocaust

By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel — July 27, 2015 …  Former Arkansas governor and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee recently stated that: “The Iran nuclear deal is marching the Israelis to the door of the oven.” Huckabee added: “What’s ‘ridiculous and sad’ is that President Obama does not take Iran’s repeated threats seriously.… Read More »