The New York Post reported on August 28 that the National Legal and Policy Center watchdog filed a complaint with the IRS against Anuradha Mittal, pointing to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) filings showing that The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation gave $104,000 to the Oakland Institute, a progressive think tank, in 2017 and 2018.
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the report found that the number of antisemitic hate crimes decreased from 953 in 2019 to 676 in 2020; the 676 figure consisted of 58% of all hate crimes targeting religion.
There are so many other heartfelt scenes I will never forget – service members comforting the children by playing games with them, giving out food and water, gently putting a hand on a young girl’s head to reassure her and standing on each side of an elderly woman assisting her onboard the plane.
The events in Ferguson, Missouri had spawned a new activist movement, Black Lives Matter, which took the country by storm. The concept of intersectionality, once relegated to gender studies programs in universities, was gaining currency in the activist community on the left, particularly on certain college campuses.
A similar motion—written in the wake of renewed conflict in the Gaza Strip this May—has already been adopted at several UTLA area meetings held this summer. The union, which represents an estimated 30,000 Los Angeles Unified School District educators, wrote in a statement on its website that those earlier motions do not represent “the official expressed opinions of UTLA or its elected leaders.”
In a time when offensive jokes or comments made even decades ago can cause someone to lose their job, it shouldn’t be surprising that a comment with blatant antisemitic overtones caused such an uproar.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced in a tweet that Barel Hadaria Shmueli, 21, “passed away today after being shot by a terrorist while defending Israel during violent riots at the security fence last week. May his memory be a blessing.”
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