International

‘Responsibility’ of rich countries to continue poverty fight: Yellen

Washington (AFP) – Rich countries have an obligation to ensure the Covid-19 pandemic does not undermine efforts to fight poverty worldwide, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday. “It’s the responsibility of the developed countries to make sure that decades of progress in fighting poverty globally and trying to close income gaps between rich and […]

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The Sage Hillel Guides Our Choice of Stories

With antisemitism on the rise, it is tempting to stay laser focused on stories that impact our community, but we must resist the temptation.  Those who complain how few people helped Jews during the Holocaust (although the Righteous Among the Nations surely did), need to follow the same moral high road that we wish others would have followed during our time of peril.  [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

A Republican’s deleted 9/11 tweet about Ilhan Omar slammed as ‘Islamophobic’ by Muslim group

A Republican’s deleted “9/11 tweet” about Ilhan Omar is “disrespectful” to the victims of the terror attacks and is an example of anti-Muslim bigotry, a leading Muslim rights group has said. Republican representative for North Carolina, Greg Murphy, is at the centre of criticism after he directed a now-deleted tweet about the 11 September 2001

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Police, communities across U.S. fight back against anti-Asian hate crimes

By Brittany Hosea-Small, Nathan Layne and Rich McKay SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) – More than a dozen San Jose, California, police officers walked through the white arches of the Grand Century Mall in “Little Saigon” to reassure a Vietnamese-American community fearful over the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States. The officers walked

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Ghanaian digital activist pushes for more online visibility for the Dagbani language

Ghanian digital activist, Sadik Shahadu. Photo provided by Sadik Shahadu and used with permission. Editor’s note: From April 6-13, 2021, Sadik Shahadu will be hosting the @DigiAfricanLang rotating Twitter account which explores the ways in which technology can be used to revitalize African languages. In early 2021, over 4,000 Dagbani words were recorded and uploaded

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Arkansas governor vetoes bill that would bar transgender treatments for youth

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson on Monday vetoed a bill that would have made the state the first in the country to prevent doctors from providing certain types of care to transgender youth. But his veto could be overridden by a simple majority vote in the Arkansas Senate and House, which

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IBM and the Holocaust, 20 Years of Corporate Denial

Twenty years ago my book, IBM and the Holocaust exposed with crystal clarity—backed up with a literal tower of physical documentation—that IBM knowingly organized all six phases of the Holocaust: identification, exclusion, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and even extermination, all under the micromanagement of its celebrated CEO, Thomas Watson, Sr., operating from his New York office on Madison Avenue, and later through European subsidiaries. [Edwin Black]

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Business & Finance, Edwin Black, International, Jewish History

History, hints of future in Navy’s mothballed ships in Bremerton, Wash.

BREMERTON, Wash. — The mothballed ships sit there, hulking, looming ghostlike in their gray and rusty coats, sometimes emerging from the water suddenly on a foggy day to surprise new eyes. Though the silent fleet is dwindling, it remains a powerful testament to the Navy’s deep roots in the region and hints of what’s to

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Symeon Shimin’s Humanistic Art

This is a moment to revisit and reflect on the work of Russian-born artist, Symeon Shimin. During his life, Shimin illustrated over 50 children’s books, including two that he authored himself; his masterpiece, however – influenced in part by ‘Los Tres Grandes’ – was the mural painting, “Contemporary Justice and the Child” (1936), located on the third floor of the Department of Justice, where it still stands today. [Sam Ben-Meir]

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir, USA

Vaccine Denial, Medical Apartheid Are Blood Libels

An egregious lie has been making the rounds lately. It is a timeworn smear against the Jewish people in a modern guise. The ancient blood libel—“Jews are poisoners,” stoked antisemitic violence through the ages, from the Black Death to tainted wells, has reappeared. This time, it is the claim that Israel is denying COVID-19 vaccinations to its non-Jewish citizens and to the residents of the not-yet-sovereign Palestinian Authority. This lie is the same as all the predecessor lies. [Edwin Black]

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Edwin Black, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education