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ADL CEO under fire for partnering with Sharpton in advocating Facebook boycott
Jewish News Syindicate ^ | July 2, 2020 | Jackson Richman

Posted on 07/02/2020 10:30:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Anti-Defamation League national director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt has come under fire from Jewish groups for appearing on the MSNBC show “Politics Nation With Al Sharpton” on Sunday to promote the ADL’s call for corporations to boycott Facebook in July over its unwillingness to ban hate speech on the social-media giant’s platform.

While the message seems on target with ADL’s work, the idea of partnering with someone like Sharpton, who has a history of anti-Semitism and other bigotry, is hypocritical, if not counterproductive, they say.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s associate dean and director of global social action, suggested that it was wrong of Greenblatt to appear the show since the well-known reverend, who these days makes more television appearances then leads a congregational flock, has never apologized to the Jewish community for his words and actions.

In addition to anti-Semitic rhetoric Sharpton has spewed over the years, his instigating violence during the August 1991 riots in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., against the Chassidic Jewish community remains etched in history. …

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: adl; alsharpton; facebook; hypocrisy; jonathangreenblatt; sharpton

1 posted on 07/02/2020 10:30:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Kapo.


2 posted on 07/02/2020 10:30:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Agree!


3 posted on 07/02/2020 10:31:52 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: dfwgator

I used to work with Greenblatt 20 years ago. Always thought he was an arrogant tool.


4 posted on 07/02/2020 10:55:58 AM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: dfwgator
Greenblatt directly served Obama as Special Assistant.
(Rabbi Abraham) Cooper suggested that these online companies be threatened with government regulation, which he called “the real cudgel.” …
Surprised that a rabbi associated with the Simon Wiesenthal Center calls for bigger government. Rather than that, charge them with violating the Bill of Rights.
5 posted on 07/02/2020 11:00:15 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

I just love it when liberals boycott liberals.


6 posted on 07/02/2020 11:07:58 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Olog-hai
…the ADL’s call for corporations to boycott Facebook in July over its unwillingness to ban hate speech …

The Problem: Who gets to define “hate speech”?

7 posted on 07/02/2020 11:08:42 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: Olog-hai; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; piasa
Greenblatt, who is linked with the Soros-funded Aspen Institute, partnered with the Clinton campaign in 2016 to smear Trump as associated with David Duke. He and Sharpton are peas in a pod.
8 posted on 07/02/2020 2:29:16 PM PDT by Fedora
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And he ends up running the ADL as a reward. No wonder they push the 4chan hoax of “OK hand symbol is really ‘WP’ for White Power” as if it’s true.


9 posted on 07/02/2020 2:33:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Rabbi Cooper knows what is going on and who are our enemies, both anti-Jewish and anti-American.

Greenblatt is an Obama asskisser and now a Sharpton con-job cohort.

Beware of Greenblatt. He is a Marxist KAPO.


10 posted on 07/02/2020 8:10:02 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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