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TEL AVIV – The news media in recent days has been hyping remarks made by Steven Goldstein, executive director of the largely unknown Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, repeatedly accusing President Trump and his administration of anti-Semitism.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), who was Hillary Clinton’s running mate in the 2016 presidential election, told NBC News’ Meet the Press on Sunday morning that President Donald Trump was guilty of Holocaust denial.

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder released a statement Saturday evening chiding Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt for criticizing President Donald Trump’s statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which did not specifically mention Jews.

The Anti-Defamation league on Thursday issued a security advisory to Jewish institutions across the US, after a series of bomb threats to some 30 Jewish community centers in 17 states.

If you read through the world of left-wing clickbait Thursday afternoon, you may have seen a shocking story about a Jewish family chased out of town by anti-Semitic Breitbart readers because our site blamed them for shutting down a school’s Christmas play. Scary stuff — except that version of the story is 100% fake news.

For weeks, we’ve heard nothing but fear-mongering from groups like the Anti-Defamation League about antisemitism in the Trump administration. Perhaps a “thank you” might be in order?

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has reversed course and now opposes Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) over anti-Israel, and arguably antisemitic, remarks. But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is sticking with him.

Tablet magazine, an online magazine on Jewish affairs, was one of the leading “NeverTrump” websites — but has published an op-ed defending Donald Trump and denouncing Democrats for supporting Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) to lead the party.

False “Nazi” accusations continue, unapologetically, from people who should know better. They are mainstreaming hatred, with potentially dangerous consequences.

Star Trek icon George Takei recently sent me — and perhaps thousands of other people — an email on behalf of the Democratic Party, under the subject “Japanese internment.”

TEL AVIV – Jonathan Greenblatt, the National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), previously directed an initiative at a George Soros-financed, far-left institute, and he worked for the Obama administration just prior to joining the ADL.

Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick accuses the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of launching false attacks on Stephen K. Bannon in order to cover up rising antisemitism in the Democratic Party, as exemplified by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN).

Breitbart News’ Adelle Nazarian confronted Anti-Defamation League (ADL) president Jonathan Greenblatt at a conference on antisemitism in New York on Thursday and asked him to defend his claim that Breitbart is the “premier website of the Alt Right.”

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has backed away from its earlier accusations against Stephen K. Bannon, stating on its website: “We are not aware of any anti-Semitic statements from Bannon.”

Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Dennis Prager called accusations of antisemitism against Stephen K. Bannon “libel” on Wednesday.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has denied press credentials to Breitbart News’ Adelle Nazarian, who was assigned to cover the ADL’s “Summit on Anti-Semitism” at the Grand Hyatt in New York City on Thursday, November 17.

The Republican Jewish Coalition issued a statement Tuesday supporting Stephen K. Bannon, who has been falsely accused of antisemitism since his appointment Sunday as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes an open letter to Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, to defend former Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon against accusations of anti-Semitism.

Morton Klein writes: “ZOA’s own experience and analysis of Breitbart articles confirms Mr. Bannon’s and Breitbart’s friendship and fair-mindedness towards Israel and the Jewish people. To accuse Mr. Bannon and Breitbart of anti-Semitism is Orwellian.”

The president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews has been attacked for congratulating Donald Trump on his sweeping election victory.

Citing Israel’s preeminence in counter-terrorism – and the fact that it is the only country outside the United States to have a 9/11 memorial honoring every victim – a US police delegation arrived to visit the country on the 15th anniversary of the attack.

The total transformation of the once hallowed Anti-Defamation League may now be complete. Established more than 100 years ago to fight Jew hatred at home and abroad, has the ADL now done a 180?  Has its core mission changed from fighting

PHILADELPHIA – The Democrats continue to have an Israel problem. On the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention here, Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson reportedly compared Israeli settlers – meaning Jews living in the West Bank or eastern Jerusalem – to termites.

A report undertaken by the Anti-Defamation league has shown that incidents of anti-Semitism at American universities nearly doubled in 2015.

The Jerusalem Post reports: The Anti-Defamation League walked back a statement from last year implying MK Michael Oren (Kulanu) used racist stereotypes to describe US President Barack Obama, ending what Oren called a painful experience Sunday.

TEL AVIV – In his latest anti-Israel remarks, Senator Bernie Sanders on Sunday said that President Barack Obama has been too supportive of Israel and was not sufficiently supportive of the Palestinians. The Democratic candidate, speaking to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, also

The Jerusalem Post reports: NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League said it was “outrageous” that a debate topic at an inter- university debating competition in Atlanta required participants to justify Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israelis. At the US Universities Debating

An Israeli cabinet minister described as “loony” on Thursday an account by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of the number of Palestinian civilians killed in the 2014 Gaza war that went well beyond any official assessments. The minister, Zeev Elkin,

The Anti-Defamation League is pushing back against social media backlash in response to Cristiano Ronaldo’s appearance in an Israeli cable TV commercial. The ADL sent out the following Tweet in response to a Breitbart Jerusalem article posted on Twitter by the news

TEL AVIV – The boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel is nothing more than old fashioned anti-Semitism disguised as political activism, Michael Lucas, a gay pornographic film actor and director, declared in a radio interview on Sunday. Lucas

A majority of Palestinians now reject the notion that there should be a state of Israel alongside a future state of Palestine, according to a poll released Monday.

In order to further victimize Palestinians in Gaza as peace-loving and not widely anti-Semitic, the BBC swapped out the Arabic word for “Jew” and changed it to “Israeli” in its new Children of the Gaza War documentary, which aired on BBC Wednesday.

A new poll commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows anti-Semitism in France is in dramatic decline, also dropping in Germany and Belgium, but the news is not universally good. The same poll showed that more than half of all Muslims in Western Europe

Outgoing Anti-Defamation League chief Abe Foxman has reportedly panicked over what he calls declining U.S. support for Israel, and blamed Israel for taking Americans, and American Jews, for granted. Foxman’s claims contradict polls showing that American support for Israel is near an all-time high. The real reason for his freakout: liberals support Israel less, which means that American Jews support Israel less, because of President Barack Obama’s confrontational policy toward Israel.

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has accused Jewish critics of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress of repeating the mistakes of the Nazi era.

The Anti-Defamation League has offered a $2,500 reward to help police catch perpetrators of the recent vandalism of a Jewish fraternity at the University of California Davis, which was found Saturday morning spray-painted with swastikas.