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...spread of hate speech on the Internet is well-documented. Several weeks ago, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released its second report on extremist use of the Internet, titled "High Tech Hate...
...streets of Jerusalem this summer, through the twisted market alley and by the holiest sites of Christianity, Islam and Judaism, I did not feel the exuberance of my first trip to Israel four years ago. What changed in those four years? In part, traveling with an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) trip for newspaper editors, I felt a more serious task of learning about the Middle East political situation than when I was touring at age sixteen. But Israel too had changed. While there was war then, there was also hope for peace...
Part of the purpose of the ADL's trip to Israel was raising awareness among campus editors about the sensitive nature of the Middle East political situation. As someone who follows news on the Middle East quite closely, I was surprised by the dearth of useful information regarding the region available in the American media...
...debate around these books runs like this. Jewish neo-conservatives who admire Robertson's staunch support for Israel have come to his defense in the wake of the ADL report and similar articles that have appeared recently in the New York Review of Books. They are willing to indulge Robertson (what they perceive to be) his theological idiosyncrasies so long as he gets the important issue, Israel, correct. For example, a prominent Jewish neo-conservative, Midge Decter, has written a scathing critique of the ADL study in a recent issue of Commentary...
...call for a more balanced dialogue between Jews and the Christian Right may not go unheeded. Only this week Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, addressed leaders of the ADL in Washington, claiming that Jews and Christians must cooperate in "the fight to achieve moral stability and a sense of community based on shared values." Reed's remarks represent a welcome overture in a climate of growing hostility. Of his hopes for increased good will between Americans Jews and Christians: may they go from Mr. Reed's mouth to God's ears...