After allegations of a toxic workplace culture that discriminates against women and people of color, the Southern Poverty Law Center is trying to emerge and chart a way forward. Turmoil in the civil rights organization last month resulted in the firing of its famous founder and the resignations of its longtime president and legal director.
THE SPIN ROOM | Ethiopians in Israel protested for two days against perceived police brutality and racism. Statistics show that Ethiopians are falling behind in the country. Is it because of their skin color? Or something else? Association of Ethiopian Jews spokesperson Mazal Bisawer and Hadassah Academic College professor Doron Shultziner discuss with host Ami Kaufman.
Within the borders of America exists a sinister ANTISEMITIC RACE BASED HATE GROUP known as URBAN APOLOGISTS (UA). They have made it their mission to target, slander, and demonize any and all BLACK PEOPLE that can trace their lineage to Biblical Israelites, such as the Lemba (Zimbabwe), Igbo (Nigeria), and others.
On Sunday, Israelis of Ethiopian descent took to the streets of Tel Aviv to protest against systemic discrimination. The demonstrations, triggered by a leaked video showing police officers physically assaulting an Ethiopian Israeli soldier and then filing false charges against him, soon turned violent, with many expressing fears of greater civil unrest to come. The demonstrations have been compared to the anti-police-brutality protests in many of America’s cities, most recently Baltimore.
Fifteen civil rights groups and seven individuals filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, claiming the Jewish group violated their civil and privacy rights by spying on their activities. The lawsuit, based in large part on facts that have emerged in a criminal probe of the ADL in San Francisco, not only pits Arab-American groups against the ADL, but several other civil rights groups representing African Americans, Latinos and Jews, as well as various social causes such as the anti-apartheid movement and those opposed to police abuse.
Since it first registered its website in February 2015, Canary Mission has been a source of mystery and menace. Dedicated to blacklisting students involved in Palestine solidarity activism, intimidating them and denigrating their public reputations, Canary Mission’s administrators have gone to great lengths to conceal their identities. The secrecy has enabled them to target legally defenseless students – who are mostly members of minority and immigrant groups — with total impunity.
