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“We cannot shrug at antisemitic conspiracy theories — especially coming from a celebrated human rights advocate.” - RNS
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“We cannot shrug at antisemitic conspiracy theories — especially coming from a celebrated human rights advocate.” - RNS
“Myths related to Jewish conspiracies to control the world have long circulated in the US and continue to fuel hatred.” - RNS
“Holocaust denial aims to cast doubt on the facts of the Holocaust, the systematic murder of 6 million European Jews during World War II. Adherents claim Jews fabricated evidence of their own genocide to gain sympathy or extract reparations from Germany.” - RNS
“George Washington’s promise to American Jews helped define this nation. Breaking that promise would define us again.” - David French
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“Every worldview answers the questions ‘What’s wrong with the world?’ and ‘How can it be fixed?’ Some worldviews get the answers to these questions very, very wrong. Hatred of the Jews, for example, is perhaps the oldest hatred in the world.” - John Stonestreet and Maria Baer
“As revolting as the practice of anti-Semitism is, it’s a problem that lies hidden right in the midst of America—and it’s more widespread than we like to admit.” - Heritage
“Despite claiming to lack hostility toward the global Jewish people, today’s “anti-Zionists” single out the world’s only Jewish state for specific and demonizing criticism….Join us for an important conversation about modern anti-Semitism, anti-Israel rhetoric, and the role of the IHRA in combatting both.” - Heritage Foundation
“Two new reports about prejudice in the United States raise profound questions regarding the safety and security of American Jews.” - W.Examiner
“Humans tend to have an anchoring bias, a cognitive bias that causes us to rely too heavily on the first piece of information we are given about a topic. It’s a tendency highlighted in Proverbs 18:17: ‘The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.’” - TGC
“Mary Ann Mendoza, a member of the advisory board of President Trump’s reelection campaign, was due to speak on Aug. 25. But she was suddenly pulled from the schedule after she had retweeted a link to a conspiracy theory about Jewish elites plotting to take over the world.” - The Conversation
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