Hacker News with Generative AI: Antisemitism

USCIS to Screen Immigrants' Social Media for Antisemitism (uscis.gov)
WASHINGTON— Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests.

Immigration, Antisemitism, Social Media, Government Policy

17 points by andrewstetsenko 9 days ago | 2 comments

U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism (npr.org)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced it will begin screening immigrants' social media for evidence of antisemitic activity as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests.

Immigration, Social Media, Antisemitism, Government Policy

20 points by like_any_other 16 days ago | 12 comments

U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism (npr.org)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced it will begin screening immigrants' social media for evidence of antisemitic activity as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests.

Immigration, Social Media, Antisemitism, Government Surveillance

16 points by spdgg 16 days ago | 2 comments

Harvard University faces $9B federal funding review (thecrimson.com)
Three federal agencies announced a review of more than $8 billion in “multi-year grant commitments” to Harvard as part of an ongoing investigation into the University by the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism on Monday.

Harvard University, Federal Funding, Antisemitism

33 points by donsupreme 25 days ago | 5 comments

Migrants to be tested on antisemitism under Coalition citizenship test (smh.com.au)
Migrants applying for Australian passports under a Coalition government will be quizzed about their attitudes towards Jewish people, as part of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s citizenship crackdown that includes a possible deportation referendum.

Immigration, Politics, Australia, Antisemitism, Citizenship

14 points by like_any_other 37 days ago | 0 comments

Heritage Foundation Details Plans to Doxx and Target Wikipeda Editors (techdirt.com)
The Heritage Foundation sent the pitch deck outlining the Wikipedia initiative to Jewish foundations and other prospective supporters of Project Esther, its roadmap for fighting antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

Politics, Wikipedia, Activism, Antisemitism

28 points by archagon 58 days ago | 4 comments

Switzerland seeks to ban Nazi symbols amid surge in antisemitism (theguardian.com)
Switzerland is seeking to ban the swastika, Hitler salute and other Nazi signs due to a rise in antisemitism, the federal government has announced.

Switzerland, Antisemitism, Nazi Symbols, Europe

7 points by isaacfrond 133 days ago | 0 comments

Congressional letter sent to Amazon and Twitch for amplification of antisemitism (twitter.com)

Antisemitism, Congress, Social Media, Amazon, Twitch

5 points by josephh 177 days ago | 2 comments

Antidemocratic, Racist, and Antisemitic Sentiments in Postwar West Germany (cambridge.org)
“Agreed: post-war Germany is a miracle,” the Franco-American literary critic George Steiner noted in 1959, analyzing the economic success of the young Federal Republic, but “it is a very queer miracle.”

History, Germany, Politics, Antisemitism

35 points by Traces 207 days ago | 11 comments