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THE JEWISH August 14, 2015 • 29 Av 5775
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Vol 14, No. 31 • TheJewishStar.com
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‘Covert’ Canary website exposes notorious antiIsrael provocateurs Yes, there are Jews who support Iran nuke deal By Abraham H. Miller, JNS.org In the sweltering heat of a Chicago summer, my friend marched outside the South African consulate, protesting apartheid. Years earlier, she had protested Jim Crow in front of a Woolworths store in Chicago, failing to comprehend that her beloved big government—not Woolworths—prevented blacks from sitting at lunch counters on the other side of the Mason-Dixon line. In the midst of the 1980 presidential election, as the nation convulsed in economic turmoil, she brought an otherwise pleasant dinner party to an end when she said the most important thing in America was fight-
Obama scapegoats The Jews: p. 6 Schumer and Engel say No: p. 7 Fundamentally, new MidEast: p. 4 ing racial injustice. She would ambush nearly everyone with some leftist talking point and assume a level of moral superiority when they could not respond because it hadn’t been their foremost concern. When Israel went into Gaza to stop the random death raining from the skies on its southern cities, she awoke me from a deep sleep one Continued on page 14
By Edwin Black A number of America’s most vituperative anti-Israel activists woke up on Feb. 17 to discover that they had been named and spotlighted by a mysterious new website called Canary Mission, visible at canarymission.org. The site boldly aggregates the public statements, videos, and photographs of leading members of the organized movement against Israel in their most telling and often most demonstrative moments. Individuals profiled on Canary Mission range from leaders of such intensely antiIsrael groups as Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Student Association, to unaffiliated campus agitators who regularly advocate for the destruction of Israel and even the murder of Jews. All its profiles are compiled from public Internet sources including YouTube, Twitter, press releases, news clips, and interviews. Canary Mission took a lead from the New Israel Fund, which some years ago helped finance the Coalition of Women for Peace that created the Who-Profits database that acted as a global compass of Israeli commercial activity for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions strategies. Canary Mission flipped the card and blacklisted the blacklisters. Because Canary Mission works beneath Continued on page 5
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Continuing with its life-saving missions, Achiezer teamed up with Hatzalah of the Rockaways and Nassau County last Sunday to train roughly 100 area residents in CPR and choking procedures. Many lives have been saved by knowing what to do before Hatzalah arrives.
Georgia still uneasy over century-old Leo Frank lynching Reporting for AP from Marietta, Ga.
worked in his Atlanta factory. The case, charged with race, religion, sex and class, exploded in a national media frenzy. When Georgia’s governor commuted Frank’s death sentence, citizens took matters in their own hands. The case established the AntiDefamation League as the country’s most outspoken opponent of antiSemitism. It also fueled the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. Until ADL lawyers pressed officials to posthumously pardon Frank in the 1980s, the case was hushed in Atlanta’s synagogues, the homes of Old Marietta, and among Phagan’s descendants.
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own past the Big Chicken, the 56-foot-high, steel-beaked beacon of extra crispy that may be this town’s most prized landmark, the wedge of dirt hard by Interstate 75 is notable only for its lack of notability. Stopping here, Rabbi Steven Lebow leaves the engine running and his car’s door open. Ever since the South Florida native came to this Atlanta suburb three decades ago, this spot — or, more specifically, the tale of murder and vengeance that has stained its ground and local history for 100
years — has weighed on him. But with transportation crews readying to build over the place where Marietta’s leading citizens lynched a Jewish factory superintendent named Leo Frank a century ago, Lebow talks only of what’s worth preserving. “There’s nothing to see here,” Lebow says. “That’s why we need to be the memory.” As this community prepares to revisit that tale, though, there are reminders that it remains unsettled as well as unsettling. In 1913, Frank, a native of Brooklyn, was convicted of murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan, who
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Though granted, the pardon was less than conclusive. Now, in a summer that has seen Southerners wrangle with the best-known symbol of the region’s embattled past, Lebow and others want to re-open a chapter some would prefer to let be. But their effort to right history, as they see it, has renewed charges that, in doing so, they are unfairly trying to rewrite it. oon after Dan Cox turned a Civil War-era hotel into the Marietta Museum of History, he knocked on the door of a 96-year-old resident, who regaled him with stories until Continued on page 9
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