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Stephen Jackson said DeSean Jackson is ‘speaking the truth’ about Jews. Black commentators say his activism is now tainted.

The criticism from Stephen A. Smith and Michael Wilbon was noteworthy because they had touted Stephen Jackson’s emergence as a leading figure in the Black Lives Matter movement.

Roy Moore’s lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen can proceed, judge rules

The 2018 suit for defamation and emotional distress stems from the former Alabama chief justice’s punking on Cohen’s show “Who is America?”

Ben Platt shares how he came out as gay during Israel trip

It comes up in his Netflix concert film from May, but he shared it on Twitter.

Washington police officer says he will remove tattoo resembling insignia of Nazi SS

Jewish organization’s internal squabble: ZOA files complaint against 14 member groups for calling leader’s remarks ‘racist’

Pittsburgh Steelers’ Zach Banner says Jews are minority, too, and we must ‘put our arms around them’

Peter Beinart was an outspoken advocate of the two-state solution. Now he’s abandoning it.

Julian Edelman invites DeSean Jackson to have ‘uncomfortable conversations’ about anti-Semitism and Black Lives Matter

Include kosher and halal food in emergency coronavirus food programs, senators tell Agriculture Department

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey supports reparations for African-Americans, ‘as a Jew’

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