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Lawfare Project’s Gerard Filitti provided comment to Fox News Digital on shareholder lawsuit against the New York Times for anti-Israel bias. Gerard Filitti, senior counsel with The Lawfare Project, a Jewish civil and human rights organization, described the case in more detail in comments to Fox News Digital. “In May, The Lawfare Project sent The New York Times a seven-page retraction demand on the [Nicholas] Kristof column, documenting that the column’s primary source is chaired by a man on Israel’s list of Hamas operatives who called the October 7 attackers ‘heroic knights,’ and that its validating expert left UCLA amid sexual harassment allegations involving minors,” Filitti said. “The Times’ deputy general counsel answered that he saw ‘no basis for a retraction or correction’ because the story ‘was carefully edited and fact-checked.’ Yet less than two months later, the paper’s executive editor said the newsroom ‘wouldn’t have done that exact piece,’” he continued. “Shortly after our demand, the paper’s own shareholders asked a narrower question – whether anyone above the editors checks that the Times follows its own written standards — and the Times refused to even provide them with the charters and standards handbook it already publishes. “The petition filed today puts the Times’ credibility in front of a judge, along with a record the paper has refused to answer anywhere else: 72 errors the paper admitted in eight months of war coverage, 48 of them about Israel; a front-page caption calling a Gaza child ‘born healthy’ that the paper walked back five days later; a columnist who quoted his own campaign donors in at least a dozen columns without telling readers; a 10-year Jewish employee told by Human Resources, according to the petition, to ‘go find a place whose values align with yours;’ and a federal jury that found the Times liable for defamation on August 20, the paper’s first loss at trial in more than fifty years,” Filitti added. https://lnkd.in/gBNvRMiN

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LAWFARE PROJECT WIN: Judge tosses lawsuit accusing Jewish couple of getting Muslim lawyer fired over anti-Israel posts. A federal judge in Florida has dismissed a lawsuit from a Muslim attorney who accused a Jewish couple of conspiring to get her fired by publicizing her anti-Israel social media posts. Zohra Khorashi, described in court papers as a Muslim woman of Pakistani origin who worked at Chartwell Law Offices in Miami from 2018 to 2024, filed the suit in the Southern District of Florida last year. It sought hefty compensatory and punitive damages. “People who speak out against antisemitism should not have to face meritless lawsuits for sharing truthful public information and expressing their views,” said Benjamin Ryberg, attorney and chief operating officer at the Lawfare Project. Her complaint accused Gadi Beer, a Pennsylvania attorney who helped found Chartwell in 2002, of doxing her over posts she made to her public Instagram account after Hamas slaughtered Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023. “Efforts to use litigation to intimidate or silence Jewish voices cannot go unchallenged, and we are grateful to organizations like The Lawfare Project that are willing to stand up against attempts to chill lawful speech and advocacy,” the Beers said. https://lnkd.in/griEuk_e

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📣 We’re hiring — and we’re looking for someone who wants to make an impact. The Lawfare Project is looking for a Social Media Manager who is passionate about fighting antisemitism, defending Jewish rights, and using the power of social media to change the conversation. We need a doer — someone creative, plugged in, fast-moving, and ready to turn our work into content that reaches people, cuts through the noise, and makes an impact. If that sounds like you, we want to hear from you. 👉 See the Social Media Manager position and all of our current openings: https://lnkd.in/eMGQ8eKy Know someone who should apply? Tag them below and share this post. #Hiring #NowHiring #SocialMediaManager #SocialMediaJobs #JewishRights #FightAntisemitism #EndJewHatred #Antisemitism #HumanRights #TheLawfareProject

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Haverford College has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by Jewish students who say the school failed to protect them from antisemitic harassment and anti-Zionist hostility following October 7. As part of the settlement, Haverford agreed to mandatory annual antisemitism training, an advisory Antisemitism Committee, and identification requirements for masked protesters. College President Wendy Raymond also publicly apologized, calling the hostile environment “a failure on the part of the college” and affirming that discrimination or harassment targeting Jewish, Israeli, or Zionist students violates college policy. This settlement sends an important message to universities nationwide: failing to protect Jewish students from discrimination carries consequences.

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