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Michal Furman is likely the first Israeli American
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LOCAL Whistleblower to
Run for Senate
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he’s running against
GOP hierarcy.

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NATIONAL Post-war Policies
Hindered Survivor
Immigration Historian discusses
impact in years
following WWII.

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OPINION NMAJH Set to
Rebound in 2021
Museum CEO says
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Volume 133
Number 51
Published Weekly Since 1887
PA Near Top
for White
Supremacist Propaganda
SOPHIE PANZER AND BEN SALES | JE STAFF AND JTA
THE UNITED STATES SAW the most
white supremacist propaganda in a decade
in 2020, with thousands of fl yers, bumper
stickers, banners and other propaganda
reported across the country, according to
the Anti-Defamation League.

Th e ADL’s report, published March 12,
counted 5,125 pieces of propaganda distrib-
uted by 30 white supremacist groups across
49 states in 2020. Th at’s almost double the
number recorded in 2019.

Shira Goodman, regional director of
Anti-Defamation League Philadelphia,
said Pennsylvania was among the top
eight states for white supremacist propa-
ganda distribution. Incidents increased
from 81 in 2019 to 238 in 2020.

Philadelphia and the surrounding
region had a dramatic increase, with
distribution rising in southern New Jersey
and Delaware. Goodman said she has also
gotten calls about propaganda in Bryn
Mawr and the Lehigh Valley.

“Th is pattern isn’t going away,” she said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, vote in Jerusalem on March 23.

Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90
Israeli Election Results
Prompt Uncertain Outlook
BEN SALES AND JESSE BERNSTEIN | JTA AND JE STAFF
WITH THE VOTES COUNTED from
the March 23 Israeli election, it appears
that neither Benjamin Netanyahu nor his
opponents have a clear path to forming a
government. Preliminary exit polls gave the prime
minister a good chance of being narrowly
See Propaganda, Page 12
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reelected. Israeli exit polls, however, are
historically unreliable, and this year
they did not account for a signifi cant
percentage of votes cast.

But as it stood on March 24, the tally
shows a split between Netanyahu’s allies
and his opponents in Israel’s parliament,
the 120-seat Knesset. Two parties remain
uncommitted to either group. Altogether,
See Election, Page 13