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Why some Jews are scrubbing themselves from the internet | The Jerusalem Post

Jpost · · 1355 words · By ZVIKA KLEIN
Antisemitism and Social Pressure Public vs. Private Affiliation Jewish Identity
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7 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Research in Britain after the October 7 massacre found Jews feeling far less safe and, at the same time, more bound to Israel and to one another.”
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The provided evidence discusses antisemitism in Australia and general information about British Jews, but there is no specific research study mentioned that confirms the dual trend of feeling less safe while feeling more bound to Israel and other Jews specifically in Britain.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — British Jews (often referred to collectively as British Jewry or Anglo-Jewry) are citizens of the United Kingdom who are Jewish, one of the country's religious minority communities. Jewish presence in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Jews
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Jewish Agency for Israel (Hebrew: הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל, romanized: HaSochnut HaYehudit L'Eretz Yisra'el), formerly known as the Jewish Agency for Palestine, is the largest Jewish non-profit …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Agency_for_Israel
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“The legal scholar Kenji Yoshino... calls it covering: not denying who you are, but turning the volume down so the world lets you pass.”
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Multiple web sources confirm that legal scholar Kenji Yoshino defines 'covering' as toning down or downplaying a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream without denying that identity.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Guido Calabresi (born October 18, 1932) is an Italian-born American jurist who serves as a senior circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a former Dean of Yal…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Calabresi
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kenji Yoshino (born May 1, 1969) is an American legal scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York University School of Law. Formerly, he was the Guido Ca…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Yoshino
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yoshino may refer to: Yoshino cherry, another name for Prunus × yedoensis, a flowering cherry tree Japanese cruiser Yoshino, a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshino
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“COVID shut the borders, then war kept them shut. Birthright trips were cut short and evacuated. The March of the Living could not bring its usual numbers to Auschwitz and then to Jerusalem.”
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The evidence provided for this claim only contains general information about COVID-19 symptoms and deaths; it does not mention Birthright trips, the March of the Living, or specific evacuations due to war.
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web search NEUTRAL — Disability. Domestic violence. Emergency evacuations.COVID-19 symptoms range from asymptomatic to deadly, but most commonly include fever, sore throat, nocturnal cough, and fatigue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic
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web search NEUTRAL — Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, over 2 million people in the European Region have died from the disease. On 25 October 2023 WHO/Europe made several changes to its respiratory virus surveillance a…
https://www.who.int/europe/emergencies/situations/covid-19
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web search NEUTRAL — Kaydee Asher filmed her experience with COVID-19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpjFZX40pM0
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“For nine seasons, Seinfeld was the great document of Jewish detachment”
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Wikipedia and other web sources explicitly state that the television show Seinfeld ran for a total of nine seasons.
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web search NEUTRAL — Seinfeld is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, with a total of nine seasons consisting of 180 episo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld
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web search NEUTRAL — RELATED: 20 Memes That Show Seinfeld Makes No Sense. Widely considered as one of the best and most influential sitcoms ever made, Seinfeld ran for nine hilarious seasons.
https://screenrant.com/seinfeld-seasons-ranked/
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web search NEUTRAL — Seinfeld ran for nine seasons with 180 episodes (Image: BBC).Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David revealed: "We both realised that this is the kind of dialogue we never really heard on television, or…
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/seinfeld-cast-now-grammy-awar…
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“The real Jerry Seinfeld... worked on a kibbutz at 16”
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Two independent web sources quote Jerry Seinfeld directly stating that he lived and worked on a kibbutz in Israel when he was 16.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jerome Allen Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, filmmaker, and television producer specializing in observational comedy. Seinfeld gained stardom playing a fictionalized version …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld
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web search NEUTRAL — -Jerry Seinfeld.Yossi Farro did you get Jerry to wrap ?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yossi-farro-656486187_i-lived…
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web search NEUTRAL — Shortly after the conflict escalated, Seinfeld took to Instagram to voice his support for the Jewish state. He wrote: "I lived and worked on a Kibbutz in Israel when I was 16, and I have loved our Jew…
https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/tv/163961/Jerry-Se…
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“After October 7 he dropped it, visiting Kibbutz Be’eri and the hostage families in Tel Aviv”
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Multiple sources confirm that Jerry Seinfeld visited Kibbutz Be’eri and met with family members of hostages following the October 7 attacks.
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web search NEUTRAL — “Hearing the stories, Seinfeld and his family were very moved, and it was evident that they were deeply affected by the experiences they heard from the family members and the released hostages.” Seinf…
https://www.israelunwired.com/seinfeld-visits-beeri-during-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — Seinfeld has been supportive of Israel since October 7 and visited Kibbutz Be’eri in Israel in December to witness the atrocities that occurred there. Pro-Palestinian protests have become a regular oc…
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-788943
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web search NEUTRAL — 19, toured Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the Gaza border communities whose residents were murdered during Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught on the northwestern Negev. The entertainer, who is of Ashkenazi and Syrian J…
https://jewishworldnews.org/news/israel/seinfeld-visits-kibb…
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“When students walked out of his Duke commencement waving Palestinian flags, he did not apologize.”
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Multiple sources confirm that students walked out and waved Palestinian flags during Jerry Seinfeld's commencement speech at Duke University. While the sources do not explicitly quote a 'lack of apology,' they describe the event as a protest against his support for Israel, and the Wikipedia entry confirms the protest occurred during his speech.
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web search NEUTRAL — During his speech, a number of students booed, waved Palestinian flags and walked out in protest.[148][149][150] In June 2024, Seinfeld was heckled by protesters during a comedy show in Sydney, Austra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld
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web search NEUTRAL — Several dozen pro-Palestinian students walked out at the start of comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s speech at Duke University on Sunday to protest his open support for Israel. Seinfeld, who is Jewish, has bec…
https://www.thecollegefix.com/pro-palestinian-students-walk-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Duke University’s commencement ceremony on Sunday saw dozens walk out in protest of guest speaker Jerry Seinfeld, who has been a big supporter of Israel during the conflict in Gaza.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/jerry-seinfeld-sees-dozens-walk-18…
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