Over the last year, the phrase “fake news” has entered our lexicon, referring to stories that are completely fabricated and spread around the internet. Your workout today is to identify fake news and other disreputable sources of information. We’ll focus on two things: sensationalization and corroboration.
Trump’s foreign aid blockade
The “America First” White House has released its “skinny budget,” and the foreign policy priorities are clear: more war, less diplomacy and aid. The budget priorities paper calls for large increases at the Pentagon, and a 37% cut to the State Department and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Since the annual $3 billion aid package to Israel apparently remains intact, that adds up close to a 50% cut to all other foreign aid and development budgets. But international aid is not only the right thing to do, it also helps keep America safe. Today we’re talking about foreign assistance.
Antisemitism in Trump’s America
Antisemitism: discrimination against, violence towards, or stereotypes of Jews for being Jewish.
~From the highly extensive and informative explanation of antisemitism by Jewish Voice for Peace.
Over the past year, we’ve seen an ugly flare-up of antisemitism in the USA: Jewish gravestones have been vandalized in St. Louis and Philadelphia, and internet mobs have been sending Nazi-style propaganda to Jewish journalists. Today, we’re going to inform and equip ourselves to fight back against antisemitism.