Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWelcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with James Pasch, the Anti-Defamation League’s vice president of litigation.
Pasch is currently in Israel to meet with the plaintiffs in a massive lawsuit the ADL initiated against Iran, North Korea, Syria and Hamas for their roles in the October 7 massacre.
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In a new strategy, the legacy Jewish organization’s work in fighting antisemitism is moving to encompass lawfare, and since the Hamas onslaught on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, the ADL has filed more lawsuits than in all the years of the existence of the organization.
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In this podcast, we discuss how the ADL and other legal organizations are being creative in repurposing laws and redefining terms. We also hear about the struggle to remain firmly inside the Constitution and Bill of Rights when taking on the campus protests that test the boundaries of freedom of speech. And we learn how the ADL is preparing for the next big wave of campus hate.
And so this week, we ask James Pasch, what matters now.
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