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Gaza Stripe
Nov 9 2009, Marco Villa

A special award for hypocrisy and phony outrage has to go to the Anti-Defamation League. The organization exists ostensibly to combat anti-Semitism, but is now nothing more than an pro-Israel shrill that goes around accusing even the most timid critic of.

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