Editorials ..................................... 4A Op-Ed .......................................... 5A Calendar ...................................... 6A Scene Around ............................. 9A Synagogue Directory ................ 11A News Briefs ............................... 13A WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 44, NO. 44 JULY 3, 2020 11 TAMUZ, 5780 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ ‘Day of Rage’ held across US On Wednesday, July 1, the Al-Awda also tied their dem- day Prime Minister Benja- onstrations to the protests min Netanyahu brought to a against anti-Black racism in cabinet vote the extension of the U.S. and beyond. Israeli sovereignty to parts of “We demand the defunding Judea and Samaria, demon- and dismantling of U.S. po- strations by Pro-Palestinian lice alongside the defunding and BDS groups against the and dismantling of Zionist “annexation,” as they call it, colonialism and racist Israeli were held in Chicago, San apartheid,” the group’s web- Diego, Brooklyn, Los Angeles site reads. and San Francisco. Among Zachor Legal Institute, a the groups were Students for legal advocacy organization, Justice in Palestine, Jewish wrote a letter to LA Mayor Eric Voice for Peace and American Garcetti and Police Chief Mi- Muslims for Palestine. chael Moore to warn against Another organization, Al- the demonstration planned to Awda — The Palestinian take place outside the Israeli Right to Return Coalition — consulate on Wednesday, call- accused Israel of “72 years of ing on them to ensure that genocide, ethnic cleansing the demonstration would be and dispossession.” peaceful. Anti-Semitism One of the Bell Caves in Beit Guvrin National Park. The 10 most iconic on TikTok (JNS) — The social-media ety of creative and interactive platform TikTok is a grow- features. ing hotbed of extreme anti- Yet the researchers explain archeological sites in Israel Semitism, according to a new that the app “has a darker By Abigail Klein Here are 10 of the most iconic Israeli period (1000-586 BCE), Second Temple report. side,” particularly in regard Leichman archeological sites. period (516 BCE to 70 CE), Byzantine Led by researchers Gabriel to TikTok’s popularity among The Old City of Jerusalem Muslim period (4th to 11th centuries Weimann, a professor of com- the younger generation. Some (ISRAEL21c) — Sitting at the cross- Archeological digs and conserva- CE) and Crusader period (1095 to munication at the University 41 percent of TikTok’s users roads of the ancient world, Israel is an tion projects reveal the history of this 1291 CE). of Haifa and senior researcher are between ages 16 and 24, archeologist’s dream. Peeling back the capital city established by King David Recently, cutting-edge micro- at the Institute for Coun- and although its Terms of Ser- layers of history here is a never-ending more than 3,000 years ago. archeology tools were used to correctly ter Terrorism, and Natalie vice prohibit users under age pursuit. The most visited place in Israel, date the construction of Wilson’s Arch, Masri, a research assistant and 13, many users who appear Excavations by the Israel Antiquities Jerusalem has been continuously in- which supported one of the main path- graduate student at ICT, the in videos are clearly younger. Authority with local and international habited for some 5,000 years. So it’s ways to the Second Temple. “Spreading Hate on TikTok” This can create an environ- experts are constantly turning up new not surprising that hardly a month The Western Wall (Kotel) is a 70-me- report scanned the platform ment of vulnerability that is clues to ancient civilizations. goes by without major archeological ter (230-foot) section of one of the huge for far-right contents by ap- exploited by extremist groups. And it’s quite common for casual hik- news here. retaining walls of Herod the Great’s plying a systematic content The app “has a darker side,” ers to contact the IAA about valuable Although important discoveries are expanded Second Temple compound, analysis. particularly in regard to Tik- antiquities they’ve stumbled across. also made outside the Old City — for built around 20 BCE and destroyed by This scan of TikTok videos, Tok’s popularity among the Israel has invested heavily in en- instance, underneath the Jerusalem the Romans around 70 CE. It is revered conducted from February younger generation. abling safe access to dozens of archeol- International Convention Center — as a place of worship for its proximity through May of 2020, re- “First, unlike all other ogy sites for the public. Many of them the most famed archeological heritage to the Temple Mount. vealed 196 postings related social media, TikTok’s users have been turned into national parks sites are in the Old City area and shed to far-right extremism. The are almost all young children, and UNESCO Heritage Sites. light on life during the First Temple Iconic on page 15A most prevalent category of who are more naïve and gull- far-right postings on TikTok ible when it comes to mali- pertained to anti-Semitism cious contents,” states the and Holocaust denial, as the study, which first appeared Schott’s name ousted from stadium study recorded 43 postings in the Studies in Conflict & of that kind, translating to Terrorism journal. “Second, By Marcy Oster Marge Schott’s name from more than one-fifth of the TikTok is the youngest plat- its baseball stadium because total posts. form thus severely lagging (JTA) — The University of the late Cincinnati Reds The researchers also dis- behind its rivals, who have of Cincinnati will remove owner’s racism and anti- covered 14 postings of Adolf had more time to grapple with Semitism. Hitler’s speeches; 11 postings how to protect their users The university’s Board of of the “Sieg Heil” victory sa- from disturbing and harmful Trustees voted Monday to lute used by Nazis; 17 videos contents. remove Schott’s name from encouraging violence that “Yet, TikTok should have the stadium and from a space featured Nazi or neo-Nazi learned from these other plat- in the archives library, ef- symbols such as the swastika forms’ experiences and apply fective immediately, acting and sonnenrad; and 26 ac- TikTok’s own Terms of Service on a recommendation by counts featuring the numbers that does not allow postings the university’s president, “88” in their username, the that are deliberately designed Neville Pinto. white supremacist numerical to provoke or antagonize “Marge Schott’s record of code for “Heil Hitler.” people, or are intended to racism and bigotry stands Getty Images Other extremist posts harass, harm, hurt, scare, at stark odds with our Uni- Marge Schott documented in the study distress, embarrass or upset versity’s core commitment encompassed the far-right people or include threats of to dignity, equity and inclu- who is Jewish, joined fellow saying that he “was good ideologies of fascism, rac- physical violence.” sion,” Pinto said. university alumni in calling in the beginning, but went ism, anti-immigration, Under the study’s method- He added: “I hope this ac- on the school to change the too far.” She also referred to chauvinism, nativism and ology, Weimann and Masri tion serves as an enduring name. Over 10,000 people two black Boston Red Sox xenophobia. The postings’ first identified TikTok ac- reminder that we cannot signed an online petition outfielders with the N-word. activity ranged from espous- counts of known extremist remain silent or indifferent drive in early June by an The baseball stadium was ing violence to promoting when it comes to prejudice, alumnus and former stu- named for Schott in 2006, conspiracy theories to glo- TikTok on page 14A hate or inequity. More than dent-athlete, Jordan Ramey. two years after her death at rifying terrorists. ever, our world needs us to Schott, who owned the age 75, following a $2 million Developed by the Chinese convert our values into real Reds from 1984 to 1999, was donation to the university’s company ByteDance, TikTok and lasting action.” banned from managing the Athletics Varsity Village allows its 1.5 billion active us- Former Major League team in 1996 after she spoke project by the Marge and ers to upload up to 60-second Baseball star Kevin Youkilis, admiringly of Adolf Hitler, Charles Schott Foundation. lip-synched videos with a vari- PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, JULY 3, 2020 Jewish teens help successful effort to abolish Oakland’s school police force Several dozen teens and Maera Klein, 16, a ris- 4-3 decision. Two months adults from Beth Abra- ing junior at Berkeley High after that, members of the ham signed a June 14 letter School, said, “I really wanted Black Organizing Project led to Jody London, the school to bring it to London from a protests in front of London’s board president and a member Jewish lens, from within her home and those of other of the synagogue. synagogue, to show her that board members. “When someone dies in the people from her own Jewish Shortly afterward, London Jewish community, we say, community care a lot about released a statement saying ‘May their memory be for a this issue. I would be super that she was planning to sup- blessing,’” the letter read. “In proud if my congregation had port the project’s resolution. this age of unrest following an influence on passing such “It is critical that the $2.3 the murder of George Floyd a powerful resolution that million budget of the [Oakland and countless other Black would really change people’s School Police Department] people by the hands of police, learning experiences for the be strategically reinvested in there is heavy demand for not better.” support for the whole child only holding cops account- The Oakland Unified and students with disabilities able, but for defunding and School District Police Ser- with an eye to supporting divesting in policing as we vices Department was cre- authentic students safety,” know it today.” ated in the 1950s, and out of she wrote.