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By Ben Sales - February 15, 2021
JTA — Zach Banner, Alysha Clark and Josh Bell will be among the US professional athletes to headline an event Wednesday discussing activism against anti-Semitism and how athletes can contribute to the effort.
Banner, an offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers football team, spoke out against anti-Semitism following anti-Semitic social media posts by DeSean Jackson, a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Banner connected his concern to the 2018 shooting at Tree of Life, a Pittsburgh synagogue.
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