TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, an entity and its sentiment towards the entity, verify if it is the correct sentiment towards the entity. Answer should be yes or no. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Anne Pollard is Neutral . Elad Sonn  a spokesman for Israel's immigration ministry  said Anne Pollard appealed to the Israeli consulate in New York last week for aid. Sonn says she landed in Israel on Monday with her father.
 Anne Pollard was arrested in 1985 and found guilty of being an accomplice to her then-husband. He pleaded guilty to passing secrets to Israel and is serving a life sentence.
 After arriving in Israel  Anne Pollard told reporters  "I'm overwhelmed  I'm so happy to be here  I missed Israel so much and there's no place like home." She lived in Israel for a few years in the 1990s.
 Israel has long called for Jonathan PollardJonathan Pollard's release  and his ex-wife agreed. "Twenty-five long years  and it's time  and I'm very  very very hopeful that the U.S. government will release him now."
 Jonathan and Anne Pollard divorced in 1990. He remarried in 1993 while in prison.
Jonathan and Anne Pollard divorced in 1990. He remarried in 1993 while in prison.

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Schaffner is Negative . Dr. William Schaffner   medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Disease  a nonprofit organization  told Business Insider that it's hard for experts for sure just how intense this flu season will be.
"Amongst ourselves  we say if you've seen one flu season  you've seen one flu season  " Schaffner  said.
Even so  there are a number of reasons why getting a flu shot is an especially good idea this year   Schaffner  said. Here's his five reasons for everyone who still hasn't gotten the vaccine this fall.
Australia  which heads into summer as the northern hemisphere goes into winter  got hit hard the flu this year. That's especially because of the H3N2 strain of the flu virus. While that still doesn't mean it will definitely be a bad flu season this year  the good news is that the particular strain is a good match to be protected against with  this year's vaccine Schaffner  said.
"I'm afraid we still hear that. No  you cannot get flu from the flu vaccine  " Schaffner  said. According to the CDC  flu shots are either made using an inactive virus that aren't infectious or a vaccine that doesn't contain the virus at all.
"We can do an awful lot of good with this pretty good vaccine  because it's the one we have to use today  " Schaffner  said.
There are plenty of ways to get vaccinated for free. Most insurers cover it as a preventive treatment  and Medicare covers the shot entirely. "It's easy  it's quick  it's covered by insurance  " Schaffner  said. Plus  most drugstore clinics  including Walgreens and CVS have the vaccines available  so you don't even have to go to a doctor's office.

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity David Shapiro is Negative . David Shapiro’s  smear of Jeff Sessions in a Chicago Tribune op-ed  suggesting that the attorney general is a racist  is consistent with other failed partisan efforts to distort and delegitimize the former senator’s record on race and law enforcement. Apparently   Shapiro  missed Sessions’s confirmation hearing in which the same smears were attempted only to be refuted one by one by witnesses — mostly black — who actually know the facts and the man.
 Shapiro  asserts Sessions’s directive to staff on criminal sentencing related to drug crimes is “the latest in a series of attempts by the Attorney General to tear down protections for people of color.”  Mr. Shapiro  seems to have forgotten that during the height of the crack epidemic ravaging the black community in the ’80s  it was Congressman Charlie Rangel and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus who voted for the Anti-Drug Abuse Act (“ADAA”)  which established the 100-1 sentencing ratio for crack and powder cocaine. Were Rangel and other members of Congress racist?
The rest of  Shapiro ’s piece is character assassination of the worst kind. As U.S. attorney for Alabama  Sessions successfully sought the death penalty for Klan members.  He  defended black voting rights.  He  hired blacks for prominent positions. As a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights  I’ve known and worked with Jeff Sessions for years and consider him the most principled and decent person in Washington  a man of the highest integrity.
 Shapiro ’s complaint seems to be that Attorney General Sessions is actually doing  his  job — enforcing the law as Congress passed it. In contrast  former attorneys general Holder and Lynch  under the veil of “prosecutorial discretion ” failed to enforce the law. Select immigration and sentencing laws were simply ignored  virtually wholesale. That’s not the role of the attorney general  whether his name is Holder or Sessions. Such a sweeping use of prosecutorial discretion effectively nullifies or rewrites federal law. If drug laws need to be changed  Congress needs to change them. Holder’s and Lynch’s actions were a plain derogation  if not usurpation  of legislative authority. That Attorney General Sessions is being criticized for restoring both the rule of law and the Justice Department to their proper roles is an indication of how debased respect for the rule of law has become.

SOLUTION:
yes