Daniel Hoffman
By Daniel Hoffman
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Fast Forward Carl Icahn Has Lost $179 Million Since November As Hertz Shares Tank
Investor and businessman Carl Icahn’s Hertz stock has dropped by $179 million since November, according to Bloomberg. Icahn bought over 29 million shares in the car rental company three years ago. They are now worth $375 million, down from $1.3 billion in late 2014. Despite the losses, Icahn is expected to buy more even more…
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Fast Forward Pact With The Devil: The Associated Press’s Secret Arrangement With The Nazis
The Associated Press had a secret deal with Nazi Germany to receive thousands of propaganda photos that were later run in American newspapers, the AP confirmed Wednesday. The arrangement also led the AP to provide Germany with photos of American war operations that had been cleared by U.S. censors. AP officials defended the deal, claiming…
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Fast Forward King David Hotel Braces For Visit From Trump — And Entourage
The King David Hotel is getting ready to welcome Donald Trump, his family and his entourage — who will require 1,000 rooms in at least three hotels — in Jerusalem as part of his first foreign trip since taking office. The Jerusalem Post reports that the luxury hotel, located west of the Old City, will…
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Fast Forward Likud Lawmaker Endorses Le Pen, Defying Israeli Boycott Of National Front
Knesset Member Oren Hazan from Likud endorsed far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in a message posted today on his official Twitter account. “Madam Le Pen, I endorse you for tonight’s debate and for the second round [of the election] – to build France’s future,” reads Hazan’s tweet, originally published in French. Madame Le…
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Fast Forward ‘Shalom Salem’ Sign Replaces Swastika In Town’s Common
This is no witchcraft: residents of Salem, Massachusetts discovered colorful decorations in their town’s iconic bandstand, one day after the monument was vandalized with a blue swastika. The offensive graffiti, sprayed painted last week by two teenagers caught on security cameras, has since been removed. One of the signs hung in the bandstand reads “Shalom…
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Fast Forward Noam Chomsky, Mark Ruffalo, Eve Ensler Root For Far-Left French Candidate
Political activist Noam Chomsky is leading an unlikely gaggle of Americans who are backing left-wing upstart Jean-Luc Mélenchon to become France’s new president. In a MoveOn petition launched on Tuesday, Chomsky, together with actors Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover, playwright Eve Ensler, director Oliver Stone and critical theorist Nancy Fraser, called on French voters to…
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Fast Forward Marine Le Pen Follows Hundreds Of White Nationalists On Twitter
Marine Le Pen, the National Front’s president, follows a lot of white extremist activists on Twitter, many of whom are part of the “facistsphere,” a collection of influential far-right blogs and websites, according to an article in Vice. 180 of these accounts openly support the “grand remplacement” conspiracy theory, according to which the original European…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Passover Blaze At Brooklyn Synagogue Leaves One Injured
A fire broke out at the Kneses Israel of Sea-Gate synagogue in Brooklyn on Thursday morning, causing minor injuries to one community member. More than 100 firefighters were sent on site to extinguish the fire, which erupted shortly after midnight. The nine historical Torah scrolls were rescued. On a Twitter video posted by the New…
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