Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward GOP Pulls Support From Candidate Seth Grossman Over White Nationalist Articles
The National Republican Campaign Committee pulled its support from New Jersey Republican congressional nominee Seth Grossman after Media Matters revealed that he had shared articles on social media from well-known white nationalist websites, The Weekly Standard reported Monday. “Bigotry has no place in society—let alone the U.S. House of Representatives. The NRCC withdraws our support…
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Fast Forward Obama Was Shocked By Map Showing Growth Of Israeli Settlements
As the Obama administration was nearing its end, senior State Department official Frank Lowenstein produced a map that showed large sections of West Bank territory off-limits to Palestinian development and filled with Jewish settlements, outposts and areas between them, the New Yorker reported. It was quite different than the other maps Obama seen, where the…
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Fast Forward Amazon Continues To Sell White-Supremacist Propaganda
Shoppers can purchase Amazon.com merchandise displaying symbols of white supremacy, despite the site’s policy against selling products that promote hatred, according to a new report from two watchdog groups. Amazon’s policy says it prohibits the sale of “products that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views.”…
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Fast Forward Israeli Government Agency Will Stop Excluding Haredi Women In Photos
Israel’s Government Advertising Agency announced that it will stop censoring Haredi women in photos, following protests by feminist groups, YNet News reported. The Ministry of Social Equality launched an Israeli photo database in December 2017 that sought to represent different cultures in government publications, offering pictures of Israeli families by sector: Jewish, Arab and Druze….
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Fast Forward Founder Of Charlottesville Rally Plans ‘Anniversary’ Outside White House
A rally honoring the one-year anniversary of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville was approved for outside the White House on August 12, the Intercept reported. The National Park Service approved plans for an estimated 400 demonstrators in Washington’s Lafayette Park, who would be “protesting civil rights abuse in Charlottesville, Va / white…
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Fast Forward Israel Censored A News Story Every 4 Hours Last Year
Israel is censoring a growing number of news stories, and forced editorial changes in one story every four hours last year, according to a freedom of information request filed by +972 Magazine and the Movement for Freedom of Information. Israel’s Military Censor refused to publish 271 articles in 2017 — more than five a week…
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer Slunk Home To U.S. After Polish Authorities Kicked Him Out
White nationalist leader Richard Spencer was stopped by authorities in Europe this week while attempting to make a surprise appearance at a conference in Sweden for young white nationalists, Think Progress reported Thursday. Spencer seemed to confirm this on Twitter, where he shared a Swedish tweet from an alt-right supporter lamenting that Spencer had been…
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Fast Forward Is This Latina Jew The Next Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
“Is Julia Salazar, a state Senate candidate in Brooklyn, the next Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?” That’s what the New York Daily News tweeted on Monday — and the paper may be onto something. Since Ocasio-Cortez’s remarkable upset victory over 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley, pundits have been comparing the two young, progressive women running for office. While they…
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