Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward Self-described ‘skinhead’ pleads guilty to trying to blow up a Colorado synagogue
(JTA) — A man who plotted to blow up a synagogue in Colorado has pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes and explosives charges. Richard Holzer, a self-described “skinhead” and former Ku Klux Klan member who used Facebook to promote white supremacy, was arrested last November for plotting to blow up a 100-year-old synagogue in Pueblo,…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Jews overwhelmingly support Trump, survey finds
(JTA) — A new poll shows overwhelming support for President Donald Trump among Orthodox Jews. The poll, published Wednesday by Ami Magazine, a major Orthodox monthly, found that 83% of Orthodox respondents plan to vote for Trump in the upcoming election, while just 13% plan to vote for Joe Biden. Those numbers represent a dramatic…
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Fast Forward Ginni Thomas, activist and Supreme Court justice’s wife, says George Soros’ family ‘is really running the Democrat Party’
(JTA) — The latest prominent American to advance conspiracy theories about Jewish philanthropist George Soros: Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Ginni Thomas shared a meme on Facebook Wednesday claiming that Soros’ family is “evil” and “really running” the Democratic party. The meme, first posted by a…
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Fast Forward Facebook says it will now ban all pages supporting QAnon, the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory
(JTA) — Months after beginning to remove QAnon content discussing violence, Facebook and Instagram are now removing all pages and accounts representing the pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theory with anti-Semitic overtones. QAnon is a false but growing conspiracy theory that alleges that a cabal of liberal, globalist elites sexually abuses children and harvests their blood, and…
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Fast Forward YouTube removes Louis Farrakhan’s channel, having already ‘deplatformed’ Richard Spencer, David Duke
YouTube has removed the video channel of the Nation of Islam, the organization led by Louis Farrakhan. YouTube said it removed the channel on Oct. 2, citing its policies against hate speech, according to the Jewish Journal. “We have strict policies prohibiting hate speech on YouTube, and terminate any channel that repeatedly or egregiously violates…
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Fast Forward GOP Senate candidate in Delaware campaigned on a site tied to white supremacists
(JTA) — The Republican nominee in Delaware’s Senate race called for an “immigration moratorium” during an interview on a website with ties to white supremacists. Lauren Witzke is running against incumbent Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat, on a platform calling for a drastic reduction in immigration to the United States. And most recently, she aired…
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Fast Forward ‘I’m not going to get stuck:’ U.S. Jews are calling Canadian immigration lawyers
By 11:42 a.m. on the morning after Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacists during the presidential debate, Heather Segal had received four inquiries from Americans interested in moving to Canada. Two of them were Jewish. Segal, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, knows there’s always a spike in inquiries during U.S. election years. But in…
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Fast Forward How antisemitic are the Proud Boys, the far-right group that got Trump nod?
Who are the Proud Boys, the far-right group that Donald Trump name-checked at the first presidential debate? And do they hate Jews? The answer to the second question: Some of them — including their founder — certainly do. Let’s back up: At the debate Tuesday night, moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump whether he would condemn…
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