Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward Portland Israeli restaurants tagged with ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti
(JTA) — Three restaurants in Portland that serve Israeli cuisine were vandalized with graffiti reading “Free Palestine” and other slogans over the weekend. The vandalism targeted two locations of the Shalom Y’all restaurant chain, as well as Aviv, a hummus restaurant. All of the restaurants had recently removed the word “Israeli” from their signage, according…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu condemns Capitol violence — and then praises Trump
(JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the pro-Trump mob violence that engulfed the U.S. Capitol, as did other Israeli leaders, but hours later Thursday released another statement praising Trump. Neither statement mentioned Trump’s role encouraging the mob. “American democracy has always inspired me,” Netanyahu said in his initial statement alongside Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin,…
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News The suspect in a NYC bomb hoax is a former Jewish youth group officer turned far-right extremist
(JTA) — The chief suspect in a New York City bomb hoax is a 22-year-old far-right activist who once served as a leader of a Jewish youth group. Louis Shenker, who surrendered to police on Tuesday, according to NBC News, was a BBYO regional vice president five years ago while in high school. Campus provocations…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic flyers warning of Jewish ‘war’ on white people found around Staten Island
(JTA) — A white supremacist group from New Jersey posted more than a dozen anti-Semitic flyers on Staten Island. The flyers, found over the weekend in the New York City borough, are emblazoned with a Jewish star and falsely claim that Antifa, the loose anti-fascist network, is a Jewish organization that is anti-white. “The original…
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Fast Forward 2 Jewish Wisconsin judges denounced a Trump lawsuit. Now anti-Semites are harassing them.
One commenter said Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Jill Karofsky was “hooked-nosed” and posted a corresponding anti-Semitic caricature of her. Another called her a “terrorist” and said she should “have a massive fatal heart attack on live TV.” Her colleague Rebecca Dallet was called a “traitor” by a Facebook commenter, who also warned the justice that…
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News Online antisemitism peaks during moments of national tension. And it’s being partly driven by Russian trolls.
Soon after the 2017 far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a Twitter user going by the name “jojoh888” knew who was to blame for the clashes between neo-Nazis and the antifa activists who opposed them: George Soros, the Jewish billionaire and progressive philanthropist. “George Soros is the puppet master. He’s funding both sides,” the account tweeted,…
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Fast Forward Anne Frank memorial in Boise, Idaho, vandalized with swastika stickers
(JTA) — A statue of Anne Frank in Boise, Idaho, was vandalized with stickers bearing swastikas and the message “We are everywhere.” The Boise Police Department found and removed nine of the stickers from the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial, according to KTVB, a local station. One of the stickers was placed over the diary…
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Fast Forward New York Young Republicans call Andrew Cuomo aide a ‘court Jew’
(JTA) — The New York Young Republican Club called Andrew Cuomo’s director of Jewish affairs a “court Jew” and tweeted that he is “working for the most antisemitic Governor in America.” Responding to a tweet by the director, Jake Adler, disparaging an upcoming in-person conference hosted by the state’s Young Republicans, the GOP club was…
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