Daniel Hoffman
By Daniel Hoffman
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Fast Forward Brussels Police Close Jewish Museum Attack Probe
Belgian federal police said it ended a three-year-long investigation into the shooting at Brussels Jewish Museum and released its final report. One of the suspects of the terror attack, in which four people were killed on May 24, 2014, remains unidentified. The justice must now decide which court will try the alleged shooter Mehdi Nemmouche…
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Fast Forward The Lawyer Who Beat Rupert Murdoch Is Now Taking On Nazis
Mark Lewis pulls no punches when fighting back against Nazis on social media. The 52-year-old partner at Seddons’ law firm in London has built a reputation of a harsh combatant against anti-Semitism and a strong defender of Israel. In a Times of Israel profile, Lewis is described as “UK’s foremost libel” specialist. A celebrity lawyer…
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News 5 Reasons France’s National Front Isn’t Done With Anti-Semitism
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen drew the ire of Israel and Jewish groups over the weekend when she said that her country was not responsible for the Vel d’Hiv roundup of July 1942, a wartime raid in which French police arrested 13,152 Jews in Paris. “If anyone is responsible, then it is those in…
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Fast Forward Steve Bannon: Jared Kushner Is A ‘Cuck’ And A ‘Globalist’
Their rivalry is a secret to no one: Though they both occupy top positions at the White House, Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, and Jared Kushner, the president’s senior advisor and son-in-law, have opposed views on every possible issue. Case in point: Bannon is calling Kushner a “cuck” and a “globalist” behind his back, The…
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Fast Forward Marine Le Pen’s Treasurer Published Pro-Nazi Facebook Posts For Years
Since she was elected president of the National Front in 2011, Marine Le Pen’s grand strategy has been to “de-demonize” the far-right party her father founded, which was known as a haven for Third Reich apologists. This new approach has translated into the near-complete deletion of overt anti-Semitic references in public speeches and the side-lining…
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Fast Forward Dutch Coloring Book Featuring Hitler Withdrawn From Stores
Several Dutch parents were dumbfounded on Monday when they discovered in their children’s coloring book a paint-by-letter drawing of Adolf Hitler, making the Nazi salute and wearing an armband with a swastika on his left arm. Photos of the controversial drawing were shared on social media, which prompted Kruidvat, the Dutch retailer that sold the…
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Fast Forward Meet Avi Berkowitz, Jared Kushner’s Protégé Who Went From Harvard To The White House
Less than a year ago, Avi Berkowitz was completing his degree at Harvard Law School. Today, the 28-year-old is an assistant to Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. The rapid rise of the young lawyer, raised in a Jewish orthodox family in New York suburbs, is largely due to his close ties with…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Woman Thrown Off Her Paris Balcony In Possible Hate Crime
A 66-year old French Jewish woman was found dead on Tuesday morning after one of her neighbors threw her off her balcony, the daily newspaper Le Parisien reported. As details remain scarce, the Jewish Community Security Service, a body that tracks anti-Semitic incidents in France, wrote in a Facebook post that the Paris police had…
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