Daniel J. Solomon is the former Assistant to the Editor/News Writer at the Forward. Originally from Queens, he attended Harvard as an undergraduate, where he wrote his senior thesis on French-Jewish intellectual history. He is excited to have returned to New York after his time in Massachusetts. Daniel’s passions include folk music, cycling, and pointed argument.
Daniel J. Solomon
By Daniel J. Solomon
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer Burnishes Global Image With French TV Appearance
Richard Spencer’s advocacy for white supremacy has earned him international attention, with the “alt-right” provocateur appearing Wednesday night on one of France’s most popular comedy programs. ?? US Alt-Right leader @RichardBSpencer will be on French TV show #Quotidien on Wednesday 6 September. @gen_identity pic.twitter.com/vaAHqnlu6J — Keith Walker (@KeithWalkerNews) September 5, 2017 Spencer was interviewed on…
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Fast Forward Mossad Will Release New Info On Hunt For Josef Mengele
The Mossad will next week publish three volumes of documents related to its efforts to capture Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor who performed experiments on Jewish inmates at Auschwitz. Mengele fled Europe after World War II, and was pursued by the Israeli spy service to South America, where he took up residence in…
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Fast Forward Jeff Sessions Ends DACA — He Also Praised Keeping Out Jews In The 1920s
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the end of the DACA program on Tuesday, once praised laws that kept Jewish refugees from entering the United States as “good for America” – a contention that attests to the ex-Alabama senator’s ever-present nativist convictions. Sessions was referring in his remarks, first made two years ago on Steve…
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Fast Forward ‘Ivanka Trump Guarantee’ Ripped Apart In Times Column
What is the ‘Ivanka Trump guarantee’? It doesn’t amount to much according to Lindy West, who blasted the first daughter as ineffectual in a Wednesday column of the same name in The New York Times. “She is more a logo than a person, a scarecrow stuffed with branding, an heiress-turned-model-turned-multimillionaire’s-wife playacting as an authority on…
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Fast Forward Spanish Language Google Has Huge Number Of Anti-Semitic Results
A full third of Google searches on the site’s Spanish language service lead to anti-Semitic results, including about Holocaust denial, according to an Argentine research organization. “There is a worrying positive viewing of antisemitic content and that is a growing trend. The most viewed are about Holocaust denial,” said Ariel Siedler, a representative at Observatorio…
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Fast Forward Breitbart Suggests Jared And Ivanka Undercut Trump On DACA
Breitbart News is taking names on who wants to extend Obama-era protections for undocumented immigrants, publishing an item on Tuesday morning noting that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are supposedly for keeping the DACA program in place. The article was written as a straight news story, but represents a constant drip of information from Breitbart…
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Fast Forward Julia Hahn Hangs On At Trump White House — Even After Bannon Ouster
Julia Hahn, Steve Bannon’s “right-hand woman,” has remained at the White House even after her boss’ ouster, leading to speculation about the continued influence within the West Wing of nationalist-populists. Hahn has maintained her spot in the West Wing as a special assistant, even as other Bannon proteges, such as Sebastian Gorka, have been eased…
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Fast Forward Louise Linton, Steve Mnuchin’s Wife, Apologizes For ‘Indefensible’ Instagram Rage
Louise Linton is contrite about lashing out at a random Instagram user in August, with the wife of Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin characterizing her own behavior as “indefensible.” “I want to say I concede completely to the comments of my critics. My post itself and the following response were indefensible. Period,” she said in an…
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