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Fast Forward Do Fellow Bigots Regret Toppling Neo-Nazi Mike Enoch?
A day after neo-Nazi podcaster and blogger Mike Peinovich stepped down over the revelation that his wife is Jewish, his fellow podcast hosts admit they are losing listeners. “It’s a disaster,” a blogger named Sven said, according to the New York Daily News. Peinovich, previously known as Mike Enoch, was considered one of the leaders…
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Fast Forward Oracle Gets Sued for Paying White Men More
The software giant Oracle, where Donald Trump appointee Safra Catz is CEO, is getting hit with a discrimination lawsuit by the Department of Labor. According to BuzzFeed, the DOL claims Oracle paid women, African-Americans and Asian workers less than they paid white men for the same jobs. In the official complaint, the DOL claims Oracle…
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Fast Forward American Ambassador to Israel is Staying On as an Expat
Outgoing U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro is leaving his diplomatic mansion in Herzliya but he’s not going home – instead, he and his family have rented a house in nearby Raanana to finish the school year. In an exit interview with Haaretz, Shapiro said he has received no calls from his possible successor David…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Did Obama Just Sound Final Death Knell for Mideast Peace?
In his final White House press conference on Wednesday, outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama seemed ready to close the book on peace between Israel and the Palestinians. “I don’t see how this issue gets resolved in a way that maintains Israel as both Jewish and a democracy because if you do not have two states,…
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Fast Forward For Jeff Sessions, David Horowitz Award a Stumbling Block
A Jewish senator from Connecticut grilled attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions Tuesday about his ties to conservative Jewish activist and publisher David Horowitz, suggesting that Sessions could not defend all Americans because he accepted an award from a man with overtly anti-Muslim views. Sessions received the 2014 David Horowitz Freedom Center Annie Taylor Award for…
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Fast Forward Former Obama Speechwriter Creates Anti-Trump Company
Three former staffers to President Barack Obama have created a company to counter Donald Trump with a podcast and updates that bypass traditional media to reach out to their audience directly. Their site is called “Crooked Media,” a wink at Trump’s vilification of the press. One founder is former Obama and Hillary Clinton speechwriter Jon…
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Fast Forward Authorities Say Ft. Lauderdale Shooter Said Nothing — ABC News Claimed He Shouted ‘I’m Not Jewish’
Authorities Saturday said the gunman who shot and killed at least five people at Fort Lauderdale International Airport in Florida did not say anything during the rampage. That rebutted an early report by ABC News that the gunman screamed “I’m not Jewish” as he unleashed the gunfire. Witness say the shooter in some sort of…
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Fast Forward Ari Fleischer Tweets Live Updates From Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer is live tweeting from Florida’s Fort Lauderdale International Airport, where a gunman killed at least five people before police captured him Friday. Police say the shooter opened fire at about 1 p.m. in the baggage claim, of a terminal used by Delta and Air Canada, according to The…
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