Larry Cohler-Esses is a freelance journalist who worked for years as a reporter and editor at the Forward. He has written extensively on the Arab-Jewish relations both in the United States and the Middle East.
Larry Cohler-Esses
By Larry Cohler-Esses
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News Sebastian Gorka Unleashes New Firestorm With Plan To Carve Up Libya
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism adviser, is once again facing disdain from Middle East experts—this time over a reported plan he advanced to partition Libya. Shortly before Trump’s inauguration and Gorka’s own appointment as deputy assistant to the president, Gorka advocated cutting war-torn Libya into three separate countries and drew his outline for the…
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Fast Forward Citing Forward, NY Times Highlights Gorka’s Far-Right Background
The battle between the right-wing and mainstream press over presidential aide Sebastian Gorka, just intensified. In an editorial on the apparent decline in influence of Steve Bannon, President Trump’s chief strategist, within the administration, The New York Times also cited the background of Gorka, a close Bannon confidant. Highlighting the Forward’s coverage of Gorka’s ties…
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Breaking News American Jewish Committee Calls For Investigation Of Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka
The American Jewish Committee has called on the White House to “look into new revelations” about the background of President Trump’s chief counter-terrorism advisor, Sebastian Gorka. In a statement released Tuesday, the Jewish civil rights organization cited video of a 2007 TV interview with Gorka, first reported yesterday by the Forward, in which the future…
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News Sebastian Gorka Remarks Backing Anti-Semitic Militia Translated Correctly: Experts
Responding to an April 3 Forward story, two websites on the right—RedState.com and the Federalist—have charged the Forward with mistranslating or decontextualizing controversial comments by current senior White House aide Sebastian Gorka in a 2007 interview. In the interview, as reported by the Forward, Gorka voiced support for and defended the establishment of the Hungarian…
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News Dear Dr. Gorka: Six Questions Trump’s Counter-Terrorism Aide Won’t Answer
Dear Dr. Gorka, I was relieved to see you “liked” several recent tweets aimed at me, even though they were hostile and one wrongly implied that the Forward was taking money for the stories we have reported on you. I was beginning to worry that you hadn’t seen our reporting . As you know, on…
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News Four Things You Need To Know About Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka
Senior leaders of the far-right Hungarian group Vitézi Rend—listed by the State Department as having been “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany” during World War II—tell the Forward that Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism advisor, is a lifelong sworn member of their order. Here are four things you need to know…
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News ADL: Presidential Aide Must Disavow Anti-Semitism of Hungarian Hate Groups
The Anti-Defamation League has called on Sebastian Gorka, a senior aide to President Donald Trump, to clearly disavow “the message and outlook” of anti-Semitic organizations such as those he worked with while living in Hungary. Gorka, whose political activities with veterans of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party and other anti-Semitic organizations and activists were detailed in…
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News 4 Things You Need To Know About Sebastian Gorka’s Ties To Hungary’s Anti-Semitic Far Right
Here are the four things you need to know about Trump’s deputy assistant and his ties to Hungary’s anti-Semitic far right. 1) Sebastian Gorka launched his own political party with prominent veterans of Jobbik, a far-right faction with a long history of anti-Semitism. Gorka, whom Trump appointed as a top aide on January 20—the day…
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