Nathan Guttman, staff writer, was the Forward’s Washington bureau chief. He joined the staff in 2006 after serving for five years as Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In Israel, he was the features editor for Ha’aretz and chief editor of Channel 1 TV evening news. He was born in Canada and grew up in Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Six months since neo-Nazis, white supremacists and “alt-right” activists joined forced and took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, in a parade of hate that reverberated across America, organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally have more visibility, but not much else to show for it. An analysis prepared by the Anti-Defamation League finds that…
For years, Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam were the greatest U.S.-based supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Adelson even started a free newspaper, Israel Hayom, that became known for its pro-Netanyahu editorial line. But the ongoing criminal investigations of Netanyahu, one of which relates directly to his relationship with…
U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman has a bone to pick with the country’s liberal daily Haaretz. This week, the newspaper published an op-ed by columnist Gideon Levy in which he takes issue with Friedman who donated an ambulance to the Jewish settlement of Har Bracha. The column was published days after rabbi Itamar Ben-Gal,…
Arthur Jones is not a winner. True, he clinched the Republican nomination in his Illinois congressional district. That happened because he ran unopposed. The district is so heavily Democratic that no legitimate Republican even cares to run. The 70-year-old is a Holocaust denier who calls the Nazi genocide “an international extortion racket.” “His depraved values…
A CNN interview on Thursday with Holocaust-denying Republican congressional candidate Arthur Jones quickly turned into a shouting match. Interviewer Alisyn Camerota, visibly disgusted by Jones and his views, slammed the Illinois candidate with facts about the Holocaust, as Jones waved papers at her and went on a rant about the “Jew party system.” When presented…
Paul Nehlen, the “alt-right” congressional candidate who has associated himself with white supremacists and published lists of his Jewish critics, is now targeting the Anti-Defamation League. Nehlen, who had been accused by the ADL of “spewing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and unapologetically racist jargon,” is now vowing to go after the organization, presumably after being elected…
Corrected 3:21pm Joel Pollak, the senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, attended his first AIPAC Policy Conference when he was in high school. Since then, he has risen in the ranks of Breitbart News, a website that once prided itself on being “the platform for the ‘alt-right,’” a label the publication is now pushing back against….
Tracking Nazis in your neighborhood has never been easier. A new, continuously updating website called FashMaps provides a real-time look at neo-Nazis spread across the U.S. and the world. Its creators scour neo-Nazi message boards and websites like the Daily Stormer in order to identify white supremacists and Nazi activists and track their locations, Haaretz…
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