Sam Kestenbaum is a contributing editor and former staff writer for the Forward. Before this, he worked for The New York Times and newsrooms in Sana, Ramallah and Beijing. Contact him at kestenbaum@forward.com and follow him on Twitter at @skestenbaum and on Instagram at @skestenbaum.
The English-language Twitter account for Al Jazeera tweeted an anti-Semitic meme on Wednesday to promote a story about climate change. Al Jazeera later deleted the post, but Twitter user Eli Meixler quickly took a screenshot. The meme is known as the “Happy Merchant,” and depicts a hook-nosed Jew in a yarmulke rubbing his hands together….
The Portland man accused of aggravated murder in two brutal knife slayings last week called himself a Viking who worshipped Odin. He supported Bernie Sanders before rallying around Trump and vowed to kill supporters of Hillary Clinton. He wanted to wipe away the corrupt American society he saw around himself, but believed he was a…
White nationalist Richard Spencer’s “alt-right” podcast was booted from SoundCloud for violating the site’s terms of service last week. The move came in response to a Twitter query from the freelance journalist Alex Kotch, who wrote about the incident in a post for Alternet.org. “I got the notorious white nationalist Richard Spencer kicked off of…
There is an entire video game subculture dedicated to neo-Nazi fantasies — including battling legions of Jews with yellow stars on their uniforms. These are games made “by and for neo-Nazis,” Mic.com reports. For example, there is “Zog’s Nightmare,” “one of the most violent, anti-Semitic titles ever released.” “Zog” is an acronym for “Zionist-occupied government,”…
On St. Patrick’s Day, 28-year-old James Harris Jackson boarded a bus in Washington and rode it to New York looking for black men to kill. He found Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old African-American who was scavenging for cans in Midtown Manhattan around the corner from his home. Jackson pulled out a sword and fatally stabbed the…
One day after being charged with assault for allegedly body-slamming a reporter in his campaign office, Republican Greg Gianforte defeated his Democratic to win the special election for the U.S. House seat in Montana. Neo-Nazis and some members of the “alt-right” celebrated the body slamming of the reporter, Ben Jacobs, who happens to be Jewish….
C. Christine Fair, the Georgetown University professor who caused her local gym to revoke the membership of “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer, took to the op-ed pages of the Washington Post to defend her move. “Spencer sought to garner sympathy by arguing that … he should be allowed to spread hate and stoke racist, misogynist, anti-Semitic,…
Major civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the National Urban League, expressed “deep concern” to President Trump about the possible Homeland Security appointment of a controversial Milwaukee sheriff with ties to a militia group. “(Sheriff David Clarke) record as Milwaukee County Sheriff and his history of incendiary and hateful statements make him unfit…
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