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.
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By Sam Kestenbaum
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News Pulling No Punches In Fight Against ‘Alt-Right’ And Neo-Nazis
How do you punch a Nazi in Yiddish? Maybe deliver a khsime, or “signature,” as in putting a “signature on someone’s face.” Or give them a shmir, an open-handed smack to the face, like lathering schmear on a bagel. Or maybe it takes der gubernator, “the governor,” jabbing your thumb into a person’s ribcage. Obscure?…
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Fast Forward White Supremacists Make ‘Unprecedented’ Push On Campus — Hit 107 Colleges
White nationalist and supremacist groups are ramping up efforts on American college campuses — in what the Anti-Defamation League is calling “unprecedented outreach efforts.” As of March 6, there have been 107 “white supremacist fliering incidents” on American college campuses since the school year began in September, according to a blog post from the ADL….
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Fast Forward White Supremacist David Duke’s Twitter Suspension Was Just A Mistake
Former Ku Klux Klan head David Duke was booted from Twitter yesterday — and then reinstated a few hours later. What was behind the episode? There was much speculation online — from his fans and critics. It turns out it was all an accident. An agent mistakenly marked the account for suspension during a routine…
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Fast Forward White Supremacist David Duke Booted From Twitter
Update: 3:17 p.m. David Duke is now back on Twitter. Former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke was kicked off Twitter on Monday morning — and he blamed the Jews and enemies of President Trump. “We are really at war. Trump is at war,” Duke said on his regular Monday morning radio show. “They’re…
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News Why Was David Duke’s Twitter Suspended — And How Did He Get It Back?
Update: This article has been updated to include a comment from Twitter. On Monday morning, one of the country’s most prominent white supremacists was kicked off Twitter. David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan head and outspoken admirer of President Trump, was stripped off his account, separated from his tens of thousands of followers. His critics…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor And Granddaughter Of Nazis Make For Unlikely Roommates
They make for an unlikely pair of roommates. Ben Stern is a 95-year-old survivor of the Nazi concentration camps — who now lives with a 31-year-old German grandchild of Nazis, Lea Heitfeld. Stern and Heitfeld, a student at the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, live together in California — and find in each other’s company…
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Fast Forward Amar’e Stoudemire Apologizes For ‘Offensive Comments Against The LGBT Community’
Basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire, a star forward for the Israeli team Hapoel Jerusalem, apologized for comments which were taken to be anti-gay. “I want to apologize for my offensive comments against the LGBT community. These remarks were taken from a larger interview where a reporter was asking me hypothetical questions, and all my answers had…
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Fast Forward Israel Basketball Star Amar’e Stoudemire Makes Anti-Gay ‘Joke’
Just days after winning Israel’s Martin Luther King Jr. Award for his philanthropic work, Amar’e Stoudemire found himself under fire for saying he would be uncomfortable playing basketball alongside an openly gay teammate. The comments were delivered in an interview with the Israeli website Walla Sport. Stoudemire was asked how comfortable he would feel with…
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