A critique of a freshman Democratic congresswoman over her ill-considered tweets that began with a Forward editor had made its way to the White House by Tuesday, when President Trump called for the congresswoman’s resignation during a Cabinet meeting. Trump, who himself has been accused of invoking anti-Semitic tropes at various points over the past…
A fringe YouTube personality was shot by a Los Angeles synagogue’s security guard after she live-streamed herself standing in front of the gate to the building. Zhoie Perez, 45, was shot Thursday outside the Etz Jacob Torah Center after filming for several minutes a guard gripping a handgun in reaction to her presence. She was…
Trump administration officials, Israeli leaders, and some Arab and European bureaucrats met this week in Warsaw for a conference on Middle East security. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was there. So was Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and advisor-at-large. Also in town? Sex-advice author and all-around Jewish political gadfly Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Boteach’s presence at…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — They voted for it before they voted against it. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives were in the odd position Wednesday of voting against a bill that included an initiative to combat anti-Semitism, a measure they initially insisted was in the national security interests of the United States. The bill itself…
Fox News will not air an ad for an Oscar-nominated documentary about American Nazism, the Hollywood Reporter reported. The 30-second ad, called “It Can Happen Here,” is for “A Night At The Garden,” a documentary short about a 1939 meeting of [the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization. That infamous meeting, which gathered 20,000 people…
Andrew Pollack, the Jewish father of one of the 17 people massacred at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last February 14, says he hasn’t smiled since his daughter Meadow was killed. Pollack has been one of the most vocal of the parents of the shooting victims, arguing that school leaders and elected officials…
A Democratic candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates who describes himself as a “second-generation refugee” from Palestine has apologized for anti-Semitic and anti-Israel social media posts. “This slander campaign is using five-year-old Facebook posts from my impassioned college days, posts that upon my reflection and with the blessing of time, I sincerely regret and…
Rep. Max Rose of New York was the first Democratic congressman to criticize fellow Democratic member of Congress Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for her remarks on Sunday suggesting AIPAC pays politicians to be pro-Israel – but he also called out the Republican Party for what he described as their hypocrisy on the issue. “Congresswoman Omar’s…
Conservative activist Candace Owens half-heartedly walked back her controversial statements on Adolf Hitler, posted online last week, in an interview on Fox Business Monday. BuzzFeed News reported last Friday that Owens had invoked Hitler in responding to a question about nationalism, disputing that Hitler, who envisioned the Third Reich lasting for 1,000 years, could be…
Israeli private intelligence firms have been increasingly in the spotlight, revealed as the suppliers for Harvey Weinstein’s “army of spies” and as creators of apps that repressive regimes can use to spy on activists and journalists. Now, a New Yorker article is detailing how another firm — Psy-Group — used its intelligence expertise to manipulate…
Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota apologized on Monday, one day after she published tweets accusing the pro-Israel group AIPAC of paying politicians to support Israel, which many fellow Democrats characterized as anti-Semitic because of its association with the trope of Jews using money to nefariously control the government. “Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful…
