(JTA) — A New York millionaire socialite pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in a case stemming from a New Year’s Eve incident in which she allegedly hit a lawyer with a glass handbag and made an anti-Semitic remark. Jacqueline Kent Cooke, daughter of the late billionaire Jack Kent Cooke, who owned the NFL’s Washington Redskins…
A major Jewish organization is calling for the firing of CNN contributor and Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill after it emerged that he had ties to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has been criticized for his anti-Semitism for decades. The ties first came to light after the entertainment website The Wrap reported…
A recent conference sought to promote peace for Palestinian Christians — but was marred by accusations of anti-Semitism. Christ at the Checkpoint USA, a four-day conference in Midwest City, Oklahoma, drew in about 150 evangelical Christians, Religion News Service reported. It was born out of a conference by the same name in at Bethlehem Bible…
The Arab American Institute Foundation sent neo-Nazi congressional candidate Arthur Jones a cease and desist letter after learning the Republican was using one of its logos to promote his campaign, the organization announced. Jones, a former leader of the American Nazi Party who is running a longshot campaign in the Chicago suburbs, used the name…
Democratic congressional candidate Antonio Delgado stunned the crowd when he said during a debate Monday in New York’s Hudson Valley that Israel “is not a Jewish democracy” because of its settlements, the New York Post reported. “As currently constructed, you know, Israel is not a Jewish democracy. Those settlements make it so that it can’t…
Updated, 12:15 p.m. Police are investigating a possible suspicious package at the South Florida office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, NBC Miami reported. Police responded to a call at the Sunrise, Florida, office on Wednesday, the same day suspicious packages were sent to the homes of Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as…
President Trump officially called himself a nationalist at a rally in Houston on Monday, CNN reported. “A globalist is a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly not caring about the country so much. You know, we can’t have that,” Trump said. He continued: “You know what I am, I’m a nationalist. Use…
The wife of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer filed for divorce, citing that he was “physically, emotionally, verbally and financially abusive” throughout their marriage, BuzzFeed News reported. Nina Koupriianova accused Spencer of abusing her, alleging that she was “being hit, being grabbed, being dragged around by her hair, being held down in a manner causing…
The midterm elections are looming, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems to be feeling the pressure — his last-minute donations will exceed $100 million, Axios reported. Bloomberg, who is hoping to ensure Democrats get control of the House, is focusing on additional GOP-held seats, a Democratic source told Axios. “We see more opportunity…
(JTA) — A kosher butcher shop in Basel, Switzerland has been vandalized four times in one month in what local Jews are condemning as an anti-Semitic campaign of intimidation. In one of the attacks, the unidentified perpetrators removed the letter J from the German-language word for Jewish from a metal sign over the shop, as…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The police have completed three corruption investigations into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit likely will make a decision on whether to indict Netanyahu in one or all of the cases in the first four months of 2019, Hadashot news reported Wednesday. The timetable for the recommendations “will surprise everyone,”…
