Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube was instrumental in a smear campaign against liberal NGOs ahead of Hungary’s elections in April, Politico reported Saturday, citing two sources, including a former Black Cube employee. Soon before the election in which Prime Minister Viktor Orban won another term, a Hungarian magazine published a list of more than 200…
TEL AVIV (JTA) — One of the biggest days of the year for Ronaldo and Bernadette Lopez is Christmas. They open up their Filipino restaurant in South Tel Aviv, and their friends bring their families, crowd the place and eat embutido, a rolled pork dish from their shared home country. But this year may be…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli lawmaker ended a 25-day hunger strike staged to convince the Knesset to pass a tax on loose tobacco equal to the tax on cigarettes. Yehudah Glick announced on Saturday night on Twitter and Facebook that he would end the hunger strike “in order to avoid harming my health and following…
A North Carolina man named Adam Bloom is being accused of racial profiling after being caught on video calling police on a black woman at his neighborhood pool. In a July 4 video that went viral, Bloom appears to demand identification from Jasmine Edwards as she attempted to enter her neighborhood pool. “I feel like…
Israel is censoring a growing number of news stories, and forced editorial changes in one story every four hours last year, according to a freedom of information request filed by +972 Magazine and the Movement for Freedom of Information. Israel’s Military Censor refused to publish 271 articles in 2017 — more than five a week…
White nationalist leader Richard Spencer was stopped by authorities in Europe this week while attempting to make a surprise appearance at a conference in Sweden for young white nationalists, Think Progress reported Thursday. Spencer seemed to confirm this on Twitter, where he shared a Swedish tweet from an alt-right supporter lamenting that Spencer had been…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Contrary to widely-held beliefs, Anne Frank and her family were never denied an entry visa to the United States, a new study by the museum for the Jewish diarist confirmed. The museum in Amsterdam known as the Anne Frank House published Friday its report on the immigration attempts of the family of…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Dutch anti-discrimination activist said he was assaulted while protesting a visit to the Netherlands by the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn. The chairman of the CiJo group said he received several blows to his neck after he and two activists from the group unfurled a banner reading “Labour: For…
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner on Thursday scrambled to distance himself from Arthur Jones, the former American Nazi Party leader who is a Republican nominee for Congress in Illinois. Rauner tweeted Thursday that voters should “vote for anybody but Arthur Jones.” He had previously refused to endorse Jones’s Democratic opponent, Dan Lipinski. Jones is pushing back,…
“Is Julia Salazar, a state Senate candidate in Brooklyn, the next Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?” That’s what the New York Daily News tweeted on Monday — and the paper may be onto something. Since Ocasio-Cortez’s remarkable upset victory over 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley, pundits have been comparing the two young, progressive women running for office. While they…
Two different GOP candidates appeared on neo-Nazi podcasts within the past two weeks, The Daily Beast reports. North Carolina Republican primary winner Russell Walker appeared on the white supremacist Stormfront Action podcast on Thursday. Walker has previously said that he believes Jews descend from Satan, and that God was a “racist” and “white supremacist.” The…
100% of profits support our journalism
