(JTA) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A rugby team identified with Jews and Israel won the Buenos Aires league championship, the sport’s biggest tournament in Argentina. Hindu Club beat local competitor Alumni 27-20 Saturday to become the Argentinian capital’s top team. Because of its Jewish membership and fanbase, Hindu is known as the country’s Jewish rugby…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Holocaust commemoration activists in Poland complained to prosecutors that participants shouted “Jews out” and other anti-Semitic slogans at an Independence Day march in Warsaw. A small minority of the approximately 60,000 people who participated in the annual march Saturday used racist language, Jonny Daniels, founder of the From the Depths group,…
Gal Gadot says she won’t return for “Wonder Woman 2” unless Brett Ratner, the director for Wonder Woman who has been accused of sexual harassment, is removed from the project, according to Page Six. Last month, Gadot cancelled an appearance at a JNF awards dinner honoring Ratner. Ratner has been accused of sexual harassment by…
Protesters in the Philippines burned a 13-foot tall effigy of Donald Trump dressed as Hitler, complete with twirling swastika arms, the Mirror reported. The burning came ahead of Trump’s meeting with the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has been widely accused of human rights violations in his so-called “war on drugs.” The effigy’s four arms,…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Stephen Bannon, the former chief strategist for President Donald Trump, called himself a “Christian Zionist” at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner. He also praised Republican Jewish megadonor Sheldon Adelson for his help in guiding Trump through a sexual assault scandal. Bannon, at what may have been his first speech…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Trump and his advisers have started drafting an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, officials told The New York Times. In the article published Saturday, officials said they expect to address issues that have long frustrated negotiators, such as the status of Jerusalem and West Bank settlements. The framework could “take until early next…
You’d think Aaron Klein would have his hands full covering President Trump’s so-far failed effort to break the deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians. Apparently you’d be wrong. The Breitbart News Jerusalem bureau chief has been sent down to Dixie to cover the real main event for the right-wing outlet: Roy Moore’s fight for his…
A British woman who once claimed that schools were “brainwashing us and our children into thinking the bad guy was Hitler” has been listed by the Labour Party as a possible nominee for a city council election. Nasreen Khan wrote incendiary Facebook comments in 2012 about a video called “The Palestine you need to know,”…
The Indian city of Hyderabad is rounding up and jailing beggars before it hosts an international conference at which First Daughter Ivanka Trump will lead the American delegation. Nearly 400 beggars were picked up and sent to a “rehabilitation center” at the Chanchalguda Jail, the Indian Express reported. The city’s police commissioner has banned all…
Presidential adviser/son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly told a Time Warner executive early this year that 20% of CNN’s staff should be fired for their faulty analysis of the 2016 presidential election — a statement that may take on new resonance given the Justice Department’s surprising objections to Time Warner’s proposed $85 billion merger with AT&T. The…
(JTA) — An early Facebook investor likened the social media site’s practices to Nazi propaganda. Roger McNamee made the comparison Friday in an interview with the London-based Telegraph. He said Facebook has borrowed methods from Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels. “In order to maintain your attention they have taken all the techniques of Edward Bernays…
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