(JTA) — French police detained a man on suspicion of threatening a Jewish man with a knife in the southern city of Cannes. The Jewish man, identified by the Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism as B. Olivier, said the suspect assaulted him Thursday morning at 11 a.m. while he was trying to cross a road with…
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A delegation of Israeli defense officials will reportedly visit Washington, D.C. later this week to discuss Israel’s security needs in Syria with their American counterparts. The talks will focus on Israel’s security needs in Syria and Lebanon and will not address President Donald Trump’s nascent push for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, a…
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Talia Friedman, the daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, immigrated to Israel. A 23-year-old nurse, Talia Friedman officially became an Israeli citizen at Ben-Gurion Airport Tuesday morning along with 233 other North Americans who arrived on a flight chartered by the Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah group. David Friedman greeted his…
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Radio host, conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump supporter Alex Jones was at it again Sunday with a theory that “leftist Jews” may have impersonated Nazis to discredit white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville, Va. Speaking on “The Alex Jones Show” on August 13, Jones recalled his own experience, he said, protesting the…
KHATYN, Belarus (JTA) — Even by Soviet standards, the massive memorial complex near Minsk to the victims of Nazi atrocities stands out for its immense scale and ambition. Spread across half a million square feet — roughly the size of 10 football fields — the haunting Khatyn Memorial is essentially a graveyard not for people,…
A white supremacist rally slated for September at Texas A&M University has been cancelled, with the school citing safety concerns in the wake of violent clashes at at a similar gathering in Virginia. Texas A&M cancels 9/11 event reservation: https://t.co/nquKNDx8cO — Texas A&M University (@TAMU) August 14, 2017 “Alt-right” figurehead Richard Spencer had been slated…
Wordpress.com has taken down the website of Vanguard America, the group with whom accused killer James Alex Fields rallied at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The site’s takedown occurred some time between 6p.m. and 6:30p.m. Monday. Clicking on the group’s website now yields the message: “reactionamericacom.wordpress.com is no longer available. This blog…
The father of one of the white nationalists who marched in Charlottesville, Va. last week has written a letter to his hometown newspaper denouncing his son and saying he was no longer welcome home until he renounced his bigotry. Pearce Tefft of Fargo, N.D. wrote to the local newspaper The Forum after his son, Peter,…
Casino magnate and political megadonor Sheldon Adelson has come out in support of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster after right-wing groups — including the Zionist Organization of America, which Adelson funds — campaigned in recent days for McMaster to be fired. Spokesman Andy Abboud told the political news website Axios on Monday that Adelson “has…
Confederate flags, David Duke t-shirts and chants of “Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew” – our reporter was shaken by what he saw in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend. How do you feel about the protests and counter-protests that turned violent? Join our Facebook community and have your voice heard: For our latest stories and more discussions…
James Fields walked into the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany, on a school trip two years ago and told a classmate he was “where the magic happened.” The account was one of several describing Fields’ white supremacist views that emerged in telephone and Facebook interviews on Monday, two days after his arrest on…
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