(JTA) — MGM Resorts International denounced “hate speech and hate-based actions” in a letter to employees that offered to match their donations to civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League. “The events in Charlotttesville and Barcelona can easily cause us to feel overcome by hatred and gutted by violence, leaving open questions about our future…
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, in a tweet praised the thousands of counter demonstrators who marched in Boston in response to a conservative free speech rally. An estimated 15,000 counter demonstrators on Saturday in Boston surrounded a small group of conservatives who marched for free speech a week after a…
Sebastian Gorka may be an effective “bulldog” for President Trump — but he’s no expert on terrorism. So says the controversial White House anti-terror aide’s own PhD adviser, according to CNN “I would not call him an expert on terrorism,” said Stephen Sloan, a retired professor of political science who taught at the University of…
Arthur Finkelstein, a conservative campaign strategist who helped elect Republican presidents and Israeli premiers has died, his family announced Saturday. He was 72. Finkelstein was perhaps best known as the brains behind the unlikely elections of Sen. Al D’Amato and Gov. George Pataki. But he also helped Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and even Sen. Jesse…
(JTA) — Almost a third of British Jews,said they have considered leaving the United Kingdom over the past two years due to anti-Semitism. The findings are part of a report published Sunday by the Campaign Against Antisemitism watchdog group, which conducted since 2015 interviews with more than 10,000 British Jews together with the YouGov market research…
Urged by his Yale University classmates to resign as treasury secretary following President Donald Trump’s response to a white nationalist protest, Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday he would stay in office and that Trump “in no way, shape or form” equates neo-Nazis with peaceful protesters. Mnuchin stood beside the president at a Tuesday news conference…
The Zionist Organization of America has been the only pro-Israel organization to join calls made by right-wing Republicans demanding the ouster of national security adviser H. R. McMaster, for what they see as his anti-Israel bias. Now, it turns out that the ZOA’s report criticizing McMaster, has gained the tacit support of Republican megadonor Sheldon…
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teen wielding a knife on Saturday in the occupied West Bank, police said. A 17-year-old Palestinian approached a group of Israeli paramilitary policemen stationed at a West Bank junction, holding what appeared to be a bag, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said, and the troops then called on him…
With Stephen Bannon, the worry always was that he could be even more disruptive to President Donald Trump’s White House from outside than he was within. In the hours following his firing on Friday, those fears seemed warranted, as the conservative voices who viewed Bannon as one of their own howled in rage over Trump’s…
Hundreds of people swarmed the streets of Durham, North Carolina on Friday to protest a Ku Klux Klan rally rumored to be scheduled for later that afternoon. A tweet posted from the city of Durham’s Twitter account said Durham police have not issued an event permit for any group on Friday, and encouraged people to…
Jason Kessler, one of the organizers of the “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, was once a liberal activist and once dumped his girlfriend who is of Jewish descent. But he didn’t break up with Laura Kleiner because she was Jewish or liberal — quite the contrary. “He broke up with me, and…
