Israeli scientists are using whiteflies, tiny insects that feed on the undersides of leaves, to create better drone technology. Tel Aviv University researchers say that the fly could serve as a model for stability in small drones, based on the fact that the propel their bodies forward before flapping their wings in flight. “Whiteflies take…
Fashion retailer Zara has pulled a skirt from its website amid a torrent of articles suggesting that the skirt bore an image resembling Pepe the Frog. Pepe, an internet meme co-opted by the so-called “alt-right” last year, has become a widely-recognized symbol of white supremacy. The frog on the Zara skirt bears a passing resemblance…
Israel could be headed toward a housing bubble soon, warned an executive with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Peter Jarrett, the head of an OECD division that oversees 10 of the 34 member states including Israel, issued the warning, with plenty of caveats, in an interview with Globes, Israel’s economics magazine. Israel is…
A former delicatessen worker convicted of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in a 1979 New York slaying that helped raise national awareness about the plight of abducted children was sentenced on Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison. Pedro Hernandez, 56, showed no emotion as he was handed the maximum allowed sentence for the murder…
White nationalist leader Richard Spencer has pledged that he will still speak at Auburn University on Tuesday night despite the school’s decision to revoke its approval of his speech. Students and residents of the Alabama town are preparing to counter the “alt-right” activist with a campus-wide music festival. The event, called #AuburnUnites, will take place…
(JTA) — New York State reportedly will establish a hate crimes task force. The task force, which will identify and investigate hate crimes and discriminatory practices, will be established using $1 million set aside in the new state budget passed earlier this month, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. It will be made up of members…
An “alt-right” Twitter troll has made a new Internet plug-in that replaces the term “white” with “Jew,” in an apparent effort to show that the media discriminates against white people. In a video attached to his tweet, the troll identifying himself as “Uncle Chang” applies his plug-in to news like Salon, Alternet and the Huffington…
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg pledged on Tuesday that his company would do all it could to prevent postings of incidents such as Sunday’s fatal shooting in Cleveland, which was visible on the social media site for two hours. Zuckerberg, speaking at Facebook’s annual conference for software developers, took time out of a keynote…
(JTA) — Covering the White House Easter Egg Roll live, CNN reporter John Berman noted that Ivanka Trump was not in attendance. Maybe, he speculated, it was because she’s Jewish. “I saw Tiffany Trump just there before. Not Ivanka or Jared Kushner. Of course, Ivanka Trump is Jewish,” he said during Monday’s festivities. “I don’t know…
A Super PAC running advertisements against Georgia Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff, including one tying him to Al Jazeera, has received most of its funding this year from a single so-called ‘dark money’ group. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a Republican Super PAC with close ties to the House GOP leadership, has spent over $3 million…
Israeli police arrested 28 people on Tuesday in connection with an alleged extortion plot to force major companies to advertise in an ultra-Orthodox Israeli newspaper, according to a report in Ynet. The paper, called Hapeles, is published by the followers of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, a Jerusalem-based ultra-Orthodox rabbi who has feuded in recent years with…
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