Steve Bannon, the White House Chief Strategist and former executive chair of Breitbart News, has seemingly been on the outs with President Trump, with headlines calling him “doomed” after the president refused to publicly back him in a New York Post interview. One likely reason for Trump’s reticence: His daughter and advisor Ivanka has reportedly…
In the West Bank and Gaza today, tens of thousands of Palestinians marched in support of a hunger strike called by Palestinian prisoners, according to a Haaretz report. Marchers clashed with Israeli forces in multiple locations, including outside a West Bank prison, where soldiers fired live ammunition at protesters, injuring 5, according to the Times…
Auburn University announced on Friday that “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer’s scheduled speech on campus would be cancelled. The Alabama university had previously stated that while they “deplore his views,” the school also “supports the constitutional right to free speech.” But in a notice posted on their website on Friday afternoon, the administration announced that they…
Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is on a cross-country barnstorming tour that looks a bit like a wind-up for a 2020 presidential campaign. A BuzzFeed profile published today of the CEO notes that Zuckerberg’s journey is being carefully curated by a photographer who once worked for Barack Obama and a Facebook PR team. But the article…
President Trump waded into a tight House race in Georgia on Monday, tweeting an attack against the upstart Democratic candidate, Jon Ossoff. The super Liberal Democrat in the Georgia Congressioal race tomorrow wants to protect criminals, allow illegal immigration and raise taxes! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2017 The election to replace former…
Jared Kushner has reportedly bragged about being the “first among equals” on the White House staff, a boast that seems borne out by his growing portfolio and by President Trump’s tepid comments about rival Steve Bannon. Kushner is married to Trump’s flesh and blood – and that seems to be giving the son-in-law and senior…
One half of The New York Times’ top Trump reporting duo praised The Forward’s coverage of their friendship, which began when they discovered that the other was Jewish. Times reporter Glenn Thrush tweeted that the article “is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and” colleague Maggie Haberman. This is the greatest thing…
To many partisans of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders shoulders some of the blame for the former secretary of state’s loss in last November’s presidential election. But rather than being shunned as a spoiler, the Vermont senator appears to be feeling the love, as party leaders appreciate his conciliatory tone and populist message in the Trump…
A caretaker at a Brooklyn synagogue was beaten and robbed early Sunday morning, sending him to the hospital. Two men entered the Beis Menachem Mendel synagogue in the Midwood neighborhood through a broken window before dawn and woke the sleeping 53-year-old caretaker, police said. They beat the worker with a metal garden tool, leaving him…
A man driving through Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood Thursday night littered numerous anti-Semitic posters, in an incident that the New York Police Department is now investigating. “It’s bad. This is the middle of Williamsburg, this is the heart of the community,” Moses Bondo told DNAInfo. Williamsburg is home to a large Hasidic Jewish community, in addition…
George Soros became a lightning rod ahead of last November’s presidential election, especially after the Donald Trump campaign ran a commercial linking him to “the global power structure” – a line that many viewed as an anti-Semitic dog whistle. But as Nick Cohen points out in a recent op-ed for the Guardian, Soros’s appeal as…
