Fast-fashion retailer SHEIN removed a swastika-shaped pendant from its website after shoppers raised an outcry on social media. On Thursday, the Instagram account Here For the Tea, which chronicles scandals in the style world, posted a picture of the item, a gold necklace titled “metal swastika pendant” selling for four dollars. The post quickly gained…
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, was taken into custody for violating the terms of his furlough from prison, his attorney said Thursday. Cohen, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to campaign finance violations and lying to Congress, had been released to home confinement earlier this year as part of the federal Bureau of Prisons’…
David Duke, a former presidential candidate and leader of the Klu Klux Klan, as well as a racist and anti-Semite, said in a series of tweets Wednesday evening that Fox News host Tucker Carlson should be President Trump’s running mate for the 2020 campaign. The comments came a day after Carlson was widely repudiated, including…
Video-sharing app TikTok has deleted an anti-Semitic video mocking Auschwitz victims — but only after it was viewed 6.5 million times. Appearing on Sunday, the video includes a song containing the lyrics “We’re going on a trip to a place called Auschwitz, it’s shower time,” evidently referring to gas chambers in the death camp which…
President Trump’s reelection campaign sent a letter to would-be voters accusing Democrats of trying to “rig the November election” with money from three billionaires with Jewish ancestry. The letter, which was first publicized last week by the progressive Jewish group Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, criticized Democrats for trying to expand remote voting options. “With…
Former NBA basketball player Stephen Jackson defended Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson (no relation) after the football player posted an Instagram image of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan sharing a quote supposedly from Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Stephen Jackson, who was a friend of George Floyd, has emerged as a leader in the…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A House subcommittee included $250 million in funding for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue programs and Palestinian business development in a major spending bill — a pushback against Trump administration defunding in both areas. An array of pro-Israel groups that do not often agree praised the spending plan, which has bipartisan support in the House…
(JTA) — Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t changed his tune about Facebook’s stance on the spread of hate on the social media platform. That’s what the heads of several civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, said following a meeting Tuesday with Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives to discuss the demands of the advertisers that joined the…
(JTA) – The front page of the June 26 issue of Der Yid, one of the most widely circulated Yiddish newspapers among New York’s Hasidic Orthodox communities, made the point loud and clear. “And so it was after the plague.” Those words, lifted from a verse in the Torah and printed alongside photos of large…
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the Jewish national security expert who delivered stirring testimony in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump, will retire from the U.S. Army after over 21 years of service. His reason: the President and his allies have ruined his prospects. Vindman’s attorney, Amb. David Pressman told CNN his client was subject to…
(JTA) — A Toronto health food restaurant with a history of social media posts considered anti-Semitic has come under fire for using the hashtag “zionistsnotwelcome.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jamie Gutfreund (@jamiegutfreund) on Jul 2, 2020 at 7:59am PDT The owner of Foodbenders says, however, there’s a distinction between Zionists…
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