WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump in his State of the Union linked his actions targeting Iran to the threat to Jews manifested in the October massacre on Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh. Trump also bookended his speech with references to D-Day, including salutes to troops, among them Jewish American veterans, that helped liberate Europe, and…
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slapped a massive picture of himself shaking hands with President Trump on the side of a building in Tel Aviv. “Netanyahu. In Another League,” reads the poster, a campaign ad for Netanyahu’s Likud party. Versions of the image, in smaller format, have popped up elsewhere in Tel Aviv and…
A video meme featuring Adolf Hitler has stirred up Dallas’ mayoral race, the Dallas Morning News reported. The video, created with the website “Caption Generator,” depicts the current Dallas mayor as Hitler and several mayoral candidates as Nazis, discussing the race. The video is the scene from the 2004 German film “Downfall” in which Hitler…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday that she would be reaching out to the Jewish community after being criticized for praising British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, with whom she had a phone call to discuss issues of shared concern. Corbyn, a longtime staunch critic of Israel who has called members of Hamas and Hezbollah his…
It’s not quite the 1856 Brooks–Sumner Affair, when a pro-slavery congressman nearly beat to death an abolitionist senator with a cane. But Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Lee Zeldin of New York have not been afraid the past two weeks to have a war of words. Omar, a Democrat who this year became the…
The man who heckled Howard Schultz, the ex-Starbucks CEO and possible presidential candidate, is a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn. He spoke with Gothamist about his history of heckling,, his belief in the power of heckling and his tried and true heckling method. Andy Ratto, an activist, called out Schultz during the latter’s appearance at…
Former White House advisor Sebastian Gorka is encouraging conspiracy theories that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is either dying or dead, the Daily Beast reported. Ginsburg has cancelled public appearances since undergoing surgery to remove cancerous growths in her lungs. The filmmakers behind the Oscar-nominated documentary “RBG” told CNN last week that they spoke…
In an extended selfie video posted hours after Senator Cory Booker announced his 2020 presidential bid, Booker’s old buddy Rabbi Shmuley Boteach warned that the New Jersey senator shouldn’t forget his pro-Israel friends. Boteach said that Booker’s support for the Iran deal was a betrayal, and charged that there had been a “gradual erosion” of…
Comedian Julie Klausner organized a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood that has netted over $5,000 after an incident on an airplane involving the pro-life former Ohio governor John Kasich. Klausner, the creator and star of the Hulu series “Difficult People,” said on her podcast earlier this month that she had been bumped from her seat by…
Sheryl Sandberg said in an interview Wednesday that teenagers who downloaded a controversial data collection program created by Facebook knew what they were downloading, Gizmodo reported. The program, created by Facebook’s market research team, was marketed to — and downloaded by — users as young as 13, TechCrunch reported. Once downloaded onto a user’s phone,…
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s public moves towards running in the 2020 presidential race as an independent candidate have been met with skepticism and anger by many Democrats, who believe his effort will only ensure the reelection of President Donald Trump. The news has also caused many to examine, and then criticize, his financial history….
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