The group that led the boycott of SoulCycle and other brands owned by billionaire Trump supporter Stephen Ross has turned its attention to Estee Lauder due to the relationship between President Trump and board member and heir Ronald Lauder. Ronald Lauder, the son of Estee Lauder, is a leading Jewish philanthropist and the president of…
A synagogue in suburban Milwaukee called police after receiving a threatening voicemail pledging to “destroy” them, local TV station WISN reported Tuesday. The call to The Shul Bayside, which came from a local area code, arrived at 2:30 in the morning on August 19. Some of the threats on the call reportedly included “You think…
Most Americans disapprove of President Trump’s claim that Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats are unintelligent or “disloyal” — but most Republicans support those remarks, according to a poll released Wednesday. President Trump attracted much criticism from the Jewish community when he said on August 20 that Jewish Democrats have “either a total lack of…
Updated 1:20 p.m. YouTube has closed the accounts of several white nationalist channels, Right Wing Watch reported Tuesday. Among the most prominent white nationalists to be de-platformed by YouTube was James Allsup, the former president of a College Republicans chapter in Washington state who went on to march in the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A veteran Israeli television personality apologized on Tuesday for saying on the air that “Arabs are savages.” Yaron London, 79, had made the remarks a day earlier during his show “London and Geula” on Channel 11, the Kan public broadcaster. They came during a discussion of the HBO series “Our Boys,” centering…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Cameras cannot be operated at polling stations, the head of Israel’s Central Elections Committee decided. The decision is directed at the Likud party, which had planned to place cameras in more than 1,000 polling stations in Arab communities. During the April election, Likud activists placed more than 1,200 cameras hidden in polling…
(JTA) (J. The Jewish News of Northern California) — Anti-Semitic fliers saying that Jews and Israel were behind the 9/11 attacks appeared in Northern California about 30 miles from San Francisco. The fliers discovered last weekend in Novato, a city of about 52,000 in the North Bay area, were plastered on telephone poles, storefronts and…
A growing number of companies have declared this month that they will no longer pay for ads on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Channel show in the wake of his latest controversial comments about white nationalism. The computer technology company Dell confirmed on Monday to Sleeping Giants, a liberal advocacy group pushing for a boycott of…
On Wednesdays David Karpf teaches Strategic Political Communication. The class usually begins with students discussing recent instances of public figures making significant strategic communication mistakes. Possible grist for the mill — and this is just from white men — could have been Donald Trump’s flip-flopping statements on gun regulation or the trade war with China;…
A Jewish man in his 60s was attacked with a brick in a city park in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Yeshiva World News reported. The man was reportedly doing an exercise walk in Rochester Park in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Crown Heights when he was attacked by a man holding a giant brick. He was…
Conservative provocateur Laura Loomer filed a lawsuit against Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Friday, seeking $2 million in damages related to a incident in which Tlaib allegedly grabbed Loomer’s cell phone when the activist tried to confront the politician at a campaign event. Loomer crashed a campaign event in Minneapolis in October for Tlaib and Rep….
