The suspect in the synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh on Saturday was obsessed with the Jewish refugee aid group HIAS, according to posts on a social media account that he appears to have operated. Robert Bowers’ account, which has since been deleted by the social networking site Gab, included posts that accused HIAS of “bring[ing] in…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he was “heartbroken and appalled” by a shooting attack in a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed at least eight people. “The entire people of Israel grieve with the families of the dead. We stand together with the Jewish community of Pittsburgh, we stand together with the American people…
President Trump blamed the deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on the lack of armed security and insisted it had little to do with lax gun laws. “This is a case where if they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him immediately,” Trump told reporters just hours after the…
The man who allegedly was responsible for mailing bombs to several Democrats and media figures shared in March an anti-Semitic meme of billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros. Cesar Sayoc was arrested on Friday after he was identified as a suspect behind the recent string of mail-bombs, which were dressed as suspicious packages and sent…
Andy Rubin was asked to resign from Google in 2014 with millions of dollars in severance and a tearful farewell, but on Thursday the reason for his exit was revealed: sexual misconduct. A Google employee accused Rubin of forcing her to perform oral sex in a hotel room in 2013, the New York Times reported….
Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros is the face of another conspiracy theory, alleging that he’s funding the caravan of migrants traveling from Mexico to the United States, the New York Times reported. President Trump and Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida are among those spreading the false claims, according to the Times. There is…
(JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the first visit to Oman by an Israeli head of state since 1996. Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, along with Mossad head Yossi Cohen and others, visited the Gulf state earlier this week and returned Friday, according to the Prime Minister’s Office. The trip to Oman, an Arab…
(JTA) — Philip Green, a British fashion mogul, is accused of sexually harassing and at times abusing in a racist manner at least five of his employees and then buying their silence, a lawmaker said. The accusations surfaced Thursday in the British House of Lords, the upper chamber of the British parliament. A member of…
(JTA) — The senate of the Student Bar Association at George Washington University has called on the organization’s president to resign after she allegedly made an anti-Semitic comment. The resolution passed Tuesday night calls on Ali Kingston to step down by Monday, according to The Hatchet, the university’s student newspaper. Kingston is alleged by members…
Rep. Steve King had an interview with members of a far-right Austrian party with Nazi ties, while on a trip funded by a Holocaust memorial group, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The Iowa Republican also criticized billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros in his interview, while lamenting that white Europeans will be replaced by immigrants….
A current State Department official helped a top fundraiser for President Trump arrange meetings with U.S. senators and officials from the African country of Angola in 2017, without either of them registering as “foreign agents” for their assistance of foreign officials, ProPublica reported. Aryeh Lightstone helped arrange meetings between U.S. senators, prominent Angolan government officials…
100% of profits support our journalism
