Election posters promoting Israel’s conservative Likud Party were spotted in Tel Aviv with an unusual English-language slogan: “Make Israel Great Again.” The posters echoed President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. Likud party leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is one of Trump’s closest global allies. #MakeIsraelGreatAgain Likud election posters in Tel Aviv (photo courtesy of…
(JTA) — The publisher of a neo-Nazi website who instructed readers to troll a Jewish real-estate agent will pay the victim $14 million, a federal judge said. US Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch’s ruling Monday also recommends that the court order The Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin to remove all posts and photos that he used…
Kellyanne Conway, a senior advisor to Donald Trump, asked a Jewish reporter his ethnicity Tuesday after he asked her a question about the meaning of recent tweets from Donald Trump that were widely identified as racist. The question came as Conway was defending Trump’s tweets, in which he suggested that four female Congresswoman of color…
Freshman Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts attracted more attention than ever this week after President Trump took thinly-veiled shots at her and other members of “The Squad,” the quartet of first-term progressive congresswoman of color who have taken the political world by storm. In tweets on Sunday and Monday that were widely criticized as…
Police in northern Italy detained three men after discovering an air-to-air missile, an arsenal of military weapons and Nazi propaganda during raids on far-right groups, the BBC reported. As part of an on-going investigation of Italian far-right extremist groups, Italian police discovered the stash of military weapons and Nazi paraphernalia on Monday. Eight hundred bullets,…
The Anti-Defamation League on Monday criticized President Trump for his Twitter tirade that they and other observers categorized as racist. Trump wrote on Sunday that progressive Democratic congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Trump’s words were widely believed to refer to the “Squad”…
(JTA) — President Trump said that his call for some Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to “crime infested” [sic] their countries was also in defense of Israel. Trump referenced Israel on Twitter Monday morning and Sunday, amid an outcry over the earlier tweet he made, which was racist and anti-immigrant because it implied that the…
Sen. Bernie Sanders forbade his campaign staff from publicizing a visit he paid to the site of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre in April because he didn’t want the visit to be seen as a “publicity grab,” The New York Times reported Saturday. Sanders, who is Jewish, met with the rabbi of the Tree of Life…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s new education minister Rafi Peretz said in a television interview that he supports gay conversion therapy and that he has used the practice to help homosexual youth. The comments from Peretz, who was appointed to the position last month, is the second controversial statement he has made in two weeks. Last…
(JTA) — A Jewish British tennis champ who won the women’s doubles at Wimbledon 63 years ago says an exclusive sport club refused to accept her because she is Jewish. Angela Buxton, who won at Wimbledon in 1956 with her American partner Althea Gibson, who was African-American, applied shortly after her win to join the…
(JTA) — Democratic presidential front runner and former vice president Joe Biden told a member of the IfNotNow Jewish anti-occupation movement that the “occupation is a human rights crisis,” and called for a two-state solution. He was one of three major Democratic presidential candidates who were ambushed by Jewish anti-occupation activists from the IfNotNow organization…
