Outgoing French Ambassador to the United States Gerard Araud told the Atlantic on Friday that he was “close” with White House senior advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner but that Kushner’s Middle East peace plan was likely “doomed to fail.” Araud has long been known for his outspoken nature – he tweeted after President Trump was elected in…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he would name a new community in the Golan Heights after President Trump, who recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed area last month. “All Israelis were deeply moved when President Trump made his historic decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights,” Netanyahu said in a…
The UC Berkeley Jewish community put out a letter condemning anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist remarks made at a recent student government meeting, The Daily Californian reported. The student government was meeting Wednesday after deciding to disqualify candidates from the Student Action party from elections after discovering campaign finance violations, according to The Daily Californian. But one…
The Anti-Defamation League is alleging that a professor at an Arkansas college, who left money for a scholarship in his name, was a committed Holocaust denier, Insider Higher Ed reported. Michael Arthur Link was a professor of history at Arkansas Tech University for 51 years, until his death in 2016. He left $190,000 in his…
The leader of a militia that has been detaining migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border once said that the group was “training to assassinate George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama,” NBC News reported. Larry Mitchell Hopkins was arrested Saturday on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. He appeared in…
The deputy mayor of the Austrian town where Adolf Hitler was born has resigned after writing a poem comparing migrants to rats, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Christian Schilcher, the deputy mayor of Braunau am Inn and a member of the far-right Freedom Party, published a piece entitled “The City Rat (Rodent with Sewerage Background)”…
The Trump administration is aiding a New Jersey native American tribe in its legal suit against a suburb for using its zoning rules to persecute the tribe, The New York Times reported. That same town — Mahwah, in Bergen County — was also repeatedly accused of using its zoning rules to [keep Hasidic Jews from…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner said that the special counsel investigation into Russian interference was “much more harmful” than the Russian interference itself. “The investigations and all the speculation that has happened over the last few years has had a much harsher impact on democracy than a few Facebook ads,” President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner said “the two-state solution failed,” setting up the likelihood that the peace plan he expects to release soon will include limited autonomy for Palestinians. “New and different ways to reach peace must be tried,” Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and one of the architects of the plan, said Tuesday at a Time…
Heiress Clare Bronfman pleaded guilty on Friday to being involved in the alleged sex-slavery cult Nxivm, CBS News reported. In her plea, Bronfman admitted she hid someone living in the U.S. illegally for unpaid “labor and services.” She also said she committed credit card fraud while working for Keith Raniere, who led Nxivm in upstate…
The Women’s March organization launched a petition Tuesday calling on Facebook and Twitter to suspend President Trump for his recent social media attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar. “Don’t give hate a platform,” the letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said. “President Trump has demonstrated time and again that he will…
