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‘Alt-Right’ Celebrity Milo Yiannopoulos Re-emerges After Pedophilia Comments
Back in February, it looked like Milo Yiannopoulos’s career was toast. After winning fame on the strength of President Trump’s campaign, the right-wing provocateur suffered a succession of setbacks after it was revealed that he once defended pederasty: He lost a book deal, a coveted speaking slot and his post at Breitbart News in one…
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Controversial Pro-Israel Pastor John Hagee Basks In Return To Spotlight
On Monday night, the megachurch pastor the Rev. John Hagee addressed a crowd of thousands at the annual summit of Christians United for Israel, the organization he founded over a decade ago. Standing in front of a massive projected image of the Western Wall, the controversial evangelist spoke in uncompromising and biblical language about the…
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‘Christian Zionism’ Grabs Spotlight As Mike Pence Addresses CUFI
On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence delivers the keynote speech at the annual summit of Christians United For Israel — signaling what some see as a new ideological shift for the White House. “His speech marks a fundamental change in the language that the White House has historically employed to articulate the United States’ relationship…
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David Greenfield Appointment As Met Council Chief Still Needs Approval From City And State Monitors
News that a powerful City Councilman will take over the troubled Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty broke before the city and state agencies tasked with monitoring the not-for-profit after its 2013 fraud scandal had approved the hire. Reports in Crain’s and the Wall Street Journal on Monday revealed that David Greenfield, who represents Boro Park…
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6 Reasons Why Emmanuel Macron’s Holocaust Speech Matters
PARIS (JTA) — It wasn’t the first time that a French president acknowledged his nation’s Holocaust-era guilt, but Emmanuel Macron’s speech Sunday was nonetheless groundbreaking in format, content and style. Delivered during a ceremony at the Vel d’Hiv Holocaust memorial monument exactly 75 years after French police officers rounded up 13,152 Jews there for deportation…
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How Chicago Dyke March Used ‘Zio’ — David Duke’s Favorite Anti-Semitic Prefix
The latest chapter in the Chicago Dyke March controversy unfolded late last week after the group walked back its use of the term “Zio,” a pejorative brought into prominence by former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and often deployed by white supremacists. The group had tweeted “Zio tears replenish my electrolytes” to mock concerns about…
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Meet The Jewish Activist Who Boosts Trump, Netanyahu — And A Powerful Anti-Semitic Polish Priest
Leaders of Poland’s Jewish community were deeply upset last month when President Trump defied precedent to be the first American leader in decades to forego visiting the monument that commemorates the doomed revolt of Warsaw’s Jews against the Nazis. Worse yet, Trump went to a different monument hailing Polish heroism in World War II where…
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Barry Freundel’s Victims Slam New Play About Mikveh-Peeping Rabbi
A new play based on the real-life scandal involving Barry Freundel, the Orthodox rabbi who secretly videotaped naked women immersing themselves in a Jewish ritual bath, has sparked outrage among his victims. “Constructive Fictions,” written by graphic artist and copywriter A.J. Campbell, is currently being shown at a fringe festival in Washington, D.C. Before being…
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The ‘Firefighter Prophet’ Who Says He Predicted Trump’s Rise
For diehard Donald Trump supporters troubled by this week’s Russia controversy swirling around the president, an unlikely firefighter-turned-prophet has comforting news: This is all part of God’s plan for America, and for Israel. Mark Taylor is a former firefighter from Florida who presents himself as a Christian prophet, based on the claim that God revealed…
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Jared Kushner In Crosshairs As Russia Scandal Widens — And He Pushes Back Hard
At the dawn of the Trump administration, son-in-law Jared Kushner seemed to float above the maelstrom. For establishment figures on both sides of the political aisle, the babyfaced millionaire, who dabbled in newspapers and took over his jailed dad’s real estate business before becoming an adviser to his presidential father-in-law, was seen as a moderating…
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Laura Loomer Is The Jewish Voice Of The Far Right. Can She Tame Jew Haters?
Just as Brutus and his collaborators brandished knives and went in for the kill, one audience member decided to intervene. “Stop the normalization of political violence against the right!” Laura Loomer yelled, storming the stage of Shakespeare in the Park’s now-famous performance of “Julius Caesar.” For a brief second, all was quiet. The would-be assassins,…
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