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‘Heil Trump’ and 3 Other Anti-Semitic Outrages at White Supremacist Victory Party
Richard Spencer is proud to claim the mantle as the face of the real “alt-right,” the loose grouping of white supremacists and neo-Nazis. His so-called think tank held a victory party to celebrate Donald Trump’s presidential victory, which the alt-right claims significant credit for. Even though Spencer and other radicals criticize Trump and his White…
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Ivanka Trump Volunteers With Children at Jewish Pre-Thanksgiving Homeless Event
While her father spent last weekend interviewing Cabinet hopefuls at his golf club in New Jersey, Ivanka Trump headed downtown with her kids to volunteer for a Jewish charity. In posts on Instagram and Twitter, the first daughter thanked the UJA-Federation of New York and Project ORE for allowing her to volunteer at a pre-Thanksgiving…
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New Internet Plug-In Turns Phrase ‘Alt-Right’ Into ‘White Supremacy’
The ‘alt-right’ has used the Internet as one of its primary weapons to harass, troll and chat over the course of the election season. Now, there’s an Internet tool to fight back against the motley crew of white nationalists — a plug-in to the Web browser Google Chrome that turns the word “alt-right” into “white…
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After Hate Crime Wave, Governor Andrew Cuomo Announces New Police Unit
After a spike in bias incidents since the election of Donald Trump, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Sunday that he would be ordering the state police to create a special unit to investigate hate crimes, according to a report in DNAInfo. “Today I’m directing [state agencies] to put together a special team of…
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WATCH: ‘Alt-Right’ Leader Richard Spencer’s Ode to White Identity
Richard Spencer is the chairman of the vaguely-named National Policy Institute, a white supremacist think tank, and the founder of Radix Journal, one of the movement’s primary publications. He’s one of the “alt-right’s” most visible leaders, and relative to others, has tried to give it a more moderate, intellectually refined image. He has, for example,…
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What Did Ari Emanuel Say to President-Elect Donald Trump?
Was this meeting at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, so different from all the others? In a day filled with meetings at his Golf Club, President-elect Donald Trump met with the Ari Emanuel, the co-CEO of a Hollywood talent agency named WME-IMG. Trump dubbed Emanuel as the “King of Hollywood” according…
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Did Family Money Buy Jared Kushner His Spot at Harvard?
Jared Kushner has often been characterized as the head of President-elect Donald Trump’s braintrust. But if old allegations are true, the newspaper owner and real estate magnate didn’t get into Harvard on his smarts. “There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard,”…
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Go Ahead and Call Steve Bannon Satan or Darth Vader — but Not a ‘White Nationalist’
In the two recent interviews Steve Bannon has given since becoming Donald Trump’s chief strategist, the former editor of Breitbart News railed against the “global elite” and insisted that he was not a “white nationalist,” despite media reports depicting him as such. “I’m not a white nationalist, I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist,” Bannon…
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At Conference, White Nationalists Rail Against Jews, Throw Nazi Salutes
White nationalists threw Nazi salutes at a Washington, D.C. conference over the weekend, as energy surges on the so-called “alt-right” following Donald Trump’s victory. At the national conference of the white nationalist National Policy Institute, the group’s president, Richard Spencer, inveighed against Jews, according to a New York Times report, claiming that the media had…
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Why Does the Jewish Right-Wing Think Keith Ellison’s as Bad as Steve Bannon?
For some Jews who support Donald Trump and are feeling under attack by other community members after the appointment of Stephen Bannon to a top Trump White House position, a new line of defense has emerged: The Democrats are just as bad. This argument has focused in recent days on Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the…
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In the Ghetto: From Renaissance Venice to Chicago, Post-Trump
Princeton professor Mitchell Duneier came to town to talk about his new book, “Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea,” and sign a few copies. But certain events in the week preceding Duneier’s November 12 presentation, at the Chicago Humanities Festival, have added extra weight to a discussion about the nature…
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