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The Alt-Right is Modernizing White Supremacy — and Trump is Helping
Donald Trump’s victory in this week’s presidential elections was celebrated by a new generation of white nationalists. In the days after Trump’s win, this cohort — mostly young and male — consider what comes next for their movement and dream of building their own “white ethno-state.” The so-called “alternative right” is a diverse movement, ranging…
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Donald Trump Gives First Interview as President-Elect to Sheldon Adelson’s Israeli Newspaper
The Israeli newspaper owned by the casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson appears to have nabbed the first post-election interview with president-elect Donald Trump. That’s the very, very first. No American media outlet has published an interview with Trump conducted since the election. Trump is scheduled to conduct his first domestic media interview with the CBS program…
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Donald Trump Won’t Push for Mideast Peace: Secret Israeli Dossier
Israel’s Foreign Ministry believes U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will reduce America’s involvement in the Middle East in general and in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular, according to a document written by ministry researchers and disseminated to Israeli diplomats throughout the world. The document, the contents of which were obtain by Haaretz, stresses that Trump’s statements…
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Some Jewish Groups Reach Out to Trump, Others Vow To Resist
The upper echelons of the Jewish establishment have wasted no time cozying up to the incoming Donald Trump administration. The Jewish Federations of North America fired off a letter to Trump Tower the morning after Trump’s victory, saying that the organization “look forward to working closely” with Trump. The letter included the phone number and…
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MAP: How Donald Trump Swept Orthodox Brooklyn — and Blocked a Jewish Landslide for Democrats
Orthodox and Russian Jewish neighborhoods in New York City came out strong for Donald Trump on Tuesday. Hillary Clinton carried New York City by a wide margin, and only 24% of Jews nationwide voted for Trump. But in Jewish Brooklyn, Trump appears to have connected with a conservative electorate willing to buck its communal and…
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How Young Jews in Hungary Are Fighting To Help Refugees — Despite Right Wing Rule
In America, the Facebook post announcing a Jewish social event focused on human rights might seem innocuous, if a bit cute: “No One Is Illegal: Concert, New Klezmer Disco, Syrian Dance Lesson,” the invitation to a fundraiser for refugees read. But it’s a significantly more risky proposition in a country led by a right-wing prime…
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How Did This Elections Expert Know It Would Be Trump All Along?
When he called the election in September for Donald Trump, the pundits trashed American University professor Allan Lichtman. After the Republican president-elect’s upset over Hillary Clinton, he wants the country to heed a message — do not trust polls. “Everybody told me I was absolutely wrong this time because all of the polls were telling…
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Saying Donald Trump Is ‘Not Our President,’ Jews Join Protests Rolling Across Country
Thousands gathered across the country to march, shut down roadways and shout slogans against the election of Donald Trump as president. Some carried signs reading: “Jews Reject Trump.” Members of activist Jewish groups were in the streets in New York, California and Oregon, protesting a president-elect they fear has fueled the flames of racism and…
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Did George Soros’s Cash Scalp Anti-Immigrant Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio?
Gorge Soros saw his favored presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lose at the national level. But the leftwing billionaire vilified in Donald Trump ads met with success in at least one race, succeeding in his effort to remove from office Joe Arpaio, the anti-immigrant sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County. “We congratulate Paul Penzone and everyone who…
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LOOK: 11 Astounding Images of Jewish Settlers in Colonial America
With the presidential election at hand, and Thanksgiving around the corner, it’s a good time to remember that Jews have been a part of United States history since before there was a United States. The New York Historical Society makes it easy in a new exhibit: The First Jewish Americans – Freedom and Culture in…
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Dismissing Anti-Semitism Fears, Republican Jews Cheer Trump Victory
On Wednesday, Jewish Republicans took a victory lap. Donald Trump won the presidency. A second Jewish Republican was elected to the House of Representatives. And, most of all, the expected Trump blowout among Jewish voters just didn’t happen. “The bottom line is that the dire predictions… that Donald Trump was going to get the lowest…
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