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,…
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…
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,”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Three weeks after his victory, President-elect Donald Trump has named many of his top advisers, drawing heavily from the small group of aides and admirers who surrounded him during his campaign. Steve Mnuchin, his pick to lead the Treasury Department, fits that bill, having served as the candidate’s finance chair and long entertained personal and…
Donald Trump on has announced his pick for attorney general: Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, one of the most conservative U.S. lawmakers and an early supporter of the president-elect’s proposal on banning Muslims entering the country. In a November 18 statement, Trump called Sessions a “world-class legal mind” who is “admired by legal scholars and virtually…
It is “absolutely” possible for Steve Bannon to be pro-Israel and anti-Semitic at the same time, concluded a Huffington Post article about the ex-Breitbart chief who’s now President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist. Several Jewish organizations strongly criticized Bannon’s appointment, announced Nov. 13, on the grounds that he said he had made Breitbart into an online…
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory has worried numerous minority groups, but perhaps none more than American Muslims. In the run-up to his January inauguration, many have fretted that the United States’ new leader might try to force Muslims to register with the government for monitoring purposes. Why is that? Is it legal? What are Jews doing…
דער מחבר איז אַן אַמעריקאַנער־געבוירענער ייִדיש־אַקטיוויסט, פּאָעט און איבערזעצער אין בערלין.
