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Donald Trump Invites Malik Obama, the President’s Hamas-Supporting Half-Brother to Debate
Donald Trump invited President Obama’s half-brother to be a guest of honor at the final presidential debate — despite reports that Malik Obama is a supporter of the anti-Israel Hamas terror movement. The Republican candidate’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment on a 2010 photo depicting Malik Obama wearing a Palestinian headscarf…
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Online Neo-Nazi Hit List Shut Down After Forward Report
Less than a week after the Forward broke the news about the existence of an online neo-Nazi hit list, the provider hosting the website suspended the account. The page with the deceptively innocent name “Jews in Modern Society” listed names, photos and professions of almost 400 Jews from academia, social-activism, the financial world and left-wing…
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9 Things We Learned From the ADL Report on Trolling Jewish Journalists
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report showing the unprecedented online harassment Jews – and especially Jewish journalists – are facing in the age of Twitter and Trump. “The spike in hate we’ve seen online this election cycle is extremely troubling and unlike anything we have seen in modern politics, ADL CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said…
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This Jewish Democrat Raised $13K for GOP on GoFundMe After ‘Nazi’ Firebombing
As the November election fast approaches, Democrats and Republicans are in the usual arms race to raise campaign cash. But in a rare moment of across the aisle solidarity, Democrats led an online fundraiser to fix a North Carolina Republican Party office damaged by an explosion last week. “Even though we deeply, deeply, disagree with…
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15-Year-Old Girl in Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal Interviewed by Feds
More bad news for thrice-disgraced Jewish former congressman Anthony Weiner: the New York Daily News reports that federal investigators have interviewed a 15-year-old girl to whom Weiner sent explicit texts. The News couldn’t get the F.B.I. or federal prosecutors to comment on the report. But their paper’s source, whom the story doesn’t name, says that…
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Fight Over ‘Schindler’s List’ Factory Rages as Czech Town Questions Holocaust Rescue Tale
The factory and housing complex where Oskar Schindler is credited with saving more than 1,000 Jews today lies abandoned, a hulking semi-ruin in the small Czech town of Brnenec, about a two-hour drive from Prague. The Shoah and Oskar Schindler Memorial Endowment Foundation, which own the complex, want to to spend almost $5 million to…
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Wikileaks Boss Compares Himself to Nazi Victims With ‘First They Came for Assange’ Campaign
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Socialist,” opens the famous poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller, describing the the Nazis’ rise to power and the targeting of minority groups, one after the other. “Then they came for me — and there was no one…
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Florida Jews Could Tip Balance in the Ultimate Swing State — and Few Are Switching Sides
Zeev Libskin and Murray Roter, both in their 80s, made their way through the packed South Florida Expo Center until finally getting as close as possible to the stage. Shortly after, Donald Trump took that stage, energizing the two Jewish retirees and thousands more with a 40-minute speech that featured a healthy dose of media…
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Twitter Gives Online Hate Speech Its Biggest Platform — Why?
During the last months, anti-Semitic attacks and trolling has risen to seemingly unprecedented levels on social media sites. The problem’s gotten so bad that the Anti-Defamation League created a task force combating online hate speech. (Their first report will be released this Wednesday.) Of course the biggest problem is those who are posting all that…
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4 Things About Andrés Roemer, the Mexican Diplomat Who Stood Up for Israel
UNESCO’s controversial vote to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and Western Wall has flared tempers even among the most diplomatic of sorts. Following the United Nations’ cultural agency’s decision, Mexico’s ambassador to the organization, Andrés Isaac Roemer Slomianski, walked out of the session in protest of his country’s support for the resolution….
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Shabbat Dinner Helped Turn Around This Ex-White Supremacist
How does one of the country’s leading white nationalists become a liberal backer of racial equality? Shabbat dinner might have something to do with it. According to a Washington Post profile, Derek Black, a onetime protege of David Duke, turned away from the hateful ideology after Jewish students reached out to him to join their…
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