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Opinion Children at my daughter’s school were forced to reenact the Holocaust
Last week, the librarian at my daughter’s school — Watkins Elementary School in Washington, D.C. -— instructed a class of third graders to “act out” the Holocaust. She instructed the children to pretend they were on a train going to a concentration camp and to pretend to shoot each other, dig mass graves and die…
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Fast Forward Students demand further action after Ohio State professor says ‘Jewing people down’ in class lecture
Ohio State University students and faculty are demanding administrators address a professor’s use of the phrase “Jewing people down” in a Zoom lecture. “I need to convey my utter dismay at having a professor on staff at The Ohio State University plainly using this very derogatory term to describe ‘Hard’ bargaining negotiations,” Chabad Director Levi…
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News He brought Hanukkah to a street famous for Christmas lights. Antisemitism followed — but so did joy.
It’s a holiday tradition in Baltimore: Visiting the Miracle on 34th Street, a city block where houses go all out with candy canes, rooftop Santas and life-size plastic elves and snowmen — except for one row house, where a seven-foot-tall inflatable polar bear spins a dreidel, and a silver LED menorah “burns” from Thanksgiving to…
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Fast Forward Judge orders lawyers to take ethics classes for ‘baseless’ antisemitism allegations
Lawyers who accused opposing counsel of antisemitism against their Israeli corporate client must take courses on judicial ethics under a new order from the trial judge that declares the allegations “vitriolic and unsubstantiated.” The Dec. 17 order from U.S. District Judge Alan Albright in Waco, Texas, reiterated what the judge said in an October hearing:…
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Fast Forward Did progressive protesters scream ‘Jew’ at Rep. Josh Gottheimer?
There’s no love lost between Rep. Josh Gottheimer and activists from the Working Families Party, who have assailed the New Jersey Democrat’s opposition to their progressive priorities. But that feud escalated this week, when Gottheimer said in a speech that party members had hurled antisemitic abuse at him during a protest. “Not long ago, I…
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Culture ‘Holocoste’ sweatshirt taken down by Ukrainian Jewish group
Thousands of stores sell knockoff brand merchandise. But one decided to take it a step further by bringing antisemitism into it with a “Holocoste” sweatshirt, featuring a crocodile like the Lacoste brand’s logo. Elina Katz, a program coordinator for Project Kesher in Ukraine, noticed the sweatshirt for sale on a major e-commerce site called Prom,…
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Culture Did the Proud Boys just embrace an antisemitic, anti-white group?
Black Hammer, an organization perhaps best known for tweeting “Anne Frank is a colonizer,” has just joined forces with self-described “Western chauvinist” group the Proud Boys to “defeat the disgusting p*do-loving, welfare economy demoncrats [sic] and their puppet master, BIG PHARMA,” according to a tweet from Black Hammer. The tweet received over 2,000 quote tweets…
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News Will new Twitter rule curb harassment — or make it tougher to fight antisemites?
A pair of grainy photos show a man delivering what appear to be a Nazi salute, decked out in military gear in one image and dressed as the Joker — replete with a full face of unsettling makeup — in the other. Oren Segal, who tracks extremism for the Anti-Defamation League, posted the photos on…
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Fast Forward Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
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Culture Trump wants to honor Hannah Arendt in a ‘Garden of American Heroes.’ Is this a joke?
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News School Israel trip turns ‘terrifying’ for LA students attacked by Israeli teens
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Fast Forward The invitation said, ‘No Jews.’ The response from campus officials, at least, was real.
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