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Fast Forward ‘Hitler was right’ fliers posted at Arizona State University
Posters printed with slogans like “Hitler was right” and swastikas were found at Arizona State University in Tempe on Sunday, according to a Facebook post by ASU Chabad rabbi Shmuel Tiechtel. “When we are faced with opposition and anti-Jewish sentiment, we cannot back down,” he wrote. “It is a time to add in Jewish pride…
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Israel News Think tank failed to disclose six-figure grant from Israeli government
An American think tank that studies Jew-hatred — including weighing in on when criticism of Israel becomes antisemitic — took a six-figure payment from the Israeli government but didn’t disclose it to the public or to the federal government. That information was detailed in an internal financial spreadsheet that listed payments approved by Israel’s Ministry…
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Fast Forward ‘Jews want a race war’ website removed only to be quickly replaced
(JTA) — (J. the Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Goyim TV, an anti-Semitic video-sharing website that was promoted with a “banner drop” from a Los Angeles freeway overpass on Saturday, has been taken down by its domain host under a flood of complaints. Jon Minadeo Jr., 37, was behind both the website and the…
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Fast Forward UK union expels member after Jewish applicant rejected for ‘zionism’
(JTA) — A renters’ union in England has expelled a member of the organization after a Jewish applicant was rejected with an Instagram message that said “sorry, no time for Zionists.” A second message told the rejected renter that “we are a pro-Palestine organization.” The Acorn union opened an internal investigation after learning of the…
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Fast Forward Australia Uber passenger films himself leaving car after learning driver is Jewish
(JTA) — An Uber passenger in Melbourne, Australia, ordered his driver to pull over and let him out of the vehicle after finding out the driver was Jewish. And he filmed it. “So you’re Jewish?” the passenger asked the driver from the backseat on Tuesday. “All right. Just stop on the left, man. Just stop…
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Fast Forward Mary Ann Mendoza pulled from Republican National Convention after retweeting antisemitic theory
This story was updated to reflect breaking developments. Moments before she was scheduled to speak to the Republican National Convention, Mary Ann Mendoza was dropped from the lineup after she tweeted out a warning about a supposed international Jewish cabal. “Do yourself a favor and read this thread,” Mendoza tweeted, linking to a QAnon conspiracy…
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Fast Forward British rapper Wiley repeats tropes about Jewish power and money in new interview
(JTA) — The British rapper Wiley in a new interview repeated tropes about Jewish power and money that saw him removed from social media platforms. Wiley doubled down on many of his remarks, including that Jews “run the Earth,” are very rich and “stick together,” in an interview with the “1 Po Show” on the…
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Community Do we need a Jewish History Month?
Recently, I spoke with one of my former students and she asked me a question about anti- Semitism that left me entirely speechless. I’ve known her since she was eight years old when she first walked into one of the dance classes that I teach for an organization in downtown Los Angeles that serves mostly…
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