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Fast Forward Trump Slaps Anti-Semitic ‘Globalist’ Dog Whistle On Non-Jewish Koch Brothers
President Trump criticized GOP billionaire donors Koch brothers in a tweet this morning, calling them “globalist,” The Huffington Post reports. The term “globalist” has frequently been identified as a right-wing anti-Semitic dog whistle. The New York Times said that, for the “far right,” “globalism has long had distinct xenophobic, anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic overtones. It refers…
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Fast Forward Indiana Synagogue Vandalized With Nazi Graffiti
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti was spray painted on the property of a synagogue in Carmel, Indiana. A black swastika surrounded by a red background and the German and Nazi Military Iron Cross were painted on a wall at Congregation Shaarey Tefilla, a 200-member family Conservative synagogue near Indianapolis. The graffiti were painted on the synagogue…
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Fast Forward WATCH: ‘Acts Of Anti-Semitism Must End,’ Says Pence
Vice President Mike Pence addressed the Ministerial To Advance Religious Freedom on Thursday, where he defended religious freedom, expressing that “acts of violence and hatred and anti-Semitism must end.” At the first-ever event, held at the State Department, Pence gave examples of the frequency in which Jews are attacked. “Just 70 years after the Holocaust,…
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Fast Forward Christian Group Sent GOP Congressman To Romania To Meet With Holocaust Denier
The Christian group that runs the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. sponsored a trip to Romania for a member of Congress to meet with a local political leader accused of anti-Semitism, the left-wing news outlet TYT Network reported Wednesday. Republican Rep. Robert Aderholt of Alabama met with Marian Munteanu on two separate occasions…
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Fast Forward Staten Island Man Arrested After Painting Swastika On Neighbor’s Home
(JTA) — A man who painted a swastika on a Staten Island, New York family’s home was sentenced to six months in jail and five years’ probation. James Rizzo Jr. told police at the time of his arrest in October 2017 that he knew the family was Jewish “because of the way they spoke.” He…
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News GOP Candidate Disavows ‘Jews Must Be Stopped’ Robocalls — But Sticks With Holocaust Denial
California Republican John Fitzgerald claims the robocalls received by people in the Bay Area — declaring that Jews are taking over America — are “unauthorized” and a “smear against” his campaign. Although the call’s message is consistent with his anti-Semitic rhetoric — he’s an known Holocaust denier — Fitzgerald denied responsibility, writing on his congressional…
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Fast Forward ‘Jews Must Be Stopped’: California GOP Congressional Candidate Robocall
Robocalls in support of California congressional candidate John Fitzgerald assert that Jews are taking over the world and ‘must be stopped.’ Robert Gammon, business development director for Telegraph Media, tweeted Tuesday that he received one of the calls from Fitzgerald, the GOP candidate for the 11th district. He said it was “easily the most racist…
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Community Anti-Semitism Is Real — And So Are White Jews
I am a white American Jew. If I look at my family tree for many generations back on either side, I will see white Europeans who look just like me. My mother’s family has been in the US for several generations. She has roots in Eastern Europe, but her parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were born…
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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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Fast Forward The invitation said, ‘No Jews.’ The response from campus officials, at least, was real.
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Opinion A Holocaust perpetrator was just celebrated on US soil. I think I know why no one objected.
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Fast Forward Columbia staff receive texts asking if they’re Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
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