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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Soros Conspiracy Theory Posted by Notable Christian Zionist
An official from Christians United for Israel posted an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about George Soros, according to Jewish Currents. Dumisani Washington, the diversity and outreach coordinator for Christians United for Israel, used his personal Facebook page to post a conspiracy theory about Soros that has been widely debunked but has become prominent recently as part…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Doesn’t Think Jewish Soccer Fans Should Reclaim ‘Yid’ Slur
Accusations of anti-Semitism in the British Premier League flared up again this week after fans of Liverpool FC were heard on video calling the Tottenham Hotspurs “yid c**ts.” But now Jeremy Corbyn is saying that the blame also lies with Tottenham’s supporters, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Tottenham’s stadium is in North London, a heavily Jewish…
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News White Supremacist Politicians Won’t Win — But They’re Still A Problem
Arthur Jones is not a winner. True, he clinched the Republican nomination in his Illinois congressional district. That happened because he ran unopposed. The district is so heavily Democratic that no legitimate Republican even cares to run. The 70-year-old is a Holocaust denier who calls the Nazi genocide “an international extortion racket.” “His depraved values…
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Opinion The Twitter Anti-Semites Are Not The Real Problem
Last week, an anti-Semitic Republican primary challenger against House Speaker Paul Ryan named Paul Nehlen made a list of Jews (and a few righteous gentiles) who are verified on Twitter and have “insulted” him in the past month. In order to prove his point about the nastiness and dominance of Jews in media, he made…
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Fast Forward Liverpool Premier League Match Leads To Accusations Of Anti-Semitism
British police are investigating claims that fans of the Liverpool FC soccer team used anti-Semitic insults in run-ins with fans of the Tottenham Hotspurs at a recent match between the two teams, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Video footage appeared to show Liverpool fans yelling “Jewish c**ts” during a Tottenham penalty kick, and a journalist heard…
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Fast Forward Arpaio Claims He Didn’t Know Magazine Was Anti-Semitic – After Fifth Interview
Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona Sheriff and current Republican Senate candidate, is claiming he didn’t know that the American Free Press was anti-Semitic, even though he just gave them his fifth interview, according to the Washington Post. Yesterday, Arpaio explained his position on Twitter. “It was brought to my attention I gave interview to publication…
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Fast Forward Polish Senate Passes Holocaust Complicity Bill Despite US Criticism
Poland’s Senate passed a controversial bill decried by the U.S. and Israeli government that bans accusations against Polish citizens of collaboration with the Nazis, the Washington Post reported. The would ban accusations of complicity with the Nazi regime or any of the six concentration camps that the Nazis set up in Poland, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, where…
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Fast Forward White Supremacist Propaganda Spreading On U.S. College Campuses, ADL Says
(JTA) — White supremacist propaganda on American college campuses has seen a dramatic increase since the fall of 2016, according to the Anti-Defamation League. In a report published Thursday, the ADL called the reported growth “alarming.” ADL’s Center on Extremism recorded 346 incidents in which white supremacists have used fliers, stickers, banners and posters to…
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Yiddish וואָס צוויי פּאָעטן האָבן געשריבן וועגן זייערע מאַמעסWhat these two Yiddish poets wrote about their mothers
מאַני לייב און ראַשעל וואַפּרינסקי, וואָס זענען יאָרן לאַנג געווען ראָמאַנטיש פֿאַרבונדן, באַשרײַבן ביידע דער מאַמעס פֿרומקייט.
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Fast Forward Brad Lander woos Jewish voters in NYC mayoral race with Talmud and Hebrew
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Fast Forward Trump administration condemns destructive pro-Palestinian protest at University of Washington
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Opinion 80 years after Germany surrendered, we’re still learning the real lessons of World War II
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