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Fast Forward Paul Nehlen Cozies Up To David Duke In Podcast Appearance
Paul Nehlen made an appearance on the podcast show of David Duke, former Klu Klux Klan Grand Wizard and prominent white supremacist and anti-Semite. Nehlen is challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin’s upcoming Republican primaries. In the interview, Duke asked Nehlen about Jews in the media and about white nationalism. “I think it’s right…
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Community 5 Things I Learned From Losing A Fight Against Anti-Semitism — In My Own Town
The local paper at the checkout line immediately caught my eye. My seemingly placid northern New Jersey town, Roseland, had erupted in Fury over a councilman, Thomas Tsilionis, who had exchanged vile texts with another council member, David Jacobs, in a group chat between the six city council members and the mayor. The texts contained…
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Fast Forward Jew Hater Paul Nehlen Makes List Of His Jewish Foes On Twitter
Following a spate of press reports highlighting his connections to the white nationalist “alt-right” and accusations of anti-Semitism, congressional hopeful Paul Nehlen lashed out online against Twitter users who he says have attacked him — nearly all of them Jews. “I’ve compiled a list of ‘verified’ Twitter users who have attacked me in just the…
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Fast Forward Poll: Most Young People Say Anti-Semitism Isn’t Increasing
Most young Americans believe that Muslims, black people and transgender people are facing increasing discrimination, but that anti-Semitism isn’t on the rise — with some saying they believe it has decreased. This new data about young Americans, ages 15 to 24, and their perceptions of discrimination comes from a survey carried out by the Public…
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Community The Weaponization Of International Law To Delegitimize Israel
The weaponization of international law against Israel has become the default position of many in the international community. Over the last 50 years, legitimate criticism of Israel has morphed into anti-Semitism a targeting that no other nation endures. Israel’s European friends have turned into adversaries, and even some American administrations have adopted a narrative in…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis: Europe Must Do More To Fight Anti-Semitism
VATICAN CITY, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Pope Francis called on European countries on Monday to do more to fight anti-Semitism, saying indifference on the issue was a virus that could allow the ideas of racial hatred to spread. Francis issued his appeal in a speech to a Rome conference on the responsibility of states to…
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Opinion How Anti-Semitism’s True Origin Makes It Invisible To The Left
The Anti-Defamation League publishes an annual report on incidents of anti-Semitism in the United States. This year’s audit, made available in November, showed a significant increase in relation to the previous year: 2017 saw a 67% rise in anti-Jewish hate speech, harassment, vandalism and violence. It’s a disheartening measure of a terrible phenomenon. Yet in…
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Community This Holocaust Remembrance Day, Will Trump Remember The Jews?
Dear President Trump, This year, will you remember the Jews? Last year, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a newly inaugurated President Trump spoke vaguely of “victims, survivors [and] heroes,” of “the darkest hours” and “the powers of good.” For reasons difficult to divine, his statement didn’t mention the Jewish people. In a world where Jews…
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Yiddish קאָנצערט לכּבֿוד דעם ייִדישן שרײַבער און רעדאַקטאָר באָריס סאַנדלערConcert honoring Yiddish writer and editor Boris Sandler
דער בעל־שׂימחה האָט יאָרן לאַנג געדינט ווי דער רעדאַקטאָר פֿונעם ייִדישן פֿאָרווערטס.
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Fast Forward Trump’s new pick for surgeon general blames the Nazis for pesticides on our food
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Fast Forward Jewish feud over Trump escalates with open letter in The New York Times
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Fast Forward First American pope, Leo XIV, studied under a leader in Jewish-Catholic relations
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