Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of antisemitism, bigotry against Jews.
Topics include vandalism and violence against Jews, conspiracies, campus controversies, language debates about anti-Zionism, right-wing extremism such as Holocaust denial, historical antisemitism from…
Jay-Z rapped on his latest album that “Jewish people own all the property in America,” prompting a backlash and accusations of evoking age-old stereotypes about Jews and money. But Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has also been dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism for his own inflammatory remarks, stood by the rapper. Jay-Z “talked…
You may be familiar with Linda Sarsour, an activist who rose to prominence as one of the leaders of the Women’s March. Sarsour has a lot of supporters. But she also has her fair share of detractors. Sarsour has been repeatedly isolated as a harbinger of hate and violence, most recently in a New York…
Richard Spencer, a leader of the “alt-right” white nationalist movement, is an intractable presence on social media. He’s also seemingly intractable from his adopted home base of Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. While activists have tried to push him out of his townhouse in Alexandria’s picturesque Old Town neighborhood, his landlord and City…
(JTA) — Leaders of the Irish Jewish community have come to the defense of a columnist who was fired for a column in which he made anti-Semitic references. The Sunday Times fired columnist Kevin Myers on Sunday, the same day its Irish edition published his column on the BBC’s gender pay gap, in which he noted that…
Controversial White House aide Sebastian Gorka appears poised for a more visible role promoting President Trump’s agenda — despite unanswered questions about his ties to far-right anti-Semitic and racist groups in Hungary. Once relegated to right-wing media outlets, Gorka has recently made prominent appearances on such prime-time mainstream cable news shows as “360 With Anderson Cooper,”…
The British newspaper The Sunday Times has apologized after publishing a column in its Irish edition on Sunday claiming that some BBC television hosts earned high salaries because they are Jewish. The piece has been taken off the newspaper’s website and the paper’s editor issued an apology. The article, by Kevin Myers, was prompted by…
The New York Police Department is looking for vandals who scrawled swastikas and anti-gay graffiti on rocks and trees in Queens’ Forest Park after the graffiti was discovered on Sunday. “The graffiti was discovered by Parks staff on Sunday evening, and was promptly painted over,” a spokeswoman for the New York City Parks Department told…
Michael Savage – a far-right radio host, along with Erich Gleibe – of the ‘National Alliance’, and Mike Guzovsky – a follower of Meir Kahane — have all been banned from entering Great Britain, a paragon of democracy, on the grounds that they “[engage] in unacceptable behavior by justifying terrorist violence… and fostering racial hatred.”…
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