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Fast Forward It’s Official, ‘Alt-Right’ Is In The Dictionary Now
Among recent additions to the popular website Dicionary.com is the term “alt-right,” which catapulted into public consciousness in the last year or so, particularly during the fraught election season. Scholars, journalists and activists have struggled to pin down exactly what the term means — and it’s origins are even unclear. While white nationalist, or “Identitarian,”…
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News Dear Dr. Gorka: Six Questions Trump’s Counter-Terrorism Aide Won’t Answer
Dear Dr. Gorka, I was relieved to see you “liked” several recent tweets aimed at me, even though they were hostile and one wrongly implied that the Forward was taking money for the stories we have reported on you. I was beginning to worry that you hadn’t seen our reporting . As you know, on…
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Opinion Why A ‘Proud Self-Hating Jew’ Asked Me To Tout His Book
The email was a blatant appeal to my ego. The subject line read “Speaking Engagement,” and the sender, who I didn’t know, was inviting me to speak about whatever I wanted to — wow! — on a New York City panel celebrating the release of a new book by “internationally acclaimed British jazz saxophonist, philosopher…
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Fast Forward Rome Medieval Cemetery Bares Evidence Of Stark Anti-Semitism
Archaeologists working in Italy have discovered a Jewish cemetery from the Middle Ages, complete with dozens of skeletons and centuries-old evidence of the persecution the community faced in a city ruled by the Catholic Church. “I am very happy we have found important information about this cemetery, perhaps for the first time ever,” Daniela Rossi,…
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Fast Forward Arizona Fliers Accuse Jews Of Concocting Anti-Semitic Hoaxes
(JTA) — Fliers accusing Jews of creating anti-Semitic hoaxes were left in neighborhoods of Scottsdale, Arizona. The fliers reference the fact that a teen in Israel, believed to be Jewish, was arrested in connection with the threats made to nearly 150 Jewish community centers and Jewish institutions in the U.S. “Why do Jews feel the…
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Opinion Letter To The Editor: Don’t Forget Trump’s Attacks Against An “International Elite”
Like other professed conservative writers, Bethany Mandel has joined a campaign to vilify liberals by attacking claims of right-wing anti-Semitism. At the same time, she excuses the anti-Semitic sentiment fomented by Trump’s thinly veiled attacks against an “international elite” undermining American values and interests. The crudest example was his final presidential campaign commercial singling out…
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Community The No State Solution
More times than I can count, Brown University students, Jewish and non-Jewish, have decried Israel in what they call “a critique of nationalism” or the state system. On the one hand, I agree with their theoretical point: nationalism and the state system are extremely problematic and have resulted in enormous grief, bloodshed, and displacement across…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Anti-Semitic ‘Alt-Right’ Slogan Flies At Pro-Trump Rally
A placard bearing a notorious anti-Jewish “alt-right” slogan was waved by Trump supporters at a California rally over the weekend. At a Huntington Beach pro-Donald Trump demonstration, one supporter waved a sign reading “Da Goyim Know.” The slogan comes from an “alt-right” online meme. “Goyim” is a pejorative term for non-Jews. The second phrase of…
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Fast Forward ‘A Shonda’: Eric Adams and Brad Lander trade blows in bitter feud over antisemitism in NYC mayoral race
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