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Fast Forward Spray-Painted Anti-Semitism Hits Historic Barbados Synagogue
(JTA) — A synagogue on the Island of Barbados was vandalized with red spray-painted anti-Semitic messages. The messages were painted on the exterior walls of the synagogue in St. Michael early on Friday morning, the local Nation News website reported. The Nidḥe Israel Synagogue, located on Synagogue Lane in Bridgetown, St. Michael, the island’s capital,…
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Fast Forward Rep. Jerry Nadler ‘Disturbed’ By Forward Report On Sebastian Gorka
(JTA) — A congressman wrote a letter to President Donald Trump voicing concern over reports on the alleged membership of a White House counterterrorism adviser in a Hungarian nationalist group. The letter dated March 16 by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., followed the publication this week of an article in the Daily Forward that quoted two…
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Fast Forward Gorka Says He Opposes Anti-Semitism, But Does Not Address Affiliation With Nazi Allied Group
In his first comment to the Forward after it exposed his ties to a Nazi-allied group, White House adviser Sebastian Gorka expressed his rejection of anti-Semitism, but did not address the question of his membership in Vitezi Rend, a far-right Hungarian nationalist group that collaborated with the Nazis. “I’ve been a committed opponent of anti-Semitism,…
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News Four Things You Need To Know About Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka
Senior leaders of the far-right Hungarian group Vitézi Rend—listed by the State Department as having been “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany” during World War II—tell the Forward that Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism advisor, is a lifelong sworn member of their order. Here are four things you need to know…
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Fast Forward ‘End Jewish Privilege’ Poster Circulates on Chicago College Campus
Anti-Semitic fliers calling for an end to “Jewish privilege” have been strewn all over the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, according to student Eva Zeltser, who posted an image of the poster with her commentary on Tuesday. “Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege,” the flier shouts, purporting to show with…
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Fast Forward Interactive Map Documents 300 Anti-Semitic Incidents
(JTA) — The investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica has produced an interactive map that chronicles over 300 anti-Semitic crimes across the United States from the past few months. The graphic, which was published Wednesday, is a companion to an article ProPublica ran last week, “In an Angry and Fearful Nation, an Outbreak of Anti-Semitism,” which found…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Vice Co-Founder Makes ‘10 Things I Hate About Jews’ Video
Following a visit to Israel, Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes — who left Vice a decade ago — launched into a rant against Jewish people and the Jewish state, in a post inventively titled “10 Things I Hate About Jews.” According to McInnes, Hebrew is “spit talk” and “whole language is clearing your throat, it’s like…
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Community Liberal Jews: It’s Time To Stand Up For Others — And Ourselves
It is a scary time to be Jewish in America. Our communities have watched with alarm as Donald Trump wielded anti-Jewish stereotypes to energize his base and with outrage at his administration’s brazen flirtations with Holocaust denial. In the past two months, Jewish cemeteries have been desecrated, our synagogues fired into, and our community centers…
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