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Opinion Is PewDiePie More Like Mel Brooks Than Like Milo Yiannopoulos?
The latest controversy over online anti-Semitism is not about white supremacists or neo-Nazis, but about a 27-year-old Swedish YouTube star who goes by the nickname “PewDiePie” (aka Felix Kjellberg). Last week, Kjellberg , who has more than 53 million subscribers for his video channel that mixes comedy with video game play and rambling cultural commentary,…
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Opinion How Trump Pleased Bibi Netanyahu And David Duke Alike
What was noteworthy about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent summit with President Trump was that the leaders’ press conference had little to do with Israel. An Israeli reporter asked Trump the following question: “Mr. President, since your election campaign and even after your victory, we’ve seen a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents across the United…
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News 5 Possible Reasons Donald Trump Won’t Denounce Anti-Semitism
The question was a softball, lobbed slow over the plate. President Trump whiffed. Hard. “Forty-eight bomb threats have been made against Jewish centers all across the country in the last couple of weeks,” a reporter from an Orthodox magazine said. “There are people who are committing anti-Semitic acts, or are threatening to —” Trump interrupted….
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Opinion ADL Head: Speak Up Now Against Anti-Semitism, Mister President
Let’s be clear at the outset: I do not believe that President Trump is an anti-Semite. When he talks lovingly about his Jewish daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren; when he refers to his many lifelong Jewish associates and friends and to the Jewish individuals he has appointed, there is no reason to question his sincerity. These…
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Opinion What Will It Take For Donald Trump To Condemn Anti-Semitism?
I take Donald Trump at his word that he is not an anti-Semite. But he is a serial enabler of anti-Semitism. During the presidential campaign, he hesitated before condemning neo-Nazi and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. He retweeted white supremacist postings. He hired the head of Breitbart News (a vehicle for “alt-right” white…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups And Lawmakers Berate Trump For Blasting Ultra-Orthodox Reporter
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League decried President Donald Trump’s brusque treatment of a reporter who asked about a spike in anti-Semitic incidents and challenged him to offer an explicit condemnation of anti-Semitism. “It is honestly mind-boggling why President Trump prefers to shout down a reporter or brush this off…
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Community The Latest Trend In Zionism? Anti-Semitism.
“The truth,” writes Bernard Henri-Levy in his recent book, The Genius of Judaism, “is that one can now be anti-Semitic only by being anti-Zionist; anti-Zionism is the required path for any anti-Semitism that wishes to expand its recruiting pool beyond those still nostalgic for the discredited brotherhoods.” Is that true, or has the ancient virus…
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Fast Forward What is #48Jewish? Yes, Twitter. JCC’s Are Being Targeted.
The hashtag #Jewish48 was spreading across the Jewish twittersphere Thursday, a reference to a spate of recent telephone bomb threats delivered to 48 Jewish community centers. The wave of social media activism comes on the heels of President Trump’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — during which Trump dodged a question about rising…
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