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News Is Steve Bannon a White Nationalist in the White House — or ‘Alt Light’ Sellout to Cause?
Anti-Semite? Zionist? Champion of the alt-right? In the hours after media provocateur Steven Bannon’s elevation to a senior position in president-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet, commentators and civil rights organizations slammed the move. Bannon is a complex figure. He served as a Navy officer and also worked for Goldman Sachs. He also helped run a domed…
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Opinion 4 Things Breitbart Got Dead Wrong About the Forward
Aaron Klein writes on Breitbart.com that the Forward intentionally smeared his former boss and senior Donald Trump advisor, Stephen Bannon, by explaining how he can support Israel and still be associated with anti-Semitism. To quote the president-elect: Wrong. We are journalists, with a proud history extending over nearly 120 years of independent reporting. We don’t…
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News Alan Dershowitz Backs Steve Bannon, Calls Left ‘Anti-Semitic’
Alan Dershowitz waded into the debate this week over Steve Bannon, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for chief White House strategist, dismissing charges of anti-Semitism directed at the aide and throwing back those allegations at the political left. “I think we have to be very careful before we accuse any particular individual of being an anti-Semite,”…
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News Twitter Suspends Prominent ‘Alt-Right’ Users for Hate Speech
After years of continuous criticism for doing nothing about the rampant hate speech on their platform, Twitter finally took a step in the right direction. Tuesday, Twitter removed the accounts of prominent ‘alt-right’ leader Richard Spencer, his think tank and online magazine, as well as other other ‘alt-right’ members like Paul Town, Pax Dickinson, Ricky…
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Fast Forward Politico Seeks To Reassure Journalists Spooked by Anti-Semitic Hate Wave
— The staff at Politico magazine was reassured that their “personal safety is of the utmost importance” after receiving threatening letters, some of them anti-Semitic. The magazine’s publisher and editor, John Harris and Carrie Budoff Brown, respectively, sent a note Tuesday to the staff. “Over the last week, it’s been reported that some journalists and…
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Fast Forward Canadian Rabbi Blames Anti-Semitic Vandalism of Home on Hatred Trump ‘Unleashed’
— A rabbi in Canada said the anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on the door of her Ottawa home was the result of feelings “unleashed” by Donald Trump. A bright red swastika and the word “kike” were painted Monday on the home of Rabbi Anna Maranta. The home also hosts prayer services. Maranta posted a photo of…
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Fast Forward Steve Bannon Insists Anti-Semites Only ‘On the Margins’ of Alt-Right
Steve Bannon feels he is misunderstood — and the alt-right movement too. The former Breitbart News chief who has come under fire after being appointed chief strategist in the Donald Trump White House, believes that the right wing elements he represents aren’t getting a fair shake. “These people are patriots,” Bannon said in a New…
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News Jewish Historians Ditch Ivory Tower to Denounce Donald Trump
Scholars usually avoid politics, content to plod around the stacks in the university library and write essays for obscure academic journals. But after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential elections, hundreds of Jewish historians signed an open letter pledging their opposition to many of the new leader’s ideas. “We condemn unequivocally those agitators who have…
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