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News WATCH: Trump Supporter Thinks Candidate Will ‘End Zionism’
When it comes to anti-Semitic dog whistles, some Donald Trump supporters are outdoing the campaign. At a Monday rally in Sarasota, Florida, a young man at the candidate’s rally told a reporter with The Young Turks that he thought the Republican nominee would “end Zionism.” “I like Donald Trump as president, and that’s what we…
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Opinion Why Is This Election Different From All Other Elections for the Jews?
I’ve been reading a novel written by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1935, that imagines the alarming rise of a populist leader with fascistic roots, champion of the appropriately named League of Forgotten Men. As Buzz Windrip becomes president of the United States, and then, in short order, its dictator, he aggressively blames Jews for the…
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News WATCH: What If Donald Trump Had Called for Ban on Jews — Not Muslims?
An election ad on rotation in the swing state of Florida, which boasts a sizable Jewish population, imagines presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for a ban on Jews coming to the United States. The advertisement, paid for by the anti-Trump group Truth PAC, includes an excerpt of an earlier speech by Trump in which he…
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Opinion Misogyny Was Enough To Tarnish Donald Trump — but Neo-Nazism Wasn’t?
On November 9, 1938, the Nazi paramilitary force known as the SA led a pogrom against German Jews that is now known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass. They torched synagogues, smashed Jewish businesses and ransacked Jewish homes, sending an estimated 30,000 of their occupants to concentration camps. The two-day orgy of…
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Film & TV Revisiting ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ in an Era of Identity Politics
“There’s no way to tear open the secret heart of another human being,” Phillip Green (Gregory Peck) laments in the 1947 movie “Gentleman’s Agreement.” Phil can’t figure out how to do a story on anti-Semitism absent “the drool of statistics and protest.” But he finds a fresh angle on an old issue by living as…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Donald Trump Backer Accuses Press of Selling Out ‘for a Few Shekels’
Anti-Semitism has surfaced at Donald Trump rallies on too many occasions to think it’s a coincidence. The Republican candidate’s backers have shouted “Jew S. A.,” called the press the Nazi slur lügenpresse (lying press) and hoisted signs that appear to mock the Star of David. Jew-hatred popped up at another event for the Republican nominee…
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The Schmooze Jon Stewart Remembers Twitter War With Donald Trump, Aka ‘F**kface Von Clownstick’
Last night, at the 10th annual Stand Up for Heroes in Madison Square Garden, a whole slew of comedy legends came out to honor vets, including Jerry Seinfeld, Louie CK, and much-missed ex-Daily Show Host Jon Stewart. With one week to go in this crazy hurricane of an election, the candidates were obviously a topic…
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Fast Forward ‘F—- the Jews’ Graffiti Rocks Elite South African University
Anti-Semitic graffiti was reportedly scrawled on a building at South Africa’s elite University of the Witwatersrand, where student protests against high fees have been raging for weeks. It was not immediatedly clear whether the ‘F—- the Jews’ screed is related to the #FeesMustFall movement, but student and Jewish groups quickly denounced the graffiti as hate…
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