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News Wikileaks Boss Compares Himself to Nazi Victims With ‘First They Came for Assange’ Campaign
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Socialist,” opens the famous poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller, describing the the Nazis’ rise to power and the targeting of minority groups, one after the other. “Then they came for me — and there was no one…
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News Twitter Gives Online Hate Speech Its Biggest Platform — Why?
During the last months, anti-Semitic attacks and trolling has risen to seemingly unprecedented levels on social media sites. The problem’s gotten so bad that the Anti-Defamation League created a task force combating online hate speech. (Their first report will be released this Wednesday.) Of course the biggest problem is those who are posting all that…
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News Shabbat Dinner Helped Turn Around This Ex-White Supremacist
How does one of the country’s leading white nationalists become a liberal backer of racial equality? Shabbat dinner might have something to do with it. According to a Washington Post profile, Derek Black, a onetime protege of David Duke, turned away from the hateful ideology after Jewish students reached out to him to join their…
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The Schmooze No, Mel Gibson is Not Making a Comeback Now. Here’s Why.
Lately, news has been swirling around that Mel Gibson, ten years after outing himself as an anti-Semite, has “officially been released” from a sort of “director’s jail”, ending his de facto status as “persona non grata” in Hollywood. The proof given for this “official release” includes the fact that he’s now coming out with a…
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Fast Forward Pepe the Frog Creator Fights Back Against Anti-Semites
— The creator of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon that has become a symbol frequently circulated by anti-Semites online, is joining forces with the Anti-Defamation League to reclaim the image as a “force for good.” Matt Furie will create a series of positive Pepe internet memes that the ADL will promote through its social media…
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Life Donald Trump Hates Jews. He Hates Women Too. What If You’re Both?
Two discussions exist in parallel, not in conversation, and have pretty much made up my social-media feeds of the last few months, but the last few days especially: Trump hates Jews. Trump hates women. Look what Trump said about Jews! Look what Trump said about women! Lost in the mix is the fact—self-evident, presumably, to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Member of UK Parliament Frightened By Anti-Semitic Personal Attacks
— Luciana Berger, a well-known Jewish lawmaker in Britain’s Labour Party, said her family was pained and worried over threats and anti-Semitic slurs made at her. Berger, who rarely speaks about her private life in interviews, made the statements in a filmed interview posted online Wednesday by the Liverpool Echo ahead of Britain’s National Hate…
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Fast Forward N.J. House Candidate Targeted By Swastika Attack
— Swastikas were painted outside the New Jersey home of an Indian-American candidate for Congress with a Jewish-sounding surname. Peter Jacob is running against a Republican incumbent, Leonard Lance, who is a supporter of presidential candidate Donald Trump. Jacob blames Lance’s backing of Trump for the display of hate. Jacob told the local media that…
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