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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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News At Florida Rally, Trump Evokes Specter of ‘International Banks’ and Jews Cheer, Too
Donald Trump was speaking in an area with one of the largest Jewish populations in the United States, but in his October 13 speech, he sought to rebut claims of sexual misconduct by alluding to a malevolent global conspiracy — a vintage anti-Semitic trope. He referred repeatedly to a Clinton-organized conspiracy involving bankers and the…
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Community Miko Peled and Progressive Jewish Anti-Semitism
Every time I have a glimmer of hope for the progressive community to get it together about anti-Semitism, something happens to quickly dash it. The incident with Miko Peled, the Jewish son of a high ranking Israeli general, is a recent example. After a brouhaha over his string of anti-Semitic tweets, his event at San…
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Fast Forward Amid Protests, Maryland Sheriff Accused of anti-Semitism Gets the Boot
— A county sheriff in Maryland accused of making racist and anti-Semitic comments is stepping down after weeks of intense pressure to quit. James Fitzgerald, a Democrat who is in his third term as the elected sheriff in Howard County, a mixed rural-suburban county straddling Baltimore and the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., will step…
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News This Neo-Nazi Hit List Helps Jew-Hating Trump Trolls Find Their Targets
A website with the deceptively innocuous name of “Jews in Modern Society” lists the names, photos and professions of almost 400 Jews from academia, social-activism, the financial world and left-wing politics. It’s basically a hit list for neo-Nazis or white supremacists. The mission statement of the site complains that “Jews have had over 100 years…
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News Police Investigating Colorado Teen’s Suicide Discover His Neo-Nazi Facebook Group
After a Boulder, Colorado high school student took his own life, police found a neo-Nazi chat group that involved him and more than a dozen other students. “You can hang Jews on trees, shoot them right in the knees. Gas as many as you please,” wrote one commenter on the Facebook conversation, titled “4th Reich…
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Fast Forward Hundreds of ‘Happy New Year’ Fliers Replace Anti-semitic Ones in Bay Area
— Five Jewish families left about 600 Happy Rosh Hashanah fliers on cars at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in response to anti-Semitic fliers left in the same station. The NBC Bay Area affiliate reported Monday that the anonymous fliers wishing commuters a Happy Jewish New Year that appeared on cars at the BART…
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The Schmooze 10 Anti-Semitic Tweets That Prove Trump’s Dog Whistling Was Real
A whole lot has been said about Trump’s disastrous (and, come on, Trump supporters, it was disastrous) performance during the Second Presidential Debate. From his shameful and insulting use of Bill Clinton’s accusers as props to his threat to literally imprison his opponent to his pacing around the debate floor like a trapped, orange animal,…
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Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: 9 ייִדן פּרוּוון אַרײַנגנבֿענען ציג פֿאַר אַ קרבן אויפֿן הר־הביתTidbits: 9 Jews try to smuggle sacrificial goat onto Temple Mount
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Fast Forward ‘A Shonda’: Eric Adams and Brad Lander trade blows in bitter feud over antisemitism in NYC mayoral race
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Fast Forward South Africa’s chief rabbi supports Donald Trump — but says his refugee program for Afrikaners is a ‘mistake’
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