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Fast Forward Arizona Jewish Candidate’s Driveway Vandalized With Swastika, Slurs
— A Jewish candidate for a seat in the Arizona State Legislature found anti-Semitic messages spray-painted on his driveway in suburban Phoenix. Adam Stevens, 31, of San Tan, discovered a swastika and the words “Go Home Jew” on Friday morning, The Arizona Republic reported Monday. A swastika also was painted on one of Stevens’ campaign…
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Fast Forward Brazilian University Rector Apologizes for Post Seeking ‘Zionism is Racism’ Teacher
The rector of a Brazilian federal university to the Jewish community over a public notice seeking to hire a “racial-ethnic relations” educator required to teach Zionism as a racist concept alongside Nazism and apartheid. ABC Federal University rector Klaus Capelle delivered the apology to Brazilian Israelite Confederation President Fernando Lottenberg and Executive President Ricardo Berkiensztat at a…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Comments Shut Down Chat on Republican Convention Live Stream
A barrage of anti-Semitic comments shut down the Chat alongside the live YouTube feed from the Republican National Convention on Monday afternoon, Raw Story reported. As former Hawaiian Governor Linda Lingle made scathing comments about the Democrats lack of support for Israel, anti-Semitic trolls wrote “MAKE AMERICA JEWISH AGAIN,” “press h for hitler,” “F——————- THE…
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News Donald Trump Goes All ‘Frozen’ on Star of David Flap
You might think Donald Trump would want to put his controversial Tweet using a Star of David in the rear view mirror as fast as possible. Instead, he is keeping the story alive by pointing to a Disney sticker book with a similar six-sided star as evidence that his Tweeet of an anti-Hillary Clinton meme…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Defends Donald Trump After Observer Writer Denounces ‘Anti-Semitism’
Jared Kushner defended his father-in-law Donald Trump against claims of anti-Semitism after a Jewish journalist at his Observer newspaper denounced the Republican presidential candidate. Trump “does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-Semitic thinking,” Kushner said in a statement Tuesday night, Politico reported “My father-in-law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person who…
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Opinion Donald Trump Hires the ‘Best’ People — for Following the Anti-Semitic Twitterverse
Prior to this weekend, Donald Trump had a degree of plausible deniability regarding anti-Semitism, both personally and from his campaign. While many of Trump’s legions of online supporters are explicitly (and viciously) anti-Semitic, Trump himself had little to do with them beyond his Twitter account retweeting things from accounts with #WhiteGenocide in their profiles. On…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Tweets Blatantly Anti-Semitic Post About Hillary Clinton
“Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” declared Donald Trump’s official Twitter feed early on Saturday morning, with a picture of Hillary Clinton, a heaped pile of money and a large red, six-pointed Star of David. He later took it down (to replace the star with a circle) but made no apology for the offence he had caused….
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News Louisiana Sheriff Unleashes ‘Jew Bastard’ Rant at Federal Prosecutor
A Louisiana sheriff charged with federal civil rights violations allegedly called a federal prosecutor in his case a “son-of-a-bitch Jew bastard” and threatened to shoot him “right between [his] goddamned Jewish eyes.” Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal made the comments, which are believed to reference Justice Department special counsel Mark Blumberg, while being secretly recorded…
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