Antisemitic terror plot in Australia was fake and staged by a crime boss, police say
Australian Jews were facing violent incidents for months but authorities say there hasn’t been a significant attack since early February
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Jessica Krug, an Associate Professor of African Studies at George Washington University, admitted in a lengthy Medium post that she had spent years pretending to be Black. “I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to…
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Opinion Your California Anti-Semite Is A Hoax. Typical Liberals.
Dear Editor, I wanted to call attention to your recent article entitled “Top Republican In California Senate Race Called For Government ‘Free From Jews’” dated April 29th. I found it to be quite odd. “The top challenger to California Sen. Dianne Feinstein in her upcoming re-election campaign is a candidate who has repeatedly espoused anti-Semitism…
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The Schmooze William Shatner Wants You To Know He’s Alive After Facebook Death Hoax
It’s a tough week for Facebook, which plunged a rather dramatic $37 billion dollars as reports emerged that the firm Cambridge Analytica accessed user data in connection with the Trump campaign. And now, as if that blackening of personal freedoms wasn’t enough, the website is also hosting ads that erroneously claim that “Star Trek” actor…
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Fast Forward Sandy Hook ‘Hoaxer’ Faces Jail For Telling Noah Pozner’s Father ‘You Gonna Die’
A Florida woman who believed the 2012 massacre at a Connecticut elementary school was a hoax was sentenced to five months in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to threatening a parent of one of the children killed. Prosecutors accused ‘hoaxer’ Lucy Richards, 57, of saying she would kill a parent of a Sandy…
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Fast Forward Newtown Massacre ‘Hoaxer’ Charged With Threats Against Noah Pozner’s Father
(JTA) — A Florida woman has been arrested for threatening the parents of a Jewish boy killed in the in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut. Lucy Richards, 57, was indicted Monday in federal court in southern Florida on four counts of threats in interstate commerce against Len Pozner. Richards made the death threats because…
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Fast Forward Fresh Questions Swirl Around Nazi ‘Mascot’ Case
A war crimes investigator cast fresh doubts on the autobiographical account of a purported Holocaust survivor living in Australia who says he was a child mascot for Nazis. Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, wrote to officials last week at the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany,…
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News The Jewish Victim of Newtown Conspiracy Theorists
Gene Rosen was walking out of his house to get lunch at a diner in his hometown of Newtown, Conn., when he came across six children and an adult sitting in his driveway. Confused, the retired psychologist asked them what they were doing. The date was December 14, 2012. Less than a mile away, a…
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