At least 18 Democratic House members have signed a letter to President Trump demanding that he fire Sebastian Gorka, his top counter-terrorism aide, due to Gorka’s affiliations or work with anti-Semitic organizations and individuals. The letter, which is currently being circulated by Reps. Eliot Engel and Nita Lowey, both of New York, calls on Trump…
The head of the European Union’s executive arm will meet U.S. financier George Soros next Thursday, a spokeswoman said, as part of consultations on a new Hungarian law that has threatened to force the closure of a university that Soros funds. The Central European University is at the heart of the latest dispute between Hungary…
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism adviser, is once again facing disdain from Middle East experts—this time over a reported plan he advanced to partition Libya. Shortly before Trump’s inauguration and Gorka’s own appointment as deputy assistant to the president, Gorka advocated cutting war-torn Libya into three separate countries and drew his outline for the…
Tens of thousands of Hungarians protested in central Budapest on Sunday against new legislation that could force the Central European University (CEU), a school founded by U.S. financier George Soros, to move out of the country. A bill passed in Parliament this week by the ruling right-wing Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a…
The American Jewish Committee has called on the White House to “look into new revelations” about the background of President Trump’s chief counter-terrorism advisor, Sebastian Gorka. In a statement released Tuesday, the Jewish civil rights organization cited video of a 2007 TV interview with Gorka, first reported yesterday by the Forward, in which the future…
Budapest’s Central European University (CEU) is the latest casualty in Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s war on liberalism and free expression. Earlier today the Hungarian Parliament approved an amendment to a higher education law that would, per the New York Times, “restrict the independence of universities that offer diplomas from countries where they do not…
Responding to an April 3 Forward story, two websites on the right—RedState.com and the Federalist—have charged the Forward with mistranslating or decontextualizing controversial comments by current senior White House aide Sebastian Gorka in a 2007 interview. In the interview, as reported by the Forward, Gorka voiced support for and defended the establishment of the Hungarian…
How much does the Hungarian Guard, a paramilitary organization praised by controversial White House aide Sebastian Gorka, hate Jews? István Dósa, a captain in the Guard, called Jews “Zionist rats” and “locusts,” while also condemning “Zionist-Bolshevik genocide” and labeling Hungarian Jews “nation-destroyers.” Gábor Vona, one of the group’s founders, has framed its goals as protecting…
