(JTA) — Johnny Cash’s children took to social media to denounce a neo-Nazi who wore a T-shirt with the singer’s name on it during the Charlottesville far-right rally last weekend. In a Facebook post Wednesday, Rosanne, Kathy, Cindy, Tara and John Carter Cash pointed out that their late father had received humanitarian awards from, among…
Two Jewish advisers stood next to President Trump when he delivered his comments comparing neo-Nazis to those who protested against them. And while Gary Cohn, Trump’s top economic adviser, has made his fury known, at least in inner circles, press reports indicate that Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, while quieter on the issue, was also not…
A blogger for the Hebrew language edition of Haaretz tweeted out a “Starter chart to the [Israeli] right” in the aftermath of the events in Charlottesville this past weekend. The chart cheekily suggests that Israel’s right is friends with Nazis who support Israeli, and hate non-Nazis who hate Israel. The flow chart was posted in…
The comedian and writer Dean Obeidallah filed a defamation lawsuit against the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer on Wednesday, just as the site has been booted from a series of online hosts over the last two days. The site’s publisher Andrew Anglin falsely claimed in June that Obeidallah, an American Muslim who hosts a Sirius…
Some of President Trump’s staunchest supporters in the Jewish community may have had enough. Trump’s Tuesday afternoon rant — in which he claimed that there were some “fine people” in the crowd of white supremacists who chanted anti-Semitic slogans in Charlottesville, Virgnia, and equated the “alt-right” and neo-Nazi marchers with counter-protesters who came to oppose…
New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, one of only two Jewish Republicans in the House of Representatives, was among the few who stood up for President Trump after his Tuesday comments blaming “both sides” for the Charlottesville events. “It is not right to suggest that President Trump is wrong for acknowledging the fact that criminals on…
Taking a firm stand against President Trump’s comments on the Charlottesville events, the Republican Jewish Coalition is calling on the president to “provide greater moral clarity in rejecting racism, bigotry, and anti-Semitism.” In a statement issued by the group’s national chairman Norm Coleman and executive director Matt Brooks, the RJC made clear it does not…
Just a day after the Daily Stormer was booted from two domain registrars, including Google, the neo-Nazi website is back — with a Russian domain name. As first reported by the website arstechnica, the Daily Stormer is back online under the name “dailystormer.ru.” In a post announcing his return, publisher Andrew Anglin said his partner…
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