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Fast Forward Politician Switches From ‘Greedy Jewish Landlords’ To Alt-Right (((Echoes))) On Twitter
Less than two hours after agreeing to stop using the phrase “Greedy Jewish landlords” on Twitter, Thomas Lopez-Pierre, a candidate for New York City Council, has taken to using the (((echoes))) popularized by Holocaust deniers and the “alt-right.” On Monday afternoon, Lopez-Pierre, who is a candidate for a district in Manhattan comprising the Harlem and…
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Fast Forward Trump’s Lawyer Blames Secret Service For Allowing Trump Jr. Meeting With Russians
Jay Sekulow, a Messianic Jewish lawyer with a history of promoting Christian right causes in the U.S. and around the world, blamed the Secret Service for allowing the meeting between Donald Trump, Jr., and a Russian lawyer to take place on news programs on Sunday. Sekulow is working on Donald Trump’s private legal team, and…
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Opinion When Is It Okay To Call Someone A Nazi?
The question isn’t really who has called someone else a Nazi, but who hasn’t. After decades of work educating young people about the awful history of the Nazi regime, we now reside in a world where every 7th grader (including myself, once upon a time) calls their teacher a Nazi, and where literally thousands of…
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Fast Forward WaPo Investigation Finds Worker Protections Wanting In Ivanka’s Factories
“The time to change the narrative around women and work once and for all is long overdue; in fact, it’s become my life’s mission,” Ivanka Trump wrote in her book “Women Who Work.” While Trump works on the “narrative,” the thousands of women in Bangladesh, Indonesia and China who make garments for her eponymous clothing…
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Fast Forward Alt-Right Trolls Lash Out At Laura Loomer After Profile
Far right media activist Laura Loomer this morning, she has been the target of vicious anti-Semitic posts on social media since Forward published a profile of her Friday morning. “Synagogue of Satan. You are fake Jews,” wrote @BrydensFunny. “Go back to Israel you filthy kike,” wrote “Leah Goldstein.” (Twitter handle: @JewessGoyim.) “Goldstein? You sound like…
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Fast Forward Ivanka and Jared Try To Keep Low Profile In Sun Valley
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have made a daring escape. While the first family rides out the media storm following revelations that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian state prosecutor and a former Soviet counterintelligence officer in Trump Tower last summer, Kushner and Trump are attending a lux conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. The…
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Fast Forward Sebastian Gorka Emerges As Trump’s Favorite Cable News Attack Dog
Sebastian Gorka, the controversial White House anti-terrorism aide, has become one of Donald Trump’s favorite onscreen defenders, according to Axios. In recent days, Gorka has taken to Fox, MSNBC and CNN to support the president and fire back against what he likes to call the “fake news industrial complex.” “I’m sad to see CNN fall…
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News Laura Loomer Is The Jewish Voice Of The Far Right. Can She Tame Jew Haters?
Just as Brutus and his collaborators brandished knives and went in for the kill, one audience member decided to intervene. “Stop the normalization of political violence against the right!” Laura Loomer yelled, storming the stage of Shakespeare in the Park’s now-famous performance of “Julius Caesar.” For a brief second, all was quiet. The would-be assassins,…
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