The Anti-Defamation League on Monday criticized President Trump for his Twitter tirade that they and other observers categorized as racist. Trump wrote on Sunday that progressive Democratic congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Trump’s words were widely believed to refer to the “Squad”…
Fifty-five years ago, three young volunteers—one black Christian and two white Jews—working to register voters drove into a Mississippi town to investigate why a black church had just burned to the ground. They never made it home. On June 21, 1964, local police officers arrested James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner outside Philadelphia, Mississippi….
This past February, an 11-year-old Black child who was arrested at his school in Lakeland, Florida for choosing to sit quietly during the Pledge of Allegiance. You read that right. While it wasn’t the first time the student had sat for the Pledge, the substitute teacher leading the class that day took particular offense. Rather…
After receiving congressional criticism for making white nationalist comments, Representative Steve King said he found common ground with Jesus Christ. The Iowa Republican said the situation has given him a new understanding of Jesus’ suffering, The Washington Post reported. At a town hall in Cherokee, Iowa, an elderly pastor told King that “Christianity is really…
Left-wing research organization Media Matters recently released hundreds of thousands of messages from a chat forum for members of the white supremacist group Identity Evropa, which revealed immense admiration for Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, who is currently under fire for making racist and misogynist comments on the radio over the years. In the messages, members…
The Israeli election cycle currently underway has been awash in anti-Arab racism for a while now. But things just got much, much worse. On Wednesday, Haaretz reported that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed the Jewish Home Party to join another party, the “Jewish Power” party, which inherited its leaders and politics from the well-known…
Yesterday, I opened my Twitter timeline to find friends, allies, and colleagues pitting racism and anti-Semitism against each other. The battle lines had been drawn, and I was, as I often am as a mixed race Jew, caught in the middle. Sunday afternoon, Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeted a response to Glenn Greenwald, who was musing…
There was a quote in The New York Times’ recent story on Representative Steve King that grabbed headlines, about his wonderment over when terms like “white supremacist” and “white nationalist” became negative, offensive. But that angle had been covered before — he has been vocal about his white nationalist viewpoints since 2006 — so that…
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