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Fast Forward Trump Retweets Meme From Anti-Semitic Twitter User
(JTA) — President Trump retweeted a meme of himself “eclipsing” Barack Obama that was posted originally by a Twitter user who had made an anti-Semitic post. The meme, which the president retweeted Thursday morning, features images of Trump and and his Oval Office predecessor. By the fourth image, Trump’s photo completely covers one of Obama…
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Fast Forward Peter Beinart Trolled For Sharing Daughter’s Concern About Holocaust After Charlottesville
Forward columnist Peter Beinart was subjected to online vitriol after he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night about his child’s response to the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va. “Yesterday my 9 year old saw some footage from Charlottesville. Then she asked me if there would be a second Holocaust,” he tweeted. The responses he…
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The Schmooze A Biblical Exegesis Of Taylor Swift’s Snake Video Tweet
“And the serpent said to the woman, “You are not going to die, but G-d knows that as soon as you eat of it your eyes will be open and you will be like divine beings who know good and bad.” Genesis 3: 4-5 “Boys only want love if it’s torture/Don’t say I didn’t say,…
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Fast Forward This Flow Chart Shows Why Israel Is Bad At Condemning Nazis
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…
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Fast Forward Twitter Removes Racist, Anti-Semitic Posts After Activist’s Graffiti Action
(JTA) — Twitter has removed a handful of racist tweets and suspended several accounts after a German-Israeli satirist spray painted about 30 of them outside the company’s headquarters in Hamburg. Shahak Shapira used water soluble spray-paint to write the nearly 30 offensive tweets on Twitter’s building and on the ground around it. He claimed responsibility for…
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Fast Forward Twitter Didn’t Delete Racist Posts. So A Satirist Painted Them On Its Building.
BERLIN (JTA) — The Berlin-based creator of the viral Yolocaust website spray-painted the German headquarters of Twitter with anti-Semitic posts that the social network failed to delete when he reported them. Shahak Shapira, a 28-year-old Israeli-German, released his own tweet on Monday claiming responsibility after first working anonymously. “I reported about 300 hate tweets. Twitter didn’t…
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Fast Forward Sen. Blumenthal: Trump’s Obsession With Me Is A Distraction From Russia
Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said on Tuesday that President Trump’s continued Twitter ire against him was intended as a distraction from the Russia investigation and the work of special counsel Robert Mueller. “It’s really not about me,” Blumenthal said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I have no idea what’s in the president’s head, but I can…
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Fast Forward Linda Sarsour Blasts Tapper As ‘Alt-Right’ In Twitter Spat
Jake Tapper and Linda Sarsour got into a heated Twitter war, as the CNN anchor raised concerns about some of the Muslim civil rights activist’s previous statements — and she hit back by branding him part of the “alt-right.” The controversy began after the anti-Trump Women’s March, of which Sarsour is a national co-chair, tweeted out…
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