(JTA) — President Trump has come under fire, including from the Anti-Defamation League, for apparently tweeting support for a white nationalist conspiracy theory that whites in South Africa are in danger of genocide. In a tweet posted after Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s segment on land reform in South Africa, Trump wrote that he had “asked…
Updated 5:00 p.m. A speechwriter for President Trump no longer works at the White House after CNN reported Sunday that he had attended a conference popular with white nationalists. CNN revealed that speechwriter Darren Beattie had been listed as speaking at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club Conference, named after the legendary early 20th-century journalist whose…
WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) – A white nationalist rally in the heart of Washington drew around 20 demonstrators and hundreds of chanting counterprotesters on Sunday, the one-year anniversary of racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. A large police presence kept the two sides separated in Lafayette Square, in front of the White House. After roughly…
Back in the late 1990s, it seemed appropriate to describe relations between Israel, the United States and the American Jewish community as a strategic triangle. Each of the three sides to the triangle interacted with and nourished the other two. This was not an equilateral triangle: Israel seemed to be replacing U.S. Jewry as the…
A Jewish doctor in New York City who has been “placed off duty” by his hospital after being accused of writing hateful comments on a white nationalist website has apologized. “I am filled with remorse and take full responsibility for my actions, which will long be an embarrassment to my family, friends, colleagues, and community,”…
A Jewish doctor at a New York City hospital has been “placed off duty” after an article posted online Monday claimed that he was Facebook friends with white supremacists and had frequently commented on some of the web’s most high-profile hate sites, including the writing of “A Jewish Defense of Anti-Semitism” and approving reflections on…
Misogyny and white supremacy are intertwined ideologies, a new report by the Anti-Defamation League explains. The organization considers misogyny a “dangerous and underestimated component of extremism,” and the report marks the start of an investigation into how various groups within the white supremacy view fester a hatred of women. After all, the ADL argues, it’s…
Updated, July 18 In a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Rep. Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, shared his concerns about the amount of money the company has made from selling white-supremacist propaganda. “There appear to be a disturbing number of groups with hateful, racist, and violent agendas making money using Amazon’s platform,” he…
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