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News Jewish pols experienced 6,000 antisemitic tweets in a month, says ADL
Jewish incumbents running for reelection were bombarded with antisemitism on Twitter over the summer, according to a study released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL found that between July 23 and August 22, 30 incumbent Jewish members of the House and Senate received a total of nearly 6,000 antisemitic tweets, about 10% of the…
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Fast Forward Fight erupts on Jewish Twitter about prayers for Trump
Donald Trump says he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus. Should we be sympathetic? That’s the question that some Jews are debating on Twitter, still only hours out from news breaking overnight about the positive test result, which has thrown a wrench of historic proportions into the final month of the…
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News Former NFL player Larry Johnson calls Jews a cabal, tweets the blood libel
Retired NFL player Larry Johnson is facing backlash after posting an anti-Semitic tweet accusing Jews of being a “cabal” responsible for crimes including “Sex Trafficking,” “Ritualistic Child Torture,” and “Human Sacrifice/Murder,” this past Sunday. Johnson’s tweet draws on anti-Semitic tropes including “blood libel” — the ancient accusation that Jews use Christian blood in their rituals—and…
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Fast Forward White House criticizes Twitter for censoring Trump and not Iran’s Khamenei over Israel posts
(JTA) — A Twitter official told Israeli lawmakers that the social media platform would not remove tweets calling for the destruction of Israel by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. That led the White House to accuse Twitter of “bias against conservatives,” as the company has recently flagged or deleted tweets by President Donald Trump…
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Fast Forward Twitter says it accidentally closed accounts of users posting Star Of David
(JTA) – Twitter acknowledged that it accidentally closed the accounts of some users for posting the Star of David. Several Twitter users reported to a British anti-Semitism watchdog that their accounts were locked after they posted the Jewish symbol, the watchdog said. Twitter informed the users that they violated the social media platform’s rules against…
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Fast Forward Twitter’s Star of David snafu could be tied to the platform’s crackdown on QAnon
Twitter accounts that use the Star of David in profile pictures were locked by the platform this week, with a message saying the symbol violates rules against “posting hateful imagery,” but the lockout might have been tied to a broader effort to combat hate speech and conspiracy theories. Twitter “chooses to target the benign symbol…
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The Schmooze Twitter’s newest meme has Jews sharing their (least) favorite “spots”
Twitter’s newest trend is a twisted travel game for the quarantine era. It’s the “I know a spot” meme: people suggest a “cool” place to go, which turns out to be a destination you don’t want to visit. For example: men be like “i know a spot” & then take you to rock bottom —…
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Fast Forward Trump abbreviates Secret Service as S.S. — although he knows the right way to do it
In a tweet Thursday morning, President Trump abbreviated “Secret Service” to “S.S.” — also the abbreviation for the Schutzstaffel, a paramilitary organization created by Adolf Hitler. One of its units was responsible for enforcing Nazi racial policy. Our great National Guard Troops who took care of the area around the White House could hardly believe…
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