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Fast Forward Trump Tweets Get Condemned By Anti-Defamation League, Supported By Neo-Nazis
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”…
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Fast Forward Dov Hikind Sues Ocasio-Cortez For Blocking Him On Twitter
(JTA) — Dov Hikind, the former Democratic New York Assemblyman, filed a lawsuit against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for blocking him on Twitter because he holds opposing viewpoints. Hikind filed the lawsuit in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. on Tuesday, hours after a federal appeals court ruled that President Donald Trump was violating the Constitution by…
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Fast Forward Farrakhan’s Anti-Semitic Tweet Gets Deleted After Twitter Policy Change
(JTA) — A 2018 tweet in which Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan compared Jews to termites was no longer available on Twitter. On Tuesday, the social media platform introduced new rules prohibiting “language that dehumanizes others on the basis of religion.” Twitter said accounts that had posted such tweets prior to the policy change would…
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Opinion Linda Sarsour And Bibi Netanyahu Are In A Cat Fight About Jesus. Don’t Engage.
Not all fights are worth having. Some things don’t matter. Others are puerile and ought to be beneath rational adult discourse. If a fellow adult approaches you on the street, looks you straight in the eye and tells you that his daddy is richer, stronger, more attractive than, or otherwise superior to your daddy, the…
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Fast Forward Linda Sarsour’s Claim That Jesus Was Palestinian Spurs Twitter Debate
(JTA) — Muslim political activist Linda Sarsour started a mini-Twitter war after tweeting that Jesus was Palestinian. “Jesus was Palestinian of Nazareth and is described in the Quran as being brown copper skinned with wooly hair,” she tweeted on Saturday. This led to a more than 24-hour debate about the Jewish and Palestinian roots of…
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Fast Forward Trolls Tricked Adidas Into Tweeting ‘Gas All Jews’
Racist and anti-Semitic trolls took advantage of a social media promotion by Adidas to get the shoe retailer to tweet hateful messages like “Gas All Jews” and “Die All N——-s.” As part of its promotion of the new jerseys for the British soccer club Arsenal, Adidas encouraged people to use the hashtag #DareToCreate, and it…
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Fast Forward Egyptian Actor Tweeted ‘Let’s Kill Some Jews.’ Twitter Kept It Up For 11 Hours.
Updated 4:55. p.m. An Egyptian actor with more than 800,000 followers on Twitter posted a message calling for violence against Jews on Monday, but the social media company kept it up for nearly 12 hours before suspending his account. Hesham Mansour tweeted “Now lets kill some jews” [sic] at 4:50 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, and…
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The Schmooze No, Rosanna Arquette Isn’t Anti-Semitic — But You Might Be
A tempest in the tiniest, Trump-steeped teapot has broken out on Twitter — actress Rosanna Arquette has been accused of anti-Semitism. The 59-year-old actress came under digital fire for suggesting that Jewish people should consider themselves particularly responsible for giving aid to children trapped in inhumane detention centers. In a tweet that was deleted shortly…
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