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Fast Forward These Jewish Celebs Clapped Back at Trump Today
Trump’s inauguration brought in a tweetstorm from Jewish critics cringing at the next four years. Here’s a selection: Joshua Malina had better things to do than listen to the speech: Listening to the finale of Bernstein’s Candide rather than the Inauguration.— (((Joshua Malina))) (@JoshMalina) January 20, 2017 Mayim Bialik was not too happy during the…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Tweets at the Wrong Ivanka — and She Claps Back
President-elect Donald Trump just surpassed 20 million Twitter followers and is “not unproud” of his social media prowess, as he said during the presidential debates. But he is not immune to missteps — beyond the retweeting of anti-Semitic tropes — and tagged the wrong Ivanka in a post that was meant to go to his…
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Fast Forward Twitter User Demands ‘500 Nazi Scalps’
Is Twitter plagued with Nazis? That’s what an anonymous Change.org petition is charging, listing information on hundreds of “Nazi and white supremacist accounts” and demanding the social media platform boot them off. “Twitter is brimming with active Nazis who use your platform as a tool to recruit members, spread hate, and harass other users,” reads…
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Fast Forward Did Twitter Suspend a Jewish Activist for Complaining About Anti-Semitism?
Imagine getting a tweet with your face on a lampshade. You report the picture to Twitter as anti-Semitic harassment — and Twitter responds by suspending your account, not those of your trolls. That’s what activist Alexandra Brodsky says happened to her. The fellow at the National Women’s Law Center, an advocacy group for women, tweeted…
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News Meet the Man Who Tweets From Auschwitz — the Museum, That Is
(JTA) — Long before he moved here to become the spokesman for the Auschwitz museum and lead its social media effort, Pawel Sawicki’s life was intricately connected to this sleepy town near Krakow. A Warsaw-area journalist for Polish Radio 2, Sawicki used to visit Oswiecim as a boy on holidays to stay with his grandparents…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Derides Chuck Schumer as ‘Clown’ as Twitter War Erupts
President-elect Donald Trump, who insulted rivals during his 2016 campaign with nicknames such as “Crooked Hillary” and “Little Marco,” has a new nemesis: U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, a man he derides as a “clown.” The rhetorical banter that erupted between the two New Yorkers this week centered on a fight over Republican plans…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Prints Up Giant Trump Tweet To Defend Obamacare
Bernie Sanders had a giant poster of a Trump tweet printed up and lugged to the Senate floor, where he used it to defend Obamacare Wednesday. “I think it is interesting that we listen to what Donald Trump said during the campaign,” the independent Vermont senator said in an incendiary speech. In May 2015 Trump…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Tells Israel ‘Stay Strong’ in Tweetstorm — Slams Obama
(JTA) — President-elect Donald Trump slammed President Barack Obama for treating Israel with “total disdain and disrespect,” referencing Obama’s decision not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement building. We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect. They used to have a great friend in the…
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