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Fast Forward Trump ‘Triggers’ Jew Haters With ‘Happy Hanukkah’ Wishes
Some of Donald Trump’s more anti-Semitic supporters were most unhappy over the weekend that marked both Christmas Eve and the first night of Hanukkah, when the president-elect sent out a Hanukkah greeting to American Jews. Here a few of their Twitter missives. @realDonaldTrump “if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness,…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Tweets UN ‘So Sad!’
Donald Trump on Monday chided the United Nations as “sad,” just days after the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements despite pressure by the U.S. president-elect for a veto by Washington. “The United Nations has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to…
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Fast Forward Echoing Israel, Trump Tweets UN Will Make Peace ‘Much Harder’
Donald Trump said the UN resolution that denounced Israel’s occupation of the West Bank would make Middle East peace more difficult than ever. Echoing Israel, the president-elect called the resolution a “big loss” — but vowed to push for a deal with the Palestinians. The big loss yesterday for Israel in the United Nations will…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Fires Off Trump-Style 3 a.m. Tweet
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to take a cue from late-night tweeter and President-elect Donald Trump when he fired off a tweet at 3:28 AM Israel time on Wednesday morning (8:28 PM in New York). The US should veto the anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council on Thursday. — Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) December…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Tweets Call for Veto of UN Settlement Resolution — at 3:28 am
Israel urged the United States on Thursday to veto a U.N. Security Council draft resolution calling for an immediate halt to settlement building on occupied land that Palestinians want for a state. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Twitter in the dead of night in Israel to make the appeal, in a sign of concern…
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Fast Forward Meet Julia Ioffe, the Journalist Fired for Tweeting About Incest Between Trumps
Julia Ioffe, a widely read political writer, got the axe from her position at Politico on Wednesday after she posted an obscene Tweet that imputed either incest or nepotism to Ivanka Trump’s decision to join her father in the White House while his wife, Melania Trump, stays in New York. Here are five facts about…
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer Back on Twitter — Ban Had Nothing To Do With Hate Speech
Richard Spencer, the white supremacist leader of the so-called ‘alt-right,’ is Tweeting again — after Twitter reinstated his personal account. I’m back. pic.twitter.com/ngfq4aHWtc — Richard ? Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) December 11, 2016 It turns out the social media platform didn’t bounce Spencer, the self-described ‘Karl Marx of the alt-right,’ for spewing hatred against Jews and others…
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News David Duke Says Jews Aren’t White — and Jews Clap Back
A new article in The Atlantic magazine posed the question of whether Jews are white, and of course David Duke, white supremacist, has the answer. No – JEWS ARE NOT WHITE! https://t.co/EqNJpej0Z6 — David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) December 5, 2016 The article was spurred by the rise this election season of the “alt-right,” which championed the…
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