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📣 Introducing 'Antisemitism Notebook' — a new, weekly newsletter from the Forward hosted by
@ArnoRosenfeld
that examines how rising antisemitism and disputes over how to address it are shaping American Jewish life.
Sign up today for free:
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"If you denounce Ilhan Omar but support Donald Trump, you don’t really oppose bigotry. You don’t even really oppose anti-Semitism. What you oppose is criticism of Israel," writes
@PeterBeinart
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"As a Latina Jew, with the lived experience and perspective I carry, I believe that
@AOC
's use of the term was necessary and appropriate. My people are in concentration camps today - just like they were during the Holocaust," writes
@TaePhoenix
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"There are plenty of Jews, like me whose beliefs are voiced by
@IlhanMN
, not AIPAC. And this time, we won't let our leaders be taken down by accusations that they are anti-Semitic for supporting Palestinian rights."
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Antifa is back in the news after the debate (did it ever leave?) so let's revisit its not-so-secret Jewish history.
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Josh Shapiro, the 48th governor of Pennsylvania and a practicing Conservative Jew who keeps kosher, said he will be posting mezuzahs and keep a kosher kitchen in the governor’s mansion that will be overseen by his wife Lori.
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Jewish Gamer Suspected Of Shooting Two At Jacksonville Video Tourney
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Congressman-elect George Santos’ emotional narrative of having Jewish grandparents who fled Europe during World War II appears to be untrue, like much of the rest of his campaign biography, according to genealogy websites reviewed by the Forward.
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NEW: Former Trump adviser Michael Flynn blamed Jews for their own deportations at the hands of the Nazis, saying Holocaust victims willingly handed their children over and got on trains to Auschwitz.
Flynn has a history of antisemitic statements:
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An instructor at Stanford University has been suspended for what the president and provost called “identity-based targeting” of students in connection with the Israel-Gaza war.
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EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka As Sworn Member
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You won't believe the insane, anti-Semitic message behind this anime cartoon:
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The professor, who is also Jewish, said he didn’t realize that Stephens was Jewish. “Stylistically, his work often seems very WASPy to me,” he said.
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Ann Coulter Wants To Clone Stephen Miller
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Florida man who forgave Nazi guard may have invented his Holocaust story
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle recently announced a donation to HIAS, the largest Jewish nonprofit for refugee assistance, one of a slew of contributions they are sending to help suffering Ukrainians.
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"Calling Israel and its Jewish inhabitants the enemy of Islam and God was as common as breathing while I was growing up. Anti-Semitism was in my home. It was in the school hallways and yard," writes
@Btaylor74
. "The news this week was a dream come true."
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"Trump's supporters didn’t gravitate to Trumpism because they couldn’t feed their families; they did so because they didn’t want *other* people to be able to feed *their* families," writes
@MollyJongFast
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"I have a message for
@realDonaldTrump
:
@AOC
and her Squad represent me more as a Jew than you ever will."
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A new study is casting doubt on the conventional wisdom that antisemitism is just as prevalent on the far left as it is on the far right.
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"Polling shows that most American Jews do not support the occupation, and share a significant amount with
@IfNotNowOrg
's opposition to Israel's occupation. It is
@AOC
's right to represent these views - and those of the Jews in her district."
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Ann Coulter: Jews ‘Hate White Men’ Like Rest Of Democratic Base
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Congress Is Now 3 Times More Jewish Than United States As A Whole
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British rapper Wiley, who last month went on a 48-hour antisemitic tirade on Twitter before he was banned from the platform, has defended his remarks and insisted his removal from social media proves his point that Jews “run the Earth.”
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The Yiddish roots of antifa – the anti-fascist movement whose precursors date back at least as far as opposition to the Russian czar – have been well documented. They are also enshrined in a canon of Yiddish antifa songs.
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NEW: Clarence Thomas accepted millions in gifts from billionaire Republican mega donor Harlan Crow, according to ProPublica.
But in 2021, wary of ethics violations, Elena Kagan turned down a gift basket of bagels.
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"Who has Ivanka
#empowered
? Who has she educated? Ivanka hasn’t even empowered herself. Like all the women in Trumpland, Ivanka is a passive observer, a smiling, clapping blonde whose role is to be just that," writes
@MollyJongFast
:
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Jewish Groups Helped To Pass Florida Amendment Allowing Felons To Vote
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"We won’t be able to change the hearts and minds of those who truly do not care or who agree with the way things are unfolding; but we invite every decent person who takes the Holocaust seriously to get involved now," writes
@TaePhoenix
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New data from the Pew Research Center indicates that while most Americans don’t really know enough Jewish people to have an opinion, far more see them positively than negatively.
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EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-allied group claims top Trump aide Sebastian Gorka as sworn member:
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Rabbis have a clear favorite among the Democratic presidential candidates: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
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“When I say ‘It’s white people that need to change’ I had so many — if you read my mentions it was crazy — I had so many people saying ‘You’re not white, you’re Jewish,’” Cuban said.
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Muslim Military Veterans Offer To Guard Jewish Sites
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Biden's rabbi gave him a blessing before he stepped out to the inaugural stage, calling him akin to Moses leading America out of Egypt.
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In the aftermath of Taylor Swift’s 'Eras Tour' concert series, some fans have been reporting amnesia, unable to recall the performance they just left.
As it turns out, there’s a precedent for the phenomenon — and it dates back to the ancient Israelites. 🧵
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Employees of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum discovered handwritten inscriptions in shoes belonging to children who were sent to the Nazi death camp in Poland.
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BREAKING: Congressman-elect George Santos, who lied about his background, stated Monday that he never claimed to be Jewish — and only claimed to be "Jew-ish."
But in newly unearthed campaign documents, Santos called himself “a proud American Jew.”
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The Auschwitz Museum issued a lengthy rebuttal:
The assertion that Jews could have easily resisted during deportations to extermination simply due to their numerical strength compared to the guards oversimplifies the dire circumstances they faced during the Holocaust. Acts of resistance did occur in various forms across…
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Israel Just Decided To Expel African Refugees. So Much For Never Again -
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No, Ashkenazi Jews Are Not ‘Functionally White’
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Al Jazeera Tweets, Then Deletes, Anti-Semitic ‘Greedy Jew’ Meme
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“Women can choose to knock each other down or build each other up,” tweeted
@IvankaTrump
. "But the truth is, she has done neither. She hasn't even built herself up. Ivanka’s White House job is the equivalent of vacuuming," writes
@MollyJongFast
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Muslims Fundraise To Repair Vandalized St. Louis Jewish Cemetery
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Jewish Groups Around The World Argue Criticism Of Israel Is Not Anti-Semitic
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The rabbi who lost a finger in the Poway, California synagogue shooting admitted to a fraudulent donation scheme that deprived the federal government of $1.5 million.
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"When the actress and activist
@Alyssa_Milano
announced yesterday that she would not be speaking at the Women’s March until its leaders condemn Louis Farrakhan, I cried," writes
@CarlyPildis
. "It was the first time a major figure stood up for us."
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“We’ve sold hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of those shirts over the years,” said Director of Retail at the National Museum of American Jewish History Kristen Kreider, “just not hundreds and hundreds and hundreds in one day.”
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Toronto Raptors Will Visit Israel If Team Wins NBA Title, Jewish Co-Owner Says
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🏥 A German hospital has opened a synagogue and a kosher kitchen in its building at the behest of its CEO, the grandson of a Nazi.
“Through my support of Judaism,” he said, “I hope to atone for my grandfather’s sins.”
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Bernie Sanders Isn’t Just Another White Male Candidate. His Nomination Would Be Historic.
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"Jared Kushner’s vainglorious pretensions were exposed, along with a slavish desire to see himself as MBS’s equal," writes
@MollyJongFast
. "And one can see where he went wrong. After all, the princelings have led lives that are strangely parallel."
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Ernest Hemingway would have turned 121 today. Both in his private correspondence and his first novel, he espoused anti-Semitic ideas and spread negative Jewish stereotypes. How do we handle his legacy of Anti-Semitism?
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"Dear American Jewish boys,
Please, please, take your Oedipal rage and find another outlet for it. It’s not Israel’s fault you hate your parents.
Leave us out of this."
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"Bernie Sanders: How can you call yourself a progressive candidate when you align yourself with someone who makes vicious verbal attacks on Jews?"
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Netflix’s ‘Big Mouth’ Is Boldly Jewish
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Far-Right Party Surges In Austrian Election -
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Baseball has gifted us the most Jewish Series in history.
With four Jewish players on active rosters, the series between the Atlanta Braves and the Houston Astros has the highest number of Jewish players since the Dodgers faced the White Sox in 1959.
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Ben Shapiro Continues To Rise, Buoyed By Kavanaugh Controversy
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Anti-Semitic Beliefs Grow Among Evangelicals
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When President Trump uses the phrase “invisible enemy” to describe the coronavirus, he is using the vocabulary of medieval libels against Jews.
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Hungary Right-Wing Ruling Party Plans Run Against ‘Soros Plan’ -
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Well, this happened. Paul Rudd getting a little feisty about his Jewishness.
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The Jewish Family Making Billions From The Opioid Crisis -
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Muslims Raise More Than $50K For Pittsburgh Synagogue Victims In 6 Hours
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"My 93-year-old mom, who survived the Holocaust, died of COVID-19 in an assisted living facility in New Jersey on April 5. I found out she was dead from a text with the words Baruch Dayan Haemet, the Jewish blessing at the time of death."
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"Jews stand ready to define the politics of the most powerful nation on earth; we’re not in the shtetl anymore."
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A group of Israeli women marched Wednesday in red robes and white hats to a reenactment of "The Handmaid's Tale" in front of the offices of the Tikvah Fund, which backs the ideas of the Netanyahu government's judicial overhaul.
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"As America is held hostage by a 'businessman president' who recently reopened the government after a 35 day temper tantrum that cost American tax payers billions of dollars, another American businessman has emerged from the fray," writes
@MollyJongFast
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Jewish Woman Hides Mexican Family From Immigration Agents -
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In 2007, Sebastian Gorka publicly supported the Hungarian Guard, a violent, anti-Semitic paramilitary group:
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It’s Time to End America’s Blank Check Military Aid to Israel
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A crowd chants "Hochul!" as New York Gov.
@KathyHochul
embraced
@AOC
in Queens this morning on
#ElectionDay
, while New York heads to the polls.
🎥
@jacobkornbluh
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63 Israeli Teens Sign Open Letter To Netanyahu: We Refuse To Serve IDF -
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An unidentified man wearing a sweatshirt reading “Camp Auschwitz” was among the violent mob that entered the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.
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The Forward's Opinion Editor,
@bungarsargon
, attempted to speak on a panel at Bard College about anti-Semitism. Protesters interrupted the talk to chant slogans about Israel.
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A paper published in June in the journal Political Research Quarterly found that anti-Jewish beliefs are far more popular in right-wing circles, particularly among young people.
Read more from
@AdamJKovac
:
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Cartman converts to Judaism on ‘South Park,’ after decades of tormenting Jews, via
@JTAnews
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To all our readers: On this day of tragedy to the American Jewish community, we have turned off our paymeter so that you can read the latest news from Pittsburgh as it is updated.
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Graham To Jewish Activist: Sorry About Your Rape, Call The Cops
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A researcher at the Anti-Defamation League resigned Thursday, apparently in reaction to the group’s chief executive, Jonathan Greenblatt, publicly condemning American Jews who are protesting Israel’s war in Gaza.
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Yes, Ranting Against Globalism Is Anti-Semitic
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Holocaust survivors are receiving their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, & are becoming Twitter sensations because of it.
#WeRemember
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
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In 1959, during a wave of violent rapes in Israel, cabinet members suggested a curfew for women. Golda Meir’s response? “Men are attacking women, not the other way around. If there is going to be a curfew, let the men stay home.”
#internationalwomensday
📷: Forward Association.
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Julie Klausner Raises $5K For Planned Parenthood After John Kasich Plane Snafu
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"Jews hold the most positive view of Muslims. The study also found that of all the faith groups in our country, the one that had the highest percentage of Muslim friends were Jews, at 76%. 45% reported being close with a Muslim," writes
@DeanObeidallah
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Billionaire Heiress Clare Bronfman Arrested For Running Sex-Slave Cult
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Over 1,400 Rabbis Sign Letter Supporting Asylum Seekers
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A Jewish producer at Fox News filed a lawsuit against the network Monday that claims the network pressured her to provide deceptive testimony in the ongoing legal dispute over its reporting of baseless election fraud allegations.
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