Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward 2 Jewish Wisconsin judges denounced a Trump lawsuit. Now anti-Semites are harassing them.
One commenter said Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Jill Karofsky was “hooked-nosed” and posted a corresponding anti-Semitic caricature of her. Another called her a “terrorist” and said she should “have a massive fatal heart attack on live TV.” Her colleague Rebecca Dallet was called a “traitor” by a Facebook commenter, who also warned the justice that…
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News Online antisemitism peaks during moments of national tension. And it’s being partly driven by Russian trolls.
Soon after the 2017 far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a Twitter user going by the name “jojoh888” knew who was to blame for the clashes between neo-Nazis and the antifa activists who opposed them: George Soros, the Jewish billionaire and progressive philanthropist. “George Soros is the puppet master. He’s funding both sides,” the account tweeted,…
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Fast Forward Anne Frank memorial in Boise, Idaho, vandalized with swastika stickers
(JTA) — A statue of Anne Frank in Boise, Idaho, was vandalized with stickers bearing swastikas and the message “We are everywhere.” The Boise Police Department found and removed nine of the stickers from the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial, according to KTVB, a local station. One of the stickers was placed over the diary…
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Fast Forward New York Young Republicans call Andrew Cuomo aide a ‘court Jew’
(JTA) — The New York Young Republican Club called Andrew Cuomo’s director of Jewish affairs a “court Jew” and tweeted that he is “working for the most antisemitic Governor in America.” Responding to a tweet by the director, Jake Adler, disparaging an upcoming in-person conference hosted by the state’s Young Republicans, the GOP club was…
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Fast Forward Dead pig found outside rabbi’s door in heavily Orthodox New Jersey township
A dead pig’s body was found outside the door of a rabbi in the heavily Orthodox township of Lakewood, New Jersey. The body was found on Shabbat, according to The Lakewood Scoop, and the local police department is treating the incident as a bias crime. Pigs are seen as the quintessentially unkosher animal and have…
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Fast Forward San Francisco-area Jewish students face anti-Semitic harassment online for 2nd time since September
(JTA) — A San Francisco-area school district is taking action after Jewish students faced anti-Semitic harassment on social media for the second time this term. Jewish students in the Tamalpais Union High School District said accounts on Instagram and TikTok followed them and posted offensive messages, including posts that denied the Holocaust, discussed rape and…
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Fast Forward 750 Jewish and Holocaust scholars sign petition protesting far-right politician tapped to lead Yad Vashem
(JTA) — A broad coalition of Jewish studies scholars and directors of Jewish and Holocaust museums has signed a petition opposing the proposed appointment of Effi Eitam, a far-right Israeli politician, to chair Israel’s Holocaust museum. The petition, which has 750 signers, is the latest protest against Eitam. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies…
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News 2 years after synagogue shooting, Pittsburgh has become a hub for white supremacists
In the days after the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history, Pittsburgh became a symbol of the enduring dangers of hatred, as well as the Jewish communal solidarity that followed the synagogue shooting. Two years later, the city has become a symbol and pilgrimage site of a far more insidious sort: for white supremacists who…
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