Sam Kestenbaum is a contributing editor and former staff writer for the Forward. Before this, he worked for The New York Times and newsrooms in Sana, Ramallah and Beijing. Contact him at kestenbaum@forward.com and follow him on Twitter at @skestenbaum and on Instagram at @skestenbaum.
Anti-Semitic flyers and stickers were found at the University of Houston last week, the latest in what is a broad campus outreach campaign mounted by white supremacist groups ahead of the new school year. The flyers were found on at the university’s main campus on Tuesday, the Algemeiner reported, and included phrases like, “Beware the…
Police are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti found on the side of a diner in New Jersey this weekend, including spray painted swastikas. Some of the language scrawled on the side of the building include, “Kill Jews,” “Heil Hitler,” and “WPWW,” an acronym for “white power world wide,” the New Jersey Herald reported. One employee, Sharon Smith,…
Evan McClaren, the new leader of Richard Spencer’s white nationalist think tank says his political path into far-right politics began after reading the work of Paul Gottfried — a Jewish intellectual who has been dubbed the “Moses of the alternative right.” McClaren became executive director at the National Policy Institute this summer, taking over the…
A 57-year-old Jewish woman and her adult daughter were beaten at a Rego Park, Queens subway station on Wednesday — after they were mistaken for Muslims. “Get out of my country, you dirty Muslim!” the 40-year-old suspect, Dimitrious Zias, allegedly said, according to the Daily News. Zias punched both the mother and her daughter in…
Andrew Anglin, editor of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, told an Israeli television channel on Tuesday that he supported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair for posted an anti-Semitic meme last week. “I stand with Yair and his memes and I’m glad to see that there’s an alt-right in Israel who are standing against the…
A government proposal to create a new status in Israel for people who have Jewish roots or belong to “emerging” Jewish communities was welcomed by leaders of communities that could be affected. “This would be a big step forward,” Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, spiritual leader of the Abayudaya community in Uganda, told Haaretz. Members of that…
The neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, which praised Yair Netanyahu as a “total bro” after he posted an anti-Semitic meme over the weekend now features the prime minister’s son in celebratory — but also mocking — banner across its homepage. The banner says that the Daily Stormer is now “The World’s #1 Yair Netanyahu fansite.” The…
Laura Loomer, the young Jewish voice of the far right, says she has struck up an unlikely romance with Tim Gionet — the online troll better known as Baked Alaska who previously tweeted a picture of Loomer in a gas chamber. A love story better than “The Notebook”. ❤️? @bakedalaska https://t.co/yFPtvRIuAE — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer)…
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