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.
Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan urged President Trump to “extricate” himself from perceived Jewish influence in the White House — starting with Jared Kushner. “Ask any Jew, even your son-in-law, America is never first, Israel is always first,” Farrakhan said, referencing Jared Kushner. “Mr. Trump, you have to extricate yourself from being controlled…
Protesters carrying flags of the Jewish Defense League clashed with demonstrators outside the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee gathering on Sunday. The scuffle was caught in a Facebook video from the New York-based Jewish Voice website. Some of the activity is off screen, but during the altercation one man, wearing the JDL insignia, beat…
On average, anti-Semitic posts are uploaded to social media every 83 seconds, according to a new study by the World Jewish Congress — and the majority of anti-Semitic content is found on Twitter. “We knew that anti-Semitism online was on the rise, but the numbers revealed in this report give us concrete data as to…
A 108-year-old church recently bought by white nationalist Craig Cobb burned to the ground Wednesday in the rural town of Nome in North Dakota, the Bismarck Tribune reported. Cobb bought the structure in February and said he planned on dedicating it to a white supremacist group and naming it after President Donald Trump. Cobb had…
White nationalists felt vindicated Thursday morning when it was revealed that a Jew was the main suspect in more than 100 bomb threats made to Jewish community centers. The development encouraged those who felt that President Trump was unfairly charged with emboldening anti-Semites and other bigots — and it also played neatly into the anti-Semitic…
Google plans to give advertisers greater control over where their ads appear, following a number of cases where brands complained about their products being displaying alongside content from right-wing preachers and white supremacists, including former Ku Klux Klan head David Duke. “We know that this is unacceptable to the advertisers and agencies who put their…
In a statement for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, President Trump quoted Cyrus the Great — and seemed to suggest a comparison between himself and the ancient Persian ruler. “Cyrus the Great, a leader of the ancient Persian Empire, famously said that ‘freedom, dignity, and wealth together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you…
Some members of “alt-right” movement are hoisting up Jane Austen as an icon — hoping to equate their vision of white nationalism with a beloved literary icon. “By comparing their movement not to the nightmare Germany of Hitler and Goebbels, but instead to the cozy England of Austen — a much-beloved author with a centuries-long…
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