During debate, Trump raises a conspiracy about immigrants eating cats. Is it the new blood libel?
A niche conspiracy about Haitian immigrants stealing people's pets spread online over the weekend — and somehow made it to a national stage
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Culture Can Sacha Baron Cohen be Borat and still tell the truth?
For a while now, Sacha Baron Cohen has had an issue with juggling multiple personas. On the one hand, as Borat, Bruno and his coterie of characters on “Who is America,” he is a cartoonish sounding board for America’s worst qualities. On the other, he is an increasingly serious out-of-character activist, a full-throated opponent of…
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News Former NFL player Larry Johnson calls Jews a cabal, tweets the blood libel
Retired NFL player Larry Johnson is facing backlash after posting an anti-Semitic tweet accusing Jews of being a “cabal” responsible for crimes including “Sex Trafficking,” “Ritualistic Child Torture,” and “Human Sacrifice/Murder,” this past Sunday. Johnson’s tweet draws on anti-Semitic tropes including “blood libel” — the ancient accusation that Jews use Christian blood in their rituals—and…
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Fast Forward Holocaust-Denying Canadian Journalist Sentenced To Prison
MONTREAL (JTA) — A Canadian editor was handed one-year prison sentence for promoting hatred against Jews and women in his publication. James Sears, editor of the quarterly Your Ward News in Toronto, was sentenced Thursday to two six-month terms by Judge Richard Blouin of the Ontario Court of Justice. The publication promoted Holocaust denial and…
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Fast Forward The Palestinian Group That Arranged Tlaib And Omar’s West Bank Trip Once Claimed Jews Put Christian Blood In Matzah
The Palestinian organization that had organized Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar’s planned delegation to Jerusalem and the West Bank once claimed that Jews put Christian blood in matzah, echoing a centuries-old anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Miftah, a not-for-profit run by longtime Palestinian peace negotiator Hanan Ashrawi, was forced to apologize in 2013 after publishing an…
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Fast Forward Ari Shavit Calls New Accusation Against Him ‘Blood Libel’
Author and journalist Ari Shavit called new sexual assault accusations against him “blood libel” on Israeli army radio station Galatz on Monday. “This is a blood libel,” he told host Yael Dan in Hebrew. “Murder in cold blood, [the accuser] shed my blood and my daughter’s blood.” Shavit was responding to an account by an…
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Fast Forward Paul Krugman Calls Trump’s Immigration Policy A Blood Libel
(JTA) — Lots of people have been comparing the government’s policy of separating families to the Holocaust. But Paul Krugman, the liberal’s liberal economics columnist at the New York Times, has a different Jewish historical analogy: He says the policy is like the age-old blood libel against the Jewish people. The blood libel is an…
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