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News Israel, Jewish groups invoked as white supremacy expert clashes with defense in Unite the Right trial
A professor who once embedded with white supremacists testified Thursday that violence was central to the ideology held by organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally that left one counterproster dead and dozens injured in Charlottesville. Peter Simi, who teaches sociology at Chapman University in Southern California, told jurors that the white supremacist movement…
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News ‘There’s not going to be closure’: Charlottesville rabbi grapples with far-right trial
Rabbi Tom Gutherz of Charlottesville’s Congregation Beth Israel hates the story about how he and his members left via the back door that Shabbat morning in 2017 as white supremacists marched on the streets out front. It’s technically true. The synagogue had started services an hour early so they’d be done before the “Unite the…
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News Lipstadt tells Charlottesville jury she was ‘taken aback’ by antisemitism at ‘Unite the Right’ rally
Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt told a jury in Charlottesville Wednesday that she was shocked by the extent to which antisemitism defined the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. “There was a great deal of overt antisemitism and adulation of the Third Reich throughout the evidence I looked at,” said Lipstadt, an expert witness in a case…
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News He has a history of antisemitic tweets — and now a GOP endorsement for school board
A former Pennsylvania radio host with a history of antisemitic and homophobic tweets moved to Idaho last year and is now running for a school board seat — with the local Republican party’s endorsement. Among tweets posted from David J. Reilly’s account: “All Jews are dangerous” and “Judaism is the religion of the anti-Christ.” Reilly’s…
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News Charlottesville trial to start Monday with Lipstadt as key witness
When the trial of two dozen alt-right organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally begins in Charlottesville on Monday, Jews, among those targeted in the extremist gathering, will be watching closely. But they are also key players in the case. One of the lead lawyers for the plaintiff is Roberta Kaplan, a feminist who has…
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News White nationalists are using the Israel-Gaza conflict to spread antisemitism online
Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist and election-theft conspiracy theorist, delighted and surprised some of his far-right followers on Twitter Tuesday night with a tweet: “Palestine isn’t the only country under Israeli occupation,” he wrote, trumpeting a conspiracy theory about Jews controlling governments. Palestine isn’t the only country under Israeli occupation. — Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes)…
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Fast Forward ‘The Million MAGA March:’ Trump supporters are planning a rally in Washington, D.C.
The Million Maga March. The March for Trump. Stop the Steal DC. Supporters of President Donald Trump of various stripes, including Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are planning to hold a march on Saturday in Washington, D.C., reported Politico. The plan evokes white nationalism’s most recent marquee moment, when they successfully gathered in Charlottesville, Va….
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News 4 years of President Trump: A Jewish report card
As President Trump makes his closing arguments for reelection, the staggering events of the last year loom large. The coronavirus pandemic has, to date, taken more than 230,000 American lives, and the country is mired in the most significant economic downturn since the Great Depression. And, though it now feels like ancient history, Trump in…
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