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Fast Forward Four White Supremacists Behind Charlottesville Violence Plead Guilty
Four members of a now-defunct white supremacist group have pleaded guilty to rioting charges in connection to the violence amid the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Department of Justice announced last week. Two members of the “Rise Above Movement,” group leader Ben Daley and former aerospace engineer Michael Miselis, pleaded guilty…
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Fast Forward Biden Makes Trump’s Charlottesville Reaction The Center Of His Campaign Launch
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign by accusing President Donald Trump with failing to unreservedly condemn neo-Nazis whose march two years ago ended with deadly violence. The launch underscored the degree over which the battle for the Jewish vote has already figured in the campaign and, more broadly, how each party is…
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Opinion Wake Up, American Jews: Donald Trump Is A Huge Threat
As a French Jew, I am often asked about anti-Semitism in France. Without fail, the last question at any appearance I make is the same: Should French Jews leave and move to Israel or America? I always insist that Jews have played an instrumental role in founding modern-day France, and if anyone is going to…
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Fast Forward Man Who Ran Over Charlottesville Protester Sentenced To Life Plus 419 Years
(JTA) — A jury in Charlottesville, Virginia, recommended a sentence of life in prison plus 419 years for the man who rammed his car into a group of counterprotesters at a far-right rally, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. The jury in the Virginia district court made its recommendation for the sentencing of James Alex Fields Jr.,…
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Breaking News Trump’s ‘Biggest’ Regret? Calling Out Charlottesville White Supremacists.
A new book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward claimed that President Trump deeply regretted criticizing the white supremacists who marched last year in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Post reported Tuesday. Trump’s first public statement after the march and ensuing violence put blame on “both sides,” but after being urged by advisors, he specifically condemned white…
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Fast Forward J Street-Backed Virginia Democrat Smeared By GOP Over Israel Book
A Republican campaign flyer linking a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives with last year’s white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia has been slammed by J Street, which backs the candidate, as one of the most “disgusting political attacks we’ve ever seen.” The flyer, sent by the Republican Party of Virginia, claims that…
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Opinion How The Angry Left Turned Me Into A Nazi
I’m not, obviously, a Nazi. But you wouldn’t know that from my Twitter mentions. A year ago, I wrote a column for the Forward entitled, “We Need to Start Befriending Neo-Nazis.” Over the course of the year, the headline has been screenshot and tweeted by actors with millions of followers, influential progressives like cartoonist Eli…
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Fast Forward Former White Supremacist Has A Change Of Heart, Tries To Help Others Disengage
In an interview with The Root promoting his new MSNBC documentary, “Breaking Hate,” prominent former white supremacist Christian Picciolini said the alt-right’s hate problem may shatter with empathy from the people they least deserved it from, when they least deserved it. People are joining the white supremacist movement, Picciolini explained, because they feel a sense…
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