President-elect Donald Trump repeated conspiracy theories pulled from Breitbart News and Alex Jones’ InfoWars throughout his campaign for the White House. But son-in-law — and soon-to-be “special adviser” to the president — Jared Kushner told his friends not to worry about it. “People say Trump a friend, according to a profile on Kushner in New…
Brooklyn Commons is a neighborhood gathering space. It says its purpose is “movement building,” but the organization dedicated to fostering connection found itself attacked by its own allies days before the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Groups affiliated with the Commons, including Jewish organizations, wanted the space to cancel a scheduled talk by Christopher…
A progressive gathering space in Brooklyn is sticking by its decision, despite widespread condemnation, to host a talk by a conspiracy theorist who has blamed Israel and Jews for the 9-11 attacks on their 15th anniversary. Melissa Ennen, founder of Brooklyn Commons, a self-described “movement building space” serving the “progressive community” in Boreum Hill, wrote…
The conservative conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton had Democratic staffer Seth Rich murdered have escalated to the point that his family and friends have taken to the press to put it to an end. Rich’s family, who spoke with Business Insider Wednesday through their spokesman Brad Bauman, called the theories that Seth was murdered by…
How I Stopped Being a Jew By Shlomo Sand Verso, 112 pages, $16.95 ‘How I Stopped Being a Jew” is the strangest book that I have ever reviewed. I used to grant that distinction to the memoir by the psychic who claimed that aliens healed her anal cyst. But this one is even stranger. At…
Have you heard about the sinister role the French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, in cahoots with the Israeli government, played in bringing down the government of Egypt’s president, Mohamed Morsi? And that BHL — aka He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-but-Wears-White-Shirts-Opened-to-the-Navel — used telekinesis to achieve his nefarious goal? These, at least, are the questions that recent news dispatches from Turkey…
A British lawmaker has blamed a Jewish conspiracy for his conviction in connection with a fatal car crash. Lord Nazir Ahmed of the Labor party claimed that his legal problems following the 2007 crash resulted from pressure placed on the courts by Jews “who own newspapers and TV channels,” The Times reported on Thursday. The…
A conspiracy theory circulating in the Arab world holds that the Muslim Brotherhood is secretly allied with the Jews, the Anti-Defamation League said. “It would seem that no allegation made against Jews and Israel is too absurd when it is used to discredit others,” ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said in a statement. Protesters were…
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