Panic struck a Manhattan movie theatre on Sunday night when a man burst into the room yelling about guns, New York Post reported. Anthony Powell, 34, allegedly screamed, “people with guns were killing people in the theater,” when he entered the Regal Union Square Movie Stadium around 11:30 pm. One frightened man reportedly jumped from…
Comedian Billy Eichner appeared on MSNBC’s The Beat With Ari Melber last week, in what can only be described as an orgy of Jewish male charisma. Melber, whom I had never heard of due to being a millennial non-TV owner, is, apparently a lawyer who succeeded Greta Van Susteren at MSNBC and used to write…
(JTA) — The 11-year-old girl whose address at a gun control march in Washington D.C. galvanized activists said she faces taunts because she is black and Jewish. During last month’s March for Our Lives, a response to the Parkland, Florida school shooting that left 17 students and teachers dead, Naomi Wadler, who is both African…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas shared a Facebook post blaming the Holocaust in part on gun control and attacking survivors of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The post was one of several identified by The Hill on Monday as posted by Virginia Thomas and registering strong disagreement…
A pro-gun Republican congressman mocked wounded ex-Rep. Gabby Giffords by brandishing a loaded handgun at a meeting with constituents in his South Carolina district — and suggesting she could have done more to protect herself. Rep. Ralph Norman reportedly pulled out the licensed .38-caliber weapon on a table and suggested that Giffords could have avoided…
On March 29, Forward columnist Bethany Mandel published an op-ed entitled Stop Using The Holocaust To Push Gun Control. In it, she discussed how invoking Holocaust imagery such as the “Never Again” slogan in the gun control debate is inappropriate. I understand her discomfort with using the Holocaust, a mass genocide that killed six million…
Yom HaShoah, the day on the Jewish calendar remembering victims of the Holocaust, falls in late April this year. But you would be forgiven for getting a little turned around in the last weeks, especially if you’ve spent any time online, where you may have seen #NeverAgain trending on Twitter. The slogan, a commitment that…
(JTA) — A Texas state representative opposed to gun control posted a meme on her Facebook page suggesting that gun control led to the deaths of children in the Holocaust. Valoree Swanson, who describes herself as a Conservative Republican on her personal Facebook page, deleted the image from her Valoree Swanson for Texas Facebook page,…
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