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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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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Former Candidate Trying To Create ‘Regional Capital’ In Idaho
Patrick Little, the neo-Nazi who claims Jews conspired to stop him from winning a U.S. Senate race in California, says he plans to establish a “regional capital” in northern Idaho, the Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington reported. His publicity tactic is familiar — anti-Semitic robocalls. Residents in Sandpoint, Idaho, said they received automated phone messages from…
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Food Idaho Jewish Prisoners Can Now Get Kosher Food
Four Jews locked up in Idaho prisons will finally be able to eat kosher. A federal judge has ruled that Idaho’s Department of Correction is required to provide kosher meals in all of its facilities. After the prisoners were only able to consume fruit and matzah during Passover because they were not provided with kosher…
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Fast Forward Idaho Woman Finds Nazi Explosive In Parents’ Shed
An Idaho woman discovered a Nazi artillery shell while cleaning out her parents’ shed last week. Diana Landa said that her parents had rarely used the shed in their longtime home outside of Boise and had no idea how the explosive got there. The device had a Nazi insignia and was etched with the year…
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Fast Forward Idaho Unites To Repair Vandalized Anne Frank Memorial
Two weeks after a memorial to Anne Frank in Boise, Idaho was vandalized with racist and anti-Semitic slurs, the community raised nearly $30,000 for the nonprofit that hosts it. The city has “turned the Idaho Statesman on Wednesday. “Two weeks ago hate walked into the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial,” Prinzing said. “It came under…
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Fast Forward Anne Frank Memorial In Idaho Vandalized
Boise, Idaho’s Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial was vandalized this week. On memorial Tuesday afternoon, a tour group discovered “racist and anti-Semitic slurs” written on two different marble tablets, the Idaho Statesman reported. Representative Dan Prinzing said he would not repeat the words reading the phrase written “because it was so offensive.” The graffiti was…
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Fast Forward ACLU Sues Idaho Over Lack Of Kosher Meals In Prisons
The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho filed a suit last week against the state’s Department of Correction over the prison system’s lack of kosher food. The class action suit, led by four Jewish prisoners of various denominations, asked for a preliminary injunction to force the prisons to serve kosher meals immediately. They argue that…
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