I woke up last Saturday morning to images of Charlottesville — to accounts of the white supremacist chants “blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us.” I saw pictures of angry white men with swastikas giving the Nazi salute, their faces twisted in rage. As a white Jewish woman, I have for years approached…
The blatant anti-Semitism of the Charlottesville riots and the alt-right are chilling, but rest assured: the Nazis have always hated uppity New York Jews. In the 1930s, many German authors frequently praised American policy while criticizing Jewish influence. In his 1935 book USA Lernt Um! (USA Learns), Johannes Stoye praised FDR’s New Deal in one…
Some journalists looking for clues to Donald Trump’s sometimes conflicted attitudes toward the Ku Klux Klan have pointed to his family history — including the fact that Trump’s father was once arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens. Related story: 7 Creepy Things Donald Trump Has Said About Ivanka There’s no evidence that…
In an August 15 speech, the President of the United States equated actual American Nazis with liberal counter-protestors. Throughout his campaign and his nascent administration, President Donald Trump has ideologically and materially aided neo-Nazis and other hate groups with anti-Semitic goals and values. When asked if he thought the alt left was the same as…
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Radio host, conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump supporter Alex Jones was at it again Sunday with a theory that “leftist Jews” may have impersonated Nazis to discredit white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville, Va. Speaking on “The Alex Jones Show” on August 13, Jones recalled his own experience, he said, protesting the…
President Donald Trump responded to the news of brawls at a white supremacist rally in Virginia by condemning violence “on many sides.” The language was oddly vague — and celebrated by his white nationalist base. “He didn’t attack us. He just said the nation should come together. Nothing specific against us,” wrote Andrew Anglin, the…
Never again. Like most American Jews, these words were at the core of my religious education. Growing up in Charlottesville, a town that 1,500 Jews and the University of Virginia call home, I learned about the importance of standing up against hatred before it’s too late. “First They Came for the Communists” felt like ancient…
Leaders of the Chicago Dyke March used “Zio tears” an anti-Semitic epithet popularized by white supremeacist David Duke on Twitter last night. The tweet was a response to an article reporting that the Jewish transgender reporter who covered the Chicago Dyke March for the LGBT newspaper Windy City Times had been involuntarily relieved of reporting…
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