The plug has been pulled on a hotly debated documentary series about the Klu Klux Klan. In a statement released on Saturday, television network A&E wrote that third-party producers had given cash payments to subjects in exchange for appearing on “Escaping the KKK.” The show, which was set to air in January, followed four KKK…
A new documentary series that promises to go inside the private lives of Ku Klux Klan members is drawing instant condemnation on social media. But the Anti-Defamation League, which is partnering with the show’s distributors, is standing up for the program. Set to air on the cable channel A&E, home of reality shows like “Duck…
Concerns over the rise of political and nationalistic hostility toward Jews are valid, but they are not new. The latest surge should not propel us in a panic toward false and even dangerous solutions and alliances. The Forward’s November 30 article “Are Jews for Jesus a Secret Weapon in Anti-Semitism Fight With the ‘Alt-Right’?” makes…
“That’s a big f**king yarmulke,” says a voice coming from behind me. I’m shopping at a Fairway supermarket in Manhattan and turn around to face a white man in his thirties sporting a blonde crew cut. “Excuse me?” I ask. I’m holding onto a shopping cart full of groceries for a dinner my community prepares…
People are wearing safety pins as a way to protest the recent election of Donald Trump. “Wearing my #safetypin because I am a queer, Jewish woman and I stand with all of my fellow humans,” wrote Miranda Day on Twitter. “For my Hispanic great-nephew, my Jewish great-niece and my African-American 2nd cousins I wear my…
Republican candidate Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump attacked David Duke on live radio on Nov. 3, saying that the former Ku Klux Kan leader “deserves a bullet.” Speaking with conservative radio host Ross Kaminsky, on Denver’s 630 KHOW, Trump said that Duke and his supporters are “horrible people,” according to NBC News. Trump also praised…
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke spewed anti-Semitic conspiracy theories at a Louisiana Senate debate in New Orleans Wednesday, telling an empty auditorium that Jews control banks and the media, and suggesting that Hillary Clinton is in thrall to Jewish interests. “There is a problem in America with a very strong, powerful, tribal group…
Even for an endorsement-deprived candidate like Donald Trump, this one was a bit too much. Hours after receiving the news that the Ku Klux Klan newspaper, The Crusader, endorsed his presidential run, Trump turned it down. “Mr. Trump and the campaign denounces hate in any form,” a campaign spokesman said in a statement sent to…
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