Gary Cohn, Trump’s top economic adviser who stood next to the president when he delivered his controversial remarks on the Charlottesville, Virginia, events, is speaking out for the first time. In a Financial Times interview Thursday, Cohn made his displeasure with Trump’s response public. “Citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated…
Taking a page from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the media for not reporting on his condemnation of racist events in Charlottesville, Virginia. And taking another page from Trump, Netanyahu misrepresented the media’s response. Netanyahu came under fire for his belated response to the events, which were laced with anti-Semitic themes, and…
While watching the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia – the violence that erupted between marching neo-Nazis and Antifa protesters – I can’t help but think back to what was the original “Antifa”, a group of Jews, whom my father told me about from his childhood, growing up as a poor Jewish kid in Newark, New…
After President Trump blamed “both sides” neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville, more than one in six of his supporters told pollsters that having white supremacist views is “acceptable.” According to the ABC News/Washington Post survey, a full 17% of Trump voters characterized neo-Nazi and white supremacist views as “acceptable” – compared to a still-shocking 9% of…
Following events in Charlottesville, with Neo Nazis on the American street and President Trump’s abject defense of “Southern heritage,” there have been two types of response. One is from the anti-Zionist left. The other is from the Jewish right. But though the authors of these responses may believe themselves to be radically at odds, they…
Hundreds of people swarmed the streets of Durham, North Carolina on Friday to protest a Ku Klux Klan rally rumored to be scheduled for later that afternoon. A tweet posted from the city of Durham’s Twitter account said Durham police have not issued an event permit for any group on Friday, and encouraged people to…
The images of Nazis and white supremacists marching in the streets of Charlottesville with torches chanting “blood and soil” shook me to my core. But so did something else that happened this week. In the aftermath of these acts of blatant racism and anti-Semitism, one of the march’s leaders, Richard Spencer, was invited onto Israeli…
(JTA) — Johnny Cash’s children took to social media to denounce a neo-Nazi who wore a T-shirt with the singer’s name on it during the Charlottesville far-right rally last weekend. In a Facebook post Wednesday, Rosanne, Kathy, Cindy, Tara and John Carter Cash pointed out that their late father had received humanitarian awards from, among…
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