Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the microblogging social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the microblogging social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the microblogging social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the microblogging social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Is Twitter plagued with Nazis? That’s what an anonymous Change.org petition is charging, listing information on hundreds of “Nazi and white supremacist accounts” and demanding the social media platform boot them off. “Twitter is brimming with active Nazis who use your platform as a tool to recruit members, spread hate, and harass other users,” reads…
Imagine getting a tweet with your face on a lampshade. You report the picture to Twitter as anti-Semitic harassment — and Twitter responds by suspending your account, not those of your trolls. That’s what activist Alexandra Brodsky says happened to her. The fellow at the National Women’s Law Center, an advocacy group for women, tweeted…
(JTA) — Long before he moved here to become the spokesman for the Auschwitz museum and lead its social media effort, Pawel Sawicki’s life was intricately connected to this sleepy town near Krakow. A Warsaw-area journalist for Polish Radio 2, Sawicki used to visit Oswiecim as a boy on holidays to stay with his grandparents…
President-elect Donald Trump, who insulted rivals during his 2016 campaign with nicknames such as “Crooked Hillary” and “Little Marco,” has a new nemesis: U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, a man he derides as a “clown.” The rhetorical banter that erupted between the two New Yorkers this week centered on a fight over Republican plans…
Bernie Sanders had a giant poster of a Trump tweet printed up and lugged to the Senate floor, where he used it to defend Obamacare Wednesday. “I think it is interesting that we listen to what Donald Trump said during the campaign,” the independent Vermont senator said in an incendiary speech. In May 2015 Trump…
(JTA) — President-elect Donald Trump slammed President Barack Obama for treating Israel with “total disdain and disrespect,” referencing Obama’s decision not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement building. We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect. They used to have a great friend in the…
Some of Donald Trump’s more anti-Semitic supporters were most unhappy over the weekend that marked both Christmas Eve and the first night of Hanukkah, when the president-elect sent out a Hanukkah greeting to American Jews. Here a few of their Twitter missives. @realDonaldTrump “if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness,…
Donald Trump on Monday chided the United Nations as “sad,” just days after the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements despite pressure by the U.S. president-elect for a veto by Washington. “The United Nations has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to…
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