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Life Taylor Swift Probably Isn’t Jewish But Very Well Could Be
With online anti-Semitism running rampant, and with this evening’s presidential debate likely to make life in the public sphere that much more delightful for Jews, the question is, what do we do? How do we cope? I urge you to read journalist Ned Resnikoff’s Medium post, “Nobody talks about the fact that Taylor Swift is…
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News 9 Things We Learned From the ADL Report on Trolling Jewish Journalists
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report showing the unprecedented online harassment Jews – and especially Jewish journalists – are facing in the age of Twitter and Trump. “The spike in hate we’ve seen online this election cycle is extremely troubling and unlike anything we have seen in modern politics, ADL CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said…
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Breaking News ADL Report Blames Trump Backers for Spike in Online Harassment of Journalists
— An Anti-Defamation League task force tracking a “spike” in online harassment of journalists credited self-identified supporters of Donald Trump with the lion’s share of the anti-Semitic tweets aimed at reporters and broadcasters. While emphasizing that the study does not imply that the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign supports or endorses the Twitter activity, the task force noted…
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Opinion Why Jewish Journalists Like Me Face Unprecedented Online Abuse in Age of Trump
After decades in journalism, you would think that I would be used to this by now. I weathered a barrage of hateful emails when, as editorial page editor of a major regional newspaper, we took a tough line against President Bill Clinton during his impeachment scandal in the 1990s. I had to deal with nasty…
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News Twitter Gives Online Hate Speech Its Biggest Platform — Why?
During the last months, anti-Semitic attacks and trolling has risen to seemingly unprecedented levels on social media sites. The problem’s gotten so bad that the Anti-Defamation League created a task force combating online hate speech. (Their first report will be released this Wednesday.) Of course the biggest problem is those who are posting all that…
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The Schmooze 10 Anti-Semitic Tweets That Prove Trump’s Dog Whistling Was Real
A whole lot has been said about Trump’s disastrous (and, come on, Trump supporters, it was disastrous) performance during the Second Presidential Debate. From his shameful and insulting use of Bill Clinton’s accusers as props to his threat to literally imprison his opponent to his pacing around the debate floor like a trapped, orange animal,…
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News It’s Kermit vs. Pepe as Twittersphere Fights ‘Alt-Right’ With Feel-Good Frog
Watch out, Pepe! In a fight against anti-Semitic and racist attacks, Twitter users are now using a secret weapon: Kermit the Frog. Kermit is framed as an anti-bigotry (but equally green) alternative to Pepe the Frog. Pepe is popular among “alt-right” Twitter trolls and white supremacists, and was recently declared an official hate-symbol by the…
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News Alt-Right Trolls Offended by Trump’s 400-Pound Hacker Joke
Donald Trump has a gift to alienate entire population swaths with a single one of his insults. Women, Mexicans, Muslims, you name it. But now you can add an unlikely group to this list: alt-right Twitter trolls. 4chan and 8chan, the “alt-right” message boards that originated the Star of David-meme that Trump then retweeted, were…
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