Category Archives: The Forward
‘Blood is on your hands’: Antisemitism Cow returns one final time to rail at Twitter
(JTA) — An anonymous Twitter account that mooed at antisemitic tweeters before quitting the platform returned Monday night to take the platform to task one last time. “You have failed the people who use this platform,” Antisemitism Cow tweeted, tagging Twitter and its CEO, Jack Dorsey. Read more » »
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Trump says U.S. needs ‘more Jews that love Israel’
President Trump told a group of Jewish supporters at a fundraiser Sunday that “we need more Jews in the U.S. that love Israel,” the Orthodox news outlet Belaaz reported. The event was held at the Long Branch, N.J. home of the late Stanley Chera, a real estate developer and a friend of Trump’s who died in April due to complications from COVID-19. Read more » »
Toronto Polish-language newspaper blames Jews for pandemic
August 7, 2020 By Shira Hanau (JTA) – A Polish-language newspaper in Toronto has published an article blaming Jews for the coronavirus pandemic. B’nai Brith Canada, an organization that fights anti-Semitism, has filed a police complaint over the article published twice by the Głos Polski weekly. Read more » »
YouTube removes rapper Wiley’s channel over ‘repeated violations’
August 6, 2020 By Marcy Oster (JTA) — YouTube is the latest media platform to remove Wiley over what it termed the British rapper’s “repeated violations.” The decision to remove his channel comes after pressure by groups in the United Kingdom, including the Campaign Against Antisemitism. Read more » »
Delaware to require teaching of the Holocaust, genocide
August 6, 2020 By Marcy Oster (JTA) — The state of Delaware will require the teaching of a Holocaust curriculum in middle and high schools starting with the 2021-22 term. A bill signed into law late last month by Gov. John Carney mandates that public schools implement curriculum on the Holocaust and genocide for students in grades 6 through 12. Read more » »
A Jewish guide to Biden’s VP short list
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is expected to name his running mate in the next two weeks, and while the list of contenders has changed constantly for months, most reports have now whittled the group of front-runners Read more » »
House Democrats overwhelmingly sign letter warning about annexation
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Most House Democrats have made it clear: Israel should desist from annexing parts of the West Bank. As of Thursday, a letter to Israeli leaders warning of annexation’s perils had garnered 191 of the 233 members of the Democratic caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. Among Jewish Democrats, 23 of 25 signed on. Read more » »
Jenny Slate to stop voicing half-Black ‘Big Mouth’ character
June 25, 2020 By Gabe Friedman (JTA) — Jenny Slate is leaving the cast of Netflix’s “Big Mouth” because she says playing a half-Black, half-Jewish character as a white woman is “an act of erasure of Black people. Read more » »
Jerusalem removes pride banner from US embassy citing signage bylaws
June 25, 2020 By Marcy Oster JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jerusalem municipality removed an LGBT Pride banner hanging outside of the U.S. Embassy’s Palestinian Affairs Unit located in the center of the city. The municipality said the banner, which was removed Tuesday, violated municipal signage bylaws and required city approval, according to reports. Read more » »
