George Soros, a wealthy Jewish financier who has been accused of everything from profiting from a British recession, to “fuelling the Asian financial crisis of 1997”, to “trying to destroy Hong Kong’s economy” and breaking the Bank of Thailand, “with all the viciousness of a hammerhead shark”.
And so people like Stephen Pollard, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, were worried.
the Spanish op-ed last week from El Nuevo Dia, whose title translates to “What Does ‘The Jew’ Want with the Colony?,” columnist Wilda Rodriguez justified her assertion that Jews run the government by pointing to an alleged Israeli article published in Hebrew 20 years ago that recognized Jewish power in Washington. “For Israelis,” she wrote, “recognizing Jewish power over the United States is no offense. It is the victory of their diaspora.”
She said the “Jewish itinerary is so loaded with wars and profits that they rarely think about Puerto.”
Singer Lorde has been called a “bigot” after pulling out of a planned concert in Israel.
In a full-page advertisement, taken out in the Washington Post by rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s pro-Israel organsiation This World: The Values Network, Lorde, 21, is described as taking part in “a global anti-semitic boycott of Israel”.
A pull quote in the paid-for text reads “21 is young to become a bigot”, while the headline and longer article accuse the New Zealand singer of being a hypocrite for cancelling her planned Tel Aviv concert while still performing in Russia.
It’s the very definition of Orwellian: a panel titled “Anti-Semitism and the Struggle for Justice” that’s actually meant to promote Israel-bashing.
Co-sponsored by The New School’s Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program, the Nov. 28 event bills itself as “a discussion on how to combat anti-Semitism.” But it quickly reveals its true goal.
“When anti-Semitism is redefined as criticism of Israel,” reads the description, “critics of Israeli policy become accused and targeted more than the growing far-right.”
The editor of the Gay Times has been fired just weeks after taking up the role after anti-Semitic and misogynistic tweets were uncovered.
Josh Rivers sent a series of tweets between 2010 and 2015 which made offensive comments about women, Jewish people, Chinese people, lesbians, transgender people, and people he thought were overweight or ugly.
An Indonesian museum that allowed visitors to take selfies with a life-size wax sculpture of Hitler against a backdrop of Auschwitz concentration camp has removed the exhibit following international outrage, the manager said Saturday.
De ARCA Statue Art Museum in the Javanese city of Jogjakarta drew swift condemnation from rights groups after details of the controversial display were published in foreign media.
Nigel Farage has been fiercely criticised for saying Jews living in the US hold disproportionate political power.
The former Ukip leader, who has close ties with President Donald Trump, appeared to agree with the claim American Jews hold financial control over the political sphere.
Democrats in Westchester County, New York are furious after the New York Republican State Committee sent out a flyer depicting a Jewish Democrat as a sinister “puppet master” who pulls the strings of local Democratic candidates — two of whom are minorities.
ABC 7 NY reports that the flyer “depicts former Town Supervisor Susan Siegel, a Jewish woman, as a puppeteer controlling three Democratic candidates that include an African-American woman and a man of Indian descent.”