admin | April 30, 2020
Lately, Craig Newmark has been watching The Plot Against America, David Simons new HBO miniseries, and feeling verklempt. The show, based on the acclaimed novel by Philip Roth, presents a frightening alternate history in which the aviator Charles Lindbergh is elected president of the United States in 1940 on an openly antisemitic platform. Its gotten me kind of upset, said Newmark, the 67-year-old founder of Craigslist, who now operates as a full-time philanthropist as he seeks to give away a sizable portion of his estimated $1.3 billion net worth
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admin | April 30, 2020
7.49pm EDT19:49 The Guardians technology reporter Kari Paul writes from California: Tesla founder Elon Musk went off script in the companys Q1 earnings call on Wednesday, calling San Franciscos shelter-in-place orders fascist as his frustration over the closure of his Bay Area factory continues. We are a bit worried about not being able to resume production in the Bay Area, he began. The extension of shelter in place -- or as I would call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes, against all constitutional right - and in my opinion infringing on peoples freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong, and not why people came to America or pulled this country - what the fuck?
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admin | April 26, 2020
Lori Gilbert-Kaye was an avid reader. The last book she bought was called A Time to Heal. It was on her nightstand at home when she was killed a year ago in the mass shooting at her synagogue, Chabad of Poway
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admin | April 26, 2020
WASHINGTON (JTA) For the folks who monitor anti-Semitism, a pandemic-induced nightmare nearly became real this month. A Massachusetts man was arrested for trying to set off a firebomb near the entrance of a Jewish home for the elderly. He got the idea, federal authorities said, from the internet.
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admin | April 26, 2020
The Plot Against America is actually a gripping portrayal of a potential plot against the Jews. And it poses a worrisome question: Will the latent antisemitism depicted in this HBO series based on the Phillip Roth novel prove to be fact or fiction? We only think were Americans, says Bess at a pivotal point in the television adaptation of Philip Roths dystopian novel The Plot Against America.
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admin | April 26, 2020
Zoom is rolling out a new feature to help users fight pervs and trolls who hijack their video meetings. The videoconferencing company said it will put a new button in its app to let meeting hosts report misbehaving users directly to Zooms Trust and Safety team, which will evaluate the problem and block the offending user if warranted
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admin | April 26, 2020
Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, ceremonies for Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day were canceled in Israel and across the world. But Yad Vashem and other institutions have found powerful and innovative ways to enable these events to be recorded, livestreamed and Zoomed, to allow us all to be separate but together in our ongoing efforts to keep the memory of the Shoah alive and ensure that Never again remains never again.At the same time, the corona era appears to have spawned a new wave of global antisemitism, and we need to be vigilant against blood libels blaming Jews for the current plague, as well as to prevent attacks against Jewish institutions.In one attack apparently motivated by online forums encouraging violence against Jews, US federal prosecutors said, a member of a white supremacist group planted a homemade bomb at a Jewish assisted-living home named Ruths House in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, last week.There have also been a number of cases of what has been termed Zoombombing, in which extremists have interrupted Zoom confrerences with antisemitic hatred.
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admin | April 26, 2020
By Saraana Jamraj During their April 22 city commission meeting, the Tamarac City Commission voted, amidst a tearful discussion, to draft a resolution denouncing white supremacy. The motion was brought forward by Commissioner Mike Gelin, citing facts from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization that specializes in identifying and monitoring hate groups.
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admin | April 26, 2020
Image: Matt Marshall, a leader of the Three Percenters militia movement, wearing the boogaloo Hawaiian shirt uniform at an anti-quarantine protest in Olympia, Washington (Getty) God help us if Mark Zuckerbergs next congressional hearing is on the subject of the Bloody Insurrection of 2020.
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admin | April 26, 2020
Syracuse University's Student Association in a virtual meeting passed a resolution Monday condemning conservative figure Ben Shapiro's planned speech at the school this fall, the college's paper the Daily Orange reported. The lengthy resolution also branded Shapiro as a "white supremacist." In one rather jaw-dropping paragraph, student leaders added that "not only is Ben Shapiro a white supremacist, but he is homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, ableist, and classist
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