GOP state legislator Sarah Fowler Arthur (photo, left), who sponsored a bill to ban teaching “divisive concepts” (read: critical race theory) in Ohio schools, explains her tilting at windmills as follows: “What we do not want is for someone to come in and say, ‘Well, obviously the Ge[...]
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Germany explains Nazis to Putin
Putin claims he invaded Ukraine to “denazify” the country. That drew hoots from the rest of the world, none more so than the Germans (read story here). When Russia’s embassy in South Africa tweeted that “Russia is fighting Nazism in Ukraine,” the Germans posted the repl[...]
What is Babi Yar?
Babi Yar is a ravine in Kyiv, the Ukrainian city now under Russian fire. During World War 2, a major battle was fought around Kyiv (then Kiev) in August and September 1941 (details here), in which a Soviet army of about 150,000 was encircled and destroyed. By September 22 the city had fallen to the [...]
Portland police built a wall of silence around BLM mass shooting
When half a dozen people are shot all at once, it doesn’t normally take days to find out what happened and who was responsible. But a wall of police silence surrounds the act of fanatical political terrorism committed by a rightwing extremist in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, February 19, 2022[...]
The second-best place for neo-Nazis
America is a free country, and you can be an obnoxious Nazi hater on a soapbox to your heart’s content, as long as it’s just talk. A gang of these nasties were demonstrating near an Orlando, Florida, shopping plaza on Saturday, January 29, 2022, when a Jewish college student stopped by a[...]
This is what happens when you don’t fact-check
First, some background: “Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, has been a vocal critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci.” (Per CNN story here.) So it’s not surprising he went off half-cocked, but this one is a doozy. (Also relevant to this story, while Massie is an MIT grad in electrical[...]
How to ruin your life in 30 seconds
Spit on Jewish kids in direct view of a surveillance camera you don’t realize is there Three Jewish kids, ages 8, 7, and 2, were playing in a Brooklyn residential neighborhood when a 21-year-old Catholic college student came by. The woman, later identified as Christina Darling, has a history o[...]
GOP Rep. asked Jewish tourists at Capitol if they were doing “reconnaissance”
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) asked a Jewish group touring the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, January 20, 2022, if they were there to do “reconnaissance,” Huffington Post reported (read story here), an apparent allusion to rightwing militia groups who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, whom s[...]
“Pope Francis is a Jew” and other crazy rants cost CEO his job
“SALT LAKE CITY — The founder and chair of Entrata, a Silicon Slopes tech firm, has resigned his position after sending an email to a number of tech CEOs and Utah business and political leaders, claiming the COVID-19 vaccine is part of a plot by ‘the Jews’ to exterminate people. [...]
Animal in a cage
John T. Earnest was 19 years old when he shot up a San Diego-area synagogue in April 2019, killing one and injuring three. Before that he torched a mosque. Federal hate-crime prosecutors said he did it because “he hated the Jewish community and Muslim community ….” And now? “[...]