“Evan Hafer just wants the vitriol to stop. The founder and CEO of veteran-owned Black Rifle Coffee Company has received copious hate mail, social media backlash and disparaging phone calls in the wake of a New York Times’ article profiling the company, which paints itself as an organi[...]
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July 22nd, 2021 - 1:47 am § in Jews, Law and Courts
Synagogue gunman gets life without parole
In April 2019, a 20-year-old sociopath strolled into a San Diego-area synagogue with an AR-15 and opened fire, killing a 60-year-old woman and wounding the rabbi and two others, including an 8-year-old girl. Two years later, John T. Earnest, 22, told a California judge he did it because he believed [...]
How to be an idiot and look like one at the same time
State Rep. Jim Walsh (photo, left), a Republican who represents the Aberdeen area in Washington’s legislature, sported a Yellow Star of David at a political rally in Lacey on Saturday, June 26, 2021. He was likening “the government’s efforts to protect people from a highly contagio[...]
When anti-vaxxers feel persecuted…
… stupid happens. There’s no doubt Gigi Haskins (photo below), the artist-creator of these yellow badges, and owner of a men’s bespoke hat shop that briefly sold them for 5 bucks apiece, is a Trumper. As an India-based media-company blogger wrote (here), “A large number of po[...]
Attention seeker
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) stirred up a hornet’s nest on Friday by comparing mask mandates to Stars of David (photo, left) and alluding to Nazi gas chambers (read story here). There’s nothing original or creative about this; rightwing pastors and other anti-maskers have used this[...]
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Is Democrats’ love affair with Israel over?
Democrats’ traditional support for Israel isn’t hard to figure out. For over a century, Jewish voters have overwhelmingly voted Democratic (see chart here). This held right up through the 2020 election; in fact, McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012 did significantly better among this demogr[...]
Student arrested for campus swastika
A University of Connecticut student has been and charged with a hate crime for allegedly spray-painting a swastika on a campus building “directly across the street from [the] UConn Hillel” building, the Hartford Courant reported on Friday, April 30, 2021 (read story here). The newspaper[...]
Is insulting a student “academic freedom”?
A professor at an Ohio public college sued his employer after being written up for calling a transgender student “Mr.” in class. Nicholas Meriwether (photo, left), a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University, claims a First Amendment speech and religious right to call a student se[...]
February 5th, 2021 - 2:32 pm § in Jews
Germans try 2 ex-Nazis in juvenile courts
At least two people charged with Nazi-era crimes against Holocaust victims are being tried as juveniles in German courts, despite their advanced age, because they were minors when the crimes were committed, CNN reported on Friday, February 5, 2021. Both worked at the Stutthof concentration camp (pho[...]