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Marco Rubio sits down with Michael Benz, Jewish former Trump official with an antisemitic online persona

April 18, 2025April 19, 2025Sara Wood

Secretary of State Marco Rubio promoted an interview this week with a conservative influencer who has praised Hitler online, in the latest example of a Trump official conversing with a white nationalist figure. Michael Benz, who served in the State Department in Trump’s first term, revealed in 2023 he was the author of “Frame Game,” […]

Eyeing an escape route in the Trump era, these American Jews are moving to Canada

April 15, 2025April 15, 2025Jesse Orine

A year ago, Sarah Resnick had a good job and a Jewish community she liked in New York. She gave all that up to move to Winnipeg, a city where she knew nobody, in a country where she was not a citizen, in a climate whose extremes she was not used to. “Do I prefer […]

Montreal synagogue firebombed for the 2nd time in just over a year

December 18, 2024December 18, 2024Jesse Orine

Assailants firebombed a synagogue in a Montreal suburb for the second time in just over a year, the latest in a series of attacks on Canadian Jewish institutions since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of Israel. As in the other recent attacks on Canadian Jewish sites, no one was injured in the incident. Mordecai Zeitz, […]

As Schumer presses ahead with Antisemitism Awareness Act, concerns about free speech resurface

November 17, 2024November 17, 2024Sara Wood

WASHINGTON — One of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s last actions as the outgoing Senate majority leader is an attempt to codify a controversial definition of antisemitism in the face of claims from the left and the right that it impinges on free speech. The New York Jewish Democrat announced Friday that he hopes to attach the […]

Pro-Israel investors eye withdrawing from Tiktok due to antisemitism

February 1, 2024February 2, 2024David Rutman

(JTA) — Last year, as fighting swirled over the Israeli government’s efforts to reshape the country’s judiciary, Israeli and American critics turned their attention to Arthur Dantchik, a Jewish billionaire who bankrolled a think tank behind the proposed reforms. After facing protests outside his Philadelphia-area home, Dantchik gave in. He announced that he would stop […]

Meta ‘inappropriately removed’ Hamas kidnapping videos – oversight board

December 19, 2023December 19, 2023David Rutman

Automated content moderation tools deployed amid “a surge in violent and graphic content” on Facebook and Instagram after October 7 went too far in removing posts that social media users should have been able to see, an independent oversight panel at their parent company, Meta, ruled on Tuesday. The finding came in a review of […]