Since Joe Biden was inaugurated in January, Fox News has been on a rampage. All of the networks anchors, but especially prime-time personalities like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson have been ramping up their extreme rhetoric. That means fringe Conservative networks like OAN and Newsmax, which were already to the right of Fox, have to…
Senate Republicans are now gearing up to acquit Trump in an impeachment trial on the specious rationale that putting a former officeholder on trial is unconstitutional, even though legal scholars, including some from the conservative Federalist Society, have broadly affirmed the constitutionality of such a proceeding. While this argument is their most recent political tactic,…
Donald Trump has always said that he is a great friend to people of Jewish faith. How could he be anti-Semitic, Trump argues, his son-in-law Jared Kushner is Jewish and his daughter Ivanka converted when she married him. But the president has also been slow to condemn his supporters who have anti-Semitic beliefs. After white…
A Republican senator has deleted a Facebook ad depicting his Democratic opponent with a large, digitally manipulated nose. The campaign claims it was an error. Georgia Senator David Perdue’s campaign has pulled the ad, which showed Democrat Jon Ossoff with House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is also Jewish. According to graphic design experts who…
The only Jewish leader willing to defend Trump’s anti-Semitism is a corrupt radio host who once wore blackface. That’s the best that Fox and Trump could do.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) ripped Trump’s incredibly soft and weak response to the rising number of attacks against Jewish-Americans.
President Trump, we should know by now, is the master of distraction, making it hard for the news cycle to keep up with his endless string of controversy-inspiring tweets and incendiary behaviors. As the media gets caught up in dissecting the language and meaning of one text, he is on to something else. It is…
This was going to be a column on what looks to me like softening Republican support for Donald Trump. Instead it’s going to be about an aspect of one of the reasons Trump should be impeached. I will write that other column, but not today. Trump stokes hatred toward most Americans. He has transformed hate…
Nancy Pelosi’s newest battle is not against Republicans, but against forces that are tearing apart the unity of Democrats in the House. And Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren are now involved as well. The three U.S. Senators all came to the defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar for her remarks that critics…
Nearly $50,000 has been raised through a Muslim crowdfunding site for the victims of the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday. The site was started by two Muslim nonprofit organizations. The fundraising campaign was launched on the site LaunchGood, which is a crowdfunding site specifically designed for Muslims. It reached its initial goal of $25,000…
Our nation is on edge, and according to The Washington Post, this may be because President Donald Trump has “fostered the toxic environment.” While every American yearns for a president who will calmly provide leadership and promote unity, we have a president who instead stokes fear and incites violence through his hateful rhetoric. Over the…
In the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased nearly 60% a report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) showed earlier this year. “In its annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, @ADL_National found that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the US rose 57% in 2017 – the largest single-year increase…
For some reason political candidates who deny the Holocaust ever took place are finding a home in the Republican Party. The latest is John Fitzgerald who, by finishing second in a California primary, has made his way onto the November ballot as a Republican candidate for Congress in the state’s 11th congressional district. Fitzgerald is…
The Democratic Party is the socialist party because they are anti-Americans, they’re not pro-Americans. They’re liars and misleaders, and we need to wipe them out.
“Whether or not your intention, your presidency has given the oxygen of incitement to some of the most viciously hateful elements in our society.”
“Forget President Trump, forget relying on him. He’s not going to fix this, he’s not going to be full-throated about it, it’s up to us folks.”
The American people are not without the power to denounce hate and to respond to Trump in the most powerful and self-affirming way possible.
Trump was forced to finally say something about the growing anti-Semitism and racism under him and all he could scrounge up were comments so lacking in courage the Anne Frank Center called them, “a Band-Aid on the cancer of anti-Semitism that has infected his own Administration.”
There has still been no condemnation offered directly from Trump, despite his willingness to express outrage over things that don’t exist, like widespread voter fraud and fake terrorist attacks.
“It shows the depths that they will go to try to disparage someone and the desperation, really, of the liberals,” whines Kimberly Guilfoyle
“The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words. The Museum calls on all American citizens…to confront racist thinking and divisive hateful speech.”
“Trump supporters are sending messages threatening to send me and my ‘ilk’ to the gas chambers and ‘get ready for the trains.’”
“Trump supporters are sending me messages threatening to send me & my ‘ilk’ to the gas chambers & writing hashtags like ‘#sieg hiel'”
Congressional Republicans need to stand up and call out Trump for choosing Bannon as a senior adviser and ‘equal partner’ to Trump’s Chief of Staff”
“It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion when Trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of White Supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide”
“These aggressors are disproportionately likely to self-identify as Donald Trump supporters, conservatives, or part of the ‘alt-right'”
Donald Trump of the Nazi tactics who hates Muslims, Mexicans and women is now being treated to a taste of the same medicine as Ted Cruz uses anti-Semitic dog whistles to attack Trump.
Now, it is apparently official that the Republican National Committee is closely-aligned with an official hate group according reports the RNC is accepting an all-expenses paid trip to Israel despite rightful criticism from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and an Israeli newspaper.
Aside from proving he doesn’t have the people skills to be our diplomat in chief, Romney proved himself to be an equal opportunity anti-Semite.