For the past several years, the UK Israel Lobby has conducted a concerted campaign to destroy the Labor Party. After Jeremy Corbyn's leadership victory two years ago, the effort went into an even higher gear. The Israeli embassy and Jewish groups affiliated with it like Jewish Labor Movement and Labour Friends of Israel regularly and repeatedly dredged up … [Read more...]
Jewish Defense League Allies with Alt-Right
To some of you this may seem obvious. But to the rest of us, who still retain a sense of outrage, this still shocks. Obviously, the American Alt-Right is in triumphalist mode with its man in the White House. White supremacists are in hog heaven. You can almost picture Richard Spencer giving a sieg heil in the Oval Office (though that hasn't … [Read more...]
Trump’s Key ‘Fixer’ with European Alt-Right Loves Israel, Hates Jews
A little-known Italian-American, Guido "George" Lombardi, is known as Donald Trump's "fixer" with the European alt-right. Lombardi, a wealthy real estate investor who owns the 62nd and 63 floors of the Trump Tower and is a member of his Mar-a-Lago club, is a Trump insider, though he has no official position. In a Politico profile published a month before … [Read more...]
Hillel International: Who’s Afraid of Breaking the Silence?
At one time, campus Hillels were home to college students exploring their Jewish identity in all its diversity. There were Orthodox Jews, atheists, socialist, Bundists, Zionists--and everything in between. Hillel was a welcoming place, a big tent for Jewish inquiry. They were intellectually engaging, full of spiritual inquiry, and encouraging passion in … [Read more...]