Donald Trump's speech before the brutalist-style Warsaw Uprising (1944) memorial (take a look at the dark, gargantuan Nazi overshadowing Trump in the accompanying picture--this is an irony the planners of the speech seemed not to account for) in the run-up to the G-20 meeting this week, was a horror show. Commentators have compared it to his "American … [Read more...]
Steve Bannon’s Romance with Hollywood Islamophobia
In the past few days, stories about two different Steve Bannon film projects, one of which was never produced and the second, which was screened at this summer's Republican convention. The Washington Post reported on the first film, which Bannon was shopping around Hollywood in 2007. It was to be titled (somewhat awkwardly): Destroying the Great Satan: The … [Read more...]
Israeli Terror Suspect, Amiram Benoliel, Confesses to Dawabsheh Murder
Today, an Israeli Facebook user noticed a post by an Israeli settler dedicated to the suspect in the Dawabsheh terror murders who confessed. Here is what he wrote: “It appears that one of our comrades confessed in the Dawabsheh incident. This shrivels in comparison to the torture he suffered. Those evil ones [Shabak] broke him, literally. They placed him in … [Read more...]
Trump and the GOP: Words Will Kill
The NY Times published an op-ed yesterday by a medieval historian specializing in the Jewish life during this period. But the moral of her piece was anything but medieval. It was addressed squarely at Donald Trump and the GOP presidential candidates' stark Muslim-baiting: Do harsh words lead to violent acts? At a moment when hate speech seems to be … [Read more...]
