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Justice Is Served

Justice has been served at the trial of Robert Bowers, the neo-Nazi maniac who murdered eleven Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27, 2018. A few days ago, a federal jury convicted the 50-year old truck driver on 63 criminal counts and recommended that he be executed for having perpetrated […]

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Donald Trump And American Democracy

Donald Trump, the disgraced former president of the United States, is on the campaign trail to become the Republican Party’s nominee in the 2024 presidential election. As he travels around the country, he vehemently denies   that he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which, contrary to his absurd assertion, was handily […]

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Robert Kennedy’s Dangerous Conspiracy Theory

Robert F. Kennedy, the attorney-general in John F. Kennedy’s administration and the victim of an assassination in 1968, must surely be spinning in his grave. Kennedy’s son, Robert Jr., a candidate running against President Joe Biden for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, claims that the coronavirus pandemic was “ethnically targeted” to spare Chinese and Jewish […]

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A “Nazi” Lake Is Belatedly Renamed

As eye-catching symbols go, the swastika has been extremely problematic and highly offensive to many people for about a century. An ancient religious and cultural sign of good fortune and prosperity among Hindus, Jains and Zoroastrians, it was brazenly appropriated by the Nazi Party in Germany and willfully converted into a striking symbol of race […]

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Ukraine’s Glorification Of Homegrown Fascists

On a surprise visit to Ukraine a few days ago, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was greeted at a train station in Kyiv by the deputy foreign minister, Andriy Melnyk, Ukraine’s former ambassador to Germany. Accompanied by Chrystia Freeland, a Ukrainian Canadian and Canada’s deputy prime minister, Trudeau arrived in the Ukrainian capital bearing $500 […]

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An Antisemitic Killer Who Richly Deserves The Death Penalty

Nearly five years after murdering eleven Jewish congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, in the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history, Robert Bowers has finally gone on trial. Bowers, 50, perpetrated his atrocity on October 27, 2018. A neo-Nazi who had blasted Jews in a litany of loathsome social media posts, he […]

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Oath Keepers Founder Receives An Appropriate Prison Sentence

Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far right-wing Oath Keepers militia, was recently sentenced to 18 years in prison for his participation in the storming of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. It was the harshest sentence handed down so far in the more than one thousand criminal cases related […]

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Henry Kissinger — A Towering Figure In U.S. Foreign Policy

Henry Kissinger, the first Jewish U.S. secretary of state, celebrated his 100th birthday on May 27. The last surviving member of President Richard Nixon’s cabinet, he was among the most influential figures in the American foreign policy establishment during the last half of the 20th century. A refugee from Nazi Germany, he arrived in the […]

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George Soros — Love Him Or Hate Him

George Soros arouses strong reactions. Very strong reactions. A financier and backer of progressive causes, he has been praised by liberals and lambasted by conservatives. Donald Trump, the former president of the United States; Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, and Republican Party figures like Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, and Marjorie Taylor […]

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The Persistence Of Racial Hatred In The United States

President Joe Biden made an impassioned and important point a few days ago in a speech to Howard University’s graduating class. Warning that malevolent elements in the United States are attempting to roll back generations of racial progress, he correctly classified this kind of bigotry as a phenomenon passed on from one generation to the […]