ORLANDO, Fla. – Arrests could happen soon after a University of Central Florida student says he was attacked by a Neo-Nazi group in Waterford Lakes over the weekend. Orange County Sheriff John Mina says charges are forthcoming for three people. While legal experts say hate speech is protected, things like threats and assaults can land...
Adolf Hitler has been dead for almost 77 years, and yet we’re still dealing with people hating on Jewish people. Locally, anti-Semitic leaflets about the “COVID AGENDA” were strewn across Miami Beach and Surfside earlier this month, and a few dozen swastika-sporting, slur-spouting demonstrators descended on the Orlando area this past weekend. While some local...
As the world enters the third year of COVID-19, 70 percent of Americans agree that “it’s time we accept that COVID is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives,” a new poll showed. The survey from Monmouth University released on Monday showed that while Americans are still concerned about the pandemic,...
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Network tells co-host to take a two-week break ‘to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments’; move comes despite apologies for saying Nazi genocide ‘not about race’ Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from her role as co-host of ABC’s popular “The View” talk show after an uproar over her comments in which she...
‘They tried to play games, they tried to politicize.’ Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday discussed a demonstration by neo-Nazis in Orlando over the weekend but spent more time dragging Democrats and mainstream political opponents than the neo-Nazis themselves. The Governor, who was in Palm Beach County talking infrastructure, was asked by reporters to respond to the neo-Nazi demonstration....
Jeb Bush designated January as Florida Jewish History Month in 2003. To commemorate this month, WGCU looks into the history of what Jewish people have done to impact Southwest Florida. “Jewish settlers in Florida have made an important impact on the entire state,” said Marina Berkovich, President of the Jewish Historical Society of Southwest Florida...
When virulent anti-Semitic fliers began showing up on lawns in Miami Beach earlier this month, the city’s police department tweeted about the hate campaign, urging residents to call detectives who were “actively investigating.” Media outlets chronicled the outrage from community groups and elected leaders. The FBI said it would investigate too, as did Miami-Dade State...
Members of Congress from South Florida are honoring Jewish lives lost on this Holocaust Remembrance Day. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-23) says antisemitism is nowhere near eradicated. “Just last week antisemites distributed hate-filled flyers in Surfside in my district as part of a national push to blame Jews for COVID.” Similar flyers showed up later in...
