🎧 The Daily: The Democrats and Israel | New York Times

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The Democratic Party has a long history of staunchly supporting Israel, but some new lawmakers are raising questions about the future of this stance.

👓 Eric Trump’s ugly ‘three extra shekels’ attack on Bob Woodward draws accusations of anti-Semitism | Raw Story

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Eric Trump is lashing out at veteran Watergate journalist Bob Woodward, and his remarks are drawing accusations of anti-Semitism. Wednesday morning the president’s son charged the author of “Fear” – the latest bombshell book exposing the Trump administration as inept and corrupt – with writing it “to make 3 extra shekels.”

👓 So, Was Agatha Christie Anti-Semitic? |The Art of Words

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In the Daily Telegraph 20 March 2013, Matthew Sweet reviews Perspectives, a programme by David Suchet on Agatha Christie’s disappearance in 1926. Did differing responses to the affair reflect attitudes to Christie’s (conservative) politics as expressed in her books? It’s an interesting question, but Sweet uses it as an opportunity to wheel out the old accusation that Christie was anti-Semitic:
Some throw away comments in one of her books I was looking at the other day made me want to look this up.

PewDiePie Show Canceled by Google’s YouTube | WSJ

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YouTube canceled its top star’s show on Tuesday over his anti-Semitic jokes, complicating its efforts to court television advertisers while also retaining its edgy video stars.