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Search results for "Selig Dworsky was a Norwegian Jew born in Trondheim on 4 April 1895"

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Ginny Brown-Waite stated on October 26, 2009 in a letter to President Obama:
A president must "obtain Congress' consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 29, 2009
John Kerry stated on April 17, 2014 in a speech:
"In the last couple of days, notices were sent (by officials in Ukraine) to Jews in one city indicating that they had to identify themselves as Jews."
By Julie Kliegman• April 18, 2014
TikTok posts stated on April 14, 2022 in a TikTok post:
A video shows the Russian warship Moskva exploding.
By Bill McCarthy• April 25, 2022
Bloggers stated on February 17, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says 89 members of Congress "hold dual citizenship with Israel."
By Sarah Stanley• February 25, 2019
Facebook posts stated on January 17, 2021 in a Facebook post:
The COVID-19 vaccine is dangerous because 23 people died in Norway "within hours” of receiving it.
By Monique Curet• January 19, 2021
Bloggers stated on October 08, 2021 in a blog post:
“Europe COMPLETELY BANS the Moderna vaccine for young people.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 13, 2021
George Santos stated on February 20, 2023 in an interview with Piers Morgan:
“I never claimed to be Jewish.”
By Louis Jacobson• February 22, 2023
Nancy Pelosi stated on June 17, 2014 in a tweet:
Says 11 soccer players on the U.S. Men’s National Team are immigrants.
By Steve Contorno• June 19, 2014
Wolf Blitzer stated on February 18, 2014 in comments on CNN:
The words "subhuman mongrel," which Ted Nugent called President Barack Obama, were used by the Nazis to "justify the genocide of the Jewish community."
By Jon Greenberg• February 19, 2014
Rush Limbaugh stated on February 17, 2019 in in an interview:
"Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to tell us what's going to happen in 50 years or 30. Notice the predictions are never for next year or the next 10 years. They're always for way, way, way, way out there, when none of us are going to be around or alive to know whether or not they were true."
By John Kruzel• February 19, 2019
Facebook posts stated on February 26, 2024 in an Instagram post:
“The Rothschilds were behind the Federal Reserve, and they now control the global financial system.”
By Katelyn Ferral• March 1, 2024
Instagram posts stated on June 13, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Gold fringe on an American flag means “the Constitution is suspended.”
By Tom Kertscher• June 26, 2023
Franklin Graham stated on August 19, 2010 in an interview on CNN:
"The seed of Muslim is passed through the father."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• August 26, 2010
Viral image stated on June 22, 2020 in a viral image:
“Joe Biden’s great-grandfather Joseph J. Biden was a slave-owner and fought” for the Confederacy.
By Tom Kertscher• June 26, 2020
Bloggers stated on September 27, 2021 in Articles:
Norway decided “that (the coronavirus) should be treated like other respiratory diseases, such as the flu or cold, because… it is no more dangerous than those mentioned.”
By Noah Y. Kim• September 30, 2021
Viral image stated on October 24, 2023 in an Instagram post:
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer “is a dual Israeli citizen.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 27, 2023
Viral image stated on June 10, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Wearing the Kente cloth “worn by affluent African slave traders” is “like honoring Jews by wearing swastikas.”
By Jon Greenberg• June 12, 2020
Viral image stated on April 12, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Says Adolf Hitler said, “The day mankind finds out what I was trying to defend this nation, Germany, from, then that’s the day World War III starts.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 18, 2022
Facebook posts stated on April 24, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“Congratulations to Ruben, knighted by the Queen. Now goes by the name, Sir Ruben.”
By Luiz Romero• April 27, 2022
Stephen Colbert stated on April 12, 2010 in an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report":
John Paul Stevens is the only Protestant on the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Catharine Richert• April 14, 2010

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By Amy Sherman• January 20, 2026

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By Manuela Tobias• March 9, 2018

How an antisemitic conspiracy theory amplified by Ye, Kyrie Irving divides Black, Jewish people

By Salvador Rodriguez-Ruiz, Gabrielle Settles• February 21, 2023

How Ye stirred up antisemitism among social media users

By Gabrielle Settles• October 25, 2022

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By Maria Briceño• June 19, 2023

Fact-checking the July 27 news shows

By Lauren Carroll, Jon Greenberg, Aaron Sharockman• July 27, 2014

PunditFact fact-checks the July 27 news shows

By Lauren Carroll, Jon Greenberg, Aaron Sharockman• July 27, 2014

The Obama birth certificate: a timeline

By Martha M. Hamilton• April 27, 2011

Donald Trump says Jews are leaving the Democratic Party, but there’s no proof

By Amy Sherman• March 14, 2019

Why Holocaust comparisons by anti-vaccine activists like RFK Jr. are grossly inaccurate

By Bill McCarthy• January 27, 2022

What is the ‘great replacement theory’ linked to the Buffalo shooter?

By Bill McCarthy• May 16, 2022

Russia, Ukraine, and the contested language of genocide

By Louis Jacobson• April 11, 2022

Obama releases birth certificate

By Bill Adair• April 27, 2011

In context: What Biden said about migrants at the southern US border and Jews fleeing the Holocaust

By Amy Sherman• January 6, 2023

The Antisemitism Awareness Act: What to know

By Louis Jacobson• May 10, 2024

Obama's Nobel Prize: More hope than change

By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 9, 2009

From whispers to the White House briefing room: the tale of the birth certificate

By Bill Adair• April 27, 2011

Links to documents involving President Obama

By Robert Farley• April 27, 2011

Fact-check: Trump misleads about birthright citizenship, birth tourism before SCOTUS hearing

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 31, 2026