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For Shari Redstone, the president of National Amusements and the chairwoman of Paramount Global, “The Children of October 7” is more than just another documentary airing within her media empire. It’s part of a larger calling.

“I’ve been fighting racism and antisemitism for a long time, but after Oct. 7, it became my life,” Redstone said during a paneled discussion for the doc on Tuesday night. “It became the most important thing that I can do with my time — that I can teach my children, that I can bring people together to not just watch this movie but to share this with people they know, to tell the truth, to tell the stories.”

Hosted at the The Paley Center for Media, the premiere for the Paramount+ documentary saw several notable celebrities, including Jason Isaacs and his wife Emma Hewitt, singer Gloria Gaynor, producer Nancy Spielberg, “My Unorthodox Life” star Miriam Haart,...

Blake Lively Among Hollywood Stars Named In Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025 List (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Blake Lively isn’t letting recent drama dim her spotlight. In the middle of a firestorm surrounding her legal clash with It Ends with Us director Justin Baldoni, the actress turned heads for an entirely different reason: she just landed on Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025 list.

The 37-year-old actress was named in the Titans section, alongside Serena Williams, Mark Zuckerberg, Joe Rogan, Simone Biles, Lorne Michaels, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, Palantir’s Alex Karp, Adl’s Jonathan Greenblatt, and fashion powerhouse Miuccia Prada.

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Even with the heat of accusations, including one from storyboard artist Talia Spencer, who told 60 Minutes Australia that Lively tried to wrest creative control from Baldoni, Blake Lively took the high road.

Across Wisconsin this weekend, voters will open their newspapers to see Elon Musk delivering a straight-arm salute behind Brad Schimel, the Republican nominee for Wisconsin Supreme Court, whose campaign Musk’s organizations have been boosting ahead of the April 1 election.

“Elon Musk is trying to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat for Brad Schimel,” says the ad, purchased by the Democratic National Committee, and slated to run in eight local papers, alongside the words “Wisconsin Is Not For Sale.”

It marks the first time that the committee is using imagery of Musk,...

The past 18 months have marked an extraordinarily turbulent period for Jews worldwide, with a pogrom launched against communities in southern Israel soon yielding a major spike in antisemitic incidents. Veteran documentary filmmaker Wendy Sachs says she watched what transpired and began chronicling and connecting dots.

Sachs’ new film October 8 begins with the unprecedented Hamas attack a day earlier, then tracks the fallout over the course of the ensuing Gaza war, examining global anti-Israel protests along with increases in anti-Jewish rhetoric and violence.

The doc, which opened this past weekend, features a host of prominent figures, including advocates (the Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt), academics (George Washington University’s Lorenzo Vidino), executives (Sheryl Sandberg), podcasters (Dan Senor), politicians (Ritchie Torres) and actor-activists Debra Messing (who executive produced the film) and the Israeli-American Noa Tishby (In Treatment, Nip/Tuck). Together they build an argument that what we are witnessing is simply old...

With antisemitism surging, Israeli influencer and author Hen Mazzig is launching a new online series “And They’re Jewish,” headlined by celebrities including Emmanuelle Chriqui, Debra Messing and Mayim Bialik.

The series, which will air weekly on Mazzig’s YouTube channel beginning April 2, was created in an effort to humanize Jewish people via the personal stories of high-profile participants who explore how they engage with their religion and heritage.

According to data released by the Anti-Defamation League, the number of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. from October 2003 to September 2024 tripled over the same period a year prior. Mazzig, who co-founded the social media-focused Tel Aviv Institute and has become a go-to thought leader among Hollywood’s Jewish community, will debut the first-look teaser of the series at the Adl’s Never is Now Summit’s closing session, where Gal Gadot and trailblazing tennis champ Billie Jean King will be honored.

The Anti-Defamation League is getting backlash on social media after issuing a statement about Kanye West’s anti-semitic rant on X, the microblogging platform formerly known as Twitter.

Many users are reminding the Adl of their response to Elon Musk’s gesture that resembled the Nazi salute at a rally following Donald Trump’s Inauguration.

“It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge,” read the statement posted by the Adl on X on January 20. “In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning.”

The Adl dismissed Musk’s gesture as “awkward” during “a moment of enthusiasm,” which many people took issue with.

After Kanye West’s deplorable antisemitic messages on X,...

After a year-long truce between Elon Musk, owner of the extremism-saturated X (formerly Twitter), and the Anti-Defamation League, an organization meant to combat antisemitism and other kinds of bigotry, it seems the billionaire and the advocacy group are on the outs once again.

Musk and the Adl had first taken shots at each other during a spat in 2023, with the nonprofit saying X had allowed an explosion of hate speech under Musk’s watch, and the billionaire countering that they were trying to smear him while stifling free speech. He even amplified a hashtag,...

The Anti-Defamation League is scolding Elon Musk after coming to the billionaire titan’s defense earlier in the week.

Adl CEO Jonathan Greenblatt took to Twitter/X after Musk made a series of Holocaust jokes on Thursday in an attempt to make light of criticisms of his controversial crowd salute at President Trump’s inauguration celebration Monday.

“We’ve said it hundreds of times before and we will say it again: the Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it,” Greenblatt wrote and then tagged Musk: “The Holocaust is not a joke.”

The official Adl account also shared the post.

We've said it hundreds of times before and we will say it again: the Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it. @elonmusk, the Holocaust is not a joke. https://t.co...

Susan Zirinsky is once again being asked to help polish up CBS News.

The veteran producer, who served as the unit’s president from early 2019 to the end of 2021, has been asked to return to CBS News as an interim “executive editor,” and will oversee standards, helping to vet stories and journalistic practices. Like many other news operations, CBS News has long had personnel who monitored internal practices and ethics. But there seems to be a desire to make such efforts more a part of the senior suite after controversies surfaced last year at the Paramount Global operation tied to incidents at “60 Minutes” and “CBS Mornings.”

“In today’s fast-moving news environment, it is critical for newsrooms to quickly and effectively deliver balanced, accurate, fair and timely reporting, including highly complex, sensitive issues like the war in the Middle East,” said George Cheeks, co-ceo of Paramount Global, in a...

Music mogul Scooter Braun will be honored by the Anti-Defamation League for his efforts in bringing the Nova Music Festival Exhibition to U.S. audiences.

The exhibition makes its Los Angeles debut in a sprawling studio space in Culver City on Aug. 21, after a successful run in New York City, where 113,000 people experienced it.

Featuring tents, abandoned belongings, charred vehicles and chilling video, the exhibit offers visitors a walk-through recreation of the Oct. 7 massacre at a trance rave in Re’im, Israel, on the Gaza border, at the hands of Hamas militants.

Of the 4,000 people gathered for the fest that day, 405 were killed and 45 more were kidnapped and remain kidnapped as the war in Gaza rages on.

“The entire community was silent,” Scooter told The Hollywood Reporter in June of the entertainment industry’s response to the Nova massacre. “I just was really upset, and I said, ‘I need to do something about this.

Whoopi Goldberg was the latest guest on “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” on Max and was asked about what it’s been like co-hosting ABC’s “The View” for the last 17 years. The Egot winner joined the daytime franchise in 2007. Asked by Wallace if she still likes hosting the program, Goldberg acknowledged that it was a better gig back in the day when people did not automatically weaponize everything she said.

“I liked it better before because there was not … people didn’t didn’t assume that you were starting out to be nasty or horrible or saying stuff,” Goldberg said. “You used to say something and somebody would say, ‘Well, actually, that’s not so.’ And you could make that adjustment. Or you could say, ‘Well, here’s what … this is why I thought about it this way.’ You can’t do that anymore. Nobody wants to hear what you were thinking.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized Donald Trump for saying that any Jewish person voting for Democrats “hates their religion.”

Trump was recently asked on a podcast hosted by his former White House aide Sebastian Gorka, America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast, about the criticism from the Biden administration and Schumer of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I actually think they hate Israel,” he claimed. “I don’t think they hate him, I think they hate Israel. And the Democrat Party hates Israel.”

“Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion,” he added. “They hate everything about Israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves because Israel will be destroyed.”

Trump slammed Schumer, who recently condemned Netanyahu’s government and demanded new elections in a speech on the Senate floor about Israel’s war on Hamas and the subsequent humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

“Don’t forget, when you see those Palestinian marches,...

At this year’s Oscars, “The Zone of Interest” director Jonathan Glazer took the prize for most polarizing speech. And the swirl surrounding exactly what he said and what he meant — still a matter of debate — doesn’t appear to be dying down.

When the British filmmaker took the stage after the Auschwitz-set Holocaust drama was announced as best international film, he was greeted with a standing ovation. He then referred to notes he’d prepared in advance, thanked the requisite players and drew a parallel between “Zone of Interest” and the current conflict in Gaza that was difficult to decipher given the audience applause and his own mumbling.

“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say look what they did then, but rather look what we do now,” he said, according to the Academy’s official transcript of the speech. “Our...

On Monday night, 10 men were arrested following a dispute with New York City Police Department officers at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a synagogue catering to adherents of the insular Orthodox Jewish movement. The reason: Structural engineers were attempting to fill in a mysterious secret tunnel, which had been illegally excavated underneath the building, and a group of young men turned out to protest.

Though the story primarily focused on a small community of Orthodox Jews in New York City, with most members of the community...

As calls for a cease-fire mount and the civilian death toll rises, with at least 12,700 Palestinians estimated dead and 1,200 Israelis killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, both antisemitism and Islamophobia have been on the rise globally. There has arguably never been more of a need for the Anti-Defamation League, one of the largest anti-hate organizations in the world, which is devoted to fighting antisemitism and bigotry of all kinds.

Yet while global events have placed the Adl front and center, the actions of CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, such as his endorsement...

Jews are not a monolith. And yet, for the past several decades, those in favor of Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration have mendaciously branded any criticisms of the Israeli government as antisemitism. It is a curious conflation, given how a 2021 Pew Research Center survey revealed that only 58% of Jewish adults in the U.S. “feel very/somewhat attached to Israel.” In that same survey, 33% said “the Israeli government is making sincere effort toward peace.” And in March of this year, a Gallup poll stated that “for the first time in its...

Susan Sarandon dropped by UTA, Melissa Barrera fired from upcoming ‘Scream VII’.

The firing and dropping of two celebrity actors on Tuesday over statements related to the Israel-Hamas conflict have brought into sharper focus the challenges Hollywood faces over one of the most divisive geopolitical issues in years.

Susan Sarandon has been dropped by her agency UTA after statements allegedly made at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York last weekend.

Video footage on TikTok posted one day ago shows the activist and star of Thelma & Louise and Dead Man Walking telling a crowd, “Hold Palestine in your heart, pray for the people of Palestine…...

Four days after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks in Israel, WME invited Steve Leder, the rabbi from Wilshire Boulevard Temple, to visit the agency’s Beverly Hills headquarters. He came to provide comfort for employees reeling after the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Although the event was not mandatory and Leder’s speech was considered secular, several staffers voiced complaints, which made their way to WME co-chairmen Richard Weitz and Christian Muirhead. Instead of caving, WME invited Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to speak to the agency on Nov. 1. Greenblatt didn’t mince words, according to those in attendance, calling out the Writers Guild of America for refusing to issue a statement after the Hamas attacks.

Across town, the agency’s fiercest rival, CAA, was dealing with a crisis. Maha Dakhil, one of its top agents, had ignited a firestorm with her Instagram posts, including one that said,...

Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount and Sony have joined other major X advertisers in choosing not to advertise on the social media platform. Earlier Friday, Lionsgate Entertainment Corp. announced it was pausing all of its advertising on the Elon Musk-owned X, effective immediately, citing Elon Musk’s “recent antisemitic tweets.” The decision comes just one day after Ibm suspended ads on the social media platform, with Apple also reportedly suspending X advertising Friday, according to Axios.

Musk has faced intense backlash for promoting and agreeing with a post on X (formerly Twitter), which glorified an antisemitic conspiracy theory. The White House condemned the post earlier Friday, calling it “unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of Antisemitism in American history at any time.”

“Lionsgate has suspended advertising on X because of Elon Musk’s recent antisemitic tweets,” a spokesperson for the company told TheWrap. Warner Bros.

The White House has condemned Elon Musk for promoting antisemitism after he agreed with a bigoted X post that accused Jewish communities of promoting “dialectical hatred against whites.”

“We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms, which runs against our core values as Americans,” said a statement from the White House in Washington, D.C., that was issued Friday and obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.

The comments followed the billionaire owner of X (formerly known as Twitter) saying in a repost on his social media platform on Wednesday, “you have said the actual truth” in response to the user’s post on X. The user also wrote, “I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much.”

Musk...

Amid the mounting tragedy in the Middle East, Fox News and CNN are the early winners in the cable network ratings battle, flexing their on-the-ground foreign reporting muscles, while MSNBC suffered a fall-off at the beginning of the conflict from which it has yet to recover.

In the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas terrorists in Israel, in which they massacred over 1,400 Israeli citizens, all three cable news channels saw viewership boosts of varying degrees, but Fox and CNN saw the main benefit.

From Oct. 9 to Oct. 15, Fox News scored 1.57 million average total viewers, a 22% increase from the week of Oct. 7. MSNBC secured second place with 766,000 viewers, a 20% decrease for the network from the week prior. CNN came in third, drawing 681,000 viewers, a 13% improvement for the network, according to Nielsen.

Fox News and CNN held on to elevated viewership at the end of October, with both networks ending...

Last November, CAA held a town hall on antisemitism, part of a series hosted through CAA’s Amplify Presents program, described as “a network of changemakers” working toward “systemic change for communities of color.” The program was introduced by agent Maha Dakhil, who said it was “focused on fighting antisemitism and promoting allyship.” Next up was CAA co-chairman Richard Lovett. “This morning, we will learn once again how much words matter,” he said, “and the damage caused by human beings with large platforms who do not use their platforms responsibly.”

Twelve months later, Dakhil finds herself at the center of a firestorm ignited by her own use of a large platform: Instagram, where she had 27,000 followers before she locked her account and deleted her posts. In the wake of her comments on the Israel-Hamas War, Aaron Sorkin fired her. High-level Hollywood executives including Spyglass Media chairman and CEO Gary Barber,...

Like the rest of the world, Hollywood is rattled and on high alert following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that killed at least 1,400 people and saw the abduction of hundreds of hostages into Gaza. In its wake, attention has turned to beefing up security among Hollywood’s Jewish community.

“We’ve had a sharp increase in requests from our Jewish clients,” says Kenneth Bombace of Global Threat Solutions, which services billionaires, stars and Fortune 500 corporations. “They’re afraid they could be a target.”

The crisis comes amid a backdrop of already heightened antisemitism — both worldwide and within L.A. The Anti-Defamation League released a study in March that found recorded incidents of anti-Jewish hate in L.A. had increased 30 percent in 2022 over the previous year. (In total, there were 237 such incidents in the L.A. area, including 143 of harassment; 86 of vandalism of businesses, synagogues and schools; and eight incidents of assault.

After apologizing for a social media post critical of Israel made amid the country’s war against Hamas, CAA’s co-chief of the motion pictures department Maha Dakhil is stepping away from her leadership role in the division for now. Additionally, she’s resigning from the Century City-based firm’s internal agency board.

Dakhil, whose clients include Tom Cruise, Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon and Anne Hathaway, came under scrutiny for an Instagram repost that referenced “genocide” as the war escalates. That post was later deleted and the agent apologized for the remarks.

“I made a mistake with a repost in my Instagram story, which used hurtful language,” Dakhil wrote in an Oct. 19 statement. “Like so many of us, I have been reeling with heartbreak. I pride myself on being on the side of humanity and peace. I’m so grateful to Jewish friends and colleagues who pointed out the implications and further educated me.

The CEO of a leading Hollywood conglomerate denounced as “unthinkable evil” the attacks on Israelis by Hamas that left 1,200 dead. But most entertainment companies have remained muted in their public statements this week in the face of a highly volatile and emotional issue — Israeli-Palestinian politics.

Late Wednesday, Paramount issued a statement saying: “We stand with the people of Israel and the global Jewish community,” the clearest and most public statement yet. In an internal memo provided to TheWrap earlier in the day, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said: “The terrorist attacks by Hamas on innocent men, women, children and babies have been unimaginable, abhorrent and inexcusable. Many have lost their lives and others have been taken hostage and remain unaccounted for.”

TheWrap reached out to all the major entertainment conglomerates — including Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery, Sony, Apple, Fox, Lionsgate and NBCUniversal — to see if they intended to weigh in on the violence.

Anti-Defamation League director Jonathan Greenblatt took a moment out of his interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to directly call out the cable news network for its coverage of the recent Hamas attacks in Israel, which killed more than 700 people and sparked fighting that has left more than 1,200 dead across Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.

“While I am sad and trying to cope, I’ll be honest: I am angry. I am angry with the world that allowed the dehumanization of Israelis and sanitized the terrorism of Hamas,” Greenblatt said (via Mediaite). “I must say I love this show, and I love this network, but I’ve got to ask, who’s writing the scripts? Hamas?”

Greenblatt then directly addressed “Morning Joe” host Jonathan Lemire, telling him that the Hamas members “who did this, they are not fighters, they are not militants. And I’m looking right at the camera: They are terrorists.

Amid the flurry of breaking news coverage of the attacks on Israel, Jonathan Greenblatt, national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, appeared on MSNBC to critique the way the network, as well as some others in media, have depicted the conflict.

Appearing on Morning Joe on Monday, Greenblatt — a frequent guest on cable news who heads the organization fighting against antisemitism across the world — spoke out against the way the show was describing the Palestinian militant group Hamas and the attacks as “an escalation” of a geopolitical conflict.

“While I am sad and cope trying to cope, I’ll be honest, I am angry. I am angry with the world that allowed the dehumanization of Israelis and sanitized the terrorism of Hamas. I must say, I love this show. And I love this network. But I’ve got to ask who is writing the scripts? Hamas? The people who did this?...

Linda Yaccarino spoke glowingly of Elon Musk, said X will turn a profit in early 2024, and insisted the platform formerly known as Twitter has made major progress in reversing lagging metrics in her 100 days as CEO.

In an interview at Vox Media’s annual Code conference, she pushed back on the assumption that she was hired solely to placate advertisers. She addressed the recent controversy with the Adl and also got into it with Yoel Roth, the former head of safety at Twitter, who spoke at the same event earlier in the day.

Yaccarino, the longtime ad executive and former advertising chief at NBCUniversal, joined Twitter in June and, in fact, began to woo back advertisers who had been spooked by a geyser of negative content that erupted after Musk acquired the social media platform a year ago and took it private. He then renamed it X.

Musk recently Tweet-floated...

X CEO Linda Yaccarino took the stage at the Code Conference on Wednesday shortly after Yoel Roth, former head of trust and safety at Twitter, made a surprise appearance in an interview with journalist Kara Swisher.

Asked to respond to Roth’s comments, in which he had said X (formerly Twitter) is not doing enough to stop harassment on the social media platform, Yaccarino defended the company and suggested prior policies had been “creeping down the road of censorship.”

“Yoel and I don’t know each other. He doesn’t know me. I don’t know him. I work at X. He worked at Twitter. X is a new company building a foundation based on free expression and freedom of speech. Twitter at the time, was operating on a different set of rules as set by himself, different philosophies and ideologies that were creeping down the road of censorship. It...

Elon Musk said that X, formerly known as Twitter, is moving to a “small monthly payment system” because “it’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots.”

In a discussion Monday with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Musk suggested that it would be a lower-tier pricing structure than its $8-per-month Twitter Blue, its premium subscription service.

“We’re wanting it to be just a small amount of money,” Musk said. “It’s a longer discussion, but in my view this is the only defense against vast armies of bots, because as AI gets very, very good, it’s actually able to pass these sort of Captcha tests better than humans.”

Musk has long complained about X/Twitter’s battle against bots, but he’s also reportedly considered putting the social media platform behind a paywall since shortly after he purchased it last year.

The Anti-Defamation League is launching a new offshoot in Hollywood, the Media & Entertainment Institute, to help battle stereotypes of Jews in movies and television that may fuel rising antisemitism.

The center wants engage directly with industry leaders “to improve societal perceptions of Jewish people and understanding of antisemitism,” the group said today.

“At a time of rising antisemitism, we must take a hard look at how Jews are portrayed on screen and in culture more broadly,” said Adl CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.“We know that many Americans only learn about Jews and Judaism through the media, and many say they have encountered antisemitic comments or tropes from movies, TV and pop culture.”

The venture will be formally announced tonight at a dinner at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in LA.

“The entertainment industry was once known as a safe harbor for Jews. That is no longer true. There’s been...

Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of Adl, the Anti-Defamation League, responded to Twitter/X owner’s threat to sue the organization by pointing to the rise in antisemitism across the country.

In an appearance on CNN Primetime, Greenblatt told host Abby Phillip, “The reality is, this claim that Elon wants to sue us — look, I can’t really tell you what’s in his head. I’ve read the same tweets that you have.

“But what’s alarming is the rise of antisemitism across the country. Like, we’ve got to see the big picture here. Literally, anti-Jewish acts have reached historic levels in the United States. The highest number we’ve seen in 40-some-odd years of tracking it.”

Over the weekend, Musk threatened to sue the Adl “to clear our platform’s name on the matter of anti-Semitism.” He accused the Adl of making “unfounded accusations” against Twitter/X that has scared off advertisers.

While much of America enjoyed a relaxing Labor Day weekend of cookouts and beach trips, X (formerly known as Twitter) owner Elon Musk was doubling down on his absurd claims that the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish nonprofit, had somehow tanked the website he personally ran into the ground.

The accusations began last week, after Adl director Jonathan Greenblatt had a meeting with X CEO Linda Yaccarino to discuss the prevalence of hate speech on the platform. This kicked off a trending hashtag campaign, #BanTheADL, predicated on the groundless idea that...

A hashtag campaign pushed by right-wing ideologues and rife with antisemitic content is trending on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, and being shown support by owner Elon Musk. It’s a new low for a platform that has seemingly abandoned the fight against hate speech.

On Thursday, a number of accounts began tweeting #BanTheADL, calling on Musk to remove the Anti-Defamation League (Adl) from the site. The Adl is a civil rights organization focused on combating antisemitism and extremism. Momentum for the action seems to have been stirred...

Jamie Foxx is apologizing after an Instagram post he issued was widely criticized for being antisemitic.

On Friday, he made a cryptic statement “They killed this dude name Jesus… what do you think they’ll do to you???”

He added the hashtags #fakefriends and #fake love.

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He followed with another post, sharing a screenshot of a comment from singer Marques Anthony, who wrote, “Judas Showed His Self!!! @iamjamiefoxx know them for what they are …………..”

Jamie Foxx/Instagram

After a barrage of comments decrying Foxx’s post as promoting an antisemitic trope, noted The Times of Israel, he deleted the post.

Oddly, Jennifer Aniston was hit with collateral damage after appearing to have liked Foxx’s post, and found herself taking heat for seemingly supporting his perceived antisemitism.

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Donald Trump has been indicted again — this time over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and an anti-democratic campaign that culminated in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

The federal grand jury hearing evidence in the Justice Department’s probe into the scheme to subvert the election results handed up a sealed indictment on Tuesday. A person familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone that the former president has been informed he is the defendant.

It’s the third time (and counting) Trump has been charged criminally this year. His legal...

LGBTQ+ hate is on the rise, and a startling joint report from GLAAD and Adl offers hard numbers that document an epidemic of intimidation and violence.

The report charts 356 anti-lgbtq+ incidents — ranging from harassment to mass shooting — in the period between June 2022 and April 2023. It finds that nearly half of these incidents are connected to individuals involved in extremist groups. But the report also underscores that the false “groomer” narrative — popularized not just by the far-right but by mainstream GOP politicians who’ve maliciously linked drag performance and trans identity...

San Francisco, May 17 (Ians) After billionaire George Soros sold his entire stake in Tesla, Elon Musk has slammed the investor, saying he wants to erode the very fabric of civilisation and “hates humanity.”

Soros’s family office, Soros Fund Management, had a total of 132,000 shares which capitalised on Tesla’s impressive 68 per cent jump in value this year, and the family office sold off its entire stake in the first quarter of 2023, according to Insider.

Soros Fund Management is the principal asset manager for the Open Societies Foundations, which Soros founded. He has donated most of the money from his hedge fund to his Open Societies Foundations.

Meanwhile, Tesla stock is up about 35 per cent so far this year, after nosediving about 65 per cent in 2022.

Musk replied to the reports of Soros selling his entire stake at Tesla, saying: “He wants to erode the very fabric of civilisationa.

“Soros hates humanity,...

Elon Musk defended his propensity to step into divisive debate and even in advancing conspiracy theories, telling CNBC, “I’ll say what I want to say, and if the consequences of that is losing money, I’ll say it.”

The network’s David Faber sat down with Musk and asked the Twitter owner and Tesla CEO about a specific tweet about billionaire George Soros, in which he wrote, “Soros reminds me of Magneto.” He wrote that Soros “wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.”

Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, wrote that Musk was feeding into antisemitic tropes by comparing Soros to a Jewish supervillain. Soros is a frequent target on the right.

“That’s my opinion,” Musk told Faber.

The CNBC host then pressed him. “Why share it when people who buy Teslas may not agree with you? Advertisers on Twitter may not agree with you?...

George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist often the target of antisemitic conspiracy theories, recently sold all of his Tesla stock after having pumped tens of millions of dollars into Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company. Musk lobbed a characteristically lame attack at Soros Monday night. “Soros reminds me of Magneto,” he wrote, referring to the Marvel supervillain.

Musk wasn’t done. After it was pointed out that both Soros and Magneto survived the Holocaust and that Soros “gets attacked non-stop for his good intentions,” Musk objected: “You assume they are good intentions.

Nick Cannon had the backing of the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League and the president and CEO of ViacomCBS when he was rehired after apologizing for sharing antisemitic comments on his Cannon’s Class podcast in 2020.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Los Angeles Times, the television host, actor, rapper and comedian spoke about his media empire not being viewed as dynamic in the same way as Ryan Seacrest’s, his split from ex-wife Mariah Carey, why he turned down a major role in the Oscar-winning Crash, and what makes the Brooklyn Nets’ Kyrie Irving backing a Holocaust-denial film — and the public backlash to that — different from the “wild shit” that Kanye “Ye” West has said.

While discussing the latter, Adl president Jonathan Greenblatt — who currently co-hosts the Speak on It podcast with Cannon — said that he and Cannon spoke for three hours after a mutual friend of theirs...

Michelle Yeoh, Simu Liu and Daniel Dae Kim are among the headliners and honorees set to appear during The Asian American Foundation’s Heritage Month Summit and Celebration, as well as its inaugural awards dinner.

All three Hollywood talents are set to join fellow trailblazers, leaders and luminaries, along with more than 500 attendees, between May 5-6 in New York to celebrate the Api community and Taaf’s second anniversary. The two-day event will feature panels and roundtable discussions, tied to this year’s summit theme of “Together We Build,” daytime discussions will focus on efforts to address the rise in hate crimes, underfunding of Aapi communities and representation gaps in media and leadership.

That includes a fireside chat with Barbie and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Liu moderated by ABC News’ Juju Chang, as well as a screening and panel of the upcoming Disney+ series American Born Chinese,...

Nick Cannon is continuing to learn from his mistakes. Responding to the backlash he received after making anti-semitic comments in 2020, Cannon is mapping out a plan to move forward with accountability. In a recent interview with All Hip-Hop, he reflected on the aftermath of his comments, calling that time in his life a “growth moment for me, on so many levels as a man.”

In June 2020, Cannon was criticized for making controversial comments about the Jewish community on his YouTube channel Cannon’s Class series, where he discussed anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

Nick Cannon has addressed the antisemitic comments he made in 2020.

The 42-year-old was fired by US media giant ViacomCBS for “hateful speech and antisemitism”, following a podcast episode where he referred to white and Jewish people “savages”.

Cannon sparked further controversy after publishing a conversation on his YouTube channel with former Public Enemy member Professor Griff.

The interaction saw Cannon claim that white and Jewish people in positions of power have a “lack of compassion” as they do not have melanin in their skin.

“They’re acting out of fear, they’re acting out of low self-esteem, they’re acting out of a deficiency,” Cannon claimed. “So, therefore, the only way that they can act is evil. They have to rob, steal, rape, kill in order to survive. So then, these people that didn’t have what we have – and when I say we, I speak of the melanated people – they had to be savages.

Kanye “Ye” West declared late Friday night, “Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump street made me like Jewish people again,” reversing his recent antisemitic statements that led to him being dropped by several brands, including longtime collaborator Adidas.

“Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump street made me like Jewish people again. No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions of innocent people. No Christian can be labeled antisemite knowing Jesus is Jew,” West wrote in an Instagram post.

“Thank you Jonah Hill I love you,” he added.

Chris Miller, who co-directed the movie with Phil Lord, responded on Instagram with the hesitant message, “Um… thanks for watching?”

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