The BBC has sacked its senior staffer who came under fire for posting anti-Semitic remarks on Facebook in recent months. The outlet confirmed on Monday that it had fired Dawn Queva, a senior scheduling coordinator and playout planner at BBC Three who frequently used anti-Semitic slurs online, including “Nazi apartheid parasites,” “thieving squatters,” and “subcontinental melanin
Interim president Larry Jameson said he finds Annenberg lecturer Dwayne Booth’s cartoons ‘reprehensible’ but won’t take action University of Pennsylvania’s interim president, Larry Jameson, responded on Sunday to a slew of grotesque anti-Semitic cartoons published by a lecturer at Penn’s Annenberg School of Communications, saying that while he personally finds the images “reprehensible,” the school
A speaker accused Israel of committing “genocide” against the Palestinians and launched into an anti-American tirade during a recent Martin Luther King Jr. memorial ceremony at Northwestern University with the school’s president in attendance, prompting some students to walk out of the event. Rev. Dr. Reginald W. Williams Jr., the pastor of the First Baptist
The Democratic Socialists of America’s Los Angeles chapter censured one of its members over the weekend because a pro-Israel Democratic group endorsed her reelection bid for L.A. City Council. The DSA said in a letter sent Saturday to L.A. councilwoman Nithya Raman (D.) that she undermined the group’s “commitment to overcoming imperialist capitalism and the
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D., Mich.) sister is leading an effort to pull primary voters away from President Joe Biden in protest over his support for Israel’s war in Gaza. Layla Elabed is the campaign manager of Listen to Michigan, which is encouraging Michiganders to vote “uncommitted” in the state’s Democratic primary later this month, according
CNN on Monday axed one of its morning shows, resulting in a loss of jobs amid a ratings slump that has seen cable news networks contend with their worst viewership numbers since before the political rise of former president Donald Trump. “We will no longer produce morning programming in New York and will be disbanding
Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.) slammed New York City mayor Eric Adams’s plan to give migrant families pre-paid credit cards, amid an unprecedented surge in illegal crossings at the U.S. southern border. “It sounds like insanity is behind it because it really is offensive, it may be the most reprehensible thing that I’ve seen take