Sebastian Gorka

Israeli BDS activists take part in an anti-corruption demonstration in Tel Aviv's Habima Square, December 9th, 2017. (Hagar Shezaf)

Why has Israel banned Jewish leftists but not members of Nazi-linked groups?

Israel has banned leaders and key activists from Jewish Voice for Peace, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, among other groups that support BDS, from entering the country. So why doesn’t it extend the same restrictions to members of Nazi-affiliated groups? Israel’s latest step in its self-described “offensive” against the Boycott, Divestment…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth January 8, 2018

Members of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice protest in New York. (Kyle O'Leary)

How to deal with modern anti-Semitism? The Jewish Left is leading the way

For too long, the Right has claimed a monopoly on fighting antisemitism, especially when it relates to Israel. It’s been a fraught year for the American Jewish Left. Anti-Semitism continues to be stoked by the president and his inner and outer circles; the institutional Jewish community is openly courting anti-Semites; and verbal and legislative assaults from the…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth November 17, 2017

Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka seen wearing a medal from the Vitzei Rend, a Hungarian group listed by the State Department as having collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. (Fox News screenshot)

Ousted Trump adviser: Liberal Jews are betraying U.S.-Israel relations

The former White House aide with ties to an anti-Semitic organization says ‘liberal elements of the American Jewish population have basically become anti-Israeli.’ By Eli Clifton Recently-departed White House aide Sebastian Gorka never seemed to hold his tongue during his tenure as an adviser to President Donald Trump. He called criticism of the White House’s omission of Jewish…

By +972 Magazine August 30, 2017

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Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka seen wearing a medal from the Vitzei Rend, a Hungarian group listed by the State Department as having collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. (Fox News screenshot)

ADL demands Trump advisor disavow ‘anti-Semitic hate groups’

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka following a series of investigations that began with reporting by Lobelog, and published on +972. By Eli Clifton Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka has had a rough two weeks. It began with LobeLog’s report that he wore the medal of Vitezi…

By +972 Magazine February 26, 2017

Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka seen wearing a medal from the Vitzei Rend, a Hungarian group listed by the State Department as having collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. (Fox News screenshot)

Why is Trump’s adviser wearing a medal of Nazi collaborators?

Donald Trump’s deputy assistant, Sebastian Gorka, has appeared in multiple photographs wearing the medal of a Hungarian group that collaborated with the Nazis. By Eli Clifton The White House’s omission of Jewish victims of the Holocaust in its statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day raised objections from Jewish groups across the political spectrum but the Trump administration’s…

By +972 Magazine February 16, 2017