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One Alt-Right website claims that consumers have been "kept in the dark" about kosher certification and advance the conspiratorial view that "the tax exempt revenue flows to many programs and institutions worth examining for its effect on you and your interests." The
Twitter account for the KosChertified" app is followed by the neo-Nazi
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promoted anti-kosher sentiment. Some antisemitic members of the Alt-Right are opposed to purchase of kosher foods. Alt-Right websites have promoted an anti-kosher app called "KosChertified?", available on Apple's App Store and Google
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The laws of kashrut specify that wine cannot be considered kosher if it might have been used for idolatry. These laws include prohibitions on Yayin Nesekh (יין × ×ˇ×š – "poured wine"), wine that has been poured to an idol, and Stam Yeynam (סתם ×™Öµ×™× Ö¸×ť), wine that has been touched by someone who believes
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in idolatry or produced by non-Jews. When kosher wine is yayin mevushal (יין מבושל – "cooked" or "boiled"), it becomes unfit for idolatrous use and will keep the status of kosher wine even if subsequently touched by an idolater. According to the
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is a fringe conspiracy theory promoted by right-wing extremists that falsely claims that kosher certification of food products is part of a scheme to cost consumers extra money and thereby enrich rabbis. The
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has denounced the spread of kosher slaughter bans in Europe as "disgraceful", "intolerant", and tantamount to "a forced expulsion of Jewish communities from the countries that adopt such legislation."
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was widely ridiculed and denounced on social media after claiming that kosher and halal aisles in supermarkets promote "separatism" and should therefore be removed. The French columnist
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