Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward Israel to allow vaccinated tour groups starting in May
(JTA) — Israel will be reopening its gates to fully vaccinated tour groups on May 23. The Jewish state hopes to allow individual vaccinated tourists by early July, a source in its Tourism Ministry told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Israel has vaccinated most of its own population, and largely reopened public and recreational spaces, while…
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Fast Forward Fox News to ADL: We won’t fire Tucker Carlson for endorsing a white supremacist theory
Carlson‘s promotion of the antisemitic ’replacement’ conspiracy theory drew the ADL’s ire
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Fast Forward Israeli police beat up and kneel on the face of left-wing Jewish lawmaker
(JTA) — Israeli police beat up a left-wing member of parliament and one officer knelt on his face, drawing outcry from across the political spectrum. Ofer Cassif, the only Jewish member of the Arab-Israeli Joint List party in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, was at a protest against evictions in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh…
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Fast Forward ADL chief calls for Tucker Carlson’s ouster after Fox News host endorses white supremacist conspiracy theory
Carlson has said Democrats are coordinating a ‘replacement’ of current U.S. voters
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News Who is Mansour Abbas, the Arab-Israeli who could hold the key to Israel’s next government?
(JTA) — Following yet another Israeli election, voters are getting to know an unlikely kingmaker: Mansour Abbas, an Arab-Israeli lawmaker who might be the one to break Israel’s two-year political stalemate. Abbas, head of the United Arab List political party, is not the kind of politician who usually wields power in the Jewish state. He’s…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu leads narrowly in Israeli election exit polls
(JTA) — Preliminary exit polls from Israel’s election show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a good chance of being narrowly reelected. Israeli exit polls, however, have historically been unreliable, and this year they don’t account for a significant percentage of votes cast. Due to COVID, the final results might not be published until Monday. Especially…
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Fast Forward Charles Barkley’s hora at his daughter’s Jewish wedding went fine
(JTA) — Earlier this month, Charles Barkley confessed to Jimmy Kimmel that he wasn’t sure he’d make it through the hora at his daughter’s wedding. He needn’t have worried. Standing 6-foot-5 and weighing around 250 pounds, the NBA Hall of Famer was concerned that the wedding guests wouldn’t be able to lift him in a…
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Fast Forward White supremacist propaganda nearly doubled in 2020 to most in a decade, ADL says
(JTA) — Last year, the United States saw the most white supremacist propaganda in a decade, with thousands of flyers, bumper stickers, banners and other propaganda reported across the country, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL’s report, published Wednesday, counted 5,125 pieces of propaganda distributed by 30 white supremacist groups across 49 states in…
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