Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward London’s Muslim Mayor Cites Islamophobia in Pledging To Fight Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — London’s newly-elected mayor, Sadiq Khan, endorsed a pledge co-signed by dozens of American and European mayors to fight anti-Semitism. Khan, a Muslim Labour politician who won the May 5 mayoral election by a broad majority, recently informed the Board of Deputies of British Jews of his decision to join the Mayors United Against…
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Culture What Yoda’s Yiddish Accent Has To Do With the ‘Are Jews a Race?’ Debate
(JTA) — Science has finally provided evidence of what Jewish “Star Wars” fans long suspected: Yoda is a member of the tribe — or at least he speaks like one. The bad news is the science has been widely dismissed as junk. The Yoda reference appears in a video in which a a 36-year-old Israeli…
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Fast Forward Woman Stabbed at Amsterdam Kosher Restaurant
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A woman was lightly wounded in a stabbing incident at a kosher restaurant in the Dutch capital. The woman was wounded in her arm Monday at Grand Café Rimon in Amsterdam, the local television AT5 reported. Police arrested the assailant, telling AT5 they had no indication the attack was a hate crime….
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Fast Forward Spanish Tribunal Rules BDS Is Discrimination
(JTA) — Citing anti-discrimination laws, a Spanish constitutional tribunal recommended scrapping a local government motion calling for a boycott against Israel. The Ministerio Fiscal, an advisory judicial authority charged with guaranteeing equality in the judiciary, made the recommendation this month, according to a statement by ACOM, a Spanish pro-Israel lobby. The recommendation comes after ACOM sued…
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Fast Forward French Politician Probed for ‘No Dogs and Jews’ Tweets
(JTA) — City prosecutors in southern France are investigating a local politician for his Twitter account, which was marked “forbidden to dogs and Jews” and featured tweets mocking and denying the Holocaust. The Montpelier prosecutors were notified Monday by municipal officials about the account, which belongs to Djamel Boumaaz, a former member of France’s far-right National Front party, the…
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Fast Forward Jews Call Near Miss for Austrian Far Right a Wake-Up Call
(JTA) – European Jewish groups reacted with relief to the victory by a left-wing politician over a far-right candidate in Austria’s presidential elections. Alexander van der Bellen, an environmentalist with a pro-refugee agenda, won with 50.3 percent of the vote on Sunday, despite early reports predicting victory for Norbert Hofer of the Austrian Freedom Party party, or…
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Fast Forward Far-Right Austrian Leader Under Fire for Temple Mount Shooting Tale
(JTA) — Austrian journalists cited a far-right presidential candidate’s disputed account of his 2014 visit to Israel as proof of lacking credibility on his part. The visit came up on Thursday, during a televised debate by the ORF broadcaster. Journalist Ingrid Thurnher confronted Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party, or FPO, who won the first round of…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Denies French Jewish Fraud Suspect Gave $1M for Campaign
PARIS — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied the claims of a French Jewish man standing trial for fraud that he gave Netanyahu more than $1 million for an election campaign. Arnaud Mimran, who allegedly defrauded the European Union of about $315 million along with several partners, testified Thursday in a Paris court that he…
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