Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Far-left French presidential candidate suggests Toulouse Jewish school murders were part of elections conspiracy
(JTA) — A far-left politician who won 19% of the votes in France’s last presidential race and is running again next year suggested that a jihadist’s 2012 murder of four Jews in Toulouse was part of an elections conspiracy. “You’ll see that on the last week of the presidential campaign, we’ll have a serious incident…
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Fast Forward Headstones smashed at Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine and Romania
(JTA) — In two separate incidents, a Jewish cemetery was vandalized in Romania and Ukraine. The Center for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism in Romania-MCA reported Sunday about the incident in the town of Ploesti, located about 50 miles north of Bucharest. Multiple headstones, some as recent as 2009, were knocked over. Several were smashed. On…
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Fast Forward French court sentences Holocaust denier to 5 years for making death threats
(JTA) — A blogger who posted videos of himself calling for the murder of prominent French Jews was sentenced to five years in prison by a court in France. The sentence, for promoting terrorism and making death threats, is among the harshest in recent years in France over such offenses. The tribunal of Cusset, a…
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Fast Forward Switzerland adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism
(JTA) — The government of Switzerland has adopted the definition of antisemitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, making the Alpine nation the 36th country to do so. “This definition can serve as an additional guide for identifying antisemitic incidents within the framework of the various measures to combat antisemitism in Switzerland,” the Federal Council,…
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Fast Forward In Ukraine, bullet holes are found in a synagogue and a mass grave of Holocaust victims is desecrated
(JTA) — In two separate disturbing incidents in Ukraine, bullet holes were found in a synagogue and grave robbers allegedly raided a Holocaust-era mass grave , exposing and scattering human remains. The aftermath of a shooting at the synagogue of Kremenchuk, a city located 130 miles southeast of Kyiv, was discovered early last month but…
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Fast Forward Man punched on Austrian train for asking passengers to stop denying the Holocaust
(JTA) — A train passenger in Austria asked a couple of fellow passengers to stop denying the Holocaust and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric about Jews and Israel. It didn’t go well: One of the passengers punched him in the face. The incident happened on May 21 near Amstetten, a city located 70 miles east of…
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Fast Forward Jewish history and Holocaust studies scholar murdered in Ukraine
(JTA) — A 29-year-old man has been arrested in Ukraine in the suspected murder this month of a prominent Holocaust and Jewish history researcher there. Police in Nikolayev, near Odessa, made the arrest Tuesday in the May 14 slaying of Vladimir Shchukin, 67, who had worked at the State Archive of the Nikolaev Region. The…
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Fast Forward Jewish man punched on Berlin street, one of 3 antisemitic incidents reported in German capital
(JTA) — In one of three antisemitic incidents in Berlin, a Jewish man wearing a kippah was punched in the face while antisemitic slurs were hurled at him. In Ukraine, meanwhile, a swastika was spray-painted on a synagogue, while in Spain, white supremacist and anti-Israel symbols were spray-painted on the gate of a Jewish cemetery….
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