Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Vows ‘100%’ Dad Will Move Embassy to Jerusalem
— Speaking at a synagogue in Florida, Ivanka Trump assured Jewish voters that her father would “100 percent” move the US embassy to Jerusalem if he is elected president. Ivanka Trump, who converted to Judaism in 2010 and is married to a Jewish man, called her father, the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, an “unbelievable…
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Fast Forward British Jews Want Action Against Violent Anti-Israel London Campus Protesters
– The representative body of British Jews called on the University College London to sanction students who disrupted an event organized by supporters of Israel. The Board of Deputies of British Jews issued its statement Friday about an event at UCL Thursday night, in which “a hate-filled mob supporting the worst kind of extremism in…
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Fast Forward Rocker Roger Waters Loses $4M Over Anti-Israel Activism
(JTA) — Roger Waters’ anti-Israel activism has cost the British rock star millions of dollars and an American Express sponsorship, the New York Post reported. The credit giant took off the table a $4-million sponsorship of Waters’ 2017 tour in North America following his partisan and anti-Israel rhetoric this month at a festival that American…
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Fast Forward Jean-Marie Le Pen Loses Immunity for Anti-Semitic Incitement
– The European Parliament lifted the immunity of French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen over charges of inciting racial hatred against Jews. The legal affairs committee of the European Parliament stressed that parliamentary immunity “does not allow for slandering, libeling, inciting hatred or pronouncing statements attacking a person’s honor” before voting on Tuesday in favor of lifting Le…
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Fast Forward French Jews Protest State’s ‘Silence’ on UNESCO Jerusalem Votes
— France’s main Jewish groups urged members to rally in front of the headquarters of the country’s foreign ministry to protest its failure to oppose U.N. resolutions that ignore Jewish ties to Jerusalem. CRIF, the political lobby group representing French Jewish communities, in a rare move was joined by the Consistoire, French Jewry’s organ responsible for…
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Fast Forward Hannah Arendt Statue Is Unveiled in Budapest
— The mayor of a district of Budapest unveiled a bust of the Jewish-American philosopher Hannah Arendt at an event commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Laszlo Hajdu, mayor of Budapest’s 15th District and a politician for the Democratic Coalition, a left-wing opposition party, unveiled the bust on Thursday at a ceremony…
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Fast Forward Italian Premier Calls UNESCO Jerusalem Vote ‘Shocking’ — So Why Did It Abstain?
— In a further twist in the fallout over the controversial vote on Jerusalem by UNESCO, Italy’s prime minister said Rome may oppose future resolutions ignoring Jewish ties to the city’s holy places. Matteo Renzi during a radio interview Friday with the RTL broadcaster called the UNESCO draft resolution passed Oct. 13 “incomprehensible, unacceptable and wrong.”…
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Fast Forward 7-Year-Old French Rabbi’s Son Killed by Crane on Way Home From Synagogue
— The 7-year-old son of a rabbi from the Paris area was hit by a truck-mounted crane and killed while walking home from his synagogue. Shmuel Sarfati was declared dead approximately 20 minutes after he was hit in the head by the crane Monday in the northeastern Paris suburb of Poissy, the news site 78actu reported….
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