Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Airbnb Won’t Tolerate Racism — or Bias Against Israelis
– Following complaints of discrimination against blacks, Israelis, Palestinians and other groups on Airbnb, the short-term rental website introduced a non-discrimination clause for hosts. The “community commitment” introduced by the $25-billion website Thursday will come into effect in November, as “Bias and discrimination have no place on Airbnb, and we have zero tolerance for them,”…
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Fast Forward Berlin Neo-Nazi Backs BDS Protest
— A prominent neo-Nazi activist from Berlin was spotted holding up a banner at a demonstration organized by the city’s chapter of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement against Israel. Marc Kluge, who in 2010 was identified by the anti-Israel website Indymedia as a central figure for neo-Nazis in Berlin and a former candidate for…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Thanks Dutch Christian Zionists for Support
— Benjamin Netanyahu cleared 20 minutes from the schedule of his visit to the Netherlands to thank the country’s leading Christian Zionist activist and chief rabbi for their support for the Jewish state and its people. The Israeli Prime Minister on Wednesday called Roger van Oordt, director of the Christians for Israel organization. He also…
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Fast Forward Chabad Rabbis in Africa Find Spiritual Fulfillment — and Crime
Rabbi Shmuel Notik was on his way to blow the shofar on a Friday evening in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi when six men armed with knives intercepted him on a dark street. Notik — a follower of the Chabad-Lubavitch stream of Judaism who had moved to Kenya to serve local Jews just days prior…
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Fast Forward Dutch Lawmaker Refuses To Shake Benjamin Netanyahu’s Hand
– A Dutch-Turkish lawmaker who refused to shake hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel rejected claims from the local media that his behavior was anti-Semitic. Tunahan Kuzu, an Istanbul-born former Labour Party politician who represents the far-left and pro-immigration DENK party, staged the incident in The Hague on Wednesday, the second and last…
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Fast Forward Former Dutch Premier Brands Benjamin Netanyahu ‘War Criminal’
Former Dutch prime minister and longtime pro-Palestinian activist Dries van Agt said Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal who should be prosecuted during his visit this week to the Netherlands. Van Agt, who in 2012 said Jews should have had a state in Germany instead of the Land of Israel and who in 2008 spoke…
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Fast Forward Jews Gather Freely for Festival in Russian Muslim City
KAZAN, Russia — Hundreds of Israeli and European Jews convened in the capital of the predominantly Muslim Russian state of Tatarstan for an annual Jewish music festival as well as a Jewish learning Limmud FSU conference. The two events, which coincide with a third — the Sept. 4 European Day of Jewish Culture — kicked off Friday evening…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Rabbi Seeks Royalties for Japanese Olympic Gymnast’s ‘Immodest’ Use of His Song
— A Jerusalem rabbi said he would seek royalties from Japan’s delegation to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro for its allegedly unauthorized use of a melody he composed. Rabbi Baruch Hayat, according to the Shirunt website of Israeli songs, composed the melody to the popular song “Kol Ha’Olam Kulo Gesher Tzar Me’od” to…
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