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Fast Forward Dump Scarlett Johansson, Boycott Israel Leaders Tell Oxfam
The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement’s national committee called on Oxfam to end its relationship with actress Scarlett Johansson over her role as spokesperson for SodaStream. A statement published Tuesday on the Alternative Information Center website, called on Oxfam to “immediately sever ties with Hollywood actor Scarlett Johansson over her vocal support for illegal…
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Fast Forward ‘1%’ Venture Capitalist Sorry for Nazi Comparison
Venture capitalist Tom Perkins apologized on International Holocaust Remembrance Day for comparing attacks on the top 1 percent of wealthy Americans to Kristallnacht. Perkins, 82, a founder of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, made the apology Monday evening in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “I deeply apologize to you and anyone who…
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Fast Forward ‘Palestine’ Soccer Team Sticks With 1-State Jersey
Chile’s Palestine Football Club unveiled its new uniforms, which show the entire map of Israel as Palestine on the front of the shirt. Inset into the players’ numbers on the backs of their uniform shirts also are small maps of Israel. The uniforms, worn Sunday in a match against Universidad de Concepcion, replace the old…
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Fast Forward N.Y. State Bill Would End Funding to Schools With BDS Ties
A bill introduced in the New York State Assembly would suspend funding to educational institutions which fund groups that boycott Israel. The legislation, introduced earlier this month by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and first reported by Mondoweiss, an anti-Zionist news site, would ban state funding to colleges which fund groups that boycott “in countries that…
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Fast Forward Helena Bonham Carter, Ephraim Mirvis Named to British Holocaust Commission
Actress Helena Bonham Carter and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis were among those chosen for the new British Holocaust Commission. Members of the commission, which will investigate ways to educate Britons about the Shoah, were announced Monday by Prime Minister David Cameron, the London Jewish Chronicle reported. The commission was set to meet on Monday, International…
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Fast Forward Women of the Wall Nearing Agreement With Israeli Government After Months of Negotiations
Women of the Wall is close to approving an agreement with the Israeli government to move the group’s monthly prayer service to a new egalitarian area. The report Monday in Haaretz was corroborated on the organization’s Facebook page. The agreement comes after months of negotiations between the organization and an Israeli government committee. In October,…
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Fast Forward Harvard Prof Gets $100K Inclusion Award for People With Disabilities
The Boston-based Ruderman Family Foundation awarded Harvard University professor Michael Stein with its first Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion. The $100,000 award announced Monday recognizes an individual who has made an extraordinary contribution to the inclusion of people with disabilities in the Jewish world and the greater public, and awards the potential for future…
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Fast Forward French Anti-Government March Turns Anti-Semitic
A march through Paris against French President Francois Hollande ended with anti-Semitic chants and cries of support for an anti-Semitic comedian. At least 150 protesters were arrested in the “Day of Anger” demonstrations on Sunday, according to reports. Nineteen police officers were injured in clashes with protesters, one seriously, the French news agency AFP reported….
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