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Fast Forward Modern Language Association Votes on Resolution Criticizing Israel
Delegates to the Modern Language Association’s annual convention upheld a resolution accusing Israel of keeping Palestinian academics from entering the West Bank, but rejected another expressing solidarity with academics that boycott Israel. After an hour or so of acrimonious debate in Chicago on Saturday, the MLA’s delegate assembly in a 60-53 vote approved a resolution…
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Fast Forward Abbas Says He Will Not Recognize Israel as Jewish State
Mahmoud Abbas said in a speech to supporters that he will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state and will not sign a peace deal that does not include eastern Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority president made the inflammatory remarks on Saturday during a visit by hundreds of Palestinian…
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Fast Forward Jews Slam Hungary Nazi Commemoration for Failing To Address Complicity
Jewish leaders in Budapest criticized the planned commemoration of victims of Germany’s occupation because it ignored Hungarians’ complicity in the Holocaust. The plan announced Thursday involves erecting a monument in Freedom Square situated in the Hungarian capital’s 5th district. The top official in the district is a member of the ruling Fidesz party. The Hungarian…
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Fast Forward Dieudonne Backers Hack French Jewish Websites in ‘Operation Triple Quenelle’
Supporters of the anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonne hijacked three French pro-Israel websites in a coordinated cyber attack. The attack Thursday paralyzed the websites Israel-Flash.com, Europe-Israel.org and liguedefensejuive.com, the website of the French Jewish Defense League, and replaced their content with messages of support for Dieudonne, Le Nouvel Observateur reported. On the hijacked websites, the hackers called…
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The Schmooze Poet Amiri Baraka Dies — Feuded With Jews
Amiri Baraka, the New Jersey poet laureate whose works were celebrated by blacks but often condemned by Jews, has died. Baraka’s writings, lectures and poetry brought him national renown beginning in the 1960s, and the one-time black nationalist was celebrated by many African Americans as a voice of the disenfranchised. He was a winner of…
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Fast Forward Dutch Chided by Israel Over ‘Occupation Boycott’
For the second time in less than a month, Israel demanded clarifications from the Netherlands on Dutch firms’ divestment from Israel’s occupation. On Friday, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the ambassador to Israel of the Netherlands, Caspar Veldkamp, to provide clarifications on the decision of PGGM, a large pensions administrator, to divest from five…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Irked by Recognition of Non-Jewish ‘Noahides’
Several Dutch rabbis criticized a rabbinical court’s recognition of non-Jews who observe Torah laws. The court’s recognition took place at an oath-taking ceremony attended by several dozen Noahides, a term referring to non-Jews who observe the seven categories of religious laws specified in the Torah as part of God’s covenant with Noah after the flood….
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Fast Forward Israel Tourism Reaches All-Time High in 2013 With 3.54 Million Visitors
Israel reported an all-time high in annual visitors in 2013. A record 3.54 million visitors arrived in Israel in 2013, half a percent more than the previous record year. Meanwhile, some 272,000 tourists arrived in December, a 14 percent increase over December 2012, setting a record for most arrivals in the Jewish state in one…
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