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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas: I’ll Speak to Knesset — and Say What I Like
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would be willing to speak to the Knesset, but only if he is permitted to discuss the issues he chooses. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a public statement last week called on Abbas to address the Knesset and said he would travel to Ramallah to speak to…
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Fast Forward Extremist Canadian Ultra-Orthodox Sect Heads to Ontario
Members of an extremist haredi Orthodox cult that fled their Quebec homes out of fear that Canadian welfare authorities would take their children have settled in southwestern Ontario. The Lev Tahor, or Pure Heart, cult left their homes early last week, and were said to be planning to move to Iran. But Canadian media reported…
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Fast Forward San Francisco College Chief Slams Anti-Israel ‘Killer’ Signs
San Francisco State University’s president condemned placards at a Palestinian campus event that said, “My heroes have always killed colonizers.” Stencils allowing attendees to paint the slogan on placards were available at a Nov. 7 event celebrating the sixth anniversary of the creation of a campus mural honoring the late Palestinian-American academic Edward Said. According…
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Fast Forward Ronald Lauder Demands Germany Must Publicize All Nazi-Looted Art
Germany should publicize all suspicious art collections so possible heirs can find long-lost works, World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said. Prompted by the recent revelation of a huge collection of artworks hidden for decades in the Munich apartment of collector Cornelius Gurlitt, Lauder in a statement issued Wednesday urged Germany to create a commission…
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Fast Forward Paraguay Jews Open Museum and Holocaust Center
The Jewish community of Paraguay inaugurated a new Jewish museum that includes the country’s first Holocaust studies center. The Walter Kochmann Jewish Museum of Paraguay, which opened to the public last week in the South American country, has been under construction for the past 11 years, according to a report by the news site ABC.com.py….
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Fast Forward Morrocan Jewish Leader Says ‘No Contact With Israel’ Bill Will Fail
A Moroccan Jewish leader said proposed bills by Moroccan lawmakers to outlaw all contact with Israelis stand no chance of passing. The two bills, which five political parties jointly sponsored this summer and which are being reviewed by the Moroccan Parliament’s Committee on Justice and Legislation, “have zero chance of passing because the king will…
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Fast Forward ‘International Jew’ Publisher Fined $10K by French Court for Anti-Semitism
A French court imposed limitations on the publication of five books, citing anti-Semitic content. The court in Bobigny near Paris last week handed down a blanket ban on the publication and dissemination of one book, “The Anthology of Quotes against Jews, Judaism and Zionism” by Paul-Eric Blanrue. All copies of the book must be withdrawn…
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Fast Forward Jewish Woman’s Asylum Request Brings Attention to Anti-Semitism in Sweden
With an asylum application to her own homeland, Annika Hernroth-Rothstein was hoping to draw attention to the problem of anti-Semitism in Sweden. Hernroth-Rothstein acknowledges the bid is “absurd” – but it’s working, having garnered international media coverage and stirring debate. “EU statutes provide that asylum be granted to persons with ‘well-founded reasons to fear persecution…
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