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Fast Forward Hungary Journalist Returns Prize, Lashes at Israel
A Hungarian television journalist said he would return an award he was given last week after he was accused of anti-Semitism and the government said it gave him the award by mistake. In a clip of one of his programmes from 2010, posted on YouTube, Ferenc Szaniszlo said on a programme on private Echo TV…
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Fast Forward Jews Demand Argentina Scrap Iran Bomb ‘Probe’
In a letter to Foreign Minister Hector Timerman, the Simon Wiesenthal Center called on Argentina to immediately cancel its accord with Iran to investigate the bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center. Monday’s letter follows Iran’s demand that Interpol arrest warrants be suspended against its citizens implicated in the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish…
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Fast Forward Twitter Faces $50M Suit Over Hashtag Haters
Twitter is being sued for about $50 million in France for failing to honor a court ruling which ordered it to identify users who posted anti-Semitic hate speech. The Union of Jewish French Students, or UEJF by its French acronym, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday with a Paris correctional tribunal, according to the French news…
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Fast Forward Canadian Jewish TV Host Ezra Levant Apologizes for Hateful Anti-Roma Rant
A controversial Canadian Jewish television host apologized for a rant against the Roma people. Ezra Levant of the Sun TV network sparked widespread outrage in September when he referred to Roma as “gypsies” and “a culture synonymous with swindlers…one of the central characteristics of that culture is that their chief economy is theft and begging.”…
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Fast Forward ‘Spider-Man’ Filming Moved From Passover After ‘Let My People Park’ Plea
The filming schedule of “The Amazing Spider Man 2” has changed in response to a request made by the haredi Orthodox community of Williamsburg. Producers of the Hollywood franchise being shot at the Marcy Avenue Armory, a building located in the mostly Yiddish-speaking part of Williamsburg, agreed to reduce the presence of their vehicles in…
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Fast Forward German Jews Angry Over Government’s Failure To Ban Neo-Nazis
Germany?s top Jewish leader has slammed the government?s decision not to join efforts to ban the country?s most powerful neo-Nazi party. ?The decision of the Federal Government is disappointing and politically completely wrong,? Dieter Graumann, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in a statement Wednesday. ?They chose hesitation and procrastination over…
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Fast Forward Philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy Barred From Libya for Being Jewish
The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, who supported France?s military intervention in Libya, was barred from visiting there because he is Jewish. Levy, a celebrity in France, was supposed to join former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on a visit that began on Tuesday in Tripoli, according to a report on the news website Rue89. The website…
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Fast Forward French Return 7 Looted Paintings to Jewish Owners
France?s Ministry of Culture has returned seven valuable paintings looted by the Nazis during the Holocaust from two Jewish families. Six of the paintings were given to Thomas Selldorff, an 84-year-old resident of the Boston area, who came to Paris to collect them during a ceremony on Tuesday at the ministry in Paris, according to…
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