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Fast Forward Suspected Nazi Sues Australia for Deport Try
Alleged Nazi war criminal Karoly “Charles” Zentai has paved the way for a damages suit against the Australian government for wrongful imprisonment during its unsuccessful extradition case against him. Zentai, a 91-year-old pensioner living in Perth, was imprisoned in Western Australia for almost two months in 2009. He filed a writ last week for unspecified…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorial Defaced on Greek Island
A Holocaust memorial in Rhodes was defaced by unknown vandals. The Holocaust Memorial to the Jews of Rhodes was spray painted with swastikas on all six sides of the memorial. The initials AME also were spray painted on the monument, and may refer to an unknown organization, according to the Greek Helsinki Monitor. The attack…
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Fast Forward 20,000 Gather To Remember Yitzhak Rabin
About 20,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to pay tribute to the memory of slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The rally was organized by Israeli youth movements and was held under the banner of “Remembering the murder – fighting for democracy.” The event was held Saturday night in the same public square where…
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Fast Forward Jewish Historian Awarded Legion of Honor
Eleonora Bergman, a Polish Jewish historian and former director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, was awarded the French Legion of Honor. Bergman received the medal on Thursday for her contribution to the Jewish heritage of Poland. The medal was presented by the French ambassador to Poland, Pierre Buhler. The Legion of Honor, which…
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Fast Forward Argentine National Library Cancels Anti-Israel Program
The Argentine National Library has canceled its program “The Ethical Trial of the Israeli Occupation and Colonization of Palestine.” The Oct. 30 program was being organized by the Argentine-Palestinian Solidarity Committee. Adolfo Perez Esquivel, the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was to be on the jury of the so-called trial. The library confirmed on Friday…
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Fast Forward Hamas Brinkmanship Masks Quiet Confidence
One of 70-odd rockets fired from Gaza into Israel this week hit a chicken coop, critically wounding two Thai migrant workers, innocent bystanders in a deadly game of brinkmanship. If it had killed children on the Israeli farm they work for, Israel and Gaza would probably be at war right now. Gaza’s Islamist rulers, Hamas,…
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Fast Forward U.S. Rejects Call for Boycott by UN Rapporteur Falk
The Obama administration slammed U.N. special rapporteur Richard Falk’s call for a boycott of private companies that are profiting from the Israeli settlement enterprise. Susan E. Rice, the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, in a statement Friday called Falk’s boycott call “irresponsible and unacceptable.” Falk called for the boycott in a report Oct….
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Fast Forward Israeli Tourist Suffers ‘anti-Semitic abuse’ in Poland
An Israeli tourist visiting Poland reportedly filed a complaint with police against a taxi driver for making anti-Semitic remarks. The tourist, Clila Bau, visited Poland last week with her sister, Hadas, according to the online edition of the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. The two came to Krakow to attend an exhibition of the works of…
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