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Fast Forward Belgium Election Triggers ‘Wave’ of Anti-Semitism
Belgium’s recent local elections triggered “an unprecedented wave of manifestations of anti-Semitism,” according to the country’s organization of French-speaking Jews. The Oct. 14 election and the campaign that preceded it “were characterized by a flood of anti-Semitic events the likes of which we have never before seen,” Maurice Sosnowski, president of the CCOJB, said in…
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Fast Forward Twitter Pulls Anti-Semitic ‘Good Jew’ Messages
Twitter has reportedly agreed to remove French-language anti-Semitic messages from its website and to block access to an account linked to German neo-Nazis. Stephane Lilti, an attorney for the Union of French Jewish Students said that Twitter has agreed to remove tweets that her group has flagged as anti-Semitic, according to the French newspaper Le…
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Fast Forward Hamas Releases Gilad Shalit Film
On the one-year anniversary of the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Hamas has released a film describing the Israeli soldier’s abduction in 2006. According to the film, which was released on Oct. 18 on the website of the Hamas military wing, Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, Shalit thought his captors were Israeli because they had put…
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Fast Forward Noam Chomsky Makes First Gaza Visit
Noam Chomsky, the prominent American academic and critic of Israel, has made his first trip to the Gaza Strip. Chomsky, who is Jewish, is a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a frequent critic of American foreign policy and Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. He was in the Gaza Strip…
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Fast Forward Jewish Graves Vandalized in New Zealand
Unidentified vandals defaced headstones in a Jewish cemetery in Auckland, New Zealand, with swastikas, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel graffiti. More than 20 graves, all more than 125 years old, were vandalized with black spray-paint between Thursday night and Friday morning, according to the New Zeland Herald. Fourteen headstones had large black swastikas sprayed on them. Another…
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Fast Forward Facebook Dumps Hezbollah Pages
Facebook removed pages for Hezbollah, its affiliated Al-Manar television station and its leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. It is the second time that the social networking site has removed pages for the Lebanon-based Hezbollah; the first time was in August, but the group created new pages. The Middle East Media Research Institute had reported on the…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Activist’s Book Talks Scrapped
Free Gaza Movement co-founder Greta Berlin, who has come under fire for tweeting that Zionists created and ran the Nazi concentration camps, had book talks canceled by at least two California venues. Book Passage canceled Berlin’s talk scheduled for Sunday at its flagship location in Corte Madera. UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies had canceled…
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Fast Forward Reform Leaders Demand Wailing Wall Arrest Probe
Reform Jewish leaders are calling for an investigation following reports that an Israeli colleague was roughed up by police after leading a women’s prayer group at the Western Wall. Reform leaders in the United States said Thursday that they have spoken with Israel’s ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren, about the incident involving Anat Hoffman, executive…
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