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Fast Forward French Jewish Comic Fined for Slur
A Paris court reportedly has fined Jean-François Dérec, a French-Jewish comedian and promoter of anti-racism campaigns, for using racial slurs against a black man. According to Le Parisien, Dérec, a television celebrity and stand-up comedian, last year used a pejorative word in addressing a black security guard in Paris, whom he also called “dirty.” The…
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Fast Forward Swedish Book Compares Israel to Apartheid
The Swedish Arts Council is sponsoring and distributing a new book which presents Israel as a racist entity comparable to apartheid South Africa. The council, a government body, has allocated $8,985 toward publishing and distributing “The bride is beautiful but she is married to another man – Zionism – an ideology at the end of…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Agreed To Return Golan: Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to give back the Golan Heights to Syria in 2010, the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported. The daily quotes unnamed American sources as saying that in 2010 “Netanyahu agreed to a full withdrawal from the Golan, to the shores of Lake Kinneret, in exchange for a peace agreement…
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Fast Forward Bibi Raises 96% of Cash From Overseas
More than half of all donations made to Israeli politicians’ campaigns over the past two years came from overseas contributors. Donations to political campaigns by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during that period amounted to $311,000, with 96.8 percent coming from outside Israel, according to Haaretz in a front page report on Friday. The paper wrote…
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Fast Forward Paris Kosher Bombing Suspects Linked to Syria
Suspects in the recent bombing of a kosher supermarket near Paris belonged to an “extremely dangerous” cell with links to Islamist rebels in Syria, a Paris public prosecutor has said. Speaking on Thursday at a press conference in Paris, Francois Molins of the city’s prosecutor’s office said the suspects, who were arrested last week, belonged…
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Fast Forward ‘Jewish Indiana Jones’ Gets 4 Years for Fraud
Rabbi Menachem Youlus, once dubbed the “Jewish Indiana Jones” for his remarkable tales of rescuing Holocaust-era Torah scrolls, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday to more than four years in prison for fraud. Youlus was sentenced to 51 months by Judge Colleen McMahon, of the U.S. District Court of Southern New York. Youlus had…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden and Paul Ryan Spar on Iran, Israel
Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan clashed over Iran’s nuclear program and U.S. relations with Israel during their televised debate. Ryan assailed President Obama’s approach to the issue in Thursday night’s vice presidential debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky. The Wisconsin congressman accused administration officials of sending “mixed…
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Fast Forward Gilad Shalit Gives First Sit-Down Interview
Gilad Shalit in his first interview in Israel since his release spoke of how he passed the time in captivity and his sense of great “relief” upon being set free. Israel’s Channel 10 played excerpts from the interview, undertaken near the first anniversary of Shalit’s release by Hamas in a prisoner exchange from his more…
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