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Fast Forward Voting Pro-Israel Candidates Off Student Gov’t Wasn’t Anti-Semitic, McGill Says
MONTREAL (JTA) — A McGill University internal investigation absolved students involved in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel of outright anti-Semitism on campus but decried Jew hatred, triggering mixed reactions from the Jewish community. The report written by retired McGill ombudsman Spencer Boudreau, which was released on Tuesday, asserted that anti-Semitism played no…
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Fast Forward Israel Fired On Syrian Military Positions, Damascus Claims
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Syrian military accused Israel of firing on its positions near Damascus, calling it a “new Israeli aggression.” “This morning, Israeli warplanes fired several missiles from Lebanese airspace on one of our military positions in the Damascus countryside,” Syria’s army said in a statement broadcast on state media. “Our air defense systems…
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Fast Forward Women Are ‘Weak-Minded’ And ‘Just Babble,’ Israeli Rabbi Tells Yeshiva Students
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A rabbi who teaches at a pre-military yeshiva in the West Bank told students that women are “weak minded” and “just babble.” Rabbi Yosef Kelner also said women have a “limited capacity” for spirituality in the footage broadcast Tuesday by Hadashot news taken at a class on marriage and family. The class…
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Fast Forward Israeli Guard Stabbed, Palestinian Assailant Killed In West Bank Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli security guard was stabbed and wounded and his Palestinian assailant killed at the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Karmei Tzur. The stabber, identified by the Palestinian Maan news agency as 19-year-old Hamza Zamareh from the nearby Palestinian village of Halhul, approached the entrance of the settlement located in…
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Fast Forward CIA Is Helping Palestinian Authority Wiretap People, Leaked Documents Claim
(JTA) — A leaked document alleges that the Palestinian Authority has been wiretapping its residents with the backing of the CIA. The document was shared on the messaging service WhatsApp by an anonymous employee of the Palestinian wiretapping agency last month, according to The Associated Press. It says the agency was set up jointly by three…
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Fast Forward Polish President Signs Holocaust Language Bill, Drawing Rebuke From U.S.
(JTA) – Polish President Andrzej Duda signed and finalized a law limiting rhetoric about the Holocaust, leading to a rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The United States is “disappointed,” Tillerson said Tuesday, following Duda’s final approval of a law introduced on Jan. 26 in the Polish parliament. It prescribes up to six…
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Fast Forward British Girl, 6, Undergoes Special Surgery In Israel To Keep Her Leg
(JTA) — A 6-year-old British girl has undergone special surgery in Israel that will allow her to keep her leg and her doctor called it a success. Kyra Warrell, of Brighton, located on the south coast of England, is afflicted with proximal focal femoral deficiency, which will leave her left leg about 8 inches shorter…
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Fast Forward U.S. Ambassador To Israel Criticizes Palestinians For Praising Terror Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman accused Palestinian leaders of praising a terror attack that left a father of four dead. David Friedman did not say what Palestinian leaders he was referring to in the tweet on Tuesday morning. “20 years ago I gave an ambulance to Har Bracha hoping it would…
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