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Fast Forward Company Apologizes for ‘Holocaust’ T-Shirt
A Danish fashion company has apologized for a T-shirt featuring a six-pointed star after critics complained it evoked the Star of David that the Nazis forced Jews to wear. The yellow T-shirt featuring a blue patchwork star on its pocket appeared on the Urban Outfitters retail website last week. It drew a complaint from the…
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Fast Forward Congress Wants $680 Million for Iron Dome
The House Armed Services Committee reportedly is proposing $680 million in additional funds for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. A number of news outlets reported over the weekend that the Republican-majority Armed Services Committee plans to increase the funding in addition to the $205 million that was appropriated under President Obama’s 2013 defense budget….
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Fast Forward Non Jew Can Sue Over Anti-Semitism: Court
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a man can sue for enduring anti-Semitic slurs from former employers despite not being Jewish. Myron Cowher, a former truck driver for Carson & Roberts Site Constructions & Engineering Inc., sued the company and former supervisors after allegedly enduring anti-Semitic comments for more than a year. His…
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Fast Forward Obama: I Will ‘Always Be There for Israel’
President Obama in an address at a Holocaust remembrance event said he would “always be there for Israel” and defended his administration’s record on preventing atrocities. Obama spoke Monday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a few days after Holocaust Remembrance Day. Prior to his address, he took a tour of the museum guided by…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Fallen Soldier Memorial Is Vandalized
The iconic memorial to Israel’s fallen soldiers at Ammunition Hill was vandalized days before the national Memorial Day observance. Unknown vandals spray painted anti-Semitic and anti-Israel epithets on the memorial at the site of a major battle for Jerusalem during the Six-Day War that nearly closed earlier this year due to lack of funds. Among…
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Fast Forward Synagogue in Colorado Springs Is Defaced
A Colorado synagogue was spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti in honor of Adolf Hitler’s birthday. The walls and door of Temple Beit Torah in Colorado Springs was discovered on the morning of April 20 with swastikas and “Happy 4:20” (the date of Hitler’s birth). April 20 is also the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School…
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Fast Forward Egypt Scraps Natural Gas Deal With Israel
Egypt canceled its natural gas agreement with Israel, reportedly abrogating the original Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979. The unilateral announcement was made Sunday by Egypt’s national gas company EGAS, according to The Marker, an Israeli business daily. The 2005 deal between the governments of Israel and Egypt promised that Cairo would allocate 7 billion cubic…
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Fast Forward Israelis Given Warning To Leave Sinai
Israel’s National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau urged Israelis to leave the Sinai Peninsula immediately. The severe travel warning issued Saturday called on Israelis in the Sinai to “leave immediately and return home.” Families of Israelis in the Sinai also were told to contact their loved ones and tell them of the warning. The bureau also…
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