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Fast Forward Danish Committee Goes Forth With Draft Resolution Calling To Ban Circumcision
(JTA) — A parliamentary committee in Denmark cleared the path for a nonbinding vote on a text that calls for banning nonmedical circumcision of boys for humanitarian reasons. The Folketingets Administration okayed the text Thursday, stating there were no constitutional obstacles to voting this year on the text of a petition requesting a ban that…
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Fast Forward US Official Urges Atomic Watchdog To Probe Netanyahu’s Claims On Iran
(JTA) — A State Department official called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to investigate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims about a secret nuclear warehouse in Tehran. Netanyahu made the claim about the facility in the Turquzabad district of the Iranian capital Thursday during a speech at the U.N. headquarters in New York. Netanyahu…
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Fast Forward Former Nazi Soldier Loses Final Appeal To Keep Canadian Citizenship
MONTREAL (JTA) — A former Nazi who had lied to enter Canada decades ago lost his appeal to keep his citizenship and faces deportation. Canada’s Federal Court ruled Thursday that it was “reasonable” that Helmut Oberlander, 94, of Waterloo, Ont., be stripped of his citizenship. It was the first time Oberlander lost an appeal in…
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Fast Forward Federal Court Blocks Arizona Law Excluding Israel Boycotters From Contracts
(JTA) — A federal court blocked an Arizona law requiring state contractors to certify that they will not boycott Israel, finding that the law likely violates state contractors’ free speech rights. In Thursday’s order blocking the law, District Court Judge Diane J. Humetewa wrote: “A restriction of one’s ability to participate in collective calls to oppose Israel unquestionably burdens the…
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Fast Forward Abbas Rejects Criticism Of Paying Palestinian ‘Martyrs’ Who Kill Israelis
(JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an address to the United Nations rejected criticism of the P.A. for paying monthly salaries to Palestinians who kill Israelis or the families of the killers. “I pay tribute to our hero martyrs and prisoners of war,” he told the General Assembly on Thursday. Abbas, who was…
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Fast Forward EU Freezes $17M In Palestinian Aid Over Textbook Incitement Against Israel
(JTA) — A European Parliament committee voted to freeze more than $17 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority over incitement against Israel in its textbooks. The Budgetary Committee’s bill is an amendment to the European Union’s draft budget, which will go to a plenary vote in late October. If the budget passes, the EU will withhold…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Rejects Invitation To UN-Sponsored Anti-Semitism Conference
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an invitation to participate in a United Nations conference on Anti-Semitism. The conference was held on Wednesday at the United Nations headquarters in New York under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, on the sidelines of the U.N. General…
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Fast Forward Jewish Democratic Group Countersues Sheldon Adelson
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A group that once was the umbrella for Jewish Democrats says it was brought down by a libel lawsuit filed against it by Sheldon Adelson and is countersuing now that Adelson has lost. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in a federal court in New York by the National Jewish Democratic Council and its…
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