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Fast Forward Major Jewish Groups To Snub Presidents Conference Trump Hotel Hanukkah Party
Four major Jewish organizations will not attend a Hanukkah party co-hosted by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at a Washington, D.C., hotel owned by President-elect Donald Trump. The Jewish Federations of North America, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America will not be…
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Fast Forward Britain Adopts Anti-Semitism Definition That Decries Comparing Israel to Nazis
The British government is set to adopt a definition of anti-Semitism that includes calling Israel an inherently racist country and making comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany. British Prime Minister Theresa May agreed to adopt the definition that was recently introduced by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, The Jewish Chronicle reported Monday. The definition adopted…
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Fast Forward Emerson College Hit With White Supremacist Flyers
Posters promoting a white supremacist, neo-Nazi organization were discovered in a lecture hall and a student residence at Emerson College. The at least seven posters from the American Vanguard organization were discovered on campus on Monday, local media reported Wednesday. “The racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric of American Vanguard has no place on our campus as…
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The Schmooze Provocative Ad Featuring Statue of Liberty Giving Nazi Salute Touches a Nerve
A new advertisement in New York City for the second season of the Amazon TV series “The Man in the High Castle” shows the Statue of Liberty giving a Nazi salute. An ad campaign last year for the Amazon Studios show’s first season offended many Jews and non-Jews, and the new Times Square billboard in…
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Fast Forward New York State Puts 13 Firms on Anti-BDS Blacklist
New York state has released a blacklist of 13 foreign companies that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement against Israel. The list on stationary from the Office of General Services is dated Dec. 2. It was first reported by the New York Post. Among the companies on the list are Danske Bank,…
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Fast Forward Amare Stoudemire’s Son Invited To Play Baseball After Israeli Hoops Team Bars Him
The Israel Association of Baseball invited former NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire’s son, who was barred from playing Israeli basketball, to switch to baseball. Peter Kurz made the invitation Monday in an open letter to Stoudemire and his wife, Alexis Stoudemire, saying he was “shocked” by how their son had been treated and that the association…
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Fast Forward Dutch Police Arrest Jihadists Who Planned Synagogue Attack
Dutch police arrested several suspects in connection with jihadists’ unrealized plan to attack a synagogue in the country’s capital city a year ago, a local daily revealed. The main suspect belonging to the ring, which is connected to Amsterdam’s Arrayan Sunni mosque, is a man in his 40s of Moroccan descent with a goatee and…
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Fast Forward Ontario Becomes First Canadian Province To Reject BDS
Ontario has become the first Canadian province to reject the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, campaign against Israel. Ontario’s legislature on Dec. 1 by a vote of 49 to 5, passed a motion rejecting “the differential treatment of Israel, including the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.” All five opposing votes came from the left-leaning…
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