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Fast Forward Israel May Create Separate Legal Systems for Jews and Palestinians in West Bank
Israel’s justice minister said she would resurrect a legal initiative to bring Israeli civil law to Jewish settlements in the West Bank while keeping the Palestinians who live there under military orders. Ayelet Shaked, of the right-wing Jewish Home party, made the remarks on Sunday evening during a speech to the Legal Forum for the…
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Fast Forward Why Won’t Israel Release Video of Killing of Pregnant Palestinian and Her Brother?
Israel Police have declined to release a video showing an attempted stabbing attack at a Jerusalem-area checkpoint, in the wake of an investigation that shows civilian security guards and not Border Police officers there shot and killed the alleged sibling attackers. Maram Salih Hassan Abu Ismail, 23, and her brother Ibrahim Saleh Taha, 16, were…
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Fast Forward Miami Synagogue Targeted by Terror Plot: Report
The FBI arrested a man who allegedly was planning to throw a bomb into a North Miami Beach synagogue. The aborted attack on the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center in Miami had been set to occur on Friday evening during holiday services for the end of Passover, 7News on local station WSVN reported early on Monday….
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Fast Forward Britain’s Labour Launches Investigation into Party’s Anti-Semitism
Britain’s Labour Party has launched an investigation into anti-Semitism in the party. The inquiry announced on Friday comes a day after the party suspended former London Mayor Ken Livingstone for saying that Adolf Hitler was a Zionist for advocating in 1932 a policy of moving Europe’s Jews to Israel. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn also…
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Fast Forward Former Polish President Says He Regrets He is Not Jewish
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Former Polish President Lech Walesa wrote on his Facebook page that he regrets he is not Jewish and that there are no Jewish members of his family. He noted in the April 26th Facebook post that if he were younger he would “fix this mistake.” Lech Walesa in Poland is known…
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Fast Forward ADL Asks Trump to Dump ‘America First’ Slogan Reminiscent of WWII Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League called on Donald Trump to abjure the term “America First,” noting its unsavory World War II-era association with anti-Semitism. “The undercurrents of anti-Semitism and bigotry that characterized the America First movement – including the assumption that Jews who opposed the movement had their own agenda and were not acting…
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Fast Forward U.S. Holocaust Museum Says Iranian Authorities Back Holocaust Cartoon Event
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum challenged a claim by the Iranian foreign minister that Iranian government authorities had nothing to do with a Holocaust cartoon contest. “The organizations associated with the contest are sponsored or supported by government entities, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Tehran Municipality, and the Ministry of…
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Fast Forward Robert Levinson’s Son Travels to Iran Seeking Information on MIssing Father
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Driven to desperation by what he said have been the White House’s failures, Robert Levinson’s son traveled to Iran to seek information on his father’s whereabouts. “In late February, I traveled to Iran’s Kish Island in the Persian Gulf, where my father was last seen,” Dan Levinson said in an Op-Ed published…
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