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Fast Forward 11 Harvard Law Jewish Colleagues Defend ‘Smelly’ Israel Basher
Eleven Jewish students and recent alumni of the Harvard Law School have signed a letter defending the law student who asked former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni why she is “so smelly.” In a letter to the Harvard Law Record, the students defend “our friend and peer” Husam El-Qoulaq, whose comment at an April 14…
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Fast Forward New York University President Blasts Israel Boycott Push as ‘Contrary to Core Values’
The president of New York University said the school will not acquiesce to its graduate student union’s recent demand that the university cut its Israel ties. “A boycott of Israeli academics and institutions is contrary to our core principles of academic freedom, antithetical to the free exchange of ideas and at odds with the University’s…
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Israel News White House Prepared to Make Largest Ever Military Pledge to Israel
Washington — The White House said it is prepared to commit to the “largest single pledge of military assistance to any country in U.S. history” in its defense assistance talks with Israel. A White House official made the statement to JTA in response to a sent Monday by 83 U.S. senators to President Barack Obama…
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Fast Forward Marine Le Pen Launches New Push To Win French Jews
Jewish activists close to Marine Le Pen said they have formed an organization designed to market her far-right National Front party to France’s Jewish community ahead of the 2017 presidential elections. Michel Thooris, a French Jew who once worked as Le Pen’s consultant on police issues, told the Le Lab news website that he will…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Letter From President William Taft Opposing Louis Brandeis Hits Auction Block
A letter written by former President William Howard Taft opposing the nomination of Louis Brandeis to become a Supreme Court justice and called anti-Semitic is on the auction block. The four-page letter, which Taft wrote to the Washington-based Jewish journalist Gus Karger and making reference to Brandeis’ Jewishness, is part of an online auction Thursday…
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Fast Forward Conservative Megadonor Charles Koch Compares Trump’s Muslim Policy to Nazis
[Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch compared Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s plan to register all Muslims in the United States to Nazi Germany. In a wide-ranging interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Koch called Trump’s reported idea of creating a database of all Muslims in the United States “reminiscent of Nazi Germany. I mean that’s monstrous,…
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Fast Forward Spanish Cities Split 4-to-4 on BDS Measures
Amid a legal fight over the legality of the campaign to boycott Israel in Spain, motions supporting the boycott failed in four Spanish municipalities and passed in four. The council of the eastern city of Santa Coloma de Gramenet near Barcelona on Monday voted down a proposed motion to boycott Israel, according to ACOM, a…
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Fast Forward Israel’s David Blatt Vies for Los Angeles Lakers Coaching Gig
David Blatt, the Israeli American who was fired this season as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, reportedly is under consideration for the newly vacated head coach position with the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers announced Sunday that Byron Scott, who coached the Lakers to their two worst seasons ever, would not return to the…
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