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Fast Forward Swedish Politician Fighting Racism Denies Calling Jews ‘Impure’
(JTA) — A Swedish politician from Malmo who has worked on integration of immigrants denied saying that Jews and Armenians have “impure spirits.” Muhammad Khorshid, who represents the Liberals on the city council of the municipality in southern Sweden, told Expressen that the comment in his name from 2016 on Facebook belonged to a fake…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorials In Estonia Torched, Vandalized With Swastika
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals scrawled anti-Semitic slogans and symbols on monuments for Holocaust victims in Estonia. The incident occurred sometime last week at the Kalevi-Liiva village in the Harju County near Tallinn, the capital of the Baltic nation of Estonia, the website News-Front reported Thursday. The monuments, erected at sites of mass killings of Jews…
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Fast Forward ADL Condemns Trump For Tweeting South Africa White Nationalist Conspiracy Theory
(JTA) — President Trump has come under fire, including from the Anti-Defamation League, for apparently tweeting support for a white nationalist conspiracy theory that whites in South Africa are in danger of genocide. In a tweet posted after Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s segment on land reform in South Africa, Trump wrote that he had “asked…
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Fast Forward ‘You Should All Be Shot,’ Man Tells Jewish Woman In Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Jewish woman from Amsterdam told police that a man shouted at her and her children that they “should all be shot” and called them “cancer Jews” before getting into a taxi cab. The incident occurred Wednesday in the heavily-Jewish Buitenveldert neighborhood of Amsterdam, the Het Parool daily reported based on a…
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Fast Forward Trump Names Jewish Pro-Israel Security Expert To Senior Intelligence Post
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Trump chose as the deputy chairwoman of the intelligence advisory board a Jewish national security expert who is well known in the pro-Israel national security community. Samantha Ravich was named to the board, which helps shape intelligence policy, on Tuesday. Ravich, a former deputy national security adviser to Vice President Dick…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Has Just 17% Favorable Rating Among Democrats
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is less popular among Americans than the leaders of other U.S. allies such as Canada, Britain and Germany but is significantly better liked than his Russian and North Korean counterparts, a new Gallup poll released Tuesday found. According to the Gallup, which polled 1,024 adults over the…
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Fast Forward Trump: Israel Will Pay A ‘High Price’ For Peace Deal Following Embassy Move
JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Trump said Israel will have to pay a “high price” in peace negotiations with the Palestinians over the move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, raising consternation in the Jewish state. On Tuesday, addressing supporters at a rally in West Virginia, Trump praised himself for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Announces West Bank Settlement Construction, Angering Left And Right
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli government advanced plans for the construction of more than 1,000 housing units in the West Bank on Wednesday, drawing condemnations from both the political left and the settlement movement itself. Construction on 382 of the 1,400 units will be able to begin immediately, while the others will require several more…
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