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Fast Forward Uruguay Killer Says ‘Allah Ordered’ Him To Murder Jew
Police in Uruguay confirmed the deadly attack on a Jewish businessman in the small town of Paysandu was motivated by anti-Semitism. “I killed a Jew following Allah’s order,” the alleged assailant, 35,a substitute teacher identified by the initials C.O.E.L., told the officers on Wednesday, according to El Observador newspaper. During the Tuesday night attack, he…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Swept Arab-American Vote by 2-1 Margin in Michigan
Arab Americans in the Dearborn, Michigan area voted two to one for Bernie Sanders, according to a Dearborn-based Arab-American newspaper. “Arab Americans voted 2 to 1 for Sanders in almost every east Dearborn precinct,” The Arab American News reported on the day after Sanders won the primary in Michigan in a surprise victory over Hillary…
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Fast Forward Italian Singer Famed for ‘Auschwitz’ Song Visits Death Camp
Award-winning Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini is making his first trip to Auschwitz 50 years after he gained fame in Italy with a popular song about the former Nazi death camp. Guccini, 75, one of the best-known Italian singer-songwriters of his generation, will be accompanying a so-called Memory Train Holocaust educational trip organized by a trade…
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Fast Forward British Labour Party Readmits ‘Anti-Semitic’ Socialist Website Publisher
Britain’s Labour Party has readmitted a member who runs a website that publishes articles deemed anti-Semitic. Gerry Downing, who operates the Socialist Fight website and has defended ISIS and the 9/11 terrorists, was expelled from Labour in August for “publicly supporting another political party,” according to The Telegraph. On Wednesday, during a session in Parliament,…
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Fast Forward France Says Wouldn’t ‘Automatically’ Recognize Palestine If New Push Fails
France is stepping away from earlier assertions that it would “automatically” recognize a Palestinian state if a Paris-hosted international conference fails to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. “There is never anything automatic,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Wednesday at a news conference in Cairo, according to Agence France Press. “France will present its initiative to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Agency Hands Out $1M to Victims of Terror Wave
The Jewish Agency for Israel plans to distribute $1 million to more than 100 individuals and families that have been directly affected by the wave of terror attacks in Israel that began in October. Each family will receive financial assistance of up to $6,400 from the agency’s Fund for Victims of Terror, which is meant…
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Fast Forward Long Island’s Five Towns Hit With Swastikas
Swastikas were drawn on the sidewalk of a heavily Jewish community in suburban New York. They were discovered two blocks apart in Cedarhurst, part of a grouping of Long Island villages and hamlets known as the Five Towns bordering the Queens borough. Children who saw the swastikas on the sidewalk on their way to school…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Tells Arab-Americans He Wants ‘Level Playing Field’ on Israel Policy
Bernie Sanders, speaking in an Arab-American stronghold, said he would aim for a “level playing field” in U.S. Middle East policy. Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont bidding for the Democratic presidential nomination, said at a rally in Dearborn, Michigan, on Monday that brokering Israeli-Arab peace is daunting. “For decades now there has been hatred…
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