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Fast Forward Jewish Anti-Hate Lawyer Rescues KKK Members at Angry Rally
A Jewish attorney and scholar who tracks extremist groups is being credited with saving three Ku Klux Klan members at an anti-immigration rally in Southern California that turned violent. Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, was filming Saturday’s rally in Anaheim when…
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Fast Forward Extremist Settlers Call for ‘Muzzling’ of Europe Envoy
The European Union has condemned a campaign by a new settler organization that verbally attacks its envoy in Jerusalem. The video posted Sunday on Facebook by the Jerusalem’s Periphery Forum, which represents Jewish communities south of Jerusalem, criticizes the EU for funding illegal homes for Bedouin and Palestinians along the major North-South Route 1. The…
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Fast Forward Women’s Western Wall Prayer Session Attacked by Ultra-Orthodox Protesters
A women’s prayer service at the Western Wall was disturbed by protesting haredi Orthodox men and women. The Original Women of the Wall group held morning services on Monday using a small Torah scroll that they smuggled in for the service. The more than 20 women were wearing prayer shawls and phylacteries. According to a…
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Fast Forward British Labour Party Will Probe Oxford Student Anti-Semitism Claim
Following a student’s resignation from Oxford University’s Labor Club over alleged anti-Semitism, a lawmaker for the British party will head an inquiry into his claims. Baroness Janet Royall, Labor’s former leader of the House of Lords, the British parliament’s upper house, was appointed Friday to head a fresh investigation into the allegations of Jew-hate at…
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Fast Forward Last 74 Palestinian Workers Dumped From SodaStream
The last Palestinian employees of SodaStream lost their jobs following the company’s move from the West Bank to southern Israel. The final 74 employees had been commuting to the company’s new location in the Negev desert since the plant in Maale Adumim closed in October. Some 500 Palestinian employees lost their jobs at that time….
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Fast Forward Israeli Minister Predicts Collapse of Palestinian Authority
An Israeli government minister predicted the collapse of the Palestinian Authority. “The question is not if the PA collapses but when it is going to collapse,” said Immigrant Absorption and Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Ze’ev Elkin on Monday during a speech at Bar-Ilan University. “It can happen in a month or two or a year…
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Fast Forward Jewish Reporter Backed on Using ‘Murder’ Only for Terror Victims — Not Attackers
The union of Portuguese journalists rejected a complaint by the Palestinian Authority about a reporter’s use of the word “murder” to describe only victims of terrorist attacks, and not perpetrators. Portugal’s Syndicate of Journalists published its decision last week on a complaint that Hikmat Ajjuri, the Palestinian Authority’s envoy to Portugal, filed in December against…
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Fast Forward ‘Son of Saul,’ Hungarian Holocaust Drama, Scoops Best Foreign Film Oscar
“Son of Saul,” the Hungarian Holocaust drama from first-time feature director Laszlo Nemes, won the Academy Award for best foreign language film. Nemes claimed the prize at the annual Oscar ceremony Sunday night in Los Angeles. “Even in the darkest hours of mankind, there might be a voice within us that allows us to remain…
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