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Fast Forward Company to Remove Chicago Billboard Calling for Israel Boycott
A billboard in Chicago calling for a boycott of Israel will be removed following a public outcry. Lamar Advertising, which leases billboards throughout the country, announced in a Facebook post on Friday that it would remove the billboard “as soon as possible.” Earlier in the day, also in a statement on Facebook, the company said…
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Fast Forward Harvard Student Groups Lose Law Firm’s Funding over Palestine Event
(JTA) — An international law firm has withdrawn its sponsorship of Harvard Law School student events after funds were used for a Justice for Palestine event. The Milbank corporate law firm, which in 2012 pledged $1 million over five years for the events as long as the firm was acknowledged on promotional material, took back…
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Fast Forward Austria Cancels Event Featuring Holocaust Survivor Who Compared Israel to Nazis
(JTA) — An event including Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, a Jewish pro-Palestinian activist who has likened Israel to Nazi Germany, was canceled by the Austrian Parliament two day after invitations were sent out. A spokeswoman for the president of the Austrian Parliament told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that the March 8 event to honor…
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Fast Forward Another Suspect Arrested in Connection to Fatal West Bank Stabbing of American Citizen
A third suspect has been arrested in the stabbing attack at a West Bank supermarket that left a dual American-Israeli citizen dead. The suspect, who reportedly was turned away from the Rami Levi supermarket in Shaar Binyamin, north of Jerusalem, by a security guard, was arrested after the attack on Thursday, the Israeli media reported…
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Fast Forward Last Survivor of Treblinka Revolt, Samuel Willenberg, Dies at 93
Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of the Treblinka camp revolt, has died. Willenberg, who escaped the Nazi death camp in 1943, died Friday at his home in Tel Aviv. He was 93. He was born in 1923 in Częstochowa, Poland, to a Jewish father and a mother who converted to Judaism from Orthodox Christianity, and…
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Fast Forward Kidnapped Pilot Ron Arad Killed 2 Years After His 1986 Crash
(JTA) — Israeli Air Force navigator Ron Arad was tortured and killed two years after his plane went down over Lebanon, a Lebanese defendant in a military trial said. One of five suspected collaborators with Israel who recently appeared before a Lebanese military tribunal told the court he knew what happened to Arad, who ejected…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas and John Kerry Meet in Amman
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on the United States to ensure the viability of the two-state solution during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The two leaders met Sunday in Amman, according to Palestinian reports. Kerry was in Amman to meet with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh ahead of a meeting…
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Fast Forward Israeli Films Win Top Honors at Berlinale
An Arab-Israeli rap artist won over audiences at the 66th annual Berlin International Film Festival, gleaning a top “public” prize for Israeli director Udi Aloni . “Junction 48,” which won the Panorama Audience Award for best feature, was one of two Israeli productions to take home prizes this year. It tells the story of a…
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