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Fast Forward Iran’s Top Ayatollah Denies Holocaust — Again — on Remembrance Day
Iran’s supreme leader released a video on his official website questioning the authenticity of the Holocaust on the same day the world observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The video titled “Are the Dark Ages Over” was uploaded to the website of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday. The nearly 3-minute video begins with images of killed…
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Fast Forward Anne Frank’s Stepsister Says Trump Is ‘Acting Like Another Hitler’
The stepsister of Holocaust teen diarist Anne Frank compared Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to Hitler. In an essay in Newsweek magazine published on Wednesday in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Eva Schloss, 86, also accused Trump of inciting racism. “The theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day is ‘Don’t stand by.’ This is…
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Fast Forward VIDEO: Obama Says U.S. Leading War on Rising Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON — Anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, and the United States must lead the fight against it, President Barack Obama said in remarks at the Israeli embassy. “Here, tonight, we must confront the reality that around the world, anti-Semitism is on the rise,” Obama said Wednesday at a ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day….
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Fast Forward French Jews Slam Iran President’s Visit on Holocaust Remembrance Day
French Jews protested against the arrival to Paris of Iran’s president, saying it was particularly unacceptable because it fell on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Hassan Rouhani, who was supposed to visit France in November but postponed his arrival because of terrorist attacks that killed 130 in Paris that month, landed in the French capital on…
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Fast Forward 90 LGBT Activists Condemn Anti-Israel Protests at National Event
Days after 200 anti-Israel demonstrators forcibly shut down a reception at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change conference, a group of American LGBT activists, both Jewish and non-Jewish, condemned the protesters’ behavior as “unacceptable and not in accord with the Task Force’s values of pluralism, inclusivity and thoughtful debate.” The strongly worded open letter…
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Fast Forward Meir Kahane’s Hunger-Striking Extremist Grandson Collapses in Prison
Meir Ettinger, a suspected Jewish terrorist being held under Israel’s administrative detention policy, collapsed in prison nine days after launching a hunger strike. Ettinger, grandson of the late far-right extremist Meir Kahane, was given emergency medical treatment on Tuesday, the Times of Israel reported the following day, citing Maariv. His hunger strike is in protest…
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Fast Forward Brown’s AEPi Breaks From National Frat Over Alleged Bias Against Non-Jews
The Brown University chapter of the historically Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi has separated from the international organization and become an independent fraternity. The president of the new fraternity, now called Beta Rho Pi, said the chapter broke with the international organization over biases against non-Jewish members as well as its handling of the issue…
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Fast Forward Israeli Police Mishandled Tip About Tel Aviv Bar Gunman — Report
JERUSALEM — Israel Police reportedly mishandled a tip about the gunman who killed two Israelis in an attack on a Tel Aviv bar and later a cab driver. On Wednesday, two women told Israel Radio that they tried to contact a police call center hours after the Jan. 1 attack, when video images of the…
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