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Fast Forward Jewish Paper Slams Belgian Daily’s Interview With Holocaust Denier
Jewish Newspaper Slams Belgian Daily’s Interview With Holocaust Denier Complains over Holocaust denier interview in daily January 19, 2016 8:26am ANTWERP (JTA) — A Belgian Jewish newspaper complained to the country’s watchdog on journalism about a daily that published a Holocaust denier’s claim that no one died in Nazi gas chambers. The Antwerp-based Joods Actueel…
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Fast Forward El Salvador Denies Plan To Move Embassy From Tel Aviv to Ramallah
El Salvador will not close its embassy in Israel and move it to Ramallah in retaliation for Israel’s decision to close its embassy in San Salvador due to budget cuts, the country’s newly appointed ambassador to the Jewish state said. El Salvador is “not even thinking” of such a maneuver, the Times of Israel reported,…
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Books Brazilian Jews Celebrate Ban on Publishing of Unannotated ‘Mein Kampf’
A Brazilian publisher has decided to cancel the release of a new printing of “Mein Kampf” after strong pressure from the Jewish community and scholars. Editing company Edipro reportedly decided on Thursday to call off a first printing run of 1,000 copies, saying it was an old translation to Portuguese from the 1930s, with no…
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Fast Forward U.S. Ambassador to Israel Blasts ‘2 Standards’ of Law in West Bank
TEL AVIV — The U.S. ambassador to Israel slammed the Israeli legal system in the West Bank, saying, “Too much Israeli vigilantism in the West Bank goes on unchecked.” Daniel Shapiro, speaking Monday at a Tel Aviv conference organized by the Institute for National Security Studies, added that “at times it seems Israel has two…
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Fast Forward Stop Doing Business in Settlements, Human Rights Watch Urges
JERUSALEM — Human Rights Watch said businesses should stop operating in West Bank Jewish settlements because they violate Palestinian rights. In a 162-page report released Tuesday titled “Occupation, Inc.: How Settlement Businesses Contribute to Israel’s Violations of Palestinian Rights,” the human rights group concluded that companies that finance, service or trade with Jewish settlements facilitate…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Arrested in Murder of Israeli Mom of 6
A Palestinian teen was arrested for the murder of Dafna Meir, an Israeli mother of six who was stabbed to death in her West Bank home. The suspect, believed to be 15 or 16, was arrested late Monday in a Palestinian village near the scene of the attack, where he was hiding out, the IDF…
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Fast Forward Muslim Terror Attacks Have Sparked a World War — French PM
PARIS — Listing terrorist attacks in Israel along with other attacks by the Islamic State, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said they showed “we are in a world war.” Valls made the statement on Monday at a Paris hotel where he spoke before approximately 350 listeners, mostly from the Jewish community, during an event organized…
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Fast Forward 70% of French Oppose Call for Jews to Remove Yarmulkes
PARIS — Seventy percent of French citizens said it would be giving in to terrorists if Jews were forced to remove their yarmulkes for security reasons, according to a survey. The survey commissioned by the Paris Match weekly news magazine and published Friday was conducted Jan. 14-15 following one community leader’s call to Jews in…
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