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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer Forced To Take Down Pepe The Frog Images
(JTA) — When cartoonist Matt Furie drew Pepe the Frog for a comic series, all he meant to do was create an amphibian pothead. But the cartoon frog, with a chubby face and half-closed eyes, was appropriated by the “alt-right,” whose members turned him into a mascot for their far-right, racist beliefs. Now Furie is fighting…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Around The World Argue Criticism Of Israel Is Not Anti-Semitic
(JTA) — Thirty-six Jewish groups from around the world have signed a statement condemning the conflation of anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel. “As social justice organizations from around the world, we write this letter with growing alarm regarding the targeting of organizations that support Palestinian rights in general and the nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions…
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Fast Forward Bird Sent To Israel From Gaza Wearing A Harness Holding Flammable Material
JERUSALEM (JTA) — First kites and balloons, and now birds are being used to by Palestinians in Gaza to set fires in southern Israel. Israel Nature and Parks Authority personnel on Monday afternoon found a common kestrel, a member of the falcon family, hanging from a burned tree wearing a harness to which was attached…
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Fast Forward Tourists Caught Smuggling Bricks Out Of Auschwitz
(JTA) — Two visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum were caught trying to steal bricks from one of the crematoria located in the former Nazi death camp. The two Hungarian tourists, a man, 36, and a woman, 30, were caught on Saturday after two other tourists saw them hiding the bricks in a bag…
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Fast Forward Argentina Freezes Assets Of Suspected Hezbollah Fundraising Network
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — In a first, Argentina’s government targeted a Hezbollah fundraising network in the northern Triple Frontier with Brazil and Paraguay. The Financial Information Unit of the Argentine Republic investigated possible criminal actions by Lebanese citizens living in Argentina that could be involved in money laundering and financing terrorist acts. The unit investigated…
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Fast Forward Jared Kusher Still Lacks Highest Security Clearance
(JTA) — Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, lacks the highest level of security clearance. Kushner received a permanent “top secret” security clearance in late May, which does not allow him to review some of the government’s most sensitive secrets, the Washington Post reported Friday, citing two people familiar with…
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Fast Forward Another Group Leaves Birthright To Visit Palestinians
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A group of American Jews visiting Israel on a free Birthright trip walked off the tour during a visit to the City of David in Jerusalem to visit a Palestinian family who is facing eviction from their eastern Jerusalem home. Six of the young people came from one Birthright tour and two…
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Fast Forward Peace Activist Recalled From Hebron After Slapping Jewish Boy
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The legal counsel for the observer organization group the Temporary International Presence in Hebron was ordered to leave Israel after slapping a 10-year-old boy in Hebron. The incident occurred on Wednesday when the Swiss observer joined a tour of the area of Hebron inhabited by Jewish settlers led by the left-wing Israeli…
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