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Fast Forward Mom Calls Tel Aviv Terrorist ‘Source of Pride’ for Palestinians
The mother of a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed two Israelis to death called her son a “source of pride for Hebron and Palestine.” Raid Halil bin Mahmoud, 36, who also moderately injured a third man during a prayer service in a Tel Aviv building, attributed his actions to the “pain” he felt for the situation…
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Fast Forward Jewish Lawmaker Blasts Twitter for Ignoring Anti-Semitic Tweets
A Jewish member of the British Parliament criticized Twitter for its slow response to a barrage of anti-Semitic tweets she received last year. Luciana Berger, 34, the Labour Party’s shadow minister for mental health, was subjected to as many as 2,500 anti-Semitic tweets over a three-day span in October 2014. On Wednesday, she said that…
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Fast Forward Polish Anti-Refugee Demonstrators Burn Jew in Effigy
A Polish demonstration against taking in Muslim refugees ended with the burning of an effigy of a haredi Orthodox Jew holding the flag of the European Union. Dozens protested Wednesday evening in front of the city hall in the western Poland city of Wroclaw. The protest comes in the wake of the Nov. 13 attacks…
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Fast Forward John Kasich Wants ‘Judeo-Christian’ Department — Mocked as ‘Crusades’
As president, Republican candidate John Kasich said he would establish a department to promote Judeo-Christian values. In an interview Tuesday with NBC, Kasich described the department as a latter-day version of the pro-Western propaganda that the United States broadcast in the former Soviet Union. “Its job would be fundamentally to revive what we used to…
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Fast Forward Court Rules Israeli Transgender Activist’s Body Will Be Cremated
The body of an Israeli transgender activist will be cremated as she requested in her will, despite objections by her haredi Orthodox mother. The Jerusalem District Court ruled Wednesday that the body of May Peleg will be cremated, the Hebrew-language news website Walla! reported. Peleg, 31, committed suicide, according to a statement released from the…
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Fast Forward Dutch Students Prank Jewish Classmate With Death Camp Dorm Room
University students in the Netherlands redesigned the dorm room of a Jewish classmate with motifs from a Nazi death camp during the Holocaust, Dutch media reported. The incident at Leiden University, which was reported by the Dutch daily Volkskrant, involved members of the prestigious Minerva Society, the oldest student association in the Netherlands. Several seniors…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Jewish and Arab Birthrate About Even
The birthrate of Jewish and Arab women in Israel is about even, according to new Israeli figures. Jewish women in Israel had a birthrate of 3.11 children and Arab women had a birthrate of 3.17 children at the end of 2014, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics. The figures were released Tuesday, ahead of…
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Fast Forward Europe Envoy Trashes Holocaust Claims in West Bank Labeling Fight
Attempts to compare the European Union’s settlement labeling guidelines to the Nazi boycott of Jewish goods and stores cheapens the memory of the Holocaust, the EU envoy to Israel said. The attempt to draw parallels is a “distortion of history and a belittlement of the crimes of the Nazis and the memories of their victims,”…
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