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Fast Forward Dutch Editor Warns Refugees Could Import Anti-Semitism
The editor of the Netherlands’ largest Jewish paper warned against applying an emotion-based policy on Arab refugees, whom she said could import anti-Semitism and should be settled in Gulf States. Esther Voet, editor-in-chief of the Nieuw Israelitisch Weekblad and the previous director of CIDI, Dutch Jewry’s main lobby group, made the plea in an op-ed…
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Fast Forward Far-Right Czech Leader Wants Migrants Sent to Terezin Concentration Camp
Police in the Czech Republic are investigating comments made on Facebook by an extremist politician calling for refugees to be placed in Terezin, the former Nazi concentration camp. Adam Bartos, the leader of the fringe yet vocal far-right nationalist National Democracy Party, published the comments about the site, located in the central European country, on…
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Fast Forward Jewish 9/11 Hero and Family Killed in Catskills Car Crash
A Jewish 9/11 first responder, his wife and his daughter’s fiance have been killed in a car crash in the Catskills. Morris Faitelewicz, 58; his wife, Beth, 54; and their future son-in-law Yehuda Bayme, 31, died Monday when their SUV rolled over several times on Route 17 in Sullivan County in upstate New York. The…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Plan To Scrap Oslo Accords — Blame Israeli Intransigence
The PLO said it was planning to back out of the Oslo Accords and other agreements signed with Israel. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will tell the United Nations General Assembly at its meeting later this month that it is not bound by the Oslo Accords since Israel has not abided by them, PLO Executive…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Gay Pride Stabber Charged With Murder
The haredi Orthodox man who stabbed six marchers at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, leaving a 16-year-old girl dead, was charged with murder. Yishai Schlissel, 39, was charged Monday in Jerusalem District Court on one count of premeditated murder in the death of Shira Banki along with six counts of attempted murder and aggravated assault….
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Fast Forward Senior IDF Official Calls West Bank Arson Attack ‘Jewish Terror’
A senior IDF officer said there is no doubt that Jews firebombed a West Bank Palestinian home that left an 18-month baby and his parents dead. “We know unequivocally that this is an act of Jewish terror,” the officer told reporters Tuesday in a briefing, Israeli media reported. “All the rumor and speculation being spread…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Nationalists Destroy Hasidic Pilgrimage Tent City
Ukrainian nationalists destroyed a tent city erected by Hasidic Jews in Uman, ahead of the annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage. “On Shabbat, when they knew we wouldn’t be able to respond or activate the communication device, they simply knocked down the fence, pushed the light poles and security cameras and caused damage estimated at half a…
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Fast Forward 100,000 Sign British Petition Demanding Benjamin Netanyahu’s Arrest
A petition calling for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits Britain in September has reached more than 100,000 signatures and must be considered for debate in Parliament. The online petition was uploaded on Aug. 7 to the United Kingdom Parliament’s official website. “Under international law he should be arrested for…
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