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Fast Forward Illinois Profs Demand Reinstatement of Steven Salaita Over Anti-Israel Tweets
Executive officers at the University of Illinois called for the reinstatement of a professor whose job offer was rescinded over his anti-Israel tweets. The 41 department heads, chairs and directors in an open letter published Sunday said Acting Chancellor Barbara Wilson and President Timothy Killeen should call for the reinstatement of Steven Salaita at the…
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Fast Forward Lawmaker Wants Israel Aid Suspended Over Killings of Palestinian Teens
(JTA) — A Minnesota congresswoman called on State Department officials to investigate whether the killing of two Palestinian teenagers by Israeli soldiers requires the withholding of U.S. military aid. Rep. Betty McCollum, a Democrat, in a letter made public Monday sought the probe over whether the May 2014 deaths of Nadeem Nawara and Mohammad Daher…
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Fast Forward American Airlines Blames $20M Loss for Scrapping Philadelphia Israel Flight
American Airlines is canceling its lone route to Israel solely because it was losing money on it, the airline told JTA. “Over the last year, the route lost more than $20 million,” Casey Norton, the airline’s director of corporate communications, told JTA in an email of the Philadelphia-Tel Aviv flight. “In fact, the route has…
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Fast Forward ‘British Schindler’ To Appear on Stamp
Britain’s Royal Mail said it will issue a commemorative stamp featuring Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the “British Schindler.” The decision was in response to a campaign launched late last month by the website British jewishnews.co.uk. As of Tuesday an on-line petition had garnered nearly 106,000 signatures calling for the stamp. “Now we have consulted…
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Fast Forward BDS Rises 31% on Campus — Pro-Israel Activity Also Jumps
Both pro- and anti-Israel activity at U.S. universities increased in the 2014-2015 academic year, with groups that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel springing up on more campuses and employing new strategies. Nonetheless, there were more than twice as many pro-Israel events as anti-Israel ones on campus, according to the Israel on…
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Fast Forward Hundreds of Rabbis Sign Petition Against Iran Deal
Hundreds of United States rabbis, from all major Jewish streams, signed a letter urging members of Congress to oppose the Iran nuclear deal, writing that the hope for a good deal “is not yet realized.” The letter, co-authored by Rabbis Kalman Topp of Beth Jacob Congregation in Southern California and Yonah Bookstein of Pico Shul…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Want ‘Religious Freedom’ Discrimination Exception Reversed
More than a dozen Jewish organizations signed on to a letter urging President Barack Obama to instruct the Justice Department to reverse a legal opinion that allows religious organizations to avoid religious nondiscrimination laws in hiring. The Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, Hadassah and B’nai B’rith International were among the 130 signatories of the…
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Fast Forward White Supremacist Defends Rampage With Jewish ‘Genocide’ Rant
The white supremacist on trial for murdering three people outside Jewish institutions in suburban Kansas City said in his opening statement that he plans to prove that white people are the victims of genocide at the hands of the Jews. At his capital murder trial Monday in Olathe, Kansas, Frazier Glenn Miller said he will…
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