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Fast Forward Muslim Protesters Decry ‘Jewish Murderers’ in Holland
Dozens of people chanted anti-Semitic slogans during riots that broke out in a predominantly-Muslim neighborhood of The Hague over the slaying of a suspect by police. More than 100 people chanted about “Jewish murderers” on Thursday night in the Schilderswijk, a neighborhood where a handful of Jews live in a Jewish-owned enclave surrounded by project…
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Fast Forward Episcopal Bishops Overwhelmingly Reject Divestment
The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops overwhelmingly rejected a motion to divest from company doing business with Israel in the West Bank. The body, meeting at the church’s General Convention, this year taking place in Salt Lake City, on Thursday rejected in a voice vote the proposal to divest from businesses that have operations in…
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Fast Forward Top Rabbi Arrested on Rape Charge as He Tries To Flee
Israeli police officers arrested at Ben Gurion Airport a prominent rabbi who sought to leave the country amid accusations that he committed rape and other sex crimes. The rabbi, whose name was not published in Israeli media but was identified as a yeshiva head from the Safed area who belongs to Modern-Orthodox Zionist circles, was…
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Fast Forward London School Hit With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
Unidentified individuals scrawled anti-Semitic pejoratives at a Jewish elementary school in London. The graffiti reading “F—- the Jews” was discovered this week at the Simon Marks primary school in the east London borough of Hackney, the Jewish News of London reported Wednesday. A spokesman for the Jewish volunteer watch group Shomrim said: “It’s disturbing. They…
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Fast Forward Polish Art Museum Features Naked Tag Game in Gas Chamber
(JTA) – A Polish art museum has resumed an art installation featuring a video of naked men and women playing tag in a gas chamber, despite protests by Jews. This is the second time the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow has displayed the installation, called “Game of Tag.” The same video also was displayed…
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Fast Forward Britain Cabinet Minister: We Oppose BDS
Britain’s cabinet minister for the Middle East sought to reassure Israeli politicians of his government’s opposition to boycotts against Israel. “Many people have been concerned by recent media coverage about the United Kingdom links to the BDS movement,” Minister Tobias Ellwood said last week at a conference on Israeli-British ties, speaking of the campaign for…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis emphasizes Jewish-Christian Commonalities
Pope Francis emphasized commonalities between Judaism and Christianity in a meeting with members of the International Council of Christians and Jews. “Christians, all Christians, have Jewish roots,” the pope said Tuesday at the Vatican. “Both faith traditions find their foundation in the one God, the God of the covenant, who reveals himself through his word….
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Fast Forward Palestinians March on Anniversary of Abu Khdeir Lynching
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of Palestinians marched in eastern Jerusalem to mark one year since the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian kidnapped and burned alive by Jews in the wake of the kidnapping and murder last June of three Israeli teens. The march took place Thursday afternoon in the Shuafat neighborhood of eastern…
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