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Fast Forward Charleston Shooter Manifesto Calls To ‘Destroy Jewish Identity’
The South Carolina church shooter said in a racial manifesto that the Jewish “problem” would be solved “if we could somehow destroy the Jewish identity.” Dylann Roof, who entered a Charleston, South Carolina church and killed nine black worshippers last week, published what is believed to be his racial manifesto on a website that is…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Stabs Israeli Policeman in Jerusalem
A Palestinian man stabbed and seriously wounded an Israeli Border Police officer in Jerusalem. The Palestinian stabbed the officer outside the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday morning. The officer shot and seriously injured his assailant before collapsing, according to Israeli news reports. The attacker stabbed the officer in the neck…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Holocaust Memorial Defaced With Swastika
A Holocaust monument in Ukraine was vandalized with a red swastika that the perpetrators painted over a Star of David symbol. The vandalism in Nikopol, an eastern Ukrainian city located 60 miles from Dnepropetrovsk, occurred on June 16, according to a report Tuesday by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine. Alexander Taratuta, who heads…
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Fast Forward Buenos Aires Remembers AMIA Attack in Subway Display
The Argentine capital opened up a permanent display at a subway station that it intends to rename in memory of victims of the 1994 AMIA terrorist attack on local Jews. The commemorative display at the Pasteur subway station was unveiled Friday by the municipality and the SBASE metro company. City delegates will vote next month…
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Fast Forward Michael Douglas Credits Son and Dad at Genesis Ceremony
Actor Michael Douglas credited his son and celebrity father for helping him reconnect to Judaism as he accepted the Genesis Prize, “the Jewish Nobel,” in Jerusalem. Douglas, an Academy Award winner, accepted the $1 million award on Thursday night for his commitment to Jewish values and the Jewish people. His wife, the actress Catherine Zeta-Jones,…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Plan ICC Israel Document Dump Next Week
Palestinian leaders plan to submit their first file against Israel to the International Criminal Court next week. The file, which which will list Israel’s alleged violations of international law, will be delivered on June 25, a Palestinian Foreign Ministry official, Ammar Hijazi, said Thursday in Ramallah, I24 News reported. The file to be submitted to…
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Fast Forward Cologne Agrees to Host Critical Exhibit on Israeli Troops
The German city of Cologne has reversed course and said it will host an exhibit by an Israeli organization that accuses Israeli soldiers of mistreating Palestinians. The city had planned to show the Breaking the Silence exhibit this fall during a week of events marking 50 years of diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany. But…
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Fast Forward Extremists Arrested for Attack on Famed Church of Loaves and Fishes
An arson attack on Thursday gutted part of a church at the traditional site of what Christianity reveres as Jesus’s miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, the Israeli fire brigade said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service to launch a top-priority…
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