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Fast Forward E.U. May Sanction Israel Over Settlements, Says Leaked Report
Sanctions may be imposed on Israel for its increased settlement in the eastern part of Jerusalem, a leaked European Union report warns. The report, as described by the Guardian on Friday, blames Israeli settlement in eastern Jerusalem for a “vicious cycle of violence … increasingly threatening the viability of the two-state solution.” It said Jerusalem…
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Fast Forward J Street Cheers U.S. Rebuke of Benjamin Netanyahu
J Street leaders said they would back the Obama administration as it reconsiders how it deals with Israel in international arenas. Jeremy Ben-Ami, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group’s president, lauded the new approach at the outset of its annual conference Saturday in Washington. “We are very glad to hear the Obama administration is…
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Fast Forward Finns Mark 25 Years of Aiding Russian Aliyah
Christian Zionists in Finland celebrated the 25th anniversary since their community began helping Russian-speaking Jews immigrate to Israel, or make aliyah. The commemoration took place earlier this month, with the arrival to Helsinki of the second bus this year of Russian-speaking Jews who came from St. Petersburg to make aliyah through what is known as…
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Fast Forward Australian Premier Tony Abbott Sorry for ‘Goebbels’ Remark
Australia’s prime minister publicly apologized for comparing the country’s opposition leader to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. On Thursday, Tony Abbott said in a parliament meeting that Labor Party leader Bill Shorten was the “Dr. Goebbels of economic policy.” Abbott apologized on a radio interview on Friday. “I accept that in the context of history…
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Fast Forward Israel Says Alberto Nisman Slain for Exposing ‘Truth’ on Iran
Israel’s Agriculture Minister blamed Iran for two terrorist attacks in Argentina in the ’90s and said prosecutor Alberto Nisman died because he tried to reveal the truth on the matter. Yair Shamir reiterated Israel’s position on the attacks on Thursday, when he visited the Argentine capital as the head of a delegation to commemorate the…
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Fast Forward South Africa Protest Against Cecil Rhodes Stokes Anti-Semitism
Protests by black students of a statue honoring British colonizer Cecil Rhodes provoked tensions with Jewish students by invoking swastikas and other Nazi imagery. Members of the student protest group Black Monday hung posters bearing pictures of Adolf Hitler and swastikas on the University of Cape Town’s Jameson Hall as part of a campaign to…
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Fast Forward Hirsi Ali May Convert to Judaism
Controversial Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali said that she had previously tried to convert to Judaism and suggested that she might attempt to do so again in the future. At a gathering hosted by Israeli Consul General of New York Ido Aharoni last Thursday, Ali told the crowd that “One day I hope to convert…
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Fast Forward White House Chief of Staff Headlines J Street
Denis McDonough, the White House chief of staff, will headline the annual J Street conference, at a time of U.S.-Israel tensions over the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group’s signature issue, the two-state solution. J Street announced McDonough as its speaker Thursday, three days before the start of the conference, which is expected to attract…
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