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Fast Forward French Town Ordered To Yank ‘Terrorist’ Plaque
A Paris suburb must remove a plaque honoring a convicted Palestinian terrorist, a French judge ruled. Municipal authorities in Bezons were ordered to take down the plaque for Ihrima Majdi Al Rimawi, who was convicted in the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi in Jerusalem. The judge told the Communist Party-dominated Bezons Council…
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Fast Forward British Battle Israel Boycott With Holiday Food Giveaway
More than 1,000 people in Great Britain donated food and other goods made in Israel to homeless shelters. IsrAction Day, which was held Sunday, called on shoppers to purchase food and goods made in Israel to counter boycott initiatives, and then to donate them. The initiative was organized by Sussex Friends of Israel in Brighton…
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Fast Forward Hebrew U. Closes for Christmas in First
In a first, Hebrew University will give its students the day off on Christmas. There will be no classes on Thursday, Dec. 25, a new vacation day on the university calendar. The students also had off on Sunday for Hanukkah. The university also has declared a vacation day for and placed on its institutional calendar…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Vows To Shun Israel If U.N. Moves Fail
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he will stop dealing with the Israeli government if the U.N. Security Council does not pass the Palestinian state draft resolution. “In case of failure, we will no more deal with the Israeli government, which will then be obliged to assume its responsibilities as an occupier,” Abbas told reporters…
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Fast Forward London School Vandalized Twice with Swastikas
(JTA) — A London school was daubed twice with swastikas in separate incidents within a week. Police are investigating the vandalism discovered Monday at the Jubilee Primary School in the Hackney borough’s Stoke Newington neighborhood, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Hackney has a large Orthodox Jewish population and is near the heavily haredi Orthodox neighborhood of…
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Fast Forward Bullet Fired Through Paris Synagogue Window
A bullet fired from an air gun crashed through a window of a Paris synagogue’s office. The rabbi and his assistant were in the David Ben Ichay Synagogue in Belleville, in the northeastern section of the French capital, when the bullet was fired on Monday night. French police reportedly are searching for two suspects who…
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Fast Forward Campaign Targets Israeli Tourists in Argentina Town of Bariloche
A campaign against Israeli backpackers has been launched in the Patagonian region of Argentina, where Israelis make up about 10 percent of the lucrative tourist trade. Posters appeared Monday in the city of Bariloche, a major tourism center located in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in which most of the stores have signs in…
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Fast Forward Germany Pays $2.6M to Neo-Nazi Victims
The German government has paid some $2.6 million to victims of neo-Nazi violence, including more than $1.2 million to victims of the National Socialist Underground neo-Nazi cell discovered in 2011. The compensation payments, issued to hundreds of victims since 2007, were first reported on Sunday by the German news weekly Focus, according to the French…
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