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Fast Forward Gaza Commemoration for Arafat Canceled Following Attacks on Fatah Leaders
A commemoration rally in Gaza for the late Palestinian Fatah party leader Yasser Arafat was canceled after attacks on Fatah leaders there. The event set for Tuesday was canceled on Sunday, two days after the homes and cars of Fatah leaders were blown up, as well as the stage where the commemoration was to take…
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Music Court Frees 138 Asylum Seekers in Israel
Israel will release 138 Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers who the nation’s Supreme Court ruled were being held illegally. Thursday’s ruling was in response to a petition filed by the nonprofit organization The Hotline for Refugees and Migrants. Following the decision, the Population and Immigration Authority said that the inmates would be released by Tuesday…
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Fast Forward Dutch Protestant Church Pulls Out of Kristallnacht Event Over Sponsors
A senior official from the Dutch Protestant Church pulled out of a Holocaust memorial event co-organized by Socialists who commemorated a Hamas leader. Arjan Plaisier, secretary of the PKN umbrella of Dutch Protestant churches, announced Friday that he would neither be speaking nor attending the Kristallnacht commemoration event organized by the Platform Against Racism and…
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Music Israeli Minister Amir Peretz Quits Over 2015 Budget
Amir Peretz, Israel’s environmental protection minister, resigned from the government over the proposed 2015 budget. Peretz, of the centrist Hatnua party that is part of the government coalition, announced he was stepping down at the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday. His resignation goes into effect on Tuesday. Saying the budget does not help the poorest…
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Music Arab-Israelis Riot Over Killing of 22-Year-Old by Israel Police
Rioting continued in the Arab-Israeli town of Kfar Kana and in other Arab communities following the killing of a resident by an Israel Police officer. In the face of the riots, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to strip the citizenship of those who call for the destruction of the state of Israel. At least 20…
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Fast Forward Austria’s National Railway Opens Exhibit About Its Holocaust Complicity
Austria’s national railway company opened an exhibition at the European Parliament about the firm’s complicity in the Holocaust. Titled “The Suppressed Years,” the exhibition opened last week at a ceremony attended by members of the European Parliament, European Jewish Congress staff and Austrian Federal Railways executives, including the firm’s CEO, Christian Kern. “When we first…
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Fast Forward Warsaw Man Arrested for Alleged Anti-Semitic Assault on 78-Year-Old
Police in Warsaw arrested a man for allegedly assaulting a 78-year-old man while shouting anti-Semitic insults. The suspect, identified in Polish media as a 30-year-old man whose first name is Pawel, hit the victim outside a store on Friday, causing him injuries that required his hospitalization. Police found Pawel L., as the news website fakt.pl…
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Fast Forward Venezuela To Give 1,000 Palestinians Free University Education
At least 1,000 Palestinians will receive a free university education in Venezuela. The president of the Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, welcomed 119 Palestinian students who will be trained in the field of medicine through the new Yasser Arafat Scholarship Program, and announced the expansion of the program. “We will train at least 1,000 doctors,…
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