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Fast Forward Australia Columnist Mike Carlton Quits Over Israel ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Remark
A controversial columnist for a major Australian newspaper resigned after he was exposed sending “anti-Semitic” emails and tweets to critics. Mike Carlton, a longstanding columnist for Saturday’s edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, resigned “on the spot” Tuesday when management suspended him after he called one reader a “Jewish bigot” and told others to “f—k…
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Fast Forward Fidel Castro Slams Israel for ‘Palestinian Holocaust’ in Gaza
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro described Israel’s offensive in Gaza as a “new, repugnant form of fascism.” Castro made his comments in a column published Tuesday in the Granma newspaper, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, titled “Palestinian Holocaust in Gaza. ” “Why does the government of this country…
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Fast Forward London Theater Kills Fest Over Israel Funding
A London theater has cancelled plans to host a Jewish film festival this year, citing objections to the festival’s Israeli government funding. Managers at the Tricycle Theatre, which the Independent newspaper described as the UK Jewish Film Festival’s “main venue,” told the Independent that because the festival was partly funded by the Israeli Embassy, doing…
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Fast Forward Sweden Pol Quits Over ‘Jewish Pigs’ Facebook Rant
A Swedish politician quit his campaign after coming under attack for a Facebook post saying “our brothers and sisters in Palestine are slaughtered by the Jewish pigs.” In his Facebook post on August 2, Omar Omeirat, a Social Democrat candidate for the town council of Filipstad in central Sweden, also called on Allah to “strengthen…
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Fast Forward After 5 Attacks, Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs Ponders Future
After the latest attack on his home, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs sat down on his couch, picked up the phone and made three calls. A chief rabbi of the Netherlands, Jacobs first phoned police and a Jewish community leader to tell them that late on the night of July 17, just over a week after the…
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Fast Forward London Times Rejects Elie Wiesel Anti-Hamas ‘Child Sacrifice’ Ad
The London Times refused to run an ad featuring Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel speaking out against Hamas’ use of children as human shields. The ad sponsored by The Values Network, which was founded by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, has run in The New York Times, Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, among other U.S….
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Fast Forward Montreal Gives the Cold Shoulder to Jewish Defense League Revival Attempt
Efforts to revive the Jewish Defense League in Montreal in the wake of a Gaza conflict-related surge in anti-Semitic incidents have gotten the cold shoulder from the city’s Jewish community. Rabbi Reuben Poupko of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the Jewish community’s official advocacy body, called the group “marginal” and “superfluous.” The JDL…
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Fast Forward U.S. Attitudes Towards Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Haven’t Changed Since 2002
Americans’ attitudes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are little changed from 2002, a new Gallup poll found. The poll published Tuesday and conducted Aug. 2-3 found that Americans’ views of the conflict have changed little over the past 10 days — or the past 12 years. Respondents are about evenly divided over whether Israel’s actions in…
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