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Fast Forward Tunisia Synagogue Damaged in Anti-Semitic Attack
A synagogue in Tunisia was vandalized in what a human rights activist and some Jews described as an anti-Semitic attack. The Beith El synagogue in Sfax, located 150 miles south of the capital Tunis, was ransacked on April 30 by unidentified individuals who littered the floor with prayer books and tallitot, or Jewish prayer shawls,…
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Fast Forward French Journalist Compares Toulouse Rampage to Israel Army Killings
Editors of a French television talk show censored a panelist’s comparison between the murder of Jewish children in Toulouse to the actions of the Israeli army. Aymeric Caron, a left-wing French journalist, made the comparison on April 26 as a member of a panel of interviewers of France 2’s show “On n’est Pas Couche” (“We’re…
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Fast Forward Tennessee Lawmaker Stacey Campfield Apologizes for Holocaust Obamacare Link
A Tennessee state senator said he regrets a blog post that compares signups for Obamacare to Nazi “‘train rides’ for Jews in the 40s.” “Democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign ups for Obamacare is like Germans bragging about the number of mandatory (sic) sign ups for “train rides” for Jews in the 40s,”…
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Fast Forward California School Scraps ‘Did Holocaust Happen’ Essay
A California school district said it will rewrite an eighth-grade assignment that asked students to argue whether or not the Holocaust happened. The writing assignment for students in the Rialto Unified School District asked students to write an argumentative essay about the Holocaust in which they must explain “whether or not you believe this was…
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Fast Forward Gary Becker, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist, Dies at 83
Gary Becker, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, has died. Becker, who won the Nobel in economic sciences in 1992, died Saturday in Chicago. He was 83. A professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, Becker also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was known for applying economic analysis to human behavior and…
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Fast Forward Martin Indyk Quitting as Peace Mediator — Blames ‘Stubborn’ Israel for Talks Collapse
Martin Indyk, U.S. special envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, reportedly will resign from his position following the recent failure of the U.S.-backed talks. The Israeli daily Haaretz reported Sunday that Indyk may resign in light of President Obama’s intention to suspend U.S. involvement in seeking a negotiated end to the conflict, citing unnamed Israeli…
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Fast Forward Police Battle Rioters at Belgium ‘Anti-Semite Summit’
Belgian police used a water cannon to disperse a crowd of people that gathered for an anti-Semitic event. Some 500 people gathered in front of a bookstore in the Anderlecht municipality of Brussels on Sunday for the event, that Jewish groups called a “summit meeting for anti-Semites.” No one was arrested in the standoff, which…
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Fast Forward British ‘Bloody Jew’ Lawmaker Quits in Scandal
A British lawmaker who was caught on camera describing an Israeli soldier as a “bloody Jew” resigned in the wake of a corruption scandal. Patrick Mercer, of the Conservative Party, stepped down last week in advance of a report on the corruption probe that would have seem him suspended from Parliament for six months. Mercer…
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