Luke Tress
By Luke Tress
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Fast Forward NYC deputy mayor charges Washington Post with antisemitism
He said the newspaper's article on Jewish billionaires includes an 'all too familiar antisemitic trope' about Jewish wealth and power
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Fast Forward CUNY college cancels Hillel Yom HaZikaron event due to protests
Kingsborough Community College says it canceled Jewish club’s event out of an ‘abundance of caution’; Jewish professor ‘saddened and dismayed’ by the decision
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Fast Forward Jamaal Bowman says AIPAC funders want to ‘destroy our democracy’ in debate with primary challenger George Latimer
Latimer also took shots at Bowman, accusing him of taking a one-sided 'anti-Israel approach.'
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Fast Forward 16 Republican senators demand IRS investigate fiscal sponsor of Students for Justice in Palestine
Wespac, based in suburban New York City, also sponsors other pro-Palestinian groups
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Fast Forward 3 people, including local rabbi and developer Reuven Kahane, arrested in altercation at pro-Palestinian protest
Kahane is a relative of Meir Kahane, an extremist rabbi from New York who led the Jewish Defense League and was later barred from the Israeli Knesset for racism.
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Fast Forward Next up for congressional antisemitism hearings: K-12 public schools
At a hearing on Wednesday, David Banks, chancellor of New York City’s public school system, will testify at the Capitol, as will the chiefs of public school districts in Montgomery County and Berkeley
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Fast Forward More than 25% of arrested Columbia protesters were not connected to the university, police say
Mayor Eric Adams cited the alleged presence of “outside agitators” as a reason for ordering the NYPD to clear out Hamilton Hall after pro-Palestinian protesters took it over
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Fast Forward Police raid Columbia University building occupied by anti-Israel protesters, arresting dozens
The dramatic crackdown marked the second time that Columbia’s president asked the NYPD to intervene against the protesters
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Fast Forward New poll: 13% of voters who switched support from Biden cite his Gaza policy
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