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Fast Forward Matisyahu Cancellation Sparks Protests From Jews
Jewish groups protested on Monday after a Spanish reggae festival canceled a concert by an American Jewish musician when he failed to reply to a demand to clarify his position on Palestinian statehood. Matisyahu, who fuses reggae, hip-hop and rock with Jewish influences in his songs, had been due to perform next Saturday at the…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Hunger Striker Rejects Israel Exile Demand
Lawyers for a Palestinian in the ninth week of a hunger strike against his detention without trial took his case on Monday to Israel’s Supreme Court, where a new offer to free him in exchange for exile was rebuffed. The condition of Islamic Jihad activist Mohammed Allan, who is unconscious in an Israeli hospital, is…
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Fast Forward Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond Dies at 75
U.S. civil rights leader and former head of the NAACP Julian Bond, who emerged as one of the pre-eminent student activists in America’s turbulent 1960s, died on Saturday aged 75. Bond died in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a statement, without giving the cause of death. Bond was the…
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Fast Forward Slain American Hostage Kayla Mueller Raped by ISIS Leader
Kayla Mueller, the U.S. aid worker killed this year while being held hostage by Islamic State militants, was raped repeatedly by the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, while in captivity in Syria, U.S. officials said on Friday. Her parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, were told by U.S. government officials that their daughter had been raped…
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Fast Forward Jewish Lord Appears in Court To Face Child Abuse Charges
An aging and infirm member of Britain’s House of Lords finally appeared in court on Friday over historical child sex abuse allegations, despite his lawyers repeatedly arguing he was too ill to attend. Lord Greville Janner, 87, a former Labor member of parliament and ex-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, is accused…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Hunger-Striker Loses Consciousness
A Palestinian detainee in the ninth week of his hunger strike fell unconscious at an Israeli hospital on Friday in a case that could test Israel’s new force-feeding law. Mohammed Allan, 31, an Islamic Jihad activist, began the strike after his detention without trial in November. Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon said he had been put…
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Fast Forward Police Keep Peace at Controversial Paris ‘Tel Aviv Beach’
Hundreds of police deployed in the heart of Paris on Thursday to monitor a celebration of Tel Aviv and a nearby rally against it staged by pro-Gaza demonstrators during a beach festival on the banks of the Seine river. Paris’ decision to fete the Israeli city as “Tel Aviv on Seine” for a day sparked…
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Fast Forward Israel in Talks With Jordan Over New Eilat Airport
Israel is in talks to resolve Jordan’s misgivings about potential safety risks posed by the construction of a new Israeli airport near their border, the Israeli transport minister said on Thursday. Slated to open by the end of 2016, the airport at Timna, outside the Israeli resort of Eilat, will be some 10 km (6…
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