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Since gaining international attention in 2010 with the release of nearly 100,000 classified logs of the war in Iraq, Wikileaks — often through the actions of its founder Julian Assange — has repeatedly come under fire for anti-Semitism. The organization, which routinely publishes large caches of confidential or otherwise private emails, cables and government documents,…
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Fast Forward Belarus President Raps Jewish Governor for Not Keeping Jews ‘Under Control’
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko criticized a Jewish regional governor for not keeping the country’s Jewish population “under control.” In a three-hour televised address on Wednesday, Lukashenko called out Semyon Shapiro, governor of the Minsk region, for not chastising Yuri Zisser, the Jewish head of the Tut.by website. Tut.by has criticized Lukashenko’s tax on those who…
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A Russian-born Jewish lawyer who had been sitting in a prison hospital in Belarus was released from a penal colony yesterday after a lengthy guessing game about his fate and the reasons for his arrest. Emanuel Zeltser, who moved to America during the Soviet Jewry movement, had been sentenced to three years in prison last…
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