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Fast Forward Second CNN Staff Member Found Making Anti-Semitic Tweets
(JTA) — A second CNN staff member has apologized for tweets offensive to the Jewish community. Karim Farid, who has a digital tech show on CNN Arabic, came under fire Friday for Arabic tweets from 2011 where he tweeted “I love you Hitler,” and praised the Nazi leader for “his determination to reach his goal.”…
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The Schmooze Barbra Streisand’s Forthcoming Memoir Will Focus On Anti-Semitism: ‘It’s Ever-Present’
(JTA) — Barbra Streisand has been “writing a lot” about modern anti-Semitism in her memoir, which she has been working on for years. “It’s an extremely complex topic, and there’s not enough room in this interview to adequately cover it,” the show business icon said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune last week. “So I’ll just…
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Fast Forward Housing Developers Sue New York Officials For Trying To Keep Out Hasidic Jews
(JTA) — The developers of a housing project in southeastern New York have sued public officials for trying to prevent the development to keep Hasidic Jews from moving in. The lawsuit filed earlier this month by The Greens at Chester developers in federal court in White Plains, New York alleges that town and county residents…
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Opinion Is Anti-Semitism Really At Unprecedented Levels In The US? Not According To Data
On Sunday, a Jewish man standing outside a synagogue was shot in the leg in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. It was only the latest in a string of anti-Semitic attacks this year. These attacks have brought in their wake headlines declaring “a spike in hate crimes” and “increased anti-Semitic attacks…
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Fast Forward CNN Photo Editor Resigns Over Anti-Semitic Tweets
(JTA) — A photo editor who began working at CNN in January resigned after some anti-Semitic tweets he made in 2011 were discovered. Mohammed Elshamy, a 25-year-old former photojournalist with the Anadolu news agency, quit Thursday night after an employee of Israel’s Government Press Office flagged on Twitter some of the anti-Semitic statement by Elshamy,…
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Fast Forward Iowa Man Charged With Making Anti-Semitic Threats To Major Jewish Group
(JTA) — An Iowa man was arrested for allegedly threatening a New York-based Jewish organization by phone and email. Garrett Kelsey, 31, of Cedar Rapids, was charged Tuesday in an Iowa courtroom with one count of transmitting threats to injure a person across state lines, which carries a maximum five-year sentence. Kelsey, whose Facebook page…
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Fast Forward ‘The Holocaust Is A Lie’ Graffiti Found On Busy California Bridge
Graffiti calling the Holocaust a “a lie” was found on a bridge in southern California, the Jewish Journal reported. “Why have Jews been kicked out of 109 countries?” and “Nationalism or extinction” were written in Santa Monica on the corner of Idaho Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway, and the “Holocaust is a lie” was found…
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Fast Forward Jews Are The Most Targeted Minority Group In Canada, Study Shows
MONTREAL (JTA)—For the third straight year, Canadian Jews in 2018 remained the most targeted minority group for police-reported hate-crimes throughout the country. The data was released on Monday by Statistics Canada. But the good news is that incidents dropped by four percent from 360 in 2017 to 345 in 2018, while other minorities saw more…
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