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Fast Forward Belgium Drops Case Against Cafe Owner Who Welcomed Dogs, But Not Jews
(JTA) — Prosecutors in Belgium dropped criminal complaints against a Turkish café owner who put up a sign banning Jews. A café in the town of Saint-Nicolas had displayed a sign saying dogs are welcome at his business, “but Jews are not.” The La Dernière Heure newspaper on Friday reported that the Prosecutor’s Office in…
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Fast Forward As YouTube Cracks Down On Holocaust Denial, It Deletes Anti-Semitism Researcher’s Account
As YouTube cracks down on Holocaust denial on its video platform, it has deleted the account of a prominent anti-Semitism researcher, seemingly in error, the Jewish Chronicle reported. On Wednesday, YouTube said in a press release that it would begin deleting videos from its site that “alleg[e] that a group is superior in order to…
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Fast Forward Volkswagen Funds ADL Office In Germany For Combating Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Volkswagen, the car manufacturing giant, is joining with the Anti-Defamation League to fund a Berlin-based office that will research and combat anti-Semitism in Europe. “The initiative will focus on assessing the root causes of anti-Semitism, extremism, and bigotry in society and develop programs to counter it through advocacy and education,” ADL said…
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Fast Forward Man With ‘Kill List’ Of Famous Jews Pleads Guilty To Planning Synagogue Attack
An Orange County, California man who created “kill lists” of prominent Jews was sentenced to more than two years in jail after pleading guilty to threatening two churches and a synagogue. Nicholas Rose, 28, was arrested last year after his parents told police their son wanted to “get a gun and kill some Jews,” the…
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Fast Forward Nearly Two-Thirds Of Hate Crimes In New York This Year Have Been Anti-Semitic
(JTA) – The number of hate crimes reported to the New York Police Department this year is nearly double the number reported in 2018 during the same period – and most incidents are anti-Semitic. The NYPD has received 176 hate crime complaints from Jan. 1 to May 19, constituting an 83 percent rise over the…
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Fast Forward Lebanese Parliament Speaker Tells Anti-Semitic Money-Grubbing Joke
(JTA) — The speaker of the Lebanese parliament told an anti-Semitic joke during an interview and said Israelis love their land less than the Lebanese because they stay away from the border. Nabih Berri, a leader of the pro-Hezbollah Amal movement, made the racist reference to Jews during an interview with the Al Joumhouria newspaper…
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Fast Forward Should A Historic German Church Remove An Anti-Semitic ‘Jewish Pig’ Carving From Its Facade?
You may never have come into contact with a Jewish pig. But the Germans have. Around 30 churches in Europe — mostly in Germany — have stone carvings on their facades that depict the medieval folk-art image of the judensau: the “Jewish pig,” an anti-Semitic image that features Jews touching and suckling a large pig….
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Fast Forward Hasidic Jews In Staten Island Remove Eruv After Anti-Semitic Backlash
(JTA) — An eruv, or symbolic boundary for Sabbath-observant Jews, was removed from a neighborhood on Staten Island. The eruv had been put up on utility poles around the neighborhood by a group of Hasidic Orthodox Jewish residents. They removed it after other residents put up lawn signs expressing opposition to an influx or religious…
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