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The Schmooze Chelsea Clinton Goes To Bat For Jews Over Farrakhan’s ‘Termites’ Comparison
Chelsea Clinton has spoken: on the topic of termites, Jews are not a fitting comparison. It’s a low bar, but we all got here together. Clinton spoke up on Twitter in defense of Jews in response to a video of Louis Farrkhan speaking at a recent rally in which he seems to compare Jews to…
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Fast Forward Jewish Couple In Belgium Threatened With Gun
(JTA) — A Jewish woman whose family has endured months of anti-Semitic intimidation in Belgium said a man pointed a gun at her outside her home. The woman, identified in the Belgian media only as Nicole, told the SudPresse media group that the incident happened on Oct. 9 outside their home in Marchienne-au-Pont, a suburb…
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Fast Forward Man Charged With Hate Crime After Orthodox Jew Beaten In Brooklyn
A man was been charged on Sunday with a hate crime in connection to the beating of an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn, NBC New York reported. Police said they found Farrukh Afzal of Staten Island beating 62-year-old Lipa Schwartz in the Boro Park neighborhood. Afzal was arrested and charged with assault as a hate…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic And Racist KKK Fliers Dropped In New Jersey Community
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic and racist fliers supporting the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in the New Jersey community of Cherry Hill. The fliers were placed in Ziplock bags and weighed down with rice. Some featured a picture of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Others used the image of a black man on trial before a Jewish…
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Fast Forward Chelsea Soccer Club To Take Anti-Semitic Chanters On Tour Auschwitz
(JTA) — Chelsea, the British soccer club, is planning to send fans who are caught chanting anti-Semitic songs on a tour of the former death camp of Auschwitz instead of punishing them. The team’s owner, Roman Abramovich, who is Jewish, has spearheaded a new initiative to combat anti-Semitism, according to the report about he plan…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fliers Blaming Jews For Kavanaugh Allegations Found In Iowa
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic flyers that blame Jews for the sexual assault allegations against newly sworn-in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh were hung on the doors of Iowa organizations. The hate flyers discovered on Monday are the same ones posted on at least four college campuses across the country. The flyers were posted on the doors…
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Fast Forward California Man Charged With Setting Fire, Drawing Devil Outside Synagogue
A California man faces charges of vandalism and arson after setting a small fire outside a local congregation and drawing a devil on its walkway, the Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday. Police were alerted of a person, later identified as Brett Allen Bisnett, loitering around Congregation Beth Shalom in Modesto on Monday evening. Bisnett, who told…
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Fast Forward Flyers At Three Universities Blame Jews For Kavanaugh Assault Allegations
(JTA) — A flyer blaming Jews for the sexual assault allegations against newly sworn-in Justice Brett Kavanaugh were posted on the University of California, Davis campus. The flyers discovered on Monday read: “Every time some Anti-White, Anti-American, Anti-freedom event takes place, you look at it, and it’s Jews behind it.” The flyer shows an image…
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