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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel’s Childhood Home In Romania Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Graffiti
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals spray painted offensive graffiti on the external walls of a museum for Elie Wiesel in Romania, where he was also born, in what police said was an anti-Semitic incident. The florescent pink graffiti that was painted on the Memorial House Elie Wiesel in Sighet in eastern Romania read “public toilet” and…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Says He Respects Jewish Affection For Israel
(JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn said he respects the affinity many Jewish feel for Israel and appealed to critics to resolve differences over his Labour Party’s policy on anti-Semitism that has drawn fire. Critics of the policy say it downplays hostility to Jews expressed as criticism of Israel. “I fully understand and respect the strong affection…
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Fast Forward Pope Benedict Accused Of Anti-Semitism Following Jewish-Catholic Article
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, head of the Roman Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013, is being accused of harboring anti-Semitism views after publishing a controversial essay in a German-language theological journal, Religion News Service reported. In an essayy for Communio, on Jewish-Catholic relations, Benedict denied the Catholic Church ever adopted “supersessionism,” the theological belief that…
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Fast Forward Billboards Erected With Peaceful Message After Vandalism Of Indiana Synagogue
(JTA) — Billboards were erected in support of an Indiana synagogue that was targeted with anti-Semitic graffiti. The billboard’s message is “LOVE” with a Star of David inside the “O.” “We wanted to do something,” Chris Iverson, vice president and general manager of Lamar Advertising, told WISH-TV. “We just wanted to put a positive message…
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Opinion I’m A British Jew. Jeremy Corbyn Is Not A Threat To Us.
Last week, the three Jewish newspapers in Britain made a point of publishing the same front page editorial to highlight the “existential threat to Jewish life” that a Jeremy Corbyn-led government would pose to British Jews. I am a life-long Labour supporter, a 52-year-old British Jew, born and bred in the outer suburbs of London…
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Fast Forward Activist Releases Wikileaks DMs, Including Anti-Semitic Messages
Freedom of information activist Emma Best has published over 11,000 private Twitter messages between WikiLeaks and its supporters, which includes anti-Semitic messages sent from the WikiLeaks account, Vice reports. The messages come from a group chat called “Wikileaks +10,” which indicates the number of supporters in the chat. In it, Wikileaks and the other accounts…
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Opinion Jeremy Corbyn Purports To Defend Minorities. What About Jews?
Since Jews are so notoriously argumentative and Jewish communities notoriously fractious, the joke is that for every two Jews you need three synagogues. So a unified statement from a community citing an “existential threat” to Jewish life in a Western democracy is really news. Even in Britain, a community once noted for its surprising unity…
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Opinion Tolerating Anti-Semitism Hurts The Palestinian Cause
The British Labour Party has enjoyed a massive surge in membership and its best electoral success in decades under Jeremy Corbyn, the maverick socialist who rose from obscurity to capture its leadership in 2015. But since Corbyn’s election, Labour has been marred by an anti-Semitism problem that is now tearing the party apart. An anti-Semitic…
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