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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Vandalism In Holland Rises 40% To Highest Level In Decade
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The number of incidents involving anti-Semitic vandalism recorded in the Netherlands last year increased by 40 percent, to a 10-year high of 28 cases. The increase in vandalism was part of a small overall rise in anti-Semitic incidents in 2017 over 2016, the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI,…
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News Louis Farrakhan? Black Jews Say Don’t Take The Bait.
Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, asked a telling question on his Twitter page recently. “What have I done to make the Jewish people hate me?” he wrote. (The next day Farrakhan tweeted that Jews control the FBI.) What have I done to make Jewish people hate me? pic.twitter.com/2cSiLCmsQY — MINISTER FARRAKHAN…
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Fast Forward Ann Coulter Fires Off Tweetstorm At ‘Globalist’ Jews
Ann Coulter, the arch-conservative talking head who frequently complains about Jews and has white nationalist sympathies took to Twitter Thursday night to call Jews “globalists.” Her remarks came after Donald Trump referred to outgoing economic adviser Gary Cohn as a “globalist,” using a moniker that many see as an anti-Semitic slur. Boy, a lot of…
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Fast Forward French Judge Drops Hate Crime Charges Against Gang Accused Of Assaulting Jew
NICE, France (JTA) — A French judge preparing a trial of Arab teenagers who allegedly assaulted a Jewish youth outside a synagogue omitted hate crime charges from a draft indictment, a watchdog group said. The National Bureau for Vigilance Against Ant-Semitism, or BNVCA, protested in a statement on Tuesday the omission from the indictment of…
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Fast Forward Montrealers Wear Yellow Badges To Protest Jewish School Buses
A group of Montreal citizens is using square yellow badges to protest the presence of private Jewish school buses in their neighborhood, sparking outrage in the city, the Times-Colonist reported. Ginette Chartre, a representative for the protesting Montrealers, refused to stop wearing the badges even after being told they evoked the yellow stars the Nazis…
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Fast Forward British Soccer Chief Apologizes For Equating Star Of David With Swastika
The chief executive of the British Football Association landed in hot water after equating a Star of David with a swastika and “Robert Mugabe,” the Guardian reported. Martin Glenn made the offending comments when addressing the shirt pin one player wore during a match, in apparent violation of the FA’s rule prohibiting political symbols on…
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Fast Forward Amber Tamblyn Called ‘Racist’ After Tweetstorm About ‘Hasidic Man’
The actress Amber Tamblyn received a backlash of criticism on Twitter after she tweeted about nearly being run over by a “Hasidic man” in a van,” Page Six reported. Tamblyn said that on Sunday she was pushing her daughter in a stroller in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when a Hasidic man driving a van nearly ran her…
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Opinion ADL Says Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Students Disagree.
The Anti-Defamation League recently released the results of its annual anti-Semitism audit. The findings were staggering. Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States surged nearly 60% this past year, driven in part by an increase in such cases in schools and on college campuses. ADL found 1,986 cases of harassment, vandalism or physical assaults against Jews…
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