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Community Should Israeli Politicians Be Meeting With The European Far Right?
The Israeli government and the Knesset are formulating approaches to address the rise of the far-right Austrian Freedom Party and the new Polish law regarding the Holocaust. In this effort, there is a need to address the growing gap between official Israeli policy and the actions of Israeli right-wing politicians. A recent Mitvim Institute study,…
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Fast Forward YouTube Won’t Ban Neo-Nazi Group Linked To Blaze Bernstein’s Murder
YouTube refuses to take down videos made by the neo-Nazi militia group Atomwaffen, the Daily Beast reported. Atomwaffen has cells in over two-dozen states, and has been linked to (multiple murders over the past year.](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/atomwaffen-nazi-murder-bomb-plot_us_5a70825ae4b00d0de2240328) One of it’s members, Sam Woodward, has been accused of murdering Blaze Bernstein, a Jewish teenager from California. The group…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents Soared In 2017 To Highest Level In Decades, ADL Says
(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States spiked in 2017, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League. There were 1,986 acts of anti-Semitism in the U.S. last year, according to an ADL audit released Tuesday. That is more than double the total from 2015, which was 942. It’s also…
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Fast Forward Simon Wiesenthal Center Mulls Travel Advisory To Jews Going To Poland
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human rights non-profit, is mulling posting a travel advisory for Jews going to Poland in the wake of an international controversy over a Holocaust rhetoric law, the Jewish Chronicle reported. “We would take such action with great reluctance. We are not enemies of Poland,” the group said in a statement….
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Fast Forward Polish Priest Says That Truth For Jews Is Whatever’s Beneficial To Them
(JTA) — Representatives of Polish Jews complained to the state watchdog on media over a public broadcaster’s airing of an interview with a priest who said Jews have a unique understanding of the concept of truth. Henryk Zielinski, editor-in-chief of the Catholic weekly Idziemy, said this on Feb. 24 during an interview with TVP, according…
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Fast Forward Baptist College Denies It Refused To Hire Football Coach Over ‘Jewish Blood’
(JTA) — Louisiana College, a private Baptist college, denies accusations that its president refused to hire one of its alumni as a football coach due to his Jewish background. Joshua Bonadona filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the college and its president, Rick Brewer. The lawsuit alleges that Bonadona applied for a job as defensive…
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Opinion The NRA Has An Anti-Semitism Problem
Purim is right around the corner. It’s the holiday in which we commemorate a crazy, long-ago time when wealthy Jews were targeted by anti-Semites, and a vain, know-nothing ruler did nothing to stop it. Sorry, that’s this past week. First, of course, came the horrific mass-murder of 17 people, 14 of them students and five…
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Fast Forward Swastikas Carved Into Car Windows In Ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn Neighborhood
Police are investigating two swastikas carved into the passenger side windows of two cars in a heavily Hasidic neighborhood of Brooklyn, ABC7 reported. A Lexus and a Ford were found with damage late Wednesday night on a quiet street in Borough Park. The swastikas are being investigated as a possible bias crime. Contact Ari Feldman…
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