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The Schmooze I’m Still Drawing, Charlie
Lior Zaltzman As a cartoonist, I’ve often been scared to breach political topics in an overt way. My fear centers on the reactions I might get from family and friends, or from internet trolls — but never on any concern for my life. That reality has now changed. Can’t sleep tonight, thoughts with my French…
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News British Soccer Owner Fined $78K for ‘Jews Chase Money’ Jibe
The English Football Association banned the owner of a British soccer club from all soccer-related activities for six weeks over anti-Semitic and racist slurs. Dave Whelan, who owns the Wigan Athletic Football Club near Manchester, was also fined $78,000 and ordered to participate in an educational program run by the Football Association in the decision…
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Opinion Does Home Invasion Signal Beginning of End for French ‘Israelites’?
It is thanks to the sort of crime usually relegated to local police blotters that France will need to reflect, in 2015, on the sort of republic it wishes to be. In early December 2014, three young thugs broke into a young couple’s apartment in the Parisian suburb of Créteil, tied up the couple, ransacked…
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Fast Forward Britain Makes Progress in Anti-Semitism Fight
A new United Kingdom government report showed significant progress being made in combating anti-Semitism. The “Government Action on Anti-Semitism” report, published Monday by the Department for Communities and Local Government, noted advances despite a surge of incidents this summer during Israel’s military operation in Gaza. In July and August, there were 543 anti-Semitic incidents in…
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Fast Forward ‘Last’ Auschwitz Anniversary Is Reminder of Silence’s Danger
(Reuters) — Next month’s 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is a reminder, at a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise again, of what happens when the world stays silent about persecution, the president of the World Jewish Congress said. Ronald S. Lauder told Reuters in an interview anti-Semitism had reached…
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Fast Forward Headstones Smashed at Dutch Jewish Cemetery
Unidentified individuals smashed two headstones at a Dutch Jewish cemetery. The vandalism was discovered last week at the Jewish cemetery of Vlissingen in the south of the Netherlands. It is not immediately clear whether the incident was anti-Semitic, the news site jonet.nl reported on Dec. 25. One of the smashed headstones covered the grave of…
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Fast Forward London School Vandalized Twice with Swastikas
(JTA) — A London school was daubed twice with swastikas in separate incidents within a week. Police are investigating the vandalism discovered Monday at the Jubilee Primary School in the Hackney borough’s Stoke Newington neighborhood, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Hackney has a large Orthodox Jewish population and is near the heavily haredi Orthodox neighborhood of…
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Opinion Europe’s Last Jews
This has been a tough year for Jews. But you’ve heard that before. I used to attend a synagogue where every Yom Kippur the rabbi, as part of his Israeli Bonds appeal, would begin by bemoaning what a bad year it had been. Each year things were worse than before. The problem? They weren’t. The…
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