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Fast Forward Norway Protects Shul After AK-47 Threats
Norwegian police have increased security around Oslo’s main synagogue after an Islamist extremist threatened to “protect” the Jewish community with an “AK-47 assault rifle and a hunting permit.” Police on Oct. 27 recommended indicting Ubaydullah Hussain, the 27-year-old leader of the radical Islamic organization Profetens Ummah. He was arrested last week after Norwegian media reported…
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Fast Forward European Jews Worry About Ukraine Extremists
The head of the European Jewish Association has called on the Ukrainian government to ensure the safety of the country’s Jews in the wake of the election to parliament of an anti-Semitic party. “We are not presuming of course, to interfere in internal Ukraine affairs and its voters’ decisions, however we are very concerned about…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Dutch Fans Facing Punishment
The director of a soccer team from the Dutch city of Utrecht has vowed to punish fans who sang anti-Semitic chants during a recent match. “Racism will not be tolerated in the stadium,” Wilco van Schaik, general director of FC Utrecht, told the Dutch news agency ANP. The report did not specify what steps would…
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Fast Forward Rome Council Wants To Block Neo-Nazi SItes
Rome’s provincial council is calling for websites that promote racism and anti-Semitism to be blocked and such online hatred criminalized. The council on Monday unanimously passed a motion voicing solidarity with Rome local official Carla Di Veroli and with the Rome Jewish community in general following anti-Semitic attacks on Di Veroli that appeared last week…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Party Gains in Ukraine Election
The Ukrainian ultranationalist Svoboda Party has made unprecedented gains in the country’s parliamentary elections, where it garnered 12 percent of the vote. Svoboda – or Freedom Party – has gained a reputation as an anti-Semitic movement due to anti-Jewish statements by its leaders. Sunday’s vote means the party can now control a faction in parliament…
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Fast Forward Far-Right Italians Reenact Mussolini’s Rome March
Hundreds of far-right Italians converged on Predappio, the town in northern Italy where Benito Mussolini was born and is buried, to mark the 90th anniversary of the “march on Rome” that brought the Fascist dictator to power. The crowds chanted “Duce, Duce” and gave the fascist salute during Sunday’s anniversary march. Hardcore Fascists mark the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorial Defaced on Greek Island
A Holocaust memorial in Rhodes was defaced by unknown vandals. The Holocaust Memorial to the Jews of Rhodes was spray painted with swastikas on all six sides of the memorial. The initials AME also were spray painted on the monument, and may refer to an unknown organization, according to the Greek Helsinki Monitor. The attack…
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Opinion Kiwi Concern Over Anti-Semitic Vandalism
Anywhere else, the desecration of 20 Jewish graves might have registered as a blip, another anti-Semitic act in an otherwise tranquil place with a miniscule Jewish population. But here in New Zealand, the incident has shaken up a nation that prides itself on openness —and sparked an intensive round of national soul-searching. The vandalism itself…
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