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Fast Forward These 5 European Jews Are Backing Far-Right Parties
(JTA) — They speak different languages and live in different countries. Some of them are strictly observant. Others don’t even keep kosher. Some are Sephardi, others are Ashkenazi. As diverse as the Jewish communities to which they belong, the Jews who promote Europe’s rising nationalistic parties are nonetheless united in their fear of radical Islam,…
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Fast Forward Neo-Fascism Is Re-Emerging In Europe
Neo-fascists are seeing a revival in Europe. In Slovakia neo-fascists are winning regional offices and taking seats in Parliament, the New York Times reported on Monday. This fits into a trend seen elsewhere — Golden Dawn in Greece and the National Democratic Party in Germany, for example — of rising political parties with neo-fascist views….
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Fast Forward Erdogan Compares Muslims In Europe Today To Jews In Nazi Germany
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan feels that Europeans are treating their Muslim citizens and immigrants badly. Very badly. “The Jews were treated the same in the past,” Erdogan said Wednesday. “Europe is heading towards being drowned in its own fears.” The Turkish president spoke after weeks of increasing tension with Western European countries following the…
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Fast Forward Europe Relieved At Geert WIlders Loss In Dutch Election
Dutch center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte fought off the challenge of anti-Islam and anti-EU rival Geert Wilders to score an election victory that was hailed across Europe on Thursday by governments facing a rising wave of nationalism. The euro gained as the results of Wednesday’s vote showed a clear win for Rutte, albeit with fewer…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Slam European Ruling Allowing Ban On Religious Garb
**PARIS (JTA) — European rabbis condemned an E.U. court’s ruling allowing firms to prohibit employees’ religious clothes and symbols, saying the ruling amounts to saying that “faith communities are no longer welcome.” The ruling Tuesday by the European court of justice in Luxembourg also said that customers cannot simply demand that workers remove headscarves if…
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Fast Forward Exclusive: In First Talk With Jewish Media, Hungary’s Far Right Leader Strikes A New Pose
Gábor Vona, who heads Hungary’s far-right party, Jobbik, famously showed up on his first day as a member of Parliament in 2010 wearing the uniform of a banned racist and an anti-Semitic paramilitary group. But the morning of Wednesday, February 1, sitting in his office overlooking the partially frozen Danube River, Vona was dressed in…
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Fast Forward European Union Slams Israel for Creating ‘One-State Reality’ With Settlement Push
(JTA) – In an unusually harsh statement, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said Israel’s new legislation on settlements was illegal and would “entrench a one-state reality of unequal rights.” The statement Tuesday by Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, was over the passing the previous day in the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Congress Chief Pushes Europe To Adopt Definition for Anti-Semitism
(JTA) – The absence of a European Union definition for anti-Semitism is an “absurd” situation that needs correcting, which also would honor Holocaust victims, the president of the European Jewish Congress told European lawmakers. During his address Wednesday at the European Parliament ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, EJC president Moshe Kantor referenced the 2013 removal…
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