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Fast Forward Hungary Soccer Fans Probed for Nazi Salutes at Euro Tournament
Hungarian soccer fans are reportedly being investigated for performing Nazi salutes during a match at the Euro 2016 soccer tournament in France. Black-shirted Hungary fans were captured making the salutes during their national team’s match with Iceland on Saturday in Marseille, the British Daily Mail newspaper reported.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3648911/Now-Ultra-fans-caught-doing-NAZI-salutes-Euro-2016-Hungarian-supporters-sick-gestures-match-saw-fans-battle-stewards-stands.html) “The pictures are clearly very shocking,” a police…
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Fast Forward 40% of Europe Jewish Leaders Say Anti-Semitism a Threat to Community
In a survey among leaders of European Jewish communities, 40 percent of respondents said anti-Semitism is the most serious threat to the future of Jewish life in their country. The result appeared in the Third Survey of European Jewish Leaders and Opinion Formers, which was published Monday by the International Centre for Community Development of…
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Fast Forward Extremist Settlers Call for ‘Muzzling’ of Europe Envoy
The European Union has condemned a campaign by a new settler organization that verbally attacks its envoy in Jerusalem. The video posted Sunday on Facebook by the Jerusalem’s Periphery Forum, which represents Jewish communities south of Jerusalem, criticizes the EU for funding illegal homes for Bedouin and Palestinians along the major North-South Route 1. The…
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Fast Forward European Jewish Leader Praises Britain Pushback on BDS
The British government’s plan to outlaw attempts to boycott Israel shows it is committed to fighting them in word as well as in deed, the leader of the European Jewish Congress said. EJC President Moshe Kantor praised the planned measures on Wednesday, in a statement that coincided with the visit to Israel of Matthew Hancock,…
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Fast Forward Israel Seeks To Put Ties With Europe ‘Back on Track’
Israel and the European Union have agreed to put relations “back on track,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu and top European Union official Federica Mogherini in a weekend conversation discussed tension between Israel and the EU. European-Israeli relations have deteriorated since November, when the EU adopted long-discussed guidelines to label products made in…
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Fast Forward Israel Seizes Palestinian Land — Thumbs Nose at Europe by Destroying Aid Structures
Israel confirmed on Thursday it was planning to appropriate a large tract of fertile land in the occupied West Bank, close to Jordan, a move likely to exacerbate tensions with Western allies and already drawing international condemnation. In an email sent to Reuters, COGAT, a unit of Israel’s Defence Ministry, said the political decision to…
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Opinion Boycott the West Bank? Nope. Label Settlement Products? Well, OK.
The Israeli government’s intention to maintain the status quo in the territories it has occupied since 1967 is facing two new challenges. The Europeans want products made in the settlements to be labeled as such. And Human Rights Watch is calling for companies to stop doing business in the settlements altogether. Both moves are tactics…
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Fast Forward Collapse of Peace Talks Spurs War of Words Against Israeli Settlements
(JTA) — The collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process a year ago has led to an accelerating war of words over Israeli settlements, with Israel accusing its growing chorus of foreign critics of prejudging the final terms of a peace deal at best – and anti-Semitism at worst. The battle heated up this week with…
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