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Fast Forward Slap ‘JeSuisCharlie’ Tag on Beer? Not So Fast!
European authorities have rejected scores of attempts to secure a trademark on the phrase “Je suis Charlie” which became a worldwide slogan after last week’s attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. A spokeswoman for the French office for intellectual property INPI said on Wednesday more than 100 attempts to get a trademark on the…
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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 Is Europe Running Out of Patience With Israel?
(JTA) — When Britain’s Parliament voted in favor of recognizing Palestine in October, Elie Barnavi, a former Israeli ambassador to France, dismissed the motion as mere symbolism. Reflecting many Israelis’ view of the string of nonbinding motions on Palestinian statehood adopted by European parliaments in recent weeks, Barnavi said the vote should be seen as…
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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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Fast Forward European Parliament Passes ‘Palestine’ Statehood Bill
The European Parliament passed a resolution that supports in principle recognition of a Palestinian state as part of peace talks with Israel. The resolution, which was drawn up by five political groups, passed Wednesday in a 498-88 vote in Strasbourg, the European Parliament’s press service wrote in a statement. There were 111 abstentions. The measure…
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Fast Forward Europe Court Pulls Hamas From Terror Blacklist
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas should be removed from the European Union’s terrorist list, an EU court ruled on Wednesday, saying the decision to include it was based on media reports not considered analysis. However, in its ruling, the bloc’s second highest tribunal said member states could maintain their freeze on Hamas’s assets for three…
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Fast Forward Ireland Parliament Votes Unanimously for ‘Palestine’
Ireland’s lower house of Parliament approved a nonbinding resolution calling on the government to formally recognize the state of Palestine. The measure that passed unanimously late Tuesday night in the Dail was sponsored by the left-wing Sinn Fein party. It calls for a State of Palestine on the basis of the 1967 borders with eastern…
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Fast Forward Israel Rejects Europe Appeal To Spare Terrorists Homes
Israel has rejected an appeal by the five biggest members of the European Union not to raze the homes of Palestinians who carried out lethal attacks in Jerusalem, saying on Friday that the tactic was designed to deter further violence. Israel’s Haaretz newspaper said the Foreign Ministry heard arguments from the German, French, British, Italian…
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