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Fast Forward CNN Poll In Europe Shows How Little People Know About The Holocaust
(JTA) — In a poll conducted among 7,092 adults in seven European countries, 28 percent of respondents said that Jews are too influential, and a third said they have no substantial knowledge of the Holocaust. The CNN poll, by ComRes, on anti-Semitism was performed in September in Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Sweden and Austria,…
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Fast Forward 23% Of Brits ‘Unwilling’ To Have A Jew In The Family
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Nearly a quarter of British respondents to a poll on attitudes to minorities in Western Europe said they would be unwilling to accept Jews as family members. The Pew Research Center’s report titled “Being Christian in Western Europe” was published Wednesday and contains results from interviews with more than 24,000 randomly selected…
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Fast Forward European Countries Condemn U.S. Embassy Move
European countries condemned Monday’s move of the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, the Times of Israel reported. Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said in a statement that the move “is inflaming already a very tense situation, and the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians.” “We don’t consider it a wise decision to move the embassy,”…
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Fast Forward Iceland Welcomes First Rabbi — As It Considers Ban On Circumcision
(JTA) REYKJAVIK, Iceland (JTA) — At a windswept harbor of this Nordic capital, a bearded man wearing a black hat dips eating utensils into the icy water while hissing from pain induced by the bitter cold. Perplexed by the spectacle, a caretaker helpfully offers to let the man and his three companions use a washing…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Norwegian Ambassador Compares Critics Of Israel To Nazi Collaborators
Israel’s ambassador to Norway compared critics of Israel to Nazi collaborators in comments on Facebook, the Washington Post reported. Raphael Schutz made the comments under his post about recent clashes on Israel’s border with Gaza. Video footage shows Israeli snipers shooting unarmed Palestinian protesters with live ammunition. In a post published Saturday, Schutz claimed that…
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Fast Forward Germany’s Far Right Decries Holocaust Memorials For ‘Dictating’ Who Should Be Remembered
Amid rising anti-Semitism across Europe, Germany’s far-right party is lashing out at the famous “stumbling stones” Holocaust memorials, CNN reported. The Stolperstein — small cobble stones with a brass plaque commemorating a victim of the Holocaust — can be found in cities across Europe. Their creator, the sculptor Gunter Demnig, dubbed them stumbling stones because…
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Fast Forward France’s Far-Right Leader’s Dad Gets Holocaust Denying Conviction Upheld
PARIS (JTA) — A French court upheld the Holocaust denial conviction of the far-left activist Jean-Marie Le Pen while another tribunal acquitted the hate incitement charges against another racist. The Paris-based Court of Cassation’s ruling Tuesday against Le Pen, founder of the far-right National Front party and the owner of multiple convictions for incitement to…
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Fast Forward Europe’s Life-Long Nazi Hunters Horrified By Rise In Anti-Semitism
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, two of Europe’s most famous Nazi hunters, are preparing to publish a memoir as they confront Europe’s rising anti-Semitism and xenophobia, the Washington Post reported. Over five decades the Klarsfelds, who are married, have tracked Nazis from Paris, their home, to as far away as Syria and Bolivia. Their most famous…
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