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Fast Forward Woman Stabbed To Death Month Before Testifying In High-Profile German Case
BERLIN (JTA) — A Jewish woman due to testify in court next month was found stabbed to death in a Frankfurt park. The body of a woman identified as Irina A., age 29, was discovered on May 9. The woman allegedly had been involved in inventing a “sex-mob” story of mass rape and abuse by…
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Fast Forward ‘Nazi Grandma’ Arrested After Failing To Show Up For Prison Sentence
(JTA) — The Holocaust denier known as the “Nazi Grandma” was arrested by German police days after she failed to appear at the prison where she was to start a two-year term for Holocaust denial. Ursula Haverbeck, 89, had been ordered to appear on April 23 at the prison in the town of Bielefeld after…
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Fast Forward ‘Nazi Grandma’ Fails To Show Up For Prison Sentence
(JTA) — A search is underway for the octogenarian known as the “Nazi Grandma,” after she did not show up for her prison sentence for Holocaust denial. Ursula Haverbeck, 89, was sentenced to two years in prison for incitement caused by public Holocaust denial. She was due to show up to the prison in the German…
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Fast Forward German Rappers Who Mocked Auschwitz Prisoners Agree To Visit Nazi Camp
(JTA) — The rappers who brought down a prestigious German music prize over songs containing anti-Semitic lyrics will visit Auschwitz. Kollegah and Farid Bang accepted an invitation from the International Auschwitz Committee to visit the former Nazi death camp next month, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported. On April 12, they won an Echo Award in the…
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Fast Forward Even The German Palestine Association Slammed Abbas’ Holocaust Remarks
(JTA) — In an unusual move, the main Palestinian lobby group in Germany condemned remarks by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas about the Holocaust which it called “anti-Semitic.” The German-Palestinian Society, or DPG, in a statement Tuesday said it “dissociates itself clearly and unequivocally” from the remarks by the Palestinian Authority president. Speaking Monday in…
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Fast Forward Don’t Wear Kippahs In Public Warns German Jewish Leader
(JTA) — The head of the main Jewish umbrella in Germany has recommended that Jews not wear kippahs in public in its major cities. “I would actually have to advise individuals not to openly wear a kippah in the metropolitan setting of Germany,” Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said in…
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Culture Swastika Gets You In Free To This German Theater For Hitler Play. Really?
Here’s a tip: If anyone currently in hot water with a minority group tells you the last thing they want to do is offend that group, they probably have not devoted much thought to what sorts of things that group might find offensive. In 2018 alone, a California Polytechnic State University fraternity released a statement,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Wearing Kippah Attacked By ‘Yehudi’ Screaming Assailant On Berlin Street
BERLIN (JTA) – A young Jewish man wearing a kippah was physically attacked on a Berlin street by an Arabic-speaking man in an apparent anti-Semitic attack. Police are investigating the Tuesday evening incident, which the victim, 21, filmed on his cell phone. During the attack, the assailant lashed the kippah-clad Jewish man with his belt…
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