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Fast Forward Extremist Settlers Attack Israeli Soldiers in West Bank
Six Israeli Border Police officers were hurt after clashes between Israeli security forces and settlers in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar. Hundreds of supporters of the settlement located deep in the West Bank near Nablus rallied to the settlement late Tuesday night after Israeli security forces arrived to demolish several illegal structures. Two of…
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Fast Forward Toronto Students Vote for Israel Divestment
The student union of Ryerson University in Toronto voted to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement aimed at Israel, at least the third Canadian university to do so in the last year. The vote on took place at the Ryerson Student Union’s annual general meeting on April 2, which was attended by more than…
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Fast Forward Morocco Group Publishes List of Israel ‘Collaborators’
An anti-Israel organization in Morocco has published a list of people and institutions it accuses of collaborating with the Jewish state. The Moroccan Observatory against Normalization with Israel published the list last week in its annual report for 2013, the news site Hespress.com reported. Among the people named was Andre Azoulay, a Moroccan Jew and…
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Life Louisa Solomon of The Shondes Talks Censorship
Shondes.com // Louisa Solomon of The Shondes Louisa Solomon is the feminist lead singer of The Shondes, a punk-rock band (think “Bruce Springsteen meets Bikini Kill,” she jokes) with openly queer members. The Forward once said she had “ a talent for androgynous sass.” Although the group espouses punk’s rebellious ethos and sometimes touch on…
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The Schmooze New York Journos Pay Tribute to Ed Koch at Benefit
“Mayor Koch believed that mayors were not elected to be president…but to pick up garbage …balance the budget…” said Marcia Kramer, CBS2 New York chief political correspondent and a panelist at the April 3 Tribute to Mayor Edward I. Koch and Benefit for Beit Morasha’s Edward I. Koch Center for Public Policy and Jewish Ethics…
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Fast Forward Avigdor Liberman Calls for New Elections as Peace Talks Fail
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman called for new national elections during a speech in New York, saying he preferred a poll to freeing more Palestinian prisoners. Liberman, who is scheduled to meet in Washington with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry later this week, made the call for new elections during an annual conference sponsored…
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Fast Forward Hacking Group Organizes ‘OpIsrael’ Day of Attack
A coordinated cyber attack on Israeli websites has so far been relatively ineffective. The international hacking group Anonymous and its followers had announced that Monday would be “Operation Israel,” or “OpIsrael,” a day of targeting Israeli websites in retaliation for Israel’s “assault on the people of Gaza.” “On April 7, 2014, we call upon our…
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Fast Forward U.S. Makes Last Ditch Effort To Save Peace Talks
U.S. efforts to save Middle East peace talks from collapse showed little sign of progress on Monday amid threats from Israel to retaliate for what it saw as unilateral Palestinian moves towards statehood. The U.S.-brokered negotiations plunged into crisis last week after Israel, demanding a Palestinian commitment to continue talking after the end of the…
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