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Fast Forward Veteran Israeli TV Host Apologizes For Calling Arabs ‘Savages’ On Air
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A veteran Israeli television personality apologized on Tuesday for saying on the air that “Arabs are savages.” Yaron London, 79, had made the remarks a day earlier during his show “London and Geula” on Channel 11, the Kan public broadcaster. They came during a discussion of the HBO series “Our Boys,” centering…
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Fast Forward Cameras Banned From Israeli Polling Stations In Decision Targeting Likud
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Cameras cannot be operated at polling stations, the head of Israel’s Central Elections Committee decided. The decision is directed at the Likud party, which had planned to place cameras in more than 1,000 polling stations in Arab communities. During the April election, Likud activists placed more than 1,200 cameras hidden in polling…
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Fast Forward Fliers Claiming Jews Were Behind 9/11 Appear In Bay Area
(JTA) (J. The Jewish News of Northern California) — Anti-Semitic fliers saying that Jews and Israel were behind the 9/11 attacks appeared in Northern California about 30 miles from San Francisco. The fliers discovered last weekend in Novato, a city of about 52,000 in the North Bay area, were plastered on telephone poles, storefronts and…
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Fast Forward Nadler Slams Tlaib, Omar For Sharing Art From Cartoonist Accused Of Antisemitism
NEW YORK (JTA) — Rep. Jerry Nadler criticized fellow Democrats Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for sharing a cartoon that shows President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu covering their mouths. Omar, D-Minn., and Tlaib, D-Mich., were criticized for sharing it last week because the cartoonist Carlos Latuff participated in an anti-Semitic Holocaust…
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Opinion Stav Shaffir: It’s Time To Admit That BDS Is Not Progressive.
Let’s be clear: The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement is anti-progressive. Instead of working to create a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the movement’s leaders unabashedly seek an end to Israel. Instead of seeking justice for Palestinians and Israelis alike, they prize one narrative over another. In doing so, they mislead most BDS…
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Fast Forward Israel Aiding Brazil In Fight Against Amazon Rainforest Fire
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Israel has become Brazil’s closest ally in battling fires currently raging in the Amazon rainforest. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday to offer assistance in extinguishing the blazes. Israel will send a firefighting aircraft and flame-retardant materials, reported O Globo newspaper. “Many thanks to dozens…
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Fast Forward Israeli Supreme Court Bars 2 Far-Right Candidates From Running For Knesset
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Leaders of the far-right Jewish Power or Otzma Yehudit Party cannot run in the upcoming national elections, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled. The court ruled late Sunday evening that Baruch Marzel and Bentzi Gopstein can not run Knesset in the September 17 elections over statements they have made against Arabs that are considered…
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The Schmooze Israel’s Airport Harasses People Of Color, But Diane Kruger Snuck Through As An Acting Exercise
The model and actress Diane Kruger, of “Inglorious Bastards” fame, is currently starring in “The Operative,” a movie about a Mossad agent. To practice her spying technique, she told The Hollywood Reporter, former Mossad agents helped her try out passport fraud in the Tel Aviv airport. “The Operative,” based on the Israeli novel “The English…
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