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Fast Forward New York Cabaret Scraps Black Lives Matter Benefit Over Israel Bashing
— A New York venue cancelled a concert raising money for Black Lives Matter over a recent policy platform by an affiliated group, which called Israel an “apartheid state” perpetuating “genocide” against the Palestinian people. An email sent to ticket holders this week said that the owners and managers of Feinstein’s/54 Below had “become aware of a recent addition to the BLM…
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Fast Forward World Vision Lays Off 120 Gaza Aid Workers as Feud With Israel Bites
Christian aid group World Vision has laid off about 120 contractors in the Gaza Strip following allegations by Israel that the agency’s operations manager in the territory had diverted $7 million in funds to the Islamist group Hamas. In an Aug. 29 letter handed to contractors at a meeting in Gaza, the NGO said its…
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Fast Forward Airbnb Won’t Tolerate Racism — or Bias Against Israelis
– Following complaints of discrimination against blacks, Israelis, Palestinians and other groups on Airbnb, the short-term rental website introduced a non-discrimination clause for hosts. The “community commitment” introduced by the $25-billion website Thursday will come into effect in November, as “Bias and discrimination have no place on Airbnb, and we have zero tolerance for them,”…
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Israel News The Life and Loss of Daniel Lewin, Web Genius and 9/11’s ‘First Victim’
Those that knew him say Daniel Lewin could have been in league with Bill Gates or Steve Jobs had his life not ended on September 11th. But today, 15 years after the attacks, Lewin remains largely unknown to the public, even as the technology he invented affects billions of people around the world. Lewin, who…
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Fast Forward Czech Atlas With Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital Won’t Be Yanked After All
JERUSALEM — A school atlas that labels Jerusalem as the capital of Israel will not be removed from Czech schools, as originally announced. The Czech Education Ministry said last week that the atlas would be removed following a complaint by the Palestinian ambassador in Prague to the ministry. But on Tuesday night, Education Minister Katerina Valachova…
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Fast Forward Producer Brian Eno Tells Israeli Dance Troupe To Stop Using His Music
— British composer and producer Brian Eno, a longtime supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, has ordered an Israeli dance company to stop using his music. The Batsheva company has been using an Eno composition in its dance routine titled “Humus” since 2013, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. It was scheduled to perform the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Jews Favor Hillary Clinton by Wide 43%-to-34% Margin
Israeli Jews prefer Democrat Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump by a 43%-to-34% margin, a new poll reveals. The Israel Democratcy Institute phone poll showed that Israelis are more inclined to support Clinton than Americans, who are more evenly divided between the two candidates, the Times of Israel reporterd. Among Israeli Arabs, the margin was…
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Opinion From America to Israel, Should Our National Anthems Be Changed?
One is a superstar professional football player in a nation that considers the gridiron to be holy ground. The other is an Arab Israeli with a permanent seat on his nation’s highest and most revered court of law. Despite their minority status, the athlete born of a single white mother and an African American father…
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