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Fast Forward African Immigrant Killed by 8 Gunshot Wounds — Not Mob Beating
The Eritrean migrant mistaken for an assailant during a terrorist attack at the Beersheba bus station died from gunshot wounds, not from the beatings he sustained by Israelis. The results of the autopsy on Haftom Zarhum, 29, who died at Beersheba’s Soroka hospital several hours after the Sunday night attack, were released on Wednesday. The…
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Fast Forward UNESCO Backs Off ‘Muslim’ Temple Mount Proposal — Blasts Israel
The United Nations cultural agency in a resolution condemned Israel for what it said are attempts to break the status quo at the Temple Mount, but did not stick to plans to label it a Muslim site. However, the resolution approved on Wednesday morning in Paris by the executive board of the United Nations Educational,…
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Fast Forward Electrical Union Sued Over Pro-BDS Stand
A Tel Aviv-based human rights organization has filed a charge with a national labor organization against an American union that endorses boycotts of the Jewish state. Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center filed a charge, signed by its president Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and attorney David Abrams, with the National Labor Relations Board accusing the United Electrical,…
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Fast Forward MSNBC Apologizes for Incorrect Maps of Israel
MSNBC apologized for using “not factually accurate” maps in a segment discussing the violence that has erupted across Israel in recent weeks. “MSNBC Live” host Kate Snow acknowledged Monday that her show displayed maps describing present-day Israel as a Palestinian state in 1946, when the area was under British mandate rule. The series of maps…
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Opinion 4 Times Israelis and Palestinians Stuck Up for One Another
As the latest round of violence unfolds, Israelis and Palestinians seem to mostly be interacting in bloody, enraged spasms of appalling brutality. Quickly uploaded to social media feeds, horrific videos provide graphic proof of just how awful humans can be to one another. And yet, those aren’t the only stories. Amid the violence and hatred…
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Fast Forward African Immigrants Say Killing Reflects Discrimination in Israel
(JTA) — In the days since an Eritrean migrant was shot to death by an Israeli security guard and then beaten by a mob at Beersheba’s central bus station, a fellow migrant named Awat Ashever has insisted to other Eritreans that the killing was just a terrible mistake. It’s an uphill battle, as some of the…
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Fast Forward West Bank Settler Killed in Accident After Car Pelted With Rocks
A Jewish-Israeli man who exited his car near Hebron after Palestinians throwing rocks damaged the vehicle was hit by a truck and killed. The man, who was reported to be in his 50s and a resident of the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, was driving past the Palestinian village of Al Fawar, near Hebron,…
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Fast Forward UN Chief Visits Israel in Bid To Halt Violence
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was due to begin a snap visit on Tuesday to try to stem Israeli-Palestinian violence as Israel issued fresh assurances addressing Muslim fears of Jewish encroachment at a mosque compound at the center of the conflict. In the latest incident, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli officer in the occupied…
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