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Fast Forward Marine Le Pen Says Jews Should ‘Sacrifice’ Kippah To Fight Radical Islam
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front party, has a message for French Jews: stop wearing kippahs if you want to join the fight against radical Islam. “I mainly think the struggle against radical Islam should be a joint struggle and everyone should say, ‘There, we are sacrificing something,’” she told Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Jews and Arabs Demonstrate Together Against Israeli Home Demolitions — and Trump
Thousands of Arabs and Jews waving Israeli and Palestinian flags protested in Tel Aviv on Saturday against home demolitions in Arab villages. Organizers estimated that some 5,000 protesters marched in central Tel Aviv in a demonstration that also referenced President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven Muslim nations. “No Ban! No Wall! No Demolitions!”…
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Fast Forward Stephen Bannon Described Jews As ‘Enablers’ of Jihad in Old Film Treatment
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a treatment describing a documentary on a purported Muslim plan to take over America, Stephen Bannon, now President Donald Trump’s top strategic adviser, described the “American Jewish community” as among unwitting “enablers” of jihad. Bannon, a former banker who transitioned into a career as an ultranationalist propagandist, culminating in his becoming…
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News EXPLAINED: The Disturbing Back Story Behind Donald Trump’s Jew-Free Holocaust Statement
Additional information about the White House’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement continues to dribble out more than a week after the message, which omitted any mention of the event’s Jewish victims, was delivered by President Donald Trump. At the time, Jewish groups across the political spectrum condemned the statement, but nobody knew its backstory. Now, we…
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Fast Forward Richard Spencer: By My Definition, Jews Aren’t ‘European,’ or ‘White’
Richard Spencer has decided to put American Jews on the couch, and he’s ready to reveal his session notes: Jews are not European and don’t want to assimilate to white people in the United States. Maybe he should share his thoughts with rabbis and communal leaders, who fret about intermarriage and disengagement from Jewish communal…
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Fast Forward Israeli Company Bidding Hard to Build Trump’s Wall
The Israeli company that built Israel’s border fence is making a play this week to construct U.S. President Donald Trump’s wall with Mexico. According to Bloomberg, the U.S.-based unit of Magal Security Systems Ltd. presented at a January 31 conference on border security attended by officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The company,…
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Fast Forward In Trump’s First Weeks, Thousands of New Settler Homes Announced
The Israeli government approved thousands of new homes in Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank on Tuesday night, said Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman in a statement. This followed last week’s announcement of 2,500 new West Bank homes and hundreds more in East Jerusalem. “We are in a new period in which life in Judea and…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Milo Yiannopoulos Says He’s a Jew, Not a Nazi
Milo Yiannopoulos told a crowd in the latest installment of his “Dangerous Faggot” tour that he’s not part of the “alt-right,” but rather a “gay Jew.” “If I wasn’t already thrown out of the alt right, that’ll do it. Kidding. I’m not a member of the movement, and I’ve never been,” the Breitbart editor said,…
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