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Fast Forward Five Of Top Seven Wealthiest People In Australia Are Jewish
SYDNEY (JTA) — Five of the top seven positions on the list of Australia’s wealthiest people are members of the Jewish community. The country’s wealthiest person according to the Business Review Weekly is Melbourne’s Anthony Pratt with $12.9 billion Australian dollars or $9.75 billion U.S. The BRW reports that Donald Trump’s tax cuts and allowing a 100…
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Fast Forward More Than Half Of France Says Zionism Is A Jewish Conspiracy
(JTA) — Zionism is a Jewish conspiracy meant to manipulate Western societies to benefit Jews. That’s the belief of a majority of 1,007 French respondents to a poll about the Jewish nationalist movement. Some 53 percent of the respondents to the survey conducted this year by the Ifop polling company agreed with the statement that…
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Fast Forward British Blogger Who Sang About Holocaust Denial Convicted
(JTA) — A British blogger who posted songs on YouTube denying the Holocaust was convicted in London of sending “offensive, indecent or menacing messages.” Alison Chabloz, 54, was convicted by a Westminster Magistrates’ Court judge Friday for writing, performing and disseminating three songs about Nazi persecution, including one about the young diarist Anne Frank. Chabloz,…
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Fast Forward IDF Strikes Southern Gaza Military Targets With Tanks
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces struck a Hamas target in the southern Gaza Strip with tank fire. The attack early on Sunday morning was in response to a bomb placed near the border fence between Israel and Gaza, the IDF said in a statement. Three Gazans were killed in the attack, according to…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas To Remain In Hospital, Despite Discharge Announcement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ doctor said the Palestinian leader will not leave the hospital despite announcing that he would be discharged. Abbas has been in the hospital since early last week, the third time he was hospitalized since undergoing ear surgery earlier this month. He reportedly had a high fever when…
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Fast Forward Congress Wants To Define Anti-Semitism. That Could Get Messy.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Republican and Democratic lawmakers are lining up behind a bill that would define anti-Semitism. The measure introduced Thursday by Reps. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., who is Jewish, and Pete Roskam, R-Ill., a leader on pro-Israel issues in the U.S. House of Representatives, at first looks like a bipartisan slam dunk. The principal target…
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Fast Forward Israeli Intel Firm Collected Info On Linda Sarsour For Adelson-Backed Group
(JTA) — A private Israeli intelligence-gathering firm collected potentially damaging information on Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, according to a report in Haaretz. The firm, Israel Cyber Shield, was gathering the intelligence for Act.IL, a pro-Israel advocacy organization, according to the report published Thursday. The goal was to use the information to persuade U.S. colleges not to…
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Fast Forward Teen Sentenced To Jail For Vandalizing New York Jewish Cemetery
(JTA) — A New York teen will serve six months in jail and do 150 hours of community service for vandalizing a local Jewish cemetery. Eric Carbonaro, 19, of Warwick, was sentenced Wednesday in Orange County Court for the October 2016 incident and apologized during the hearing. He had pleaded guilty in February to two charges,…
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