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Fast Forward Gingrich Calls FBI ‘Gestapo’ Over Michael Cohen Raid
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in an appearance on Fox News Channel that the F.B.I.’s raid of the offices of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was akin to the Gestapo, the Nazi regime’s secret police. “We’re supposed to have the rule of law, it ain’t the rule of law when they kick in your door…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Norwegian Ambassador Compares Critics Of Israel To Nazi Collaborators
Israel’s ambassador to Norway compared critics of Israel to Nazi collaborators in comments on Facebook, the Washington Post reported. Raphael Schutz made the comments under his post about recent clashes on Israel’s border with Gaza. Video footage shows Israeli snipers shooting unarmed Palestinian protesters with live ammunition. In a post published Saturday, Schutz claimed that…
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Fast Forward Muslim Pol And Jewish Leader Want To Rebuild Synagogue In Berlin
A Palestinian-German politician and the chairman of Berlin’s Jewish community are hatching a plan to rebuild a grand synagogue destroyed by Nazis and their supporters in 1938, the Washington Post reported. The Fraenkelufer synagogue was largely destroyed during Kristallnacht, in 1938. Raed Saleh and Gideon Jaffe hope to raise enough money for a new synagogue…
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Fast Forward GOP Aide Says ‘Democrats Are Doing What Hitler Did’
An aide to a New York state senator compared Democrats and a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting to Nazis in a Facebook post. “The Democrats are doing exactly what Hitler did… He used the youth to disarm and control the people. This is scary!” Anthony Testaverde, an aide to Sen. Martin Golden,…
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Fast Forward Europe’s Life-Long Nazi Hunters Horrified By Rise In Anti-Semitism
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, two of Europe’s most famous Nazi hunters, are preparing to publish a memoir as they confront Europe’s rising anti-Semitism and xenophobia, the Washington Post reported. Over five decades the Klarsfelds, who are married, have tracked Nazis from Paris, their home, to as far away as Syria and Bolivia. Their most famous…
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Fast Forward Austria Recalls Israeli Embassy Employee Over Nazi Shirt
Austria’s foreign ministry has recalled an employee of its embassy in Israel after an Austrian weekly said he posted a picture of himself on social media wearing a T-shirt bearing the name of a Nazi tank division. The Falter weekly published a screenshot of the attache’s Facebook page which shows him in a green shirt…
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Fast Forward Scottish Man Who Taught Dog To Do Nazi Salute Found Guilty Of Hate Crime
(JTA) — A Scottish man who taught his girlfriend’s dog to do the Nazi salute was found guilty of a hate crime. Mark Meechan, 29, was convicted on Tuesday in Airdrie Sheriff’s Court in Scotland and is out on bail until his sentencing next month, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. He taught the pug, named…
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Fast Forward Hundreds Join Nazi War Veterans In Latvia March
RIGA, Latvia (JTA) — Police arrested a man for displaying a poster of soldiers killing Jews at the annual march by local veterans of two SS divisions that made up the Latvian Legion during World War II. The man was arrested Friday morning on the margins of the annual march of the Remembrance Day of…
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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