This is the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
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Fast Forward Israel Protest Leaders Hope To Make Voting Sexy
They are young and they are driven. They got half a million Israelis out on the streets demanding social justice. Now they want their votes. The leaders of a grassroots social protest movement that swept Israel in 2011 have shot to the top of a rejuvenated Labour party that polls say will at least double…
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Fast Forward Students Mount Anti-Israel Protest at Rome Shul
Protesters chanted anti-Semitic and pro-Palestinian slogans outside the main Rome synagogue during mass student protests that blocked the city center and saw violent clashes between police and demonstrators in several parts of the city. Tens of thousands of people in dozens of Italian cities reportedly took part in strikes and demonstrations Wednesday protesting the economic…
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Fast Forward 20,000 Gather To Remember Yitzhak Rabin
About 20,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to pay tribute to the memory of slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The rally was organized by Israeli youth movements and was held under the banner of “Remembering the murder – fighting for democracy.” The event was held Saturday night in the same public square where…
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Fast Forward Calls To Free Anti-Islam Film Poster
An Egyptian Coptic Christian arrested on suspicion of posting online an anti-Islam film that ignited Muslim protests around the world should be freed immediately, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Computer science graduate Alber Saber was detained by police in Cairo last month after his neighbours accused him of uploading sections of the film “Innocence of…
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Fast Forward Anti-Islam Filmmaker Faces Prison Time
A California man behind an anti-Islam film that stoked violent protests in the Muslim world was due in court in Los Angeles on Wednesday for a hearing on whether he violated his probation on a bank fraud conviction and should be sent back to prison. The Egyptian-born man, known publicly as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, has…
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Fast Forward Gazans Stage Soccer Protest of Shalit’s Barcelona Visit
Palestinians freed from Israeli jails held their own version of the Barcelona-Real Madrid soccer match on Sunday to protest at the presence of a former captive Israeli soldier at the actual fixture. The five-a-side kick-about in Gaza comprised mostly of ex-prisoners protesting at Gilad Shalit’s presence in Barcelona. He was abducted by Gaza militants in…
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Fast Forward Death of Gaza Boy Sparks Rare Anti-Hamas Protest
At least 500 protesters in the Gaza Strip have called for the overthrow of the ruling Islamist Hamas group in a rare demonstration triggered by the death of a three-year-old boy in a fire during a power outage. Protesters in the Bureij refugee camp, where the boy’s family live, called for Hamas to be toppled…
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Fast Forward Maker of Anti-Islam Film Quizzed by Police
A California man linked to an anti-Islam film on YouTube that triggered violent Muslim protests was taken on Saturday to be questioned about possible probation violations. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was not allowed to access the Internet without approval of a probation officer as a condition of his release from prison in a 2010 bank…
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