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Fast Forward 5 Reasons Some British Jews Are Backing Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party
(JTA) — Relations between British Jewry and the country’s Labour Party, which used to be their political home, appear to be at a historic lowpoint. Ahead of the June 8 general elections in the United Kingdom, a Jewish Chronicle poll from last week put support for the center-left party — which has seen repeated scandals involving…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Sends Condolences To UK Over Manchester Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent condolences on behalf of the Israeli people to British Prime Minister Theresa May for the terror attack at a pop concert in Manchester. Netanyahu, speaking by phone with May on Wednesday evening, said Israel was ready to extend all necessary assistance to their joint war against terrorism,…
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Fast Forward How Manchester Jews Prepared For Attack Like Ariana Grande Concert Bombing
(JTA) — Britain’s bloodiest terrorist attack in over a decade occurred Monday just two miles from Rabbi Yisroel Cohen’s synagogue. Yet one day after the deadly bombing in Manchester, Cohen told JTA he has no intention of changing security arrangements at his congregation. In fact Cohen, a Chabad emissary who works in a Jewish enclave…
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Fast Forward Russian Embassy In UK Can’t Let Seth Rich Story Go
Conspiracy theories surrounding the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich are now being amplified by Russian officials. The Russian embassy in London tweeted on Friday a claim that Rich was behind the leak of DNC emails to Wikileaks. “WikiLeaks informer Seth Rich murdered in US but MSM was so busy accusing Russian hackers to take…
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Fast Forward Christ’s College Apologizes For Botching Anti-Semitism Abuse Complaint
(JTA) — The head of a prestigious Cambridge University college apologized to two students whose complaints of anti-Semitic abuse were not upheld fully and inadequately handled. Jane Stapleton, Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge, said on Thursday that the college now “accepts that racist and anti-Semitic conduct occurred and has apologized to the students who reported…
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Fast Forward Jews Among 70,000 Slaughtered By Nazis In Channel Island Camps That Britain Covered Up
A shocking new report says up to 70,000 prisoners — including many Jews — may have been murdered by the Nazis in slave labor camps on the Channel Islands — a toll that British intelligence covered up. Britain’s official history says just 400 prisoners were killed in camps off the French coastline. But a new…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders Pay Tribute To Prince Philip On His Retirement
(JTA) — Jewish leaders in Great Britain paid tribute to Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, who announced that he will retire from public engagements after August. Buckingham Palace announced Thursday that the 95-year-old Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh, had the “full support of the Queen” in stepping back after nearly 70 years of hosting…
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Fast Forward Did Gorka Lie About British Military Service?
White House aide Sebastian Gorka has been linked to a neo-Nazi group in his native Hungary. Now it seems like he might have lied about his military service in the United Kingdom, where he was raised. According to BuzzFeed News, the British Ministry of Defense has no evidence that Gorka worked in the 1990’s on…
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