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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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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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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox British Mayoral Candidate In Reported Kinky Tryst
An Orthodox Jew running for mayor of the English city of Manchester met up for kinky sex with a woman he met on an online bondage website, the Daily Mail reported Saturday. Shneur Odze, a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic group, is a member of the nationalist UK Independence Party. A rabbi, he is vocal…
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Fast Forward British Student Leader Accused Of Anti-Semitism Defeated In Reelection Bid
The president of the United Kingdom’s National Union of Students, who was accused by Jewish student groups of anti-Semitism, suffered a shocking defeat in her reelection bid at the hands of a candidate promising to depoliticize the organization. Malia Bouattia received 38% of the vote, losing to Shakira Martin, the organization’s Vice President for Welfare….
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Fast Forward Britain Rejects Demand For Apology Over 1917 Balfour Declaration
Palestinian leaders said on Tuesday Britain had rejected their request for an apology for a 1917 declaration that helped pave the way to the state of Israel, and they would pursue international court action unless London backtracked. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for the apology in an address to the U.N. General Assembly in September,…
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Fast Forward Orthodox British Mayoral Candidate Sorry For Burning New Testament
(JTA) — A far right-wing Orthodox candidate for mayor of the British city of Manchester apologized after burning what he called a “missionary bible” and posting images of it on social media. Shneur Odze, who is a candidate for the right-wing populist UK Independence Party, or UKIP, on the eve of Passover found the Hebrew-language…
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