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Fast Forward Did London Hasidic School Teach Pre-Schoolers About Evil ‘Goyim’
A Satmar Hasidic school in a London borough apologized for using the term “goyim” on worksheets following a newspaper report that its preschoolers were being taught that non-Jews are evil. An article published Tuesday in the Independent newspaper, a major British daily, focused on a worksheet on the Holocaust used by the young students at…
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Fast Forward British Jews Seek To Block Leicester Ban on Settlement Products
A British Jewish group asked the country’s high court to review a municipality’s decision last year to support a boycott of products from the West Bank. Jonathan Neumann, director of Jewish Human Rights Watch — a group devoted to monitoring efforts to boycott Israel — earlier this month filed with the High Court of Justice…
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Fast Forward British Labor Leader Backed Pastor Who Blamed 9/11 on Israel
Jeremy Corbyn, a Parliament member who is on track to become the head of Britain’s Labor Party, wrote a letter in support of a priest who claimed that Israel and wealthy Jews were behind the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Corbyn defended Rev. Stephen Sizer, who in February posted an article on Facebook…
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Fast Forward British Anti-Semitic Incidents Soar by 53%
The number of recorded anti-Semitic incidents in Britain soared in the first six months of this year compared with 2014, probably due to a surge in reporting among fearful Jews, a report by a Jewish community body said on Thursday. There were 473 recorded incidents between January and June this year including two classified as…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Group Booted From British Union Festival
Organizers of a trade union festival in Britain asked pro-Israel activists to leave and pack up their stand following harassment by supporters of the Palestinian cause. Members of the Bournemouth Action for Israel (BAFI) grassroots group claimed that their kiosk was defaced and they were verbally abused by Palestine Solidarity Campaign supporters at the Tolpuddle…
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Opinion Europe Has Had Enough of Benjamin Netanyahu
Europe and Israel don’t see eye-to-eye on Iran — and maybe never will. Netanyahu believes that any deal with Iran should tie its behavior to sanctions relief. It’s a good argument to make, when you consider the history of Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism and its tendency to say one thing but mean another. And yet,…
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Fast Forward British Foreign Secretary Spars With Bibi on Iran Deal
An on-camera, testy exchange between British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid bare on Thursday tensions over the nuclear deal between foreign powers and Iran. A day after telling Britain’s parliament that Israel would not have been satisfied with any accord with Iran, Hammond met with Netanyahu to try and…
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Fast Forward Sex Abuse Trial of British Lord Raises Hope for Closure — Not Justice
(JTA) — Back in 1991, as he was led away from the courtroom, convicted child molester Frank Beck shouted out an accusation against one of the most prominent British Jews. Greville Janner, a former leader of British Jewry and lawmaker for the Labour Party, Beck screamed, was his eager accomplice in the sexual exploitation of…
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Fast Forward Organizers of London Israeli real estate fair apologize after West Bank properties surface despite denials