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Fast Forward British ‘Jewification’ Rally Planner Busted for Tweets
The organizer of a planned far-right protest of the “Jewification of Great Britain” was arrested for posting a series of allegedly abusive tweets aimed at a British Parliament member. Joshua Bonehill-Paine, 22, was apprehended Friday for allegedly writing anti-Semitic tweets to Luciana Berger of the Labor Party. Berger is a former director of the Labor…
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Fast Forward Over 100 British Artists Announce Cultural Boycott of Israel
More than 100 British artists announced that they have launched a cultural boycott of Israel. “We will not engage in business-as-usual cultural relations with Israel. We will accept neither professional invitations to Israel, nor funding, from any institutions linked to its government,” the artists said in a letter to The Guardian newspaper on Saturday. “Now…
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Fast Forward Britain Must Take ‘Immediate Action’ to Quash Anti-Semitism, Report States
Instituting measures to deal with hate crimes on social media and a government fund to protect synagogues are among 35 recommendations offered by a British parliamentary inquiry into rising anti-Semitism. Britain must take immediate action to quash the rise in anti-Semitism in the country, the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry said in its report, which was released…
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Fast Forward British TV Station Uses Gaza Backdrop in Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis Interview on Holocaust
The British broadcaster Sky News apologized for showing images of the Gaza conflict during an interview about the Holocaust with British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. The apology over the Jan. 27 broadcast came in a letter sent by Peter Lowe, Sky News’ managing editor, to a viewer who sent Sky News a letter of complaint…
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Fast Forward British Anti-Semitic Incidents Double to All-Time High
(JTA) — A Jewish security watchdog group in Britain recorded 1,168 anti-Semitic incidents for 2014, the highest annual total ever recorded. The 2014 incidents recorded by the Community Security Trust are more than double the 535 anti-Semitic incidents recorded in 2013, and the first time that the group has recorded more than 1,000 anti-Semitic incidents…
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Fast Forward Martin Gilbert, British Historian Who Wrote Biography of Winston Churchill, Dies at 78
British historian Sir Martin Gilbert, who studied the Holocaust and was the official biographer of Winston Churchill, has died. Gilbert died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 78. Gilbert, the author of 80 books, wrote on the subjects of the Holocaust, World War I and World War II, and Jewish history. Among his books…
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Fast Forward Right-Wing British Party Calls for Kosher Slaughter Ban
Britain’s right-wing UKIP party has come out in support of passing legislation that would ban the production of ritually slaughtered meat. The move by UKIP, or the United Kingdom Independence Party, came Tuesday in a statement sent to media, which made UKIP the first major political party in the country to call for a ban…
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Fast Forward Far-Right Wing Group Protests "Jewification of Great Britain"
A far-right nationalist group is planning a rally in a haredi Orthodox neighborhood of London to protest against what it calls the “Jewification of Great Britain.” The rally, set for March 22, is being organized by a group called Liberate Stamford Hill, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. The Stamford Hill neighborhood is said to have…
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