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Fast Forward World War I British Officer Gets Wish To Be Buried in Israel — 67 Years Later
(JTA) — On a crisp morning in this community near the Mediterranean Sea, the sound of Israel’s flag whipping in the wind likely pleased the soul of John Henry Patterson, whose ashes were buried a few yards away. Patterson was a lieutenant colonel in the British military, and during World War I he commanded the Zion…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Old City Ad Campaign Banned by Britain
Britain’s advertising watchdog has banned an Israeli government tourism ad for showing the Old City of Jerusalem. The ad inserted in British newspapers showed a view of the Old City of Jerusalem’s walls with the words “Israel has it all” on it. The Advertising Standards Authority on Wednesday ruled that the ad is misleading since…
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Fast Forward British Lawmakers Debate Ban on Kosher Slaughter
British lawmakers spent three hours debating a possible ban on religious slaughter. The debate on Tuesday came after an on-line petition from the British Veterinary Association calling for a ban on slaughter without stunning generated 115,000 signatures in nine months. It is the second parliamentary debate on religious slaughter in the last three months. A…
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Fast Forward London Soccer Fans Chant Anti-Semitic Slurs on Subway
The British Transport Police is investigating an incident in which soccer fans allegedly chanted anti-Semitic slurs while riding a London subway train. Video filmed by another passenger and circulated on social media shows several men, believed to be supporters of the West Ham United club, chanting “I’ve got foreskin, how about you? F—ing Jew” while…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Protest Shuts British Factory of Drone Producer
Protesters temporarily shut down a British factory owned by a subsidiary of the Israeli weapons and machinery manufacturer Elbit Systems. A group of 14 activists from anti-arms and pro-Palestinian organizations, including Brighton BDS and Swansea Action for Palestine, stopped production Tuesday at the Instro Precision factory in the county of Kent in Britain’s southeast, The…
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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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