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Fast Forward Trustee of Britain’s largest Muslim charity resigns over anti-Semitic posts
(JTA) — A trustee for Britain’s largest Muslim charity resigned after Facebook posts came to light in which he called Jews the “grandchildren of monkeys and pigs.” The Times of London first reported the posts by Heshmat Khalifa, who sat on the Board of Trustees of Islamic Relief Worldwide. The organization announced in a statement…
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Fast Forward British lecturer fired for racist, anti-Semitic comments
(JTA) — A British university lecturer was fired for making racist claims, including that “Jewish people are the cleverest in the world.” Stephen Lamonby, 73, of Solent University in Southampton, also said that “Germans are good at engineering” and that he “had a soft spot” for young Black men because they are “underprivileged” and “need…
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Fast Forward U.K. Labour Party apologizes for defaming staffers who spoke out on anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Labour apologized and offered damages to former employees who sued the British party for libel after being maligned by officials for talking about its anti-Semitism problem in the media. The apology, offered Wednesday at a High Court hearing in the suit filed by the seven ex-staffers in 2019, is part of a policy…
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Fast Forward Black Lives Matter UK conflates its movement with the Palestinians’ struggle
(JTA) — Black Lives Matter in the United Kingdom conflated its movement with the Palestinians’ struggle against Israel’s “settler colonial pursuits.” “As Israel moves forward with the annexation of the West Bank, and mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism, and Israel’s settler colonial pursuits, we loudly and clearly stand beside…
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Fast Forward Senior UK lawmaker praises article tying George Floyd killing to Israel
(JTA) — A prominent British lawmaker for the Labour Party praised and retweeted an article that claimed falsely that Israeli secret services trained U.S. police in knee chokes. Rebecca Long-Bailey, who ran for the party’s leadership in April and now is its point person for education issues, wrote Thursday on Twitter, “Maxine Peake is an…
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Fast Forward Researchers investigate if ‘Jewish factor’ caused high COVID death rate
Researchers in the United Kingdom are investigating a possible “Jewish factor” that could explain why Jews there were disproportionately likely to die of coronavirus, the Jewish Chronicle reported. A study by Britain’s Office of National Statistics found that Jewish males were more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than Christian males. The heightened…
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Fast Forward London man charged with attempted murder in stabbing of rabbi on city street
(JTA) — A London man was charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of a rabbi on a city street. The suspect in custody was identified as Stanley Frances of Stoke Newington, located in northeast London. He is scheduled to appear at Thames Magistrates’ Court on Monday, the London-based Jewish Times reported. He also was…
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Fast Forward 100-year-old Jewish war hero is oldest member of UK billionaire list
(JTA) — A British-Jewish businessman and war hero is the first centenarian to appear in the Sunday Times Rich List of the richest individuals in the United Kingdom. Tony Murray escaped Nazi-occupied France during World War II, joining Polish forces that headed to the United Kingdom. Serving in the Royal Air Force as a navigator,…
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