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Fast Forward Britain’s leading Jewish newspapers shutter due to coronavirus slump
(JTA) — Both of Britain’s leading national-circulation Jewish newspapers, The Jewish Chronicle and The Jewish News, are being liquidated. The staff of both papers will be laid off because their parent company, the Kessler Foundation charity, has run out of money due to the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, The Guardian reported Wednesday. The…
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Fast Forward Oxford English Dictionary adds ‘Yiddo’ and ‘Yid’ as fan of Hotspurs soccer team
(JTA) — “Yiddo,” a variation of the derogatory term “yid,” is a new entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, which also has added a definition of the latter to describe supporters and players of a British soccer team. The Tottenham Hotspurs, known as the Spurs, has many Jewish supporters who sometimes call themselves the “yid…
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Fast Forward UK anti-Semitic incidents rise for 4th straight year, reach all-time high
(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic incidents documented in Britain increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2019, reaching a record tally of 1,805 cases. Overall, the increase over 2018 was of 7%, but the category of assault increased by 27% to 157 incidents, the Community Security Trust, or CST, British Jewry’s largest watchdog on…
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Fast Forward Former U.K House of Commons speaker says he experienced anti-Semitism
(JTA) — John Bercow, the British House of Commons speaker who resigned in late October, said he experienced anti-Semitism in his own Conservative Party. In 22 years in the House of Commons, he never faced anti-Semitism from the beleaguered Labour Party, Bercow said in an interview with the Sunday Times magazine. “Unspeakable,” a memoir by…
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Fast Forward ‘Chanukah Miracle’: Most British Jewish Groups Relieved By Corbyn’s Defeat
Many British Jews group expressed their relief that the Labour Party suffered their worst electoral defeat in decades on Thursday. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn had been criticized for years amid claims that he allowed anti-Semitism to fester within the party, and a poll found that 87% of British Jews believed that he was personally anti-Semitic….
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Fast Forward UK Election Coverage: AOC Seemingly Endorses Corbyn, Labour
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared a campaign video made by Britain’s Labour Party on Thursday, the day of the British election. “The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives,” she wrote. “The only way we change is with a massive surge of new voters at the polls. UK, Vote!”…
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Fast Forward Muslim Woman Defends Jewish Family From Anti-Semitism On London Underground
A Jewish family riding on the London Underground was accosted by a man yelling anti-Semitic language – but was defended by a Muslim woman also riding on the train, video posted to social media Friday showed. The footage, posted by British author and filmmaker Chris Atkins, showed a Jewish man wearing a kippah comforting two…
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Fast Forward British Politician: Jews Who Visit Israel Come Back As ‘Brainwashed Extremists’
(JTA) — A candidate for British parliament representing the Conservative Party said that local Jews who go to Israel “have come back as extremists – as people that are brainwashed.” In a 2104 speech delivered to the European Parliament in Brussels, Amjad Bashir, who is running for parliament in a Leeds constituency, said this of…
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