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Fast Forward ‘Jewarchy!’ The Rallying Cry of Man Running for Governor of Washington
David Blomstrom, one of eleven candidates for governor of Washington, has made educating the world about “Jewarchy” a central goal of his campaign. The former wildlife biologist wrote in a campaign primer distributed by the State of Washington that “Merely adding [Jewarchy] to your vocabulary makes my campaign a success.” “If you’re bothered by the…
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Fast Forward Brazilian University Rector Apologizes for Post Seeking ‘Zionism is Racism’ Teacher
The rector of a Brazilian federal university to the Jewish community over a public notice seeking to hire a “racial-ethnic relations” educator required to teach Zionism as a racist concept alongside Nazism and apartheid. ABC Federal University rector Klaus Capelle delivered the apology to Brazilian Israelite Confederation President Fernando Lottenberg and Executive President Ricardo Berkiensztat at a…
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Community ZOA President: We Are Not Conservative, But We Are Usually Right
Daniella Greenbaum (“Why the AIPAC Haters Have it Wrong,” 07/12/16) makes several unsubstantiated, inaccurate allegations about ZOA. ZOA is a 120-year old rational-centrist pro-Israel group. Being the only major group to have accurately predicted that the Oslo Accords and the Gaza withdrawal — and that dealing with Arafat and Abbas would never lead to peace,…
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News WATCH: Black Zionist Slams Pro-Palestinian Group — Cites Arab Slave Trade
A prominent African-American Zionist used social media to blast a campus group for drawing parallels between racial violence in this country and the occupation of Palestinian lands by the Israeli military. “I’m just like, wait a minute SJP. Let’s be real,” Chloé Simone Valdary said in the brief video, posted on both her Facebook and…
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News Anti-Defamation League Stands Almost Alone Against Communal Push for Anti-BDS Measures
As many Jewish groups jump on board a push for laws to penalize businesses and groups boycotting Israel, the Anti-Defamation League, long considered a pillar of the Jewish establishment, is not just standing back — it has been opposing the tide. And now, it’s taking flack for this. In a press release calling ADL’s opposition…
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News After Four Months, Students Cleared of ‘Zionist Pig’ Charge for Lack of Witnesses
Brooklyn College has largely exonerated two students who spent the last four months ensnared in a drawn-out disciplinary process and publicly accused of anti-Semitism by their college president. The college could find no witnesses to tie the students to one of the most egregious allegations leveled against them: that while protesting a meeting one of…
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Fast Forward As Endorsements, Denunciations of Trump Fly, Jewish Conservative Solidarity Frays
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on Thursday came near to endorsing Donald Trump, calling the businessman a “phenomenal friend” to Israel, a sentiment shared by some Jewish conservatives and rejected by many as a divided Republican party began the process of taking sides for or against its presumptive presidential nominee. The celebrity rabbi dismissed Trump’s previous statements…
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Opinion 5 Ways To Know If Your Anti-Zionist Comment Is Anti-Semitic
Last week I wrote about Malia Bouattia’s derogatory comments about her university Jewish society and Husam El-Coolaq calling Tzipi Livni smelly. Given Bouattia’s position as the new head of the National Union of Students in Britain and given El-Coolaq’s comment at a public event at Harvard where he is a law student, it seemed as…
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