Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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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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Fast Forward Michael Bloomberg Apologizes For Being ‘Disrespectful’ To Women
(JTA) — Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is said to be preparing to become a Democratic presidential candidate, apologized for using “disrespectful” language about women. Bloomberg, who is Jewish, apologized through a spokesman in a New York Times article published Thursday. “Mike has come to see that some of what he has said…
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News An Orthodox Jew Is Running Against Jeremy Corbyn To Protest Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — As an observant Jew, Yosef David was taught to believe in miracles. That’s a good thing since David, a social worker from London, is going to need one to succeed in his new mission: unseating Jeremy Corbyn from Parliament in the general election on Dec. 12. David registered recently as a candidate of…
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Fast Forward Trump Says He’ll Donate To Holocaust Museum After Court Shuts Down His Charity
(JTA) — President Donald Trump said he would pay $1.8 million to several charities, including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, after losing a civil court case over his misuse of his charity to get elected. Trump made a statement about the payment on Thursday, after a New York judge ordered him to pay $2 million…
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Fast Forward Belgium’s First Female Prime Minister Is Jewish
(JTA) — Sophie Wilmes is the first woman and the first Jewish person to become the prime minister of Belgium. Wilmes, a mother of four from the Brussels region, replaced Charles Michel on Sunday in the top post. The centrist politician will head a caretaker government during negotiations on the formation of a coalition, which…
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Fast Forward Belgian Parade’s Antisemitic Float Was Only Accidentally Racist, Government Says
(JTA) — The Belgian state’s watchdog on racism has come out with its verdict on a parade float from earlier this year that was slammed as anti-Semitic: It was anti-Semitic, but its creators were not intentionally racist. The report released Thursday by the Inter-Federal Equal Opportunities Center, or UNIA, recommends clearing the Aalst float creators of…
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Fast Forward Headstones Smashed At Jewish Cemetery Near London
(JTA) — Four headstones at a disused Jewish cemetery in the United Kingdom have been destroyed in what police are investigating as a possible anti-Semitic attack. The perpetrators knocked down the headstones at the cemetery of the Chatham Memorial Synagogue in Rochester, a town located 30 miles east of London, sometime between Sept. 27 and…
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Culture Belgian Politician’s Swastika Painting Displayed At Brussels Gallery — And Jews Protest
JTA — Jewish community leaders in Belgium protested a local politician’s placing of a swastika painting titled “God created A. Hitler” in the window display of an art gallery in Brussels. The painting by Fatmir Limani, an artist and the Socialist Party alderman in charge of cultural affairs in the Brussels-area municipality of Koekelberg, is…
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