Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Belgium Drops Case Against Cafe Owner Who Welcomed Dogs, But Not Jews
(JTA) — Prosecutors in Belgium dropped criminal complaints against a Turkish café owner who put up a sign banning Jews. A café in the town of Saint-Nicolas had displayed a sign saying dogs are welcome at his business, “but Jews are not.” The La Dernière Heure newspaper on Friday reported that the Prosecutor’s Office in…
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Fast Forward British Politician Liked Post On ‘Zionist Slave Masters,’ Gets Elected Anyway
(JTA) — British Jews protested the election to Parliament of a candidate for the Labour party who “liked”a Facebook post saying Prime Minister Theresa May has a “Zionist Slave Masters agenda.” Lisa Forbes on Thursday won a special election in the eastern English city of Peterborough, defeating a Brexit Party candidate and leaving the Conservative…
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Fast Forward Jewish Dating App Jcrush Leaves 200,000 Users’ Personal Data Exposed
(JTA) — A security lapse at the JCrush dating application for Jews left sensitive personal data of about 200,000 users exposed. The breach, rooted in the site’s failure to encrypt its data, gave anyone who knew where to look access to users’ real name, gender, email address, IP address, location, age, sexual preferences and religious…
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Fast Forward Terrorist Attacks On Israelis Tripled In May
(JTA) — Terrorist attacks against Israelis more than tripled in May, which was the deadliest month in almost two years. The increase to 449 incidents in May over April’s 126 incidents owes to the launching of hundreds of rockets last month from Gaza into Israel. The rockets killed four people and wounded eight out of…
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Fast Forward Nearly Two-Thirds Of Hate Crimes In New York This Year Have Been Anti-Semitic
(JTA) – The number of hate crimes reported to the New York Police Department this year is nearly double the number reported in 2018 during the same period – and most incidents are anti-Semitic. The NYPD has received 176 hate crime complaints from Jan. 1 to May 19, constituting an 83 percent rise over the…
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Fast Forward Dutch Foreign Minister Defends Diplomat Promoting ‘One-State Solution’
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Dutch foreign minister defended the right of a diplomat serving in his ministry to call for a boycott of Israel and promote a “one-state solution” of Israelis and Palestinians. Stef Blok offered a defense of Angelique Eijpe on Tuesday in parliament. Eijpe’s anti-Israel activities came up in parliamentary queries after it…
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Fast Forward Netherlands Museums To Return Nazi-Looted Art To Holocaust Survivor’s Family
(JTA) — Two museums in the Netherlands have agreed to return two Nazi-looted paintings to the descendants of a Holocaust survivor. The Central Museum in Utrecht will return to the family of Jacob Lierens the painting titled “Pronkstilleven” by Jan Davidsz, which the Jewish collector was forced to sell under duress, the news site jonet.nl…
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Fast Forward Lebanese Parliament Speaker Tells Anti-Semitic Money-Grubbing Joke
(JTA) — The speaker of the Lebanese parliament told an anti-Semitic joke during an interview and said Israelis love their land less than the Lebanese because they stay away from the border. Nabih Berri, a leader of the pro-Hezbollah Amal movement, made the racist reference to Jews during an interview with the Al Joumhouria newspaper…
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