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Opinion Pam Geller — Secret to Interfaith Healing?
The controversial new bus ad. Pamela Geller is at it again. Her new set of black and white posters on Metro buses in Washington, D.C. declare: “Islamic Jew-Hatred: It’s In the Quran. Two Thirds of All U.S. Aid Goes to Islamic Countries. Stop Racism. End All Aid to Islamic Countries.” An accompanying photo shows Adolph…
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Breaking News Knesset Bill Would Allow Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount
Two MKs from Likud and Labor have collaborated to propose a law that would allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. Written by Likud MK Miri Regev and Labor MK Hilik Bar, the law would reverse the current ban on Jewish prayer on the mount, considered Judaism’s holiest site. The current ban was instituted…
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News Dutch Right-Winger Geert Wilders Loses Backing of Jews
(JTA) — Standing in front of a giant flag, a tall blond politician asks his excited followers whether their country should have greater or fewer Moroccans. When they are done chanting “fewer,” the speaker, Geert Wilders of the far-right Dutch Party for Freedom, promises his listeners that he will “take care of it.” Wilders was…
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Breaking News Anti-Semitism Rife at French Islamic Conference
A major conference on Islam in Paris featured anti-Semitic speeches, according to a sociologist who listened to the lectures. The speeches were given “a place of honor” at Wednesday’s 31st congress of the Union of Islamic Organizations in France, or UOIF, sociologist Michele Tribalat wrote in the Le Figaro daily Thursday. He singled out a…
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Opinion Israel’s Bid For Visa Waiver Falls Short
Getty Images Israel is making another push to join the U.S. visa waiver program, which would allow Israelis to enter the U.S. for 90 days without a visa. Last year, another effort to enlist Israel in the program stalled amid criticisms of Israel’s discrimination against Americans of Arab and Muslim origins at its border. In…
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Breaking News Moroccan Jew Seeks To Join Islamist Party
A Moroccan Jewish lawyer has asked to join ruling Islamist party. Isaac Charia of Rabat sent an open letter to the Islamist Justice and Development Party requesting to join the party, Morocco World News reported. In the letter, Charia asks whether the party will welcome Moroccan Jews or if it is only for Muslims. He…
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Breaking News Toulouse Rampage Sister Quizzed for ‘Proud, Proud, Proud’ Video
A French court has extended the remand of Souad Merah, sister of the Islamist who killed four Jews in Toulouse. Souad Merah was arrested Monday night on suspicion that she blessed her brother, Mohammed Merah, ahead of his killing spree, in which he gunned down three French soldiers and four Jews near and in Toulouse…
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Breaking News NYPD Disbands Unit That Snooped on Muslims
The New York Police Department has disbanded a surveillance unit that targeted and monitored Muslim communities, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The unit, which began in 2003, has been largely inactive since the incoming Police Commissioner William Bratton took over the department in January, and its detectives have been reassigned, the report said….
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