German authorities have shut down a planned pro-Palestinian vigil at the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp memorial after a fierce outcry. The rally was slated for April 12, marking the 81st anniversary of Buchenwald’s liberation by U.S. troops. But the city of Weimar said on Monday it would ban the event on the memorial grounds and […]
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Argentina announced on Tuesday that it had designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, a move that was quickly praised by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar. The move stems from Argentina’s decades-long investigations into the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, which killed 29 and injured more than 200, […]
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Three more men have been arrested in London in connection with a series of fires on ambulances owned by the Jewish emergency service corps Hatzola, London’s Metropolitan Police Service announced on Wednesday. Two British men, ages 20 and 19, and a 17-year-old dual British and Pakistani citizen were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit […]
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Zalmy Mochkin, a 36-year-old chef and artist in Israel, had lined up what seemed like a perfect Passover gig for this year: He would cook for an American family of 21 who were planning to spend the holiday in the northern city of Tzfat. But then Israel and the United States attacked Iran on Feb. […]
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The mayor of Bath, in southwestern England, resigned from his post Monday after drawing criticism for amplifying the idea that the London arson of ambulances owned by a Jewish emergency service was a “false flag” attack. “I have been made aware that I have reposted or replied to some posts which have never aligned to […]
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TORONTO — Max Kirschner pondered the kosher wine section at an uptown Toronto liquor store, two days before the start of Passover. As he mulled over which six bottles to purchase for his two seders, he had plenty of options: Wines from Israel, Italy, Chile, Argentina and New Zealand lined the shelves. The South African […]
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Canada’s main progressive party aims to make a comeback under its new leader Avi Lewis, a Jewish anti-Zionist. Lewis, a filmmaker and former journalist, was elected to lead the New Democrats on Sunday. He campaigned on principles that have energized the global left, including affordability, the environment and unapologetic anti-Zionism. He repeated his position on […]
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First, the good news. Among Americans under 50, the overall cancer mortality has plummeted by 44% over the last quarter-century. Better diagnostic tools, along with a sharp drop in smoking, helps explain why deaths from leukemia as well as lung, breast and brain cancer are falling so dramatically. Now the bad news: Colorectal cancer (CRC) […]
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BUENOS AIRES — As Argentina marks the 50th anniversary of the 1976 military coup, a lesser-known aspect of the dictatorship is gaining attention: the disproportionate number of Jews among the disappeared. Estimates suggest that as many as 1,900 Jews were abducted, tortured and murdered by the military junta during the six-year Dirty War, when many […]
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Two men were arrested in London on Wednesday in connection with an arson attack days earlier that destroyed four ambulances owned by Hatzola, a Jewish volunteer emergency service. A 47-year-old man was arrested in northwest London and a 45-year-old man in central London, according to the Metropolitan Police. Both are suspected of arson with intent […]
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