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From the Jewish TelegraphicAgency
Argentine president rapped for ‘Merchant of Venice’ link to nation’s money woes
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League criticized Argentina’s president for evoking classic anti-Semitic stereotypes linking Jews to the cause of Argentina’s financial challenges.
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner recommended in a visit last week to an elementary school in the shanty town of Lugano that the students read “The Merchant of Venice,” with its anti-Semitic portrayal of a vengeful Jewish moneylender, to understand Argentina’s economic troubles. Following the visit, the president continued to tweet the recommendation, appearing to try to soften her stance by confirming in a tweet that Shakespeare is performed by Israeli theater companies.
Kirchner called on the students to read the play to understand vulture funds, which are seeking to collect on Argentina’s national debt, in arrears since 2001.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
South Korea media repeat anti-Semitic canards ahead of merger vote
JERUSALEM (JTA) — South Korean media have repeated anti-Semitic canards about Jews and money in the face of a corporate merger vote.
“Jews are known to wield enormous power on Wall Street and in global financial circles,” according to a column on a South Korean news website. “It is a well-known fact that the U.S. government is swayed by Jewish capital.”
The situation was first reported Thursday by the Times of Israel.
The South Korean website MoneyToday also wrote about Jewish influence in “a number of domains,” citing a financial industry source.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli defense minister confirms 2 Israelis held by Hamas in Gaza
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon confirmed that two Israeli citizens are being held by Hamas in Gaza.
Yaalon said Thursday that he has met with the family of Avera Mengistu, a 28-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli, and updated them on the efforts to repatriate him. The defense chief also said that he has updated the family of an unidentified Bedouin-Israeli on developments.
Both men reportedly crossed into Gaza of their own volition, though both are said to have psychological problems.
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Thursday afternoon said he was not aware that an Israeli, Mengistu, had been held in Gaza for 10 months.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
JNF reveals finances for first time, holds $2 billion in land
(JTA) — The Jewish National Fund, releasing its finances for the first time, revealed that it owned $2 billion of land as of last year.
The JNF report comes amid recent criticism of the group’s quasigovernmental status that allows it to avoid state comptroller audits and official oversight, Haaretz reported. Yair Lapid, a Knesset member and former finance member, called JNF a corrupt organization in February.
The report shows that the JNF, which does not receive support from the Israeli government but enjoys tax-exempt status, generated $567 million in revenue last year, including $35 million in donations. About $20.2 million of the donations came from North America, the Times of Israel reported.
“The publication of the JNF financial report is a major step toward revealing the fund’s activities to the wider public and provides a final answer to the false and disingenuous claims about a lack of transparency,” the JNF said in a statement quoted by Haaretz.
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From The Times of Israel
Powers to up pressure for nuke deal as Congress deadline looms
With only a day left to submit Iran pact for US lawmakers’ review, foreign ministers look to overcome final hurdles, fraying tensions in Vienna
Foreign ministers from major powers were set Thursday to turn the screws on Iran to finalize a nuclear deal on the eve of a deadline to present it to US lawmakers.
If the US Congress does not receive the text by early Friday morning Vienna time — midnight in Washington — it makes the approval process longer and potentially more problematic.
But despite this pressure, and almost two weeks of talks in the Austrian capital, it is unclear whether an accord aimed at ending a 13-year standoff can be sewn up at all, let alone in time.
Building on a framework agreement from April, the deal would see Iran dismantle large parts of its nuclear infrastructure in order to put a nuclear bomb out of reach.
In return, a web of painful United Nations and Western sanctions on Iran — which denies wanting the bomb — would be progressively lifted once the UN atomic watchdog verified Tehran had fulfilled its promises.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Animal rights group sues NYC over Yom Kippur ritual
(JTA) — An animal rights group is suing several rabbis, synagogues and New York City to halt a Yom Kippur ritual in which chickens are slaughtered.
The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporas filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court against the kapparot ritual, which is practiced by haredi Orthodox Jews in the city, New York media reported Monday.
Kapparot involves swinging a live chicken over one’s head three times and reciting a prayer to cast sins to the bird. The chicken is then slaughtered and donated to the poor. In recent years, money has replaced the chicken in the rite for many Jewish groups.
The lawsuit accuses the police and health departments of assisting the ritual by blocking off streets and sidewalks, and not enforcing city and state laws that regulate health and animal cruelty issues, the New York Daily News reported.
From PressTV
Israeli MPs vote for bid to force-feed Palestinian inmates
The Israeli regime’s legislators have voted to continue pursuing a bill to allow force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike while opponents insist the move is intended as a form of torture to silence protesting inmates.
The vote passed Monday evening with a slim majority at the Israeli Knesset. The controversial legislation, which could soon be fast-tracked into law, would enable the regime’s prison facilities to seek official authorization to force-feed Palestinian inmates if a doctor rules their hunger strikes involve health risks.
The measure is meant to replicate a similar tactic used at US military facilities in Iraq’s Abu Gharib prison during its invasion of the country in 2003-11 as well as in Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
This is while the Israeli regime’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told the Knesset last month that “security prisoners are interested in turning a hunger strike into a new type of suicide terrorist attack through which they will threaten… Israel. We will not allow anyone to threaten us and we will not allow prisoners to die in our prisons,” according to Israeli press reports.
Meanwhile, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has censured the Tel Aviv regime for the proposed bill.
“Israel’s force-feeding bill contravenes established medical ethics, which unequivocally prohibit force-feeding as a form of inhuman and degrading treatment,” said PHR’s senior anti-torture fellow Sarah Dougherty as cited in an RT report on Tuesday.
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From Russia Today
BBC, VoA included? Hactivists leak Ukraine’s ‘ban guide’ on Russian, intl reporters
The hacktivist group CyberBerkut says it has obtained for-internal-use-only documents of the Information Policy Ministry, which detail how to pinpoint journalists “involved in anti-Ukrainian information activities.”
“The rigorous research in the document is striking. It’s amusing, but now the presence of a laptop, memory cards, photo cameras and other gadgets in luggage can be grounds for denying entry into Ukraine to anyone. And note that it’s not only for Russian journalists, but foreign journalists in general,” CyberBerkut’s statement says.
The guidelines apply not only to journalists entering the country, but also give grounds for extradition if the crew is already at the scene, the hacktivists said.
At the same time, it appears some journalists are not welcome at all, as an accreditation black list has allegedly been found. The list also published by CyberBerkut is said to have been compiled by the Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and consists of 102 media organizations, mostly the usual Russian suspects. However, such names as the Voice of America and BBC Russian also included.
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