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EU’s new anti-Semitism chief prioritizing online hate, implementing laws

PRAGUE (JTA) – Tackling online hate speech, implementing hate crime legislation and education are among the priorities of the European Union’s newly appointed coordinator for combating anti-Semitism.

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On Tuesday, Katharina von Schnurbein presented her strategy for addressing growing levels of anti-Semitism in Europe in Prague at her first meeting with special envoys from several nations and international organizations. They included the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom and France, as well as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

“We have very good legislation on the EU level which, for instance, prohibits Holocaust denial,” von Schnurbein told JTA. “But this legislation has only been implemented in 13 out of the EU’s 28 member states. So the European Commission is now moving to ensure proper implementation of those laws.

“There is also a very worrying spike in online hate speech. We are already in touch with IT companies so that we can come up with a common solution to this Europe-wide.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Kuwaiti student expelled from French university over anti-Semitic Facebook posts

(JTA) — A Kuwaiti student was expelled from the prestigious Sciences Po University in Paris over anti-Semitic comments made on Facebook.

Amira Jumaa is the first student to be expelled from the institution since it was founded in 1872, according to Haaretz. She reportedly was expelled in December in a decision by the university’s disciplinary committee, which is made up of students and professors, Haaretz reported, citing a report in the French weekly Nouvel Observateur.

The expulsion was not widely publicized, and its announcement at the university was made on a piece of paper posted in a university building, according to the French report.

The Facebook posts came to light in October while Jumaa worked as an intern at the French Consulate in New York as part of a school program. She was fired immediately by the consulate and suspended from the university pending an investigation.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Netanyahu: Time to ‘reset’ relations with EU

TEL AVIV (JTA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a “reset” in relations with the European Union, accusing it and Sweden particularly of unfairly singling out Israel.

In addition to attacking Brussels for its decision to label settlement goods, Netanyahu on Thursday for the first time publicly accused the Union of building “illegal constructions” in the West Bank in an alleged bid to create “political realities” there, The Times of Israel reported.

“We have to reset our relationship with the European Union. I hope we can do this on better terms,” the prime minister told foreign journalists in Jerusalem Thursday. He added that he had recently discussed the tense bilateral ties with the union’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini. “I said we have to figure out a way to resolve and set things on the right course,” he said.

“There is a natural tendency in the E.U. establishment to single out Israel and treat it in ways that other countries are not being dealt with, and especially other democracies,” he said. “And I think it’s wrong. I think it should be corrected.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Father of Palestinian teen burned alive: Demolish homes of his Jewish killers

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli prosecutors called for life sentences for two Jewish men convicted of burning a Palestinian teen alive, while the teen’s father called for their homes to be destroyed.

The father of Mohammed Abu Khdeir reportedly asked during a closed sentencing hearing in Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday that the court destroy their homes as they would for a Palestinian terrorist.

“Demolish their houses, just as happens with Arabs,” Hussein Abu Khdeir said. “There should be equal penalties.”

The hearing was closed because the two men, who were found guilty in November, were minors at the time of the crime. The court is due to hand down a decision in February.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Netanyahu named Likud leader absent a primary challenger

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was declared the leader of Likud after the party canceled its primary due to the lack of a challenger.

The Feb. 23 vote was canceled Wednesday in response to a request by the party’s comptroller citing cost. Likud will save about $1 million by canceling the vote.

Though Netanyahu was the only candidate registered, the party’s central committee originally had agreed to hold the vote, providing a blank slip for voters.

The party moved up the primary from six months before the next election to the February date.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Netanyahu to Brazil: Settler leader the only ambassador we’ll offer

(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said if Brazil won’t approve former settler leader Dani Dayan as its ambassador, Israel won’t offer another diplomat.

Israel’s Channel 2 News reported Netanyahu’s comments Wednesday.

According to i24news, Israel not having an ambassador in Brazil would represent a “de facto downgrade in relations” between the two countries.
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From PressTV

Yemen turning into another forgotten conflict, ICRC warns

Fri Jan 15, 2016 11:32AM

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned about the dire situation of Yemeni patients and numerous attacks on hospitals there, saying the world should not forget the crisis. 

Robert Mardini, who heads the ICRC’s operations for the Near and Middle East, said the situation in Yemen is turning into one of the world’s “forgotten conflicts” some nine months into the Saudi military campaign against its impoverished neighbor.

The ICRC’s outgoing health coordinator in Yemen, Monica Arpagaus, also said last week that hospitals in Yemen are no longer safe.

“We have incidents where hospitals have been targeted and patients have been injured and staffs have been killed,” said the official.

“Drugs, medication and medical supplies have been prevented from crossing frontlines into hospitals which desperately need these supplies.”

Saudi military has started a military campaign against Yemen since March 2015. Riyadh’s airstrikes have taken a heavy toll on the country’s facilities and infrastructure, destroying many hospitals, schools and factories.

The Saudi military has also blocked the flow of relief aid into Yemen, creating an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state.

More than 7,500 people have been killed and over 14,000 others injured since last March.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Germany’s stolen art probe too slow, WJC’s Lauder says

BERLIN (JTA) — A final report on the Gurlitt art collection reveals that five of its works were stolen from Jews during the Nazi period.

The findings emerged from a task force’s report submitted Thursday to Germany’s culture ministry after more than two years of investigation.

But for those waiting a lifetime for the return of property, the pace is too slow, Ronald Lauder, head of the World Jewish Congress, said in a statement Thursday.

Lauder lamented “the persistent lack of transparency and communication about the work of the task force” and added that he “expected Germany to do better, given that time is running out.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

French lawmakers wear kippah to parliament following Jew’s stabbing

(JTA) — A French-Jewish lawmaker and his non-Jewish colleague wore kippahs in parliament to signal their rejection of anti-Semitism.

Meyer Habib and Claude Goasguen were filmed wearing the Jewish head covering, also known as a yarmulke or skullcap, briefly in the corridors of the National Assembly Wednesday, after a Jewish community leader from Marseille called on Jews to remove their kippahs as a security measure following a spate of anti-Semitic stabbings in the southern city, TV5 reported.

The call Tuesday by Tzvi Amar, president of the Marseille office of the Consistoire — a community organization responsible for providing religious services — sparked a passionate debate in France over the country’s anti-Semitism problem. His suggestion was squarely rejected by other community representatives and by French President Francois Hollande, who called a reality in which Jews need to remove their kippahs “intolerable.”

READ: Do stabbings of French Jews mean end of ‘Marseille miracle’?
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Haredi Orthodox school in London ordered to close

(JTA) — Britain’s Department for Education has ordered a haredi Orthodox school in north London to close by next month.

The Charedi Talmud Torah Tashbar school has operated illegally for 40 years, does not teach children English and, according to inspectors, was failing to meet “minimum” standards, the Independent reported Thursday.

The school, which has more than 200 students, encourages “cultural and ethnic insularity because it is so narrow and almost exclusively rooted in the study of the Torah,” inspectors said following an investigation of the school, according to The Independent.

READ: Parents urge probe of NY yeshivas for neglecting secular education
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Israeli leaders urge UN’s Ban to condemn Iranian Holocaust denial cartoon contest

JERUSALEM (JTA) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon must publicly condemn Iran’s Holocaust denial and a cartoon contest that promotes it, Israel’s Knesset speaker said.

Yuli Edelstein in a letter dated Wednesday also called on Ban to take up the matter directly with Iran.

The Holocaust denial cartoon contest is sponsored by the Tehran municipality, according to reports.

“As head of an organization that in 2005 adopted the brave resolution to establish January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I ask that you exert your moral authority through public condemnation of the Iranian policy and by addressing this matter directly with Iran, as well,” Edelstein wrote to Ban. “There are no words strong enough to describe the contempt and profound disdain of the State of Israel, the Israeli people and many others the world over, to Iran’s insistent Holocaust denial.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The Nation endorses Sanders for president

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Nation endorsed Bernie Sanders for president — its third endorsement in 150 years.

The storied left-wing magazine on Thursday cited the Vermont Independent senator’s record in opposing “inequality, both economic and political.” It had offered previous endorsements of the Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1988 and Barack Obama in 2008.

“America’s middle class has melted away, while the gap between rich and poor has reached Gilded Age extremes,” the editorial said.

The magazine’s editors said they wished Sanders would expound more on foreign policy, but added they liked what they heard.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Bernie Sanders surging in polls, but are Jews feeling ‘the Bern’?

By Ron Kampeas

WASHINGTON (JTA) – Talk of a Bernie Sanders presidency has suddenly become a lot more serious.

Recent polling shows the independent Vermont senator and Democratic presidential hopeful dramatically improving his prospects in the first two primary states against front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Two polls out this week — by the Des Moines Register and Quinnipiac University — showed Clinton’s 9-point lead in Iowa dwindling from the past month, with Sanders pulling ahead in the latter survey.

The Register poll out Thursday showed Clinton now holding a 42 to 40 percent lead over Sanders less than three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, well within the poll’s 4.4 percent margin of error. And the Quinnipiac poll posted Tuesday had Sanders ahead of the former secretary of state, 49-44. The poll, which has a margin of error of 4 percentage points, is a dramatic shift from December, when the university found Clinton leading Sanders in Iowa, 50-41.
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