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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Merkel: Anti-Semitism in Germany ‘more widespread than we imagine’
BERLIN (JTA) — Germany must set clear boundaries in the fight against anti-Semitism, Chancellor Angela Merkel said ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Anti-Semitism in Germany is “more widespread than we imagine,” Merkel said in a conversation with Jewish media expert Oren Osterer in a podcast aired Saturday, noting several fronts: schools, social media and legal measures. The remembrance day is Wednesday.
Merkel agreed it was especially important to reach young people coming to Germany from countries where hatred of Israel and Jews are common. Germany had some 500,000 applications for asylum in 2015, the vast majority from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other Muslim countries.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Trump says he would welcome Bloomberg candidacy
(JTA) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said he would welcome the candidacy of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“I would love to have Michael get into the race. I would personally like to compete with Michael Bloomberg,” Trump told CBS’ “Face the Nation” in a phone interview Sunday morning.
“I think he might very well get in the race and I would love him to get into the race,” Trump said. “Michael has been a friend of mine over the years. Perhaps we’re not friends anymore. He has wanted to do this for a long time but he has never pulled the trigger.”
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From PressTV
Syria vows no ‘new concessions’ at future Geneva talks
A senior official in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ruling party has said the government will not make any new concessions in the upcoming Geneva peace talks.
“We will not make new concessions at [the] Geneva peace talks,” the assistant regional secretary of al-Baath Arab Socialist Party, Hilal al-Hilal, said on Sunday.
The comments come ahead of talks planned to start in the Swiss city on January 25.
The Geneva talks, which are likely to be delayed, are part of an 18-month timetable approved unanimously last December by the United Nations Security Council to resolve the Syria conflict.
The UNSC Resolution 2254 endorses a roadmap for a peace process in Syria.
The resolution calls for a nationwide ceasefire in Syria and the formation of a “credible, inclusive and non-sectarian” government within six months and UN-supervised “free and fair elections” within 18 months.
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From The Independent
Teachers need training for Holocaust lessons, MPs say
From The Independent
Norway’s biggest bank DNB calls for the end of cash
Could Oslo become Europe’s first cashless capital? Ayrcan/Flickr
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Netanyahu: Hebron settlers can return to homes once paperwork in order
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel will allow the settlers removed from two houses in Hebron to return once their paperwork is in order, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
“As soon as the procedures regarding the purchase are approved, we will allow the two homes in Hebron to be populated, as indeed occurred in similar instances in the past,” Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting. “The process of checking is starting today; we will do it as quickly as possible.”
Netanyahu said that if the process of checking the two houses in Hebron in the West Bank is not completed within a week, he will make sure the Cabinet receives a status report.
Israeli troops on Friday morning removed several dozen settlers from the adjacent Hebron buildings, which the settlers had entered the previous day, saying they had bought them from Palestinians. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, who authorized the removal and like Netanyahu is a member of the Likud party, said the settlers had not received IDF authorization to enter the buildings and were there illegally.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Obama calls Peres to wish him well after heart attack
During their conversation on Saturday, Obama thanked Peres for their long friendship, a statement from Peres’ office said.
“I left hospital stronger than I entered,” Peres told Obama in praising his medical team at Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer.
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From PressTV
Palestinians hold mass funeral for girl killed by Israeli forces
A large number of Palestinians have staged a mass funeral for a 13-year-old Palestinian girl who was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
Thousands of mourners attended the funeral of Ruqayya Eid Abu Eid in the southern West Bank village of Yatta, south of al-Khalil (Hebron), on Sunday, Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported.
The funeral reportedly turned into a defiant mass march against Israel. The mourners chanted slogans condemning the Tel Aviv regime crimes and calling for an end to Israeli atrocities.
The Palestinian mourners also urged the international community to break its silence on Israel’s acts of violence against Palestinians.
They also demanded that the Palestinian authorities take solid steps to prevent Israel from committing crimes against Palestinian children.
The young Palestinian girl was gunned down outside the illegal Anatot settlement in northeastern al-Quds (Jerusalem) after she allegedly tried to stab a soldier on Saturday.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Rocket fired from Gaza at southern Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A rocket fired from Gaza at southern Israel landed in an open area.
No injuries or damage were reported from the rocket fired Sunday evening and aimed at Israeli communities on the border, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which sent residents of the area running for bomb shelters.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Obama to speak at Righteous Among the Nations ceremony at Israeli Embassy
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Barack Obama will speak at a ceremony honoring Righteous Among the Nations at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., a sign of warmed ties between Obama and Israel’s government.
Obama’s appearance at the Jan. 27 ceremony, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and conducted together with Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial authority, is the latest signal that the Obama administration and the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are putting behind them tensions created by the Iran nuclear deal.
An official ceremony for Righteous Among the Nations has never been held in the United States.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Trump retweets compliment from feed that posts fears of ‘white genocide’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Donald Trump posted a flattering message from a Twitter account that features claims that Jews and others are carrying out a genocide against whites.It was not immediately clear if the Twitter account, @WhiteGenocideTM, is a hoax site or a genuine white supremacy advocacy feed, or some combination of both.
The feed in recent weeks has alternated between tweets in support of Trump, the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, and those peddling anti-immigrant and racially charged propaganda.
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From PressTV
Saudi military goes on with new airstrikes on Yemen
Sun Jan 24, 2016 10:48AM
The regime in Riyadh has conducted new airstrikes on Yemen, nearly ten months into Saudi Arabia’s deadly campaign against its impoverished southern neighbor.
On Sunday, Saudi warplanes bombarded residential areas in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, more than twenty times.
The warplanes also targeted the Yemeni army’s headquarters in the Huth district of Amran Province. The Majzar district of Ma’rib Province came under four Saudi strikes.
Yemen’s al-Masirah news channel reported that the Sahar district of the northwestern province of Sa’ada was pounded by Saudi jets.
Local Yemeni sources also said Saudi warships launched rocket attacks on the Mukha district of the province of Ta’izz.
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From Russia Today
Veterans turn on Sarah Palin for blaming her son’s domestic violence on PTSD
Published time: 21 Jan, 2016 23:51
Sarah Palin has fallen under fire for blaming her son’s recent domestic violence on PTSD resulting from his years in the army, as well as on Obama.
Speaking in Tulsa on Wednesday, Palin addressed “the elephant in the room,” i.e. the arrest of her son following a domestic violence attack on Monday. The police report states that his girlfriend was punched in the face and kicked in the knee.
Palin said veterans, like her son, “come back a bit different.”
“So when my own son is going through what he goes through coming back, I can certainly relate with other families who kind of feel these ramifications of PTSD and some of the woundedness that our soldiers do return with,” Palin said.
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From Ynet News
Report: 61% rise in London anti-Semitism; most French Jews considering emigrating
Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett presented the government with a report of anti-Semitic statistics in Europe. According to figures, over 40% of EU citizens hold anti-Semitic views. In preparation for International Holocaust Memorial Day, which takes place on Wednesday, January 27, Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett presented the government of Israel with a report detailing a 2015 overview of anti-Semitism in the world. According to the report, the past year saw a record number of Jews emigrating away from Western European countries. The BDS movement is gaining strength in Europe, and is promoting the boycott of Jewish events and representatives, not just of Israel.
According to the report, 57 percent of French Jews are considering a move to another country. Seventy-five percent of Jewish students in US colleges have experienced, or were witnesses to, anti-Semitism. 2015 saw a 61 percent rise in anti-Semitic crime in London, and the years 2014 and 2015 were record years for anti-Semitism in Britain. According to the statistics over 40 percent of EU citizens hold anti-Semitic views of some sort. They agree with the idea that Israel is conducting a war of annihalation on the Palestinians, or the idea that Israel is behaving like the Nazis did. EU leadership and its member states have reportedly been ignoring this for over a decade.
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