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In Islam, imams serve not only as prayer and faith leaders, but as pillars of the Muslim community. They have the ability to inspire their community members and to shape their religious outlook. Thus, speeches and statements made by American…
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Bristol and Warwick are named and shamed this week as the universities with the most antisemitic incidents during the last academic year. Figures released by the Community Security Trust (CST) show a total of 111 reported instances of anti-Jewish hatred…
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Ben & Jerry’s decision this summer to stop selling its products in East Jerusalem and the West Bank has created a difficult and novel conundrum for its kosher certification agency: should it renew its contract with the ice cream company?…
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Israel condemned plans by Belgium to place consumer labels on West Bank settlement products clarifying that they were not made by the Jewish state. Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll, who was in Belgium on Wednesday to improve ties between the two countries, immediately pulled…
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B’nai Brith Canada on Friday applauded members of Canada’s largest labor union for voting against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents 700,000 workers from coast to coast, is holding its…
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The Washington Post posted a profile Sunday about the police chief of a small Georgia town who has a fairly revolutionary training program. Rather than teaching his officers to shoot at a suspect’s “center mass,” LaGrange Police Chief Louis Dekmar wants his cops…
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Fear of antisemitism spurred 40% of American Jews to change their behavior over the past year, according to a new survey about antisemitism in America. The survey, released Monday, is the latest in an annual series commissioned by the American…
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For Jerry Greenfield, being accused of antisemitism is “painful.” For Ben Cohen, it’s “absurd.” But both of the founders of the famed ice cream brand stand behind the decision to stop selling their products in the West Bank. “I think…
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Vari Hall at York University in Ontario, Canada. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Andrei Sedoff. The undergraduate student union at York University has faced pushback for turning to a group supporting a boycott of Israel to hold an antisemitism training session planned…
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Starting Tuesday, Florida will stop buying shares of British consumer goods conglomerate Unilever PLC over a decision by a subsidiary, ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s, to stop selling its products in the West Bank and Gaza. The move comes…
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