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|  | | "The myth of the Holocaust is an industry that America invented," Fathi Shihab Eddim reportedly claimed in recent days. | | | | | |  | The severe winter weather has caused a nationwide egg shortage. Additional factors are the loss of a major egg supplier, and higher seasonal demand.
| | | | | |  | The illustrator of an editorial cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians and using their blood as cement apologized for the timing of its publication.
| | | | | |  | The lights of the ancient Coliseum in Rome will be dimmed next week to protest anti-Semitic and racist acts and statements by Hungary's far-right Jobbik Party.
| | | | | |  | Dutch teenagers are using "Jew" akin to "cool" or "awesome" in English, according to a linguist from Leiden University.
| | | | | |  | A popular German rap star, known as Bushido, has sparked outrage after tweeting "Free Palestine" and a map showing the Land of Israel filled entirely with the colors of the "Palestinian" flag.
| | | | | |  | A local New York newspaper has enraged a portion of its readers after publishing an interactive map that shows the names and addresses of thousands of residents who have handgun permits.
| | | | | |  | | Iran’s state-run PressTV, which has developed a well-earned reputation for publishing incendiary anti-Israel conspiracy theories, ran a story Tuesday espousing the belief that Israeli "death squads" are to blame for the Sandy Hook shooting. | | | | | |  | | "We came up with the name M75 for a new perfume in the shop as a symbol of the rocket of the resistance, and the victory of Gaza," Abu Ahmed, owner of the "Stay Stylish" shop in Gaza City's upscale Rimal neighborhood | | | | | |  | Sudanese officials announced Monday that they have captured an electronically-tagged vulture suspected of being dispatched by Israel on a spying mission.
| | | | | |  | | The Jewish National Fund will distribute free Christmas trees to local churches, monasteries, convents, embassies and foreign journalists. | | | | | |  | A Swedish art gallery owner defended his gallery’s decision to show a painting made of Holocaust victims' ashes as "having no moral flaws."
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|  | | Reserve Col. Moshe Peled, a former tank division commander, still wears his uniform, this time as a driver for a huge truck carrier for tanks, but he adds he will retire - at age 75. | | | | | |  | | Haifa University has suspended all public extracurricular activity on campus, after Arab students held a "memorial service" for Ahmed Jaabari, commander of Hamas's military terror wing. | | | | | |  | More than 8,000 Holocaust survivors have not received reimbursement for medical expenses that they are entitled to get from the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel.
| | | | | |  | A collection of pre-World War II posters that were returned to the heir of a Jewish dentist who fled the Nazis is going on sale.
| | | | | |  | A lawmaker for Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party has reportedly read out in parliament a passage from the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
| | | | | |  | The families of five of the students killed in the 2008 terrorist attack on the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem have filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the Bank of China for making money transfers to Hamas.
| | | | | |  | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has lost a copyright infringement case for the exclusive use of Albert Einstein's image for commercial purposes.
| | | | | |  | A video in support of President Obama produced by the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman, (who is a Reform Rabbi) will begin airing in Florida.
| | | | | |  | "Reuters" reports that a bicycle made almost entirely of cardboard is to be mass produced by an Israeli based at Ahituv, a farming village near Hadera.
| | | | | |  | | The district of France that includes Paris signed an agreement with the Palestinian Authority to provide funding for programs in eastern Jerusalem. The agreement undercuts Israel's claim to eastern Jerusalem. | | | | | |  | | Pop diva Madonna urged fans to vote for President Barack Obama in America's November election, reports AFP, but may have caused him damage by calling him a "Black Muslim," according to a video posted online Tuesday. | | | | | |  | | Facebook Inc. has suspended its automatic photo-tagging feature for European users in response to pressure from EU regulatory agencies for protecting privacy rights. | | | | |
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