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Netanyahu urges European leaders to block kosher slaughter ban
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has written to a number of European leaders, asking that they allow kosher slaughter to continue in their countries.
The letter went out to the leaders of Poland, Finland, Portugal,...
Following Trump ban, Iranian dissident calls on Twitter to ban Khamenei
Following Twitter banning U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform, an Iranian dissident journalist has called on the social-media company to do the same to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In a statement to The...
EU court upholds Belgian ban on kosher ritual slaughter
The European Court of Justice upheld a Belgian ban on religious slaughter, including kosher ritual slaughter without stunning, in a ruling released on Thursday.
The E.U. court ruled that the laws requiring animals to be stunned enable “a fair...
Twitter intends to remove posts denying the Holocaust
Twitter announced last week that it will remove posts that deny the Holocaust.
Bloomberg first reported the move on Oct. 14.
“Our Hateful Conduct Policy prohibits a wide range of behavior, including making references to violent events or...
Ban Holocaust denial? Yes. Political censorship? No.
The applause was nearly universal. After a determined campaign on the part of the Anti-Defamation League and a broad coalition of Jewish groups and other organizations, Facebook has agreed to ban posts that contain Holocaust denial...
Facebook bans posts denying and distorting the Holocaust
Facebook announced on Monday that it is banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust.
In a post on the social-media site, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is “updating our hate-speech policy to...
US rescinds entry ban of Israeli-British journalist
The United States has lifted the entry ban it had placed on Jonathan Spyer, announced the Israeli-British journalist on social media.
“Expiration Date: 2030. Thanks and love to all those who helped,” in a Facebook post featuring...
Lift the US ban on journalist Jonathan Spyer
There is no role in journalism that is more mentally and physically punishing than that of a war correspondent.
Reporters and writers who cover wars are, in my experience, a special breed. Insofar as generalizations...
Israeli-British journalist has been banned for life from entering America
Israeli-British journalist Jonathan Spyer revealed in an article in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that he is “banned for life from entering America.”
Spyer received a document from the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem in 2019, in...
EU court adviser calls for Belgian ritual-slaughter ban to be struck down
The European Court of Justice should strike down a Belgian ban on kosher ritual slaughter without stunning, said an advocate general for the European Union’s highest court on Thursday.
Gerard Hogan cited that the 2009 E.U. law...