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Turin, June 22. It could be a picture from a Nazi textbook, but this hooknosed
caricature of Israeli President Shimon Peres, with hands clasped
around a Magen David and a pocketful of bleeding babies, was part of an
Italian “cultural festival” last month. The sinister funfair game, in which
Turin students paid one euro to throw shoes at the gurning (distorting one’s
face) puppet, is one of a recent catalogue of incidents causing a climate of
fear among Italy’s Jews.
Cupertino, California, June 22: Apple pulled an app called “The Third
Intifada” from its App Store. The app encouraged attacks on Israel and
highlighted anti-Israeli news and opinion from around the Web. On Tuesday,
the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a statement urging Apple to
immediately withdraw the app from its collection. Apple complied, citing a
policy that apps that are “defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited or likely to
expose the targeted group to harm or violence will be rejected.”
Courtesy of ADL, www.adl.org
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