Your daily spiel for Thursday, Feb. 16

Today's spiel includes: Facebook takes down JDL page, American Jewish groups concerned about Trump's statement on peace in Israel and a not so easyjet ride with Orthodox men.
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Your Daily Spiel is The CJN’s daily roundup of trending stories in the Jewish world.


Facebook has taken down JDL Canada’s page, citing the group’s raised-fist logo as being in violation of Facebook’s “community standards.”

“Accursed Jews”: Montreal police are investigating a video taken in a Montreal mosque in 2014 in which an imam calls for death to the Jews.

 

Debating Israel’s land law: Two scholars, former Labor MK Einat Wilf and Prof. Avi Bell debated Israel’s controversial new Regulation Law, which legalizes existing settlements built on privately held Palestinian land.

Liberal and centrist Jewish groups in the U.S. expressed their displeasure with President Donald Trump saying at a White House news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday that he “can live with” a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Not so easyJet: A group of Orthodox men caused, er, tzuris for passengers and staff on an easyJet flight from Tel Aviv to Luton, England on Feb. 13. One steward described the flight as the worst he’d ever experienced. Some took to twitter to express their feelings about the incident.

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