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Tokyo 2020: Olympics ceremony director fired over Holocaust joke

The director of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been dismissed, the organisers have said following news reports that he had previously made jokes about the Holocaust. Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto told a briefing on Thursday that Kentaro Kobayashi, who was part of a comedy act in …

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IHRA ‘misrepresents’ own definition of anti-Semitism, says report

An international organisation behind a controversial definition of anti-Semitism has misled the public about that definition, according to a new report by the British campaign group Free Speech on Israel, obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit. The report, written by Oxford University researcher Jamie Stern-Weiner and set to be officially published on …

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