Libya says it will quit international energy organizations that have Israel as a member. (They won't.)

The fallout in Libya of the discovery that Israeli and Libyan officials have been meeting secretly for years, and those officials denials, has prompted many other Libyans to pledge that they will never, ever, ever do anything that could be considered the slightest bit of normalization with Israel.For example, the mayors of Libyan towns felt it was necessary to issue a statement...

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1957 British "Adventures of Robin Hood" tackled antisemitism

This is an episode of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" called "The York Treasure"  that has a Jewish-themed plot, even though the word "Jewish" is (as far as I can tell) mentioned only once.Joseph of Cordoba and his young friend Esther escaped from a pogrom of the Jewish community in York (described as "riots") instigated by a deserter of King Richard I's army named Malbete....

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