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Prosecutors: ‘Camp Auschwitz’ Jan. 6 Rioter Was Wearing SS Shirt
Underneath Robert Keith Packer’s sister asked people not to judge him by his cover, a “Camp
Auschwitz” sweatshirt. A prosecutor said he was wearing a Nazi SS T-shirt under-
neath, JTA reported.

The revelation of what Packer, a 57-year-old Virginia pipefitter, was wearing on
Jan. 6, 2021, came on Sept. 15 when a federal judge sentenced him to 75 days for
his role in the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.

The sweatshirt, which became a symbol of the rioters’ ties to white suprema-
cist movements, was “incredibly offensive,” U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said
before handing down the sentence.

“It seems to me that he wore that sweatshirt for a reason. We don’t know what
the reason was because Mr. Packer hasn’t told us,” Nichols said.

Germany’s Public Broadcaster Mandates That All Employees
Support Israel’s Right to Exist
Germany’s public broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, revised its code of conduct to
require support for Israel’s right to exist, and employees who fail to do so may
now be fired, JTA reported.

The move announced Sept. 1 preceded a court order last week that DW rein-
state a former employee who was fired after the company determined she had
made comments about Israel that could be construed as antisemitic. In all, seven
employees from the broadcaster’s Arabic service were let go last year on similar
grounds, and so far two have successfully sued DW for reinstatement.

The revised conduct code appears to be timed to strengthen the company’s
hand in such cases in the future. DW spokesperson Vera Tellmann said in an
email that the company “is awaiting the reasons for the verdict in one case and
reserves the right to take further legal action.”
DW is not the only German media company to expressly endorse Israel’s right
to exist. In 1967, the Axel Springer company, one of Germany’s biggest media
conglomerates that now owns Politico and Insider, established “corporate prin-
ciples” that include “support [for] the Jewish people and the right of existence of
the State of Israel.”
Australian University Magazine Editor Fired After Writing
‘Death to Israel’
The student union at the University of Adelaide fired an editor of its campus
student magazine after she called for “death to Israel” in an article last month,
JTA reported
In a statement on Sept. 13, the board of YouX, the university’s student body,
said that Habibah Jaghoori’s “recent public conduct would reasonably be per-
ceived by any fair-minded person to be threatening the welfare of students at our
University.” Jaghoori, an editor of On Dit, the campus student magazine, concluded an arti-
cle on Aug. 4 with the phrase “Death to Israel.” The article was prompted by the
three-day conflict last month between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in
the Gaza Strip. The conflict killed close to 50 Palestinian civilians.

The YouX statement said it was not the article that prompted the firing of
Jaghoori. Her removal was “specifically related to her conduct and behaviour
since the article’s publication,” it said.

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Study: Tel Aviv Home to 42,400 Millionaires
A new study released this week by Henley & Partners found that 42,400 million-
aires live in Tel Aviv, or about one in 10 residents, jns.org reported.

Among them, Israel’s coastal city and primary economic engine is home to
2,260 people with a net worth of more than $10 million, 118 residents with more
than $100 million and 12 billionaires.

Tel Aviv placed second in terms of the richest cities in the Middle East — based
on the number of millionaires — behind Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Globally, New York City has the most millionaires (345,600), followed by
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