German police are investigating an assault on two young men in Berlin, in which the attacker was filmed shouting anti-Semitic abuse.
The men say they were harassed in the Prenzlauer Berg area on Monday while wearing Jewish skullcaps (kippahs).
A video of the incident, which was later shared on Facebook, shows the attacker hitting the men with his belt.
He is heard shouting "Yahudi", an Arabic word for Jew, before being dragged away by another man.
One of the...
Neo-Nazis held a swastika burning following a white supremacist rally in the city of Newnan, Georgia, on April 21.
One image shows dozens of people giving Nazi salutes in front of a burning swastika that appears to be 12 to 18 feet tall.
According to Platt and local news reports, the white supremacist group gathered in Draketown, Georgia, about 50 miles from Newnan after the protest.
The rally at Greenville Street Park in Newnan was organized by the white supremacist...
An Israeli general has confirmed that when snipers stationed along Israel-Gaza boundary shoot at children, they are doing so deliberately, under clear and specific orders.
In a radio interview, Brigadier-General (Reserve) Zvika Fogel describes how a sniper identifies the “small body” of a child and is given authorization to shoot.
Fogel’s statements could be used as evidence of intent if Israeli leaders are ever tried for war crimes at the International Criminal Court.
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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced that his country will not allow Turkish politicians to carry out election campaign rallies, ahead of upcoming snap parliamentary and presidential elections that will be held on June 24, 2017.
The Social Democrat (SPD) Party politician's statement comes after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that he will address Turkish people living in Europe ahead of the elections, and just a few days after Austria and the Netherlands announced...
Turkish community in Germany still faces discrimination and institutional racism at every single aspect of life from eduction to justice in Germany. One prominent Harvard-educated lawyer says German judges hand longer prison sentences to defendants just for having Turkish names.
Mehmet Daimaguler studied law in prestigious Harvard and Yale in the United States. But he was almost sent to infamous Sonderschule where kids with mental disabilities go in Germany when he was in elementary...
Jerusalem-born actor was due to receive 2018 Genesis prize but cancels saying she ‘cannot in good conscience’ attend ceremony.
Natalie Portman has pulled out of a major award ceremony due to take place in Israel, citing her “distress” at recent events in the country.
Portman, who was born in Jerusalem and holds dual Israeli and US citizenship, was named in November as the recipient of the 2018 Genesis award, a yearly prize for “outstanding achievement by individuals who have...
New York City’s Public Design Commission voted unanimously to remove the statue of J. Marion Sims, a 19th century surgeon who conducted experimental operations on female slaves, from its place of honor in Central Park.
It was the first decision to alter a prominent New York monument since Mayor Bill de Blasio called for a review of “symbols of hate” from city property eight months ago, in the wake of the white supremacist protestin Charlottesville, Va., that left one person dead....
Starbucks will close all of its over 8,000 U.S. stores for an afternoon dedicated to racial bias training, the coffee company announced amid an uproar.
The shutdown of Starbucks' company-owned retail stores and corporate offices will take place on May 29 in order to train 175,000 employees on how to spot “unconscious bias” after two black men were arrested at one of its stores over the weekend.
The arrests occurred after the men asked to use the restroom at a Philadelphia...
A 14-year-old missed his bus and it nearly cost him his life. Walker was trying to walk the bus route to Rochester High School after he woke up late and missed his bus.
His mom had taken his phone away, so he didn't have that with him to get directions. So he knocked on a stranger’s door for help -- and almost paid for it with his life.
"I got to the house, and I knocked on the lady's door. Then she started yelling at me and she was like, 'Why are you trying to break into my...
Unknown vandals attempted to set a West Bank mosque on fire overnight, in a possible hate crime against Palestinians.
The incident took place in the village of Aqraba, north of Nablus, and saw the words "Death" and "Price tag" daubed on the mosque's external walls.
No one was hurt in the incident.
Referred to in Israel as “price-tag attacks”, the attacks are wanton reprisals undertaken by extremist Jews in response to Palestinian violence against Israelis or government...
Reddit's CEO Steve Huffman has found himself once again embroiled in a controversy surrounding his website’s policy on moderation.
In a Reddit thread announcing the platform’s 2017 transparency report findings, in which Reddit identified and listed close to 1,000 suspected Russia-linked propaganda accounts that have been banned, Huffman replied to a straightforward question about the company’s rules around hate speech, which is a verbal attack based on race, religion, or another...
Israel’s Labour Party had suspended relations with Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labour party, accusing him of sanctioning anti-Semitism and showing hostility towards Israeli policies.
Corbyn, who unexpectedly became party head in 2015, is a supporter of Palestinian rights and a critic of Israel. He has repeatedly faced accusations of turning a blind eye to anti-Semitic comments in the party and among groups he supports.
“It is my responsibility to acknowledge the...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz-KDNP coalition won a landslide victory in general elections.
Based on 91 percent of the votes counted, the coalition of the Fidesz party and Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) received at least 48 percent of the vote while Hungary's main opposition Jobbik party received 19 percent and the left-wing Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) and Dialogue for Hungary (PM) oppositional coalition received 12 percent.
Hungary's...
Supporters of the PYD/PKK terrorist organization in April 6, attacked the Council of Europe’s Agora building in Strasbourg, France.
Around 30 people got past a security checkpoint where nearly 600 people were working, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent reporting from the scene.
The PYD/PKK sympathizers hung a banner that called for the release of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed terrorist leader of the PKK – the parent group of the PYD/PKK -- and damaged the building...
Turkey's Athens Consulate-General came under attack late April 4, according to Consul-General Oya Yazar.
Yazar told Anadolu Agency that a group of 15 to 20 people came to the street where the consulate is located in the evening of Wednesday and began smearing the building's walls with red paint.
No one was injured in the attack; however, the windows of the consulate’s waiting room were broken, Yazar said.
The assailants later escaped, she added.
According to Greek...