Katie Hopkins, British TV personality and newspaper columnist, tweeted on 10 November 2014 that “Palestinians busy knifing Israelis. 2 state solution my arse. Filthy rodents burrowing beneath Israel. Time to restart the bombing campaign.”
Not accepting Muslim migrants
Opposing the EU’s mandatory migrant quota, Slovakia and the Czech Republic announced that they will determine the migrants whom they will accept based on religious criteria. The Slovak government decided to accept only Christians among Syrian migrants. Preparing to accept 100 refugees from the camps in Turkey, Italy and Greece, Slovakia will ask whether or …
Refugees Marked with Numbers
Scandalous activities of European countries targeted at migrants continue. The Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary marked refugees arriving in their countries with numbers. This practice resembled the Nazi practice of marking and assigning numbers to people in concentration camps.
US-backed YPG forces committing war crimes against Syrian civilians, according to Amnesty International
US-backed YPG/PYD forces have forcefully displaced thousands of Syrian civilians, mostly Arabs, and demolished villages in northern Syria, often in retaliation for the residents’ perceived sympathies for Islamic State and other militants, London-based human rights watchdog Amnesty International has said. A fact-finding mission to northern Syria has uncovered a wave of forced displacement and home …
Anti-refugee protest in Austria
In St. Egyden in Lorenzihof, hundreds of protesters gathered around the church and stated that they do not want refugees any more. Protestors marched to the train station with lanterns in their hands to protest the refugee shelter planned to be constructed in Lorenzihof.
Refugee ways out of Greece limited
Europe could not implement a common policy against increasing number of refugees. After Sweden, Denmark and German’s limitations on refugees, Austria also announced that it would limit the number of refugees to 1.5% of its population. In response, German Chancellor Angela Merkel invited the member countries of the EU to adopt a common police across …
Cries of the Afghan girl moving beyond wire fences
News agencies received the photo of a girl sobbing behind the wire fence at the Greek-Macedonian border. Aged 4 to 5, a little Afghan girl was crying ‘Please, open the border!’. Arriving from Afghanistan, thousands of refugees have been waiting at the Idomeni border. The reason for this is that like many other European countries, …
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“Do not give food to refugees” Call
Interesting statements in some European countries about refugees fleeing war in Syria and seeking asylum in European countries receive criticism. Belgium has a Minister of Migration who says “Push them back into the sea” and a party leader who says “shoot them if necessary”… A similar statement came from the Governor of the West Flanders …
Australia shoots a movie to deter Afghan asylum seekers
The Australian government commissioned a $6 million movie showing what might happen to asylum seekers on their journey to deter Afghan asylum seekers wishing to arrive in the country. On the request of the government in Australia, a movie aiming to scare away Afghan migrants was shot. Commissioned by the Australian Department of Immigration and …
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First refugee group prepares to set off for Turkey under the new EU deal
Preparations are on the way for the first refugee group to be sent back to Turkey from Greece. Almost 6,000 refugees, mostly citizens of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are held near the Port of Piraeus and are to be sent to Turkey. The measures predicated by the refugee admission agreement between Turkey and the EU …
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