Netanyahu says Canada, Germany, Italy among countries to take in asylum seekers. Israel will deport 16,250 refugees to West, grant 16,250 temporary residency status. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Canada, Germany and Italy are among the Western countries that will take in asylum seekers from Israel after the country signed a deal with …
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Two Sheffield universities are investigating four allegations of racism, including claims a black student was hit with a banana during an ice hockey game. Tyrell Pearce, a PE student at Sheffield Hallam University, said a supporter of rival Sheffield University threw a banana at him at a match last month. He said it was “the most racially abused …
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Dance-pop musician RAYE says a London restaurant refused entry to her black friend because of his clothes – moments after letting a white pal into the venue in a similar outfit. The 20-year-old British singer posted a video to Twitter of her attempt to enter The Ivy Chelsea Garden, which has since been shared thousands of times. …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner were blessed by one of Israeli top rabbis, who was criticized for referring to black people as “monkeys” and argued that the country should be free of non-Jews. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, who represents Israel’s Sephardic Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent reportedly blessed the couple before …
Hamburg-born fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has said he may rescind his German citizenship, saying he “hates” Chancellor Angela Merkel for paving the way for the resurgence of neo-Nazism with her open-door migrant policy. Lagerfeld, the long-time creative director of Chanel often referred to as the Emperor of fashion, took a new swipe at Merkel over …
