L’Avenue, a Paris restaurant popular with celebrities, has a system in place to keep out people with Arabic-sounding names and women in headscarves, an investigation by BuzzFeed News in France shows. BuzzFeed News spoke with four servers who worked at L’Avenue for several years, one until very recently. The four former employees claim that their …
Starbucks staff print racial slur on a Mexican customer’s cup
Starbucks has landed itself in yet another storm of criticism after a branch in California printed a racial slur on a cup. A man named Pedro, who is of Hispanic descent, had ordered two drinks at the La Cañada Flintridge Starbucks on Tuesday. When Pedro’s drinks were delivered to him he noticed that the derogatory word ‘beaner,’ a …
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Guatemala opens embassy in Jerusalem after US move
Guatemala has opened its embassy in Jerusalem, following in the footsteps of the United States that inaugurated its embassy in the city two days prior, in a move that has triggered international condemnation. Wednesday’s development comes amid widespread anger and protests in the occupied Palestinian territories, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, or Catastrophe. The event marks the …
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Ivanka Trump and her husband blessed by Israeli rabbi who compared black people to ‘monkeys’
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 …
Lagerfeld mulls renouncing German citizenship, blames Merkel for rise of ‘neo-Nazis’
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 …
A black Yale graduate student took a nap in her dorm’s common room. So a white student called police
Siyonbola was working on a paper in the Hall of Graduate Studies when she fell asleep in a common room. Another female student came in, turned on the lights and told her, “You’re not supposed to be sleeping here. I’m going to call the police.” Siyonbola pulled out her phone and recorded 54 seconds of …
US hotel clerk caught on camera calling black guest ‘F**king Monkey’
A hotel clerk at a Country Inns and Suites in Newport News, Virginia, was suspended after he was caught directing racist comments at a hotel guest. Dee Fogleman posted a video of the incident on her Facebook page Friday after the clerk made racist comments to her brother, Irby who recorded the video, for complaining that his mother was given …
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Palestinian refugees arrested by Syria regime while escaping from Yarmouk
Sixty Palestinian refugees were arrested by the Syrian regime on May 4, while attempting to escape from the Yarmouk Refugee Camp in southern Damascus. They were detained before being returned forcibly to the camp, which is currently under heavy bombardment by the Assad regime and its Russian allies. The area has been fought over by …
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Man draws swastikas on graves
The Illinois man accused of painting swastikas on more than 200 gravestones across Memorial Day weekend has had a long history of run-ins with the law, reportedly ranging from trying to punch an officer to writing letters to a judge blasting the country’s “crooked” legal system. Timothy V. McLean, a 34-year-old from Glen Carbon, was …
Israeli police teach schoolchildren how to shoot Palestinians
Israeli police planned to teach children how to shoot at Palestinians as part of a training exercise in a school. The incident in the Menashe Regional Council, near Haifa in northern present-day Israel, was brought to light in recent days when Palestinian citizens of Israel took photos of what was happening. Jamal Zahalka, a member …
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