A Chinese restaurant in Canada has been fined C$10,000 (£5,700) by a human rights tribunal for making black customers pay in advance for their meals. Staff ‘motivated by a stereotype that black persons are criminal or deviant’, says judgment. Emile Wickham and three of his friends went to Hong Shing Chinese Restaurant in Toronto’s Chinatown for a birthday …
Read the full post →“Restaurant fined for making black customers pay in advance for meals”
The incident occurred at about 1.30pm on May 28 on a Thameslink network in London. The Bengali woman, who is in her 20s and wears a hijab, was with her mother when she noticed the man staring at her. Speaking to Tell MAMA, an organisation highlighting anti-Muslim abuse, the woman said she felt threatened by …
Read the full post →“A Muslim woman was subjected to vile racist abuse from a drunk man”
Primark has been accused of ‘rewarding’ a racist customer accused of telling a Muslim shop assistant ‘I don’t want to be served by black people’. Do Na Marie was at the Westfield Stratford City branch of Primark in east London with her daughter. She witnessed the alleged incident and is now encouraging people to boycott …
Starbucks closed 8,000 company-owned USA stores at around 2 pm local time on May 29 as a first step in training 175,000 employees on racial tolerance. “We understand that racial and systemic bias have many causes, sources, and ways of showing up within each of us and in our communities”, says one of the training videos …
Read the full post →“Starbucks closes 8.000 store for antibias training”
As part of a growing call for European governments to push for the protection of the Palestinians from Israeli violence in the occupied territories, some 4,500 pairs of shoes were laid yesterday at the European Council building in Brussels to commemorate Palestinians killed in the past 10 years. The unusual protest was organized by a …
Read the full post →“4,500 shoes laid at EU Council to protest Israeli violence”
An anti-Islam rally was held by far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in country’s capital Berlin on May 27. Speaking to media before the beginning of the rally, AfD board member Beatrix von Storch criticized German football player of Turkish origin Mesut Ozil. Currently playing for English giants Arsenal, Ozil, 29, was born in German …
ZDF commentators consistently described Meghan Markle and her guests as “exotic” and were fascinated by her black hair. The public broadcaster has been roundly condemned by news outlets and people on social media. German public broadcaster ZDF was heavily criticized on Saturday for its sometimes questionable coverage of the royal wedding. Social media users and …
Read the full post →“Royal wedding: German broadcaster ZDF accused of racism in its coverage”
Expatriate Turks who helped to reelect President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan do not belong in Austria, a leading far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) official said, revealing the rising anti-Erdoğan sentiments in yet another xenophobic statement. After a partial vote count showed that 72 percent of Turks in Austria backed Erdoğan, deputy FPÖ chief Johann Gudenus said …
Alan Sugar has been criticised for posting a tweet about the Senegal World Cup squad that compared the players to people selling sunglasses and handbags on beaches. The tweet featured a photoshopped picture of the team looking as though they were selling counterfeit goods. “I recognise some of these guys from the beach in Marbella. Multitasking, …
Read the full post →“Alan Sugar under fire over ‘racist’ Senegal World Cup team tweet”
A 38-year-old cattle trader was lynched and a 65-year-old man severely injured by a mob allegedly on suspicion of cow slaughter in Hapur’s Bajhera Khurd village, 50km from Delhi-UP border, on June 18. The incident took place when chief minister Yogi Adityanath was holding a meeting with BJP MPs and MLAs in Ghaziabad and the …
Read the full post →“Muslim man lynched over cow slaughter rumour in western UP”
