Serena Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion, is alleging discrimination after being singled out for drug testing. Williams, who reached the finals of Wimbledon this month, took to Twitter Tuesday, saying she’s the tennis player “getting tested the most.” “And it’s that time of the day to get ‘randomly’ drug tested and only test …
Read the full post →“Serena Williams alleges ‘discrimination’ in how often she is tested for drugs”
Nazi comparisons have become such frequent occurrences almost anywhere in the world that they rarely draw attention these days. But in Adolf Hitler’s birth country, Austria, they usually still strike a nerve whenever they come up. They certainly did so this week, after Jewish organizations criticized the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), the ruling …
Read the full post →“Austrian state may require Jews to register to buy kosher meat”
Politicians and refugee organisations have criticised Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok for claiming there are no peaceful multicultural societies. Blok, a member of the liberal VVD, the largest party in the Netherlands, also said that Suriname has become a failed state because of its ethnic divide. The minister made the comments during a private event last week, where he met …
Read the full post →“Dutch FM under fire for discriminatory remarks”
Israel’s parliament on Thursday adopted a law defining the country as the nation state of the Jewish people, provoking fears it will lead to blatant discrimination against its Palestinian citizens. The legislation, adopted by 62 votes to 55, makes Hebrew the country’s national language and defines the establishment of Jewish communities as being in the …
Read the full post →“Israel passes controversial ‘Jewish nation-state’ law”
Judges ordered the release of a key accomplice to a German neo-Nazi gang that murdered 10 people over a seven-year campaign of racially-motivated violence, saying that he had served enough of his sentence to no longer pose a flight risk pending his appeal. The order to release Ralf Wohlleben, sentenced to 10 years in prison …
Read the full post →“German court releases weapon supplier to neo-Nazi NSU murder spree”
A black woman said a CVS store manager in Chicago called the police after questioning the legitimacy of her coupon and posted the confrontation on social media in a video that has gone viral. Camilla Hudson told ABC News that when she went into the CVS in Edgewater Glen on July 13 night and the coupon …
Read the full post →“CVS manager calls police on black woman over coupon”
As France clinched its second-ever World Cup win over Croatia thanks to goals by migrants and a Muslim, fans and onlookers quickly pointed out the need for the country to apply its victories on the field to life off the field. Often in the spotlight for its xenophobic and Islamophobic social policies, France didn’t seem …
A German court has found the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial guilty of killing 10 people 8 of them Turks who were gunned down between 2000 and 2007 in a case that has shocked Germany and prompted accusations of institutional racism in the country’s security agencies. The judges sentenced Beate Zschäpe to life in prison for murder, membership of …
Read the full post →“German neo-Nazi Beate Zschäpe gets life for NSU murders”
The evening of July 4, Rodolfo Rodriguez did what he does on most evenings: take a stroll around his neighborhood. Instead, after allegedly bumping into a small child on his walk, the 92-year-old Mexican man was beaten with a brick and jumped by a group of attackers, all while being told to “go back to …
Read the full post →“Elderly Mexican man beaten with a brick”
Amazon is helping hate groups profit by letting them sell Nazi-themed goods on its store, a report suggests. The study found many hate groups were selling goods on Amazon’s store branded with Nazi imagery, including clothing, jewellery and replica military regalia. Some hate groups were also selling music and books celebrating their views via Amazon, …
Read the full post →“Nazi-themed goods found on Amazon marketplace”
