Turkey’s Consulate in the Swiss city of Zurich was attacked by a Molotov cocktail in the early hours on April 22, said the Turkish consul serving there. Asiye Nurcan Ipekci told Anadolu Agency that the attack came at 2.51 a.m. local time (0051GMT), but no one was hurt and the building suffered no damage. She …
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Monitoring group says racist hate crimes have gone up 14 percent, with members of the far-right Golden Dawn movement often responsible. After a long day searching for a new job, Gulbaz Mohammed made his way home on foot, following the same path he walked each day in the Athens suburb of Peristeri. The sun had …
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Professional footballers in England and Wales are to boycott social media for 24 hours on Friday, to protest against the way social networks and football authorities respond to racism. It follows a number of high-profile incidents in domestic and international matches this season. Earlier this week, Manchester United captain Ashley Young was racially abused on Twitter. …
A Bosnian Serb leader has falsely claimed that the Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed, is a “fabricated myth”. Milorad Dodik, who heads Bosnia’s multi-ethnic joint presidency, said the massacre was “something that does not exist”, at a conference discussing war crimes committed during the Bosnian conflict. Bosnian Serb troops killed the Muslim men and …
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Muslim extremists are three times more likely to be labelled as terrorists by the media than far-right extremists, according to a recent study. The research undertaken by Signal AI analyzed media coverage, including radio broadcasts and TV transcripts, on a number of terrorist attacks that had taken place in the last two years and came …
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Blamed by his own teammate for the racist abuse aimed at him during an Italian football match, Juventus forward Moise Kean received plenty of support from rival players on Wednesday. Kean, a 19-year-old Italian whose parents are from Ivory Coast, plays for Italy’s national team and Juventus, the most popular football club in the country. He …
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A Palestinian man was killed during a clash with Israeli forces in a refugee camp near Jerusalem yesterday night amid the arrest of three brothers. Mohammed Adwan, 23, was killed by Israeli gunfire whilst two others were wounded. Soldiers fired at close range at a Palestinian vehicle driving at al-Matar Street, killing Adwan in his …
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For weeks, John T. Earnest allegedly planned his attack on the Poway synagogue, inspired by the horrific acts that preceded him — mass shootings at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and at two mosques in New Zealand. On April 27, the last day of Passover, police said the 19-year-old stepped into the Chabad of Poway armed with a semi-automatic rifle …
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Children are whitening their skin with make-up to avoid being bullied or racially abused at school, according to charity NSPCC. Its research suggested racial abuse and bullying of children had risen by one-fifth since 2015-16. There were over 10,500 race hate crime offences against children across the UK in 2017-18 – an average of 29 …
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A top official in Germany warned the country’s Jewish community on Saturday to avoid wearing the traditional skullcap in public places in certain areas amid a rise in hate crimes. Commissioner Felix Klein was speaking on the rise in anti-Semitic attacks across the country, and told the Funke media group that his opinion on wearing the skullcap …
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