When Twitter started cracking down on users who were engaging in “hateful conduct” in November, the Southern Poverty Law Center published a list of white nationalists whose accounts appeared to be unaffected by the move. At the top of that list was Matthew Heimbach, a 20-something white nationalist who used his Twitter account to promote …
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Italy’s education ministry received a nasty shock after a poll seeking to find out what the most ‘beloved’ book among children returned an unwelcome entry. The cross-country survey of 140,000 secondary school classrooms was intended as a means to understand which works by Italian authors were the most popular, but somehow ended up including Adolf …
Four Chelsea fans accused of singing racist chants have been convicted of racist violence and given suspended one-year sentences by a French court. Video emerged of the group singing racist songs and preventing a black man from boarding the Metro in Paris, while chanting: “We’re racist and that’s the way we like it.” The video …
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Cologne’s chief of police has rejected criticism over accusations that officers used racial profiling while conducting identification checks on New Year’s Eve. Authorities in the city had stepped up security measures for revelers after last year’s spate of sexual assaults which were blamed on refugees of North African descent. More than 1,500 officers were deployed …
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The political group Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF), which consists of representatives of several populist and anti-immigration parties including Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the French National Front, is holding a convention in the western German city of Koblenz on Saturday. The ENF is the smallest group in the European Parliament, with 40 …
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Germany’s supreme court ruled against lawmakers’ bid to outlaw a far-right party accused of promoting a racist and anti-Semitic agenda on Tuesday. The German parliament’s upper house, which represents the country’s 16 state governments, applied for the ban at the end of 2013. It’s the second attempt to ban the National Democratic Party, better known …
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Fast good giant Dairy Queen, famed for its soft serve ice cream, has closed one of its stores and ended its relationship with the owner after police said he “proudly admitted” using a racial slur to a customer. Deianeira Ford said the DQ outlet in Zion, Illinois, had mixed up her order at the drive-through …
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Anders Breivik has given a Nazi salute to a court that will rule on whether his human rights have been violated in prison. Norway’s government is trying to overturn the verdict that it violated Breivik’s human rights by keeping him in isolation. A judge from Oslo District Court said the country had violated a ban …
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People in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serbian entity — Republika Srpska — celebrated the creation of the small state for the second year in a row on Monday, defying a ruling from Bosnia’s highest court. Celebrations, which were backed by senior members of the entity’s government, began with a parade in Banja Luka city. Monday’s ceremony …
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Since 2012, the number of non-Jewish refugees from African countries in present-day Israel has shrunk from a peak of approximately 64,000 to fewer than 46,000. Israel’s successful efforts to reduce the number of Africans living in territory it controls must be recognized for what it is: ethnic cleansing. For the last four years, Sheen has …
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