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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A Jewish Israeli who sought to stab an Arab but stabbed another Jew instead was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Monday. Shlomo Haim Pinto, a resident of the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Ata, was convicted in December of attempted murder for the October 2015 incident. According to the indictment, Pinto sought to …
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner are among a list of 35 books a group of five vandals have been ordered to read, after they were found guilty of covering a historic African American schoolhouse with racist, antisemitic and obscene graffiti. A judge sentenced the teenagers …
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Anti-Semitic incident joins chorus of recent, high-profile occurrences all throughout the United States in which Jews and their property have been attacked by assailants; FBI: Anti-Semitic crimes are the most common hate crimes based on religion in the United States and racist violence against Jews is on the rise. Several high-profile anti-Semitic incidents in the …
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Franck Sinisi, a member of the far-right National Front, said: “I think we can take Romani people to the dentist and dismantle their golden tooth for meeting their shelter and food needs. They cost much for us.” Sinisi was dispatched to party’s disciplinary committee after making these comments. In reaction to the statement, General Secretary …
A group of ‘neo-Nazi’ extremists will march through Edinburgh next week to mark “Global White Pride Day”. The march is planned for the same day as a Sikh religious festival in Edinburgh, which will see hundreds take to the streets in a Nagar Kirtan procession, a traditional display of martial arts, hymns and music. Unite …
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A senior United Nations official has resigned, following pressure from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to withdraw the landmark report published earlier this week finding Israel guilty of apartheid. Rima Khalaf, the head of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) which published the report, announced her resignation at a press conference in Beirut on …
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A statue symbolizing a father and son, who were killed by Serbian soldiers during the Bosnian War, has been vandalized in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Sarajevo. According to the Sarajevo Police Department, the memorial was split into half by a 1994 born Croatian citizen, who was detained after the attack. Bosniak artist Mensud Keco sculptured the …
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A UN agency has accused Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime” of racial discrimination on the Palestinian people, and said it was the first time a UN body had clearly made the charge. Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman likened the report, which was published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) on …
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