The Lebanese tourism minister has come under fire after saying he was happy about the current problems Turkey is facing and many in the country have called for him to resign over his “racist comments”. Speaking in an interview on MTV Lebanon on Friday, Lebanese Tourism Minister and Deputy Chairman of Tashnag, a small Armenian …
Airlifted Ethiopian Jews face racism in Israel
For more than three decades, the story of Operation Moses – the mission to airlift thousands of Jews from Ethiopia and absorb them in Israel – has been a source of pride for many supporters of the Jewish state. Even today, it is often recalled as an exception to the racist rule, a rare episode …
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Black employees allege discrimination by Fox News, say bosses made them arm wrestle white colleagues
Last month, two black female employees of Fox — which, as you may have heard, is not exactly having a great year re: treatment of female employees by management — sued Fox News, alleging racial discrimination. The women, payroll manager Tichaona Brown and payroll coordinator Tabrese Wright, assert that Judith Slater, comptroller, subjected them to “top-down racial harassment.” As …
Dynamo Kiev fans wear KKK outfits, swastikas in ‘white frenzy’ display intended for UEFA official
Dynamo Kiev fans took to wearing outfits of white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and masks bearing swastikas to welcome a visiting UEFA inspector in their home match versus fierce rivals Shakhtar Donetsk on Friday. Dynamo ‘ultras’ called for those attending the game to arrive at the club’s Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex stadium …
Far-right crimes reach record high in Germany
Far-right crimes in Germany reached a new record high of 23,555 cases in 2016, according to the interior minister on Monday. Speaking at a press conference in Berlin, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the increasing scale of violence was a worrisome development. “Violent offences has increased significantly, this should be real concern to us …
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German military probes 275 right-wing extremists, Nazi salute incidents on its ranks
The German military’s counter-intelligence agency is looking into 275 suspected right-wing extremists in its ranks, including a soldier heard saying “Heil Hitler”, the Defense Ministry has told parliament in a letter seen by Reuters on Sunday. About 143 of the cases were reported last year and 53 this year, the ministry wrote in its 15-page …
Nivea apologizes, pulls ‘white is purity’ ad branded as racist
German skincare brand Nivea pulled an ad declaring “white is purity” after social media users protested its racist connotations, and others used the ad to spread messages of white supremacy. The ad for the company’s Invisible for Black & White deodorant depicts a woman with long hair, draped in a white robe, with the slogan …
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California man screaming racial slurs hospitalizes black man in machete rampage
According to the Lake County News, a local newspaper in the central-northwest region of California, a white man has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing a black man with a machete in what police believe was a racially-motivated attack. Anthony Robert Hammond, the Clearlake, California resident arrested in the incident, was reportedly “yelling racial slurs …
Katie Hopkins sacked by LBC following Manchester attack ‘final solution’ comments
Katie Hopkins is to leave LBC with immediate effect, the radio station has confirmed. The announcement comes shortly after Hopkins said that a “final solution” is needed following the Manchester terror attack. A controversial tweet even by her standards, it appeared to imply that, in her eyes, there ought to be a genocide of Muslims, …
Southern US keeps many of its own white-supremacist symbols
The easy-listening white supremacists who surged out of the shadows during the presidential campaign are no less dangerous than their white power survivalist or raving skinhead counterparts. But they are hoping to rebrand themselves by wearing business clothes and attempting to sound reasonable as they advance a racist agenda. The debate about removing monuments to …
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