ANKARA (AA) – The wife of a Harvard University professor was caught on camera harassing a Harvard graduate student for wearing a keffiyeh. In the footage, Eve Gerber follows the student wearing the keffiyeh and says, “Thank you for walking through neighborhoods and making families feel unsafe with your terrorist scarf”. The f...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Stuart Seldowitz, a former Obama administration adviser, who was captured on video making threats and Islamophobic comments against a Muslim food vendor in New York City, has been arrested and faces hate crimes charges, local media reported. Seldowitz, 64, faces charges including aggravated harassment and several counts o...
BERLIN (AA) – More than 100 German Jewish intellectuals have criticized the ban on pro-Palestine demonstrations in many German cities including Berlin, local media reports. “In recent weeks, state and city governments across Germany have banned public gatherings with suspected pro-Palestinian sympathies. These repressions also punish dem...
GENEVA (AA) – The Berlin police have banned rallies in support of Palestine, in order to prevent “incitement of anti-Semitic exclamations” and “glorification of violence”. In Berlin, two solidarity rallies with Palestinians were planned for Wednesday under the banners “Solidarity with All Political Prisoners on Pa...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The UN human rights chief on Wednesday slammed recent “despicable incidents” of desecration of Muslims’ religious scripture in Europe. They are “deliberate provocations… intended to drive wedges between countries and communities,” Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said at a high-level conf...
According to report, more than 1,000 people are killed by police officers in the U.S. each year and only 1% of killer were prosecuted GENEVA – A report released Thursday by U.N. human rights experts found systemic racism in the U.S. criminal justice system and policing. They revealed that “racism in the U.S. — a […]
LONDON (AA) – The UK home secretary has voiced strong criticism of the current operation of the UN refugee treaty, calling it “absurd and unsustainable.” In her speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, Suella Braverman argued that UN’s 1951 Refugee Convention is extending protection to nearly 800 milli...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbia declaring a day of mourning after a clash in Kosovo with gunmen left one police officer dead sends the wrong message to the region, the prime minister of neighboring Albania said Tuesday. Serbia on Tuesday decided to declare Wednesday a national day of mourning after the clash in northern Kosovo […]
Patrick Crusius serving life in prison, still faces death penalty HOUSTON, United States (AA) – The gunman who killed 23 people in a racially motivated attack at a Walmart store in the US state of Texas four years ago agreed on Monday to pay $5 million to the victims’ families, according to multiple media outlets. […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts – A Massachusetts court has sentenced 68-year-old Joan DiTomaso to six months’ probation for attacking a Muslim Melrose City councilor. She had attacked Jamaleddine at a gas station in Melrose last year in December. Prosecutors say DiTomaso also called Jamaleddine a “terrorist Arab” and told her to ̶...