BERLIN (AA) – Germany has expressed concern over mounting anti-Muslim racism in the country since the start of the attacks on Gaza on October 7. Any attacks on Muslims in Germany, for religious or other reasons, are “absolutely unacceptable,” government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said at a news conference in Berlin. “The nearly 5 million Mus...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Supporting Tel Aviv’s war against Gaza, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that “where there are terrorists, there are no rules.” “When we talk about laws and rules, where there are terrorists, there are no rules. Everything is beyond laws,” Zelenskyy said during an interview with NBC News on Sunday, i...
BRUSSELS (AA) – A former EU diplomat to the Middle East has criticized the bloc’s stance towards Palestine. Associate Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) James Moran said that he did not “consider Israel’s acts within the scope of ‘self-defense.'” He described them as “callous, dispropor...
BERLIN (AA) – An Irish minister has called on Israel not to carry out military operations that risk the lives of civilians in the Gaza Strip. “While recognizing Israel’s right to self-defense, it has to be done proportionately, and in accordance with the international humanitarian law,” Minister of State Thomas Byrne said. He said recent [&hel...
STOCKHOLM) – Sweden has urged Israel to abide by its obligations under international law and refrain from targeting areas in the Gaza Strip where there is risk of civilian casualties. Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said Friday Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas attacks, but criticized Israeli military strikes that hav...
LONDON (AA) – Pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Thursday protested outside the London offices of a firm supplying weapons to Israel. Leonardo, an Italian weapons firm with a presence in Britain, faced protesters from the group Palestine Action criticizing it for being a “supplier of weaponry for Israel’s fighter jets” an...
Belfast, United Kingdom — AFP Northern Ireland may be thousands of miles from the Middle East, but signs of the current heightened conflict can be seen on the streets of the British province. Palestinian and Israeli flags flutter in pro-Irish and pro-UK neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland, tapping into its own history of conflict and divi...
BERLIN (AA) – Israel has criticized Germany for not rejecting a UN resolution which called for an urgent humanitarian truce in Gaza. Israel’s ambassador to Berlin, Ron Prosor, said Germany’s decision last week to abstain in the UN General Assembly vote was “more than disappointing” for his country. “Friday’s abstention is morally w...
BERLIN (AA) – Three mosques in Germany have received packages and letters in recent days that contained racist threats against Muslims, officials have revealed. The Turkish-Muslim group DITIB, which runs the three mosques in northwestern Germany, condemned the racist incident and called on authorities to take...
Moscow, Russia – AFP Russian police on Monday said they had arrested 60 people suspected of storming an airport in the Muslim-majority Caucasus republic of Dagestan, seeking to attack Jewish passengers coming from Israel. Dozens of protesters, many of them chanting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest), broke through doors and bar...
