In a Sydney court, Australian Sen. Pauline Hanson faced cross-examination over alleged Islamophobic comments directed at Sen. Mehreen Faruqi. Hanson, leader of One Nation, denied knowing Faruqi’s Muslim identity when telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan” on social media. Faruqi, of the Greens, initiated the case over Hanson’s social med...
Federal judge Loretta Biggs has struck down a 19th-century North Carolina law that criminalized voting while on parole, probation, or post-release supervision for a felony conviction. The law was argued as disproportionately impacting Black voters and found to violate the US Constitution’s equal protection clause. This decision is being cele...
Republican frontrunner and ex-president Donald Trump called immigrants who commit violent crimes “animals.” He made the remarks Tuesday in Michigan regarding the killing of a Georgia nursing student. In February, 22-year-old Laken Riley was killed allegedly by a man from Venezuela who was in the U.S. illegally. It sparked outrage against immig...
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...
