LONDON (AA) – A senior British Conservative member of parliament has come under intense criticism after suggesting that police should arrest protesters chanting “Allahu Akbar,” an Islamic declaration in Arabic meaning “God is great.” Robert Jenrick made the remarks this week while being interviewed by Sky News, claiming the police have b...
London, United Kingdom — AFP A UK minister has slammed American tech billionaire Elon Musk for his “unacceptable” comments on social media about far-right riots gripping England and Northern Ireland. The owner of X drew criticism for writing on the site that a British “civil war” was inevitable. He sparked further...
ANKARA (AA) – Three suspects have been arrested in Belfast following acts of racist and Islamophobic violence that took over Northern Ireland’s capital city, the police said. “A car was hijacked by a group of masked men” on Tuesday evening, according to a statement, and was “deliberately driven at the front of a business … [&hellip...
London, United Kingdom – AFP Rioting flared late Friday in Sunderland, northeast England, where police said officers were subjected to “serious violence”, the latest unrest following a mass stabbing earlier this week that killed three young girls. Footage broadcast by the BBC showed a mob of several hundred rampaging in Sunde...
The Planning and Zoning Commission of the Dallas suburb of McKinney has rejected a proposal to build a mosque in the city. At a meeting, more than 60 residents voiced their opposition to the proposal for a new 37,000-square-foot mosque by the McKinney Islamic Association. They claimed the house of worship will cause potential traffic [&hellip...
NICE, France (AA) – The arrest in France of political scientist Francois Burgat who has advocated for Palestine has sparked a strong backlash in the country. Burgat, a renowned political scientist who supports the cause of besieged Gaza, was placed in custody over alleged “advocacy of terrorism,” his lawyer said. The European Jewish Organizati...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced an expansion of its hate speech policy in order to remove posts that target “Zionists” in a derogatory manner. The new policy is designed to prevent the use of “Zionist” as a way to express “antisemitic views” towards Jews and Israel...
Sydney, Australia — AFP Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese has appointed a special envoy to tackle anti-Semitism, promising to appoint an envoy on Islamophobia too. As in many countries, Palestine supporters in Australia have held street rallies and university protests against Israel’s brutally genocidal war on the b...
Student outcry has intensified at Harvard University following the release of findings from two separate inquiries into anti-semitism and Islamophobia on campus. Tasked with investigating allegations amid tensions over Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation of Palestine, both reports acknowledged a climate of discrimination and harassment on camp...
ISTANBUL (AA) – For France, the writing seems to be on the wall: the general elections starting this Sunday could well bring the far-right to power. Not only would that plunge the country into uncharted political territory, but for minority communities, especially Muslims, it could prove to be a death knell. That realization is not […]...
