racism

Scientific racism, militarism, and the new atheists

by News Sources 04.03.2013

After briefly reviewing the history of scientific racism, Murtaza Hussain writes: In the present atmosphere, characterised by conflict with Muslim-majority nations, a new class of individuals have stepped in to give a veneer of scientific respectability to today’s politically-useful bigotry. At the forefront of this modern scientific racism have been those prominently known as the [...]

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New York needs the NYPD to stop stop-and-frisk — and stop it now

by News Sources 04.03.2013

John Liu writes: The numbers don’t lie: New York City police have conducted 5m “stop-and-frisk” searches since 2002. More than 86% of individuals targeted were black or Hispanic, and 88% were innocent of any crime. The stop-and-frisk tactic is clearly discriminatory, often humiliating, and totally ineffective. It must be abolished. Just as astonishing as the [...]

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White supremacy: The new national security threat

by News Sources 09.10.2012

Khaled A Beydoun writes: The colour of violence often dictates what and who qualifies as a threat to national security. In the United States, the list of dangers to national security and the American way of life is topped by an Islamic menace, but excludes the proliferation of white supremacist groups. This movement not only [...]

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Video: All-American mass murderers

by News Sources 08.08.2012
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Far-right Europeans and Israelis: this toxic alliance spells trouble

by News Sources 06.07.2012

Rachel Shabi writes: Last month, demonstrations against African refugees in Tel Aviv turned violent. Protesters looted shops, broke windows and firebombed buildings, including a nursery. Days ago, arsonists torched the home of 10 African migrants in Jerusalem, injuring four, and leaving the unequivocal graffiti: “Get out of the neighbourhood.” On Monday, Israeli TV reported that [...]

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Arab Spring has washed the region’s appalling racism out of the news

by News Sources 05.07.2012

Robert Fisk writes: How many tracts, books, documentaries, speeches and doctoral theses have been written and produced about Islamophobia? How many denunciations have been made against the Sarkozys and the Le Pens and the Wilders for their anti-immigration (for which, read largely anti-Muslim) policies or – let us go down far darker paths – against [...]

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Fighting a forbidden battle: How I stopped covering up for a hidden wrong

by News Sources 01.16.2012

Jesse Lieberfeld is one of the winners of Carnegie Mellon University’s 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Writing Awards. The 17-year-old Jewish high school student writes: I once belonged to a wonderful religion. I belonged to a religion that allows those of us who believe in it to feel that we are the greatest people [...]

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his own words

by News Sources 01.16.2012
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Some real shock and awe: racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit

by News Sources 09.14.2011

Shoshana Hebshi writes: Silly me. I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy. I figured most people would choose not to fly that day so lines would be short, planes would be lightly filled and though security might be ratcheted up, we’d all feel safer knowing we had come a long way since that dreadful [...]

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Israel plans to evict 30,000 Bedouin from their homes

by News Sources 09.12.2011

Haaretz reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet on Sunday approved a plan to relocate tens of thousands of Bedouin from their unrecognized villages into settlements with official state status. The plan emerges from the Prawer Report, drafted to find a solution to the problem of unrecognized villages in the Negev. As part of the plan, [...]

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Plight of sub-Saharan Africans in Libya

by News Sources 09.04.2011

The BBC reports: “Justice” does not know where the young men came from nor whose side they were on. All he knows is that they were aggressive and demanding money. When he tried to tell them he had nothing to give them, not a penny, they stabbed him in the stomach and then they sped [...]

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‘Libyans don’t like people with dark skin, but some are innocent’

by News Sources 08.31.2011

Patrick Cockburn reports: Yassin Bahr, a tall thin Senegalese in torn blue jeans, volubly denies that he was ever a mercenary or fought for Muammar Gaddafi. Speaking in quick nervous sentences, Mr Bahr tries to convince a suspicious local militia leader in charge of the police station in the Faraj district of Tripoli, that he [...]

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Anti-Arab sentiment in Israel

by News Sources 08.19.2011

Eli Ungar-Sargon writes: Over the past three years, my wife Pennie and I have been working on a documentary film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During our second production trip to the region, one of the many remarkable people we encountered was Uri Davis. He is one of a handful of Israelis who has built a [...]

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Since 9/11 the overwhelming majority of terrorism in the US has been homegrown

by Paul Woodward 08.01.2011

Charles P. Pierce pieces together the fragments of the story of homegrown terrorism in the United States over the last decade starting with an event that barely made the news — the placing of an IED in Spokane, Washington, that had it exploded during Martin Luther King Day celebrations in January — as its maker [...]

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The rise of the right

by News Sources 07.27.2011
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The danger of Jewish women being attracted to Arab men

by News Sources 07.18.2011

Ynet reports: The Organization for Prevention of Assimilation in the Holy Land (Lehava) has decided to start “defending the daughters of Israel” on the country’s beaches. According to the organization, many Arab men are posing as Jews, courting and harassing the beautiful women. In response, a “coast guard” aimed at fighting the alleged phenomenon has [...]

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Alice Walker on ‘the freedom ride of this generation’

by News Sources 06.30.2011

Jesse Rosenfeld interviewed American author, Alice Walker, as she waits to depart as a passenger on The Audacity of Hope heading for Gaza. Reflecting on her years of activism, it is clear that Walker sees a connection between civil rights in America, liberation from apartheid in South Africa and the Palestinian cause. “Without the international [...]

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“Price tag” pogroms go under the radar

by News Sources 06.11.2011

Yossi Gurvitz writes: When a post mortem on the collapse of Israeli democracy will take place, there’s a good chance that the “Ha’Kol Ha’Yehudi” will be considered Israel’s Radio Rwanda, which encouraged and led the murderers to the victims during the genocide there. The site (Hebrew), whose name means “The Jewish Voice”, is operated by [...]

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Dubai’s skyscrapers, stained by the blood of migrant workers

by News Sources 05.28.2011

Nesrine Malik writes: Visiting Dubai on a work trip, I was wandering the resplendent hallways of my a hotel searching for an ATM when a commotion occurred. Some of the hotel staff were scurrying about, looking obviously distressed. I asked one of them if there was any trouble and he responded with a glossy smile. [...]

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Cornel West and the fight against injustice

by News Sources 03.29.2011
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The racist entity that is taking over Israel must be toppled

by News Sources 02.27.2011

Sefi Rachlevsky writes: The wretchedness of the law in the face of Rabbi Dov Lior has many meanings, and Lior’s refusal to be interrogated over his support for “The King’s Torah – The Laws for Killing Gentiles” – only marginally gets at the heart of the matter. Thirty years ago, the terrorist organization known as [...]

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Rescuing the white people from Tripoli

by Paul Woodward 02.25.2011

Ben Plesser spoke to the CBS’s Early Show about the situation at Tripoli’s airport: “There are thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of people packed into the terminal, mostly foreign workers. They’re Egyptians, they’re Turks, they’re from Southeast Asia. Every once in a while you see a western face. “They are living on the floor, wrapped [...]

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Jewish youth screaming “death to Arabs” murder Palestinian in Jerusalem

by News Sources 02.23.2011

Joseph Dana reports: Amid the revolutionary cheer that was emanating from Egypt last week, a group of Israeli Jews attacked and killed a Palestinian in the heart of West Jerusalem. 24-year-old Palestinian Hussam Rwidy was killed by a group of nationalist Jewish youth screaming “death to Arabs” as he was walking home from work. The [...]

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The escalation in racism among Israeli students

by News Sources 01.20.2011

Ynet reports: Three weeks after the publication of a petition calling on Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar to take action against racism spreading within schools and the general public, teachers told Ynet about the harsh reality they are forced to face daily. In one case, a 12th grade student of a northern Israeli school wrote “Death [...]

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