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• Strasbourg’s Old Synagogue memorial damage an ‘accident’

  A police probe using surveillance cameras revealed that a 31-year-old man reversed into the memorial after leaving a nearby nightclub with friends, the source told AFP on Thursday (Mar 7).

• Alabama high school students filmed using racial slurs

  “F— N-words, f— Jews,” one boy says. A girl then responds: “Jews would be fine because they’re white.”

  She added: “It’s fine, we just need N-words gone.”

• Tanzania arrests 65 ‘witchdoctors’ over ritual killing of at least 10 children

  Police have reportedly arrested 65 “witchdoctors” in Tanzania in connection with the ritual murders of at least 10 children.

  Many of the children had body parts removed, the BBC reported.

• White man arrested for yelling racial slurs at black woman in downtown Portland, police say

  A 39-year-old white man was arrested Monday after police say officers saw him running after a black woman in downtown Portland yelling racial slurs at her as she was walking from a streetcar.

• Spanish bus campaign against ‘feminazis’ features image of Hitler in makeup

  The bus includes an image of Hitler, who was responsible for the mass-murder of six million Jews during the Second World War, wearing makeup and the symbol of feminism on his military cap.

• Anti-Semitic vandals target Jewish sites in eastern France

  Swastikas were discovered Monday on the door and facade of a building in the town of Mommenheim that formerly held a synagogue and has Hebrew lettering etched above its doorway. The building now houses a sports facility.

• Cook Islands to change name to remove any association with Captain Cook

  He said the new name would have to incorporate the nation’s strong Christian faith and Māori heritage.

  “And it must instill a sense of pride in our people, and unite our people,” he said. “It must also be easy to say.”

• Tennessee school apologizes for asking students to pretend to own slaves

  A man whose 13-year-old sister was given the assignment posted it to Twitter. “It initially made me angry,” Dan Fountain told the newspaper. “The fact that my sister is one of a couple of black kids at her school, I can’t let things like this sit around and slide.”

• Hate crime charges filed in Miami over Martin Luther King Jr. Day scuffle

  Prosecutors in Florida have filed hate crime charges against a white man who was captured on a cell phone video holding a handgun and yelling racial epithets at a group of African-American youths at an anti-violence protest on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

• French prosecutors want Le Pen tried over tweet

  Prosecutors have called for French far-right leader Marine Le Pen to be tried for tweeting pictures of atrocities committed by the Islamic State group, judicial sources said Friday.

• Poster connecting Ilhan Omar to 9/11 sets off furor in West Virginia State Capitol

  “‘Never forget’ — you said,” the poster read over the World Trade Center.

  “I am the proof — you have forgotten,” the caption over Omar’s image said.

  

• Police: Montgomery Co. robbery, assault investigated as hate crime

  According to Montgomery County police, a person walking on the 900 block of Navahoe Drive shortly after 10 p.m. was approached by two men wearing ski masks, who demanded money and personal belongings.

  The masked pair used a slur that referenced the victim’s perceived sexual orientation. The two men attacked and robbed the victim, before fleeing the scene.

• People are outraged over a yoga Meetup that’s only open to white women, and are questioning how it’s allowed on the platform

  Before creating the event, Brown took to Twitter to ask Meetup why she wasn’t allowed in groups created for women of color.

• Sadiq Khan calls for overhaul of Scotland Yard’s gang matrix as 4 in 5 names on it are shown to be black

  Mr Khan said local borough police forces have since deleted their informal gang databases and added: “To many Londoners, the way [the matrix] is applied and enforced is a cause for concern and it needs to be comprehensively overhauled to ensure it is used lawfully and proportionately.”

• Two arrested in buffet brawl over crab legs

  Johnson tells WHNT-TV that diners were using service tongs like fencing swords and plates were shattering, and a woman was beating a man. Johnson says diners had been waiting in line for crab legs for more than 10 minutes, and they lost their tempers once the food came out.

• Arizona man pleads guilty to threatening Harvard ceremony for black students

  Nicholas Zuckerman, 24, faces a prison sentence of up to 18 months after pleading guilty in federal court in Boston to two criminal counts related to comments he posted on Harvard’s Instagram account in May 2017.

• Golliwog-like balloon banned from the skies in Canberra Balloon Spectacular

  The balloon, named Black Magic and also known by the nickname “Golly”, depicts a smiling black face resembling the Golliwog character, which is considered by many to be a racist caricature.

• Decathlon cancels sports hijab sale in France

  The firm said it had decided to suspend the product following “a wave of insults” and “unprecedented threats”.

• Woman Charged With Attacking Falmouth Man Wearing MAGA Hat Taken Into ICE Custody

  Police said Rosiane Santos walked by Bryton Turner as he was eating dinner at Casa Vallarta and knocked the hat off his head. She then allegedly confronted him verbally.

  “Deportation officers with ICE’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested Rosiane Santos, an unlawfully present citizen of Brazil, today near Falmouth, Massachusetts,” said ICE spokesman John Mohan.

• Video showing student knocking MAGA hat off another student’s head stirs controversy

  An Edmond high school student is facing a potential criminal charge after video shows him grabbing a “Trump 2020” flag from another student and knocking off his “Make America Great Again” hat.

• Student sues school district after being told she can’t wear a Maga hat

  Soon after the story broke, Mueller made an appearance on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, claiming that the school was discriminating against her because she “checked today” and saw four Hillary Clinton T-shirts, a Bernie Sanders hat, an Obama shirt and seven LGBTQ rainbow flag hats. Ingraham asked Mueller if these items were worn “in classrooms” and she said yes.

• Proposed Asian grocery in Fairfield sparked fear of ‘undesirables’, and citizens shut it down

  One woman told the city’s Planning Commission the store would attract “undesirables.”

• Police probe racist stickers plastered on homes with the slogans ‘mass immigration is white genocide’ and ‘say no to Muslim rape gangs’

  One reads: ‘Diversity means no white countries, cities, neighbourhoods or people’, while others say ‘Second generation? Third, fourth? You have to go back?’

  Some people have reported seeing ones that said: ‘Say no to Muslim rape gangs’, ‘Beware of anti-white rape gangs’ and ‘Beware of what is coming.’

• IKEA is sued for sexism after printing catalogue for ultra-Orthodox Israelis that only included photos showing men and boys

  ‘The total exclusion of women and girls from the catalogue sends a serious and difficult message that women have no value and there is something wrong with their presence, even in the family-home space depicted in the catalogue,’ the suit read.

• Ko’s Holocaust ‘publicity’ remark sparks criticism

  “I asked myself: ‘Why is Israel so united?’ It is because historically, there was a period of much pain,” Ko said, referring to Adolf Hitler’s 12-year reign over Germany from 1933 to 1945.

  “I later discovered that Israelis treat this incident as an important [opportunity for] international education or international publicity,” he said.

  “That is also an important reason why Israelis worldwide are so united [in their] cooperation,” he added.

• HOA issues fine for what it claimed was a penis-shaped outline in snow

  “Your car, specifically the Honda, left this offensive image on the ground,” she was told in a letter. The snow shape apparently violated a rule against “displaying offensive images or slogans.”

• Pro-Confederate groups and counter-protesters gather at Ole Miss over Confederate monument

  “Like hurt personally, just because they are part of administrations that has always told us we’re here for you as a black student, we’re here to make sure you’re taken care of, and that you’re comfortable. But I’m not and being disregarded, like that hurts, and i’m also embarrassed,” said McAfee.

• Study claiming hate cuts 12 years off gay lives retracted

  The reason for the retraction is that the authors discovered an error in the study, which, once corrected, rendered the association between structural stigma and mortality risk no longer statistically significant in the sample of 914 sexual minorities.

• Primary school kids ‘to be taught about gay and trans relationships from age 5 under new curriculum’

  PRIMARY school children from the age of five are reportedly set to receive compulsory lessons about gay and trans relationships.

  New guidance set to be published tomorrow will also ban parents from opting their kids out of sex education in secondary school, it has been reported.

• Video With ‘Racist, Homophobic’ Language Surfaces at Elite Private School

  The students were recorded counting down “three, two, one” — and then saying “crack,” followed by a racial epithet.

• IBM so very, very sorry after jobs page casually asks hopefuls: Are you white, black… or yellow?

  IBM has apologized after its recruitment webpages asked applicants whether their ethnicity was, among other options, the racial slurs Yellow and Mulatto.

  “It made me feel as though there are biases and prejudices that exist, that may go unchecked or unnoticed, that may even be directly contrary to what the company as a whole tries to present as their values and image. Also, the fact that it is 2019, and to see something like this, blows my mind.”

• Antisemitic hate-wave floods Poland, France, Spain and Greece

  In France, Jewish residents were singled out and their homes spray-painted with Stars of David and Neo-Nazi slurs. One resident, Oliver Feldman, said that “I fear for my wife, for my children, for my own safety…every day I ask if it’ll happen again,” Ynet reported. In addition, 100 gravestones were desecrated and spray-painted with Swastikas close to Strasbourg.

• Another Marine is being investigated for neo-Nazi ties amid military concerns about white supremacy

  One Tweeted photo shows a Marine, apparently just back from a field training exercise, with dark camouflage paint on his face captioned “Hello, fellow black men.” It is unknown if the Marine in the photo is Mead.

  

• Torch-wielding neo-Nazis march in Nuremberg

  “This is an event which should alarm all of us across Germany and especially in Nuremberg — the fact that such symbols are used at places like this,” Maly said.

• 81-year-old Trump supporter assaulted over his MAGA hat

  An 81-year-old man was assaulted in a ShopRite in New Jersey — because he was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, authorities said Tuesday.

• Reparations Time? Kamala Harris’ Father Says Family Descended from a Jamaican Slave Owner

  My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me).

• Virginia first lady criticized for handing cotton to black students on mansion tour

  “Mrs. Northam then asked these three pages (the only African American pages in the program) if they could imagine what it must have been like to pick cotton all day,” Walker wrote. “I can not for the life of me understand why the First Lady would single out the African American pages for this — or — why she would ask them such an insensitive question.”

• UK shooting range under fire for using IS teen Shamima Begum’s image as a target

  “Our targets provide some fantastic reactions and conversations…bringing out the inner child in all,” a spokesperson told the Victoria Derbyshire program.

  The range said it had responded to “record numbers” of customers wanting Ms Begum as a target and images aired by the BBC showed a target Ms Begum with multiple bullet holes in it.

• Ryanair passenger filmed in racist rant faces prosecution in Spain, report says

  Footage showed Mr Mesher calling Ms Gayle an “ugly black b******” and shouting: “Don’t talk to me in a foreign language you stupid ugly cow.”

• Fans hurl racist insults at Quebec minor league hockey player, harass family

  “Other people were saying: ‘You big n—–,’ and ‘You baboon,’ telling my dad to go back home,” Diaby told CTV Montreal on Tuesday. “At one point I was in the penalty box and I pulled my shirt over my face because I was almost crying.”

  Diaby said this is hardly the first time he’s dealt with racism on the ice.

  “I’m a black person in a white man’s sport, so this happens every day,” he said.

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