Category Archives: racism

Israel tightens security measures against stone throwers

Kids throw rocks and OK for police and soldiers to shoot to kill?

Israel has bolstered security measures against stone throwers, including broadening the use of live fire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the move applies to “all Israeli citizens and residents of Israel.”

Source: Israel tightens security measures against stone throwers

Minister’s ‘troubling’ citizenship plan slammed – The Local

{The face of racism, bigots, and fear does not have to look evil – evil deeds speak for themselves}

Støjberg’s proposal, if approved by parliament, would retroactively apply new criteria to those who have already qualified under the old rules – a situation that Eva Ersbøll, a citizenship expert at the Institute for Human Rights, called “deeply troubling and extremely worrying”.

Source: Minister’s ‘troubling’ citizenship plan slammed – The Local

Uber-Nationalism = conflict or more democracy?

Catalan secessionist success in next Sunday’s elections would give a boost to European ethnic separatisms, represented by the German Green Party’s partner organization, EFA. All major EU countries, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Poland would be affected – all, except Germany. In terms of power policy, Germany would profit from this development – unless an uncontrolled escalation can be prevented. This cannot be taken for granted, when looking at the various cases of national disintegration that have been taking place in Europe over the past twenty-five years.

Source: www.german-foreign-policy.com

Frat Guy Yells To USC Student Body President: ‘You Indian Piece Of Sh*t’: LAist

The Indian-born USC student body president is bringing attention to the racism at her college after she says a frat guy yelled at her, “You Indian piece of shit” before hurling a drink at her.Rini Sampath, 21, posted her account of what happened on Facebook on Sunday morning:Last night, as I was walking back from my friend’s apartment, a student screamed out at me through the window of his fraternity house, “You Indian piece of shit!” before hurling his drink at my friends and me. Once his fraternity brothers realized it was me, they began to apologize. This stung even more. Today, as I try to unpack these events, I couldn’t quite figure out why their after-the-fact apologies deepened the wound. But one of my friends explained it to me the best this morning: “Because now you know, the first thing they see you as is subhuman.” And that’s the first thing some students on our campus see when they look at anyone who looks like me.

Source: Frat Guy Yells To USC Student Body President: ‘You Indian Piece Of Sh*t’: LAist

Hungary empowers military to act against refugees | News | DW.COM | 21.09.2015

The measures come into effect a week after illegal border crossing was made a crime punishable by up to five years in jail, and as populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that Europe was being “overrun” in the worst refugee crisis since World War II.

Source: Hungary empowers military to act against refugees | News | DW.COM | 21.09.2015

After WWII hundreds of thousands of refugees were taken in with grace and mercy – including many from shameless Hungary now pimping the right-wing fear mongers.

Republican candidate Carson says Muslims unfit to be U.S. president | Reuters

Speaking to NBC on Sunday, Trump was asked whether he’d accept a Muslim president, and replied: “Some people have said it already happened.”

Source: Republican candidate Carson says Muslims unfit to be U.S. president | Reuters

Hungary fires tear gas, water cannons to hold back refugees | News | DW.COM | 16.09.2015

Police in Hungary’s Roszke border crossing have fired tear gas and water cannons to scatter asylum seekers wanting to cross over from Serbia. Budapest has closed down its borders to keep new arrivals out.

Source: Hungary fires tear gas, water cannons to hold back refugees | News | DW.COM | 16.09.2015

Hungary’s shame begins at its borders!

′I feel ashamed′ – Danes react to refugee crisis | Europe | DW.COM | 14.09.2015

Anti-immigrant sentiment has long pervaded Denmark’s political discourse. Human rights and strong social-democratic values are widely seen as part of the national DNA. But the Nordic country’s small size also makes it a natural underdog on the European stage, which, time and again, has led it to bare its teeth at anyone perceived as posing a threat to its close-knit culture. In some corners – mainly the more culturally homogenous, rural areas – this has given rise to Gaulish opposition to any outsider challenging their idolized idiosyncrasies.For decades, this has landed Brussels on the receiving end. Voters reluctantly agreed to sign the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, but only after securing significant concessions on several issues, including immigration and asylum policies. The kingdom does not like to be lectured.But in recent years, much of this antagonism has been directed at Denmark’s Muslim population, which make up less than 5 percent of the country’s of 5.6 million people. Integration has long been a political buzzword, though many really mean assimilation. In just a little over a decade, the right-wing Danish People’s Party has gone from a fringe movement to second-most popular. As a result, the historically dominant parties – mainly, the center-left Social Democrats and center-right Liberal Party – have moved ever further to the right on immigration issues to prevent an electoral exodus.

Source: ′I feel ashamed′ – Danes react to refugee crisis | Europe | DW.COM | 14.09.2015

62-Year-Old Man Arrested For Spray-Painting ‘NO MORE CHINESE’ All Over Bayview: SFist

The SFPD is thanking the public for their help after an arrest was made Tuesday in a vandalism case that is being considered a hate crime. 62-year-old John Schenone of San Francisco has been charged with five counts of felony vandalism and five counts of felony hate crime after it is believed he’s the person responsible for spray-painting the words ‘NO MORE CHINESE’ in multiple locations Monday in the Portola and Bayview districts.

Source: 62-Year-Old Man Arrested For Spray-Painting ‘NO MORE CHINESE’ All Over Bayview: SFist

Jeb Bush Visita la Frontera – The New York Times

It may be time to offer this forlorn candidate some free advice. Although if he really is the smarter Bush, he knows these things already:

1. He should never let himself say the words “anchor babies” ever again. He got in trouble for using that derogatory reference to the children of unauthorized immigrants in passing, in an interview, then dug himself a hole by defending his use of it. On Monday, he dug deeper. He tried to explain that he had been talking about “Asian people” who arrive on tourist visas through organized schemes to give birth to American babies on American soil.

Though the phenomenon is real, Mr. Bush was blasted by Asian-American groups for repeating the slur. And, astoundingly, he handed Mr. Trump the opportunity to send out tweets like this: “In a clumsy move to get out of his ‘anchor babies’ dilemma, where he signed that he would not use the term and now uses it, he blamed ASIANS.”

It was such an unnecessary battle to wade into — maternity tourism is not what Mr. Trump and his enablers on the restrictionist right are talking about. When they say “anchor babies,” they are talking about the browning of America, with its growing Latino population, and recasting it as a sinister plot by child-rearing Mexicans. They want to upend the 14thAmendment, and the country’s family-based immigration laws, to keep the population as white as can be. Maternity tourism by middle-class foreigners is a separate, much smaller issue; changing the Constitution to stop it, as one immigrant rights advocate once put it, is like killing a fly with an Uzi.

via Jeb Bush Visita la Frontera – The New York Times.