Israel’s treatment of its Arab citizens has raised accusations of racism. Most Palestinians living in East Jerusalem are not Israeli citizens, instead Israel issues identity cards permitting them to live there. But now authorities are threatening to retrieve dozens of IDs. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from East Jerusalem.  Read More »

Yuri Luzhkov, Christian Mayor of Moscow While queers in America viciously antagonize Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean, because she believes in traditional marriage, queers attempting to demonstrate in Moscow are learning a painful lesson about normal, healthy attitudes. Thirty queer activists who were attempting to demonstrate in front of Moscow University to promote a homosexually oriented “Eurovision”... 

UPDATE: The following story is claimed by most websites to be an actual HOAX. If it’s a hoax or not is up to you as we can’t confirm nor reject this story. This story has first surfaced on a Pakistani website which has been taken off their website since first published: http://www.daily.pk/world/americas/9334-israeli-spokesman-says-we-control-stupid-americans.html “Another Israeli... 

America is on the verge of making it illegal to say anything nasty about homosexuals, Jews, blacks and women. Hate speech, even when it falls far short of any direct incitement to violence, is about to be criminalised. Freedom of speech, enshrined in the First Amendment to the US Constitution, will be gone the way of the dodo. The House of Representatives approved at the end of April, and has since... 

The latest attempt to hold a gay rights march in Moscow was over before it began. Police broke up a crowd preparing to protest, arresting at least 24 activists, including the event’s organizers. The activists had gathered in front of Moscow State University in the south-west of the city. As they began chanting slogans such as: “Equal rights, no compromise!”, “We want the right... 

The widely popular video sharing website YouTube has reached out to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for its expertise in dealing with hate on the Internet. As a result of this partnership, the League is now a contributor to YouTube’s newly launched Abuse & Safety Center, where users are empowered to identify and confront hate, and to report abuses. The YouTube Abuse & Safety Center... 

Influential Israeli lobby group in the US, AIPAC is to push for a newly crafted resolution designed to choke off Iranian gas imports. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which is scheduled to hold its annual conference next week, said the introduction of a new bill against Iran’s gasoline trade on Tuesday is no coincidence. “It’s no coincidence that the bills, which... 

'No fotografia' - the snap of a bemulleted Greek copper that landed Charlie Skelton in police custody at Bilderberg. Charlie Skelton is menaced by police with guns (and mirrors on sticks) in his third dispatch from (near) the Bilderberg summit of the global elite. You know your day’s gone badly when it ends with you being shouted at in a Greek police station. It wasn’t meant to... 

Recruitment to the far-right British National Party (BNP) is rife among South African expatriates to the UK, according to a report by anti-fascist magazine Searchlight.  White southern Africans, some with a history of hate crime, are prominent members and large contributors to the BNP. With the far-right movement seemingly dormant in South Africa, most of those involved are more able to thrive with... 

U.S. president says Jewish American history ‘demonstrates how America’s diversity enriches us all.’ U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared May Jewish American Heritage Month, saying that the “United States would not be the country we know without the achievements of Jewish Americans.” Obama called on all Americans to “commemorate the proud heritage of Jewish... 

A 16-year-old homeschooled boy from North Carolina was taken away from his home in handcuffs two months ago and has been held by the FBI in Indiana ever since, a victim, his mother claims, of the Patriot Act spun out of control. According to Annette Lundeby of Oxford, N.C., armed FBI agents and local police stormed her home around 10 p.m. on March 5, looking for her son, Ashton. The officers presented... 

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Barack Obama is damaging America more than any other president in its history. Here are ten of the biggest ways Obama is destroying America. 1. He’s running up crushing federal debt at a level unprecedented in American history. We are talking trillions upon trillions of dollars in debt. This ensures the the future will bring ruinous taxes, runaway... 

The Hate Crimes Prevention Act has passed the Congress and is now on its way to the Senate, where it is likely to pass and signed by President Obama. There are already similar hate crime laws in place, however, this bill imposes much stronger federal enforcement, a clear violation of the Tenth Amendment. It grants greater power to federal prosecutors to prosecute hate crime laws by prosecuting... 

Latest HIV infection figures – which show that Britain now has almost twice as many new HIV cases diagnosed in a year as any other west European country – have revealed the full extent of Sub-Saharan immigration to this country. There were 7,734 new cases of the virus recorded in 2007, nearly double the figure reported at the turn of the millennium, according to Unicef. The worst-affected... 

A so-called racist video posted on US-based internet site YouTube is yet to be removed, despite a Perth man being charged for allegedly uploading the “anti-Semitic” film. Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan today said his officers had so far been unsuccessful in their negotiations with YouTube to have the controversial video pulled from the site, but inquiries were continuing. Maylands...