Egypt Independent Dirk Hilbert, mayor of the German city of Dresden, renamed a park facing the city’s regional court after the murdered Egyptian woman Marwa al-Sherbini on Monday. The decision was made in memory Mrs al-Sherbini, who was killed by a right-wing racist inside the Dresden court in 2009. The …
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Egypt Independent Racism, the climate crisis and the world’s worsening divisions all took the centre stage at the United Nations on Wednesday. For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, more than two dozen world leaders appeared in person at the UN General Assembly on the opening day of …
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Israeli politicians routinely make shockingly racist comments about Palestinians that most Americans would condemn. So why does the U.S. continue to send Israel nearly $4 Billion a year? MOHAMED MOHAMED Israel and its Zionist supporters do not hesitate to peddle propaganda claiming that it is “the Middle East’s sole democracy.” …
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Fascism is not just sepia images of yesteryear but a contemporary threat. A liberal-left alliance is needed to counter it. Paul Mason* If you search the database of white-supremacist Discord channels, leaked by the monitoring group ‘UnicornRiot’ since 2018, the word ‘genocide’ appears more than 10,000 times. Often it is …
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With the resurgence of racism and discrimination across Europe, combating it requires urgent action, not just noble words. Khaled Diab* The issue of racism is climbing up the agenda of the European Union. Last Friday, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the EU organised its first European Anti-Racism Summit. …
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Digging deep into the discontent driving the white nationalist movement. James Zogby* In 1967, the Kerner Commission, created by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the riots which engulfed American cities, concluded that “Our nation is moving towards two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal.” In the past …
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No one should be smug about racism in Europe. Here too there is a toxic interaction between ethnicity, equality and the environment. Khaled Diab* Although police brutality has claimed too many black lives in America, the death of George Floyd (46), father of five and grandfather of two, in Minneapolis …
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M. Ashraf Al-Bayoumi* First Encounter with America’s Racism: My first encounter with racism against people of color in the United States occurred 65 years ago. It was both a shocking and a funny experience. I was a 20-year-old young man who had just arrived from Alexandria, Egypt by ship, followed …
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Protests have engulfed the United States since the murder of George Floyd. As the global movement for racial equality unfolds, the Coronavirus has, and will shape its trajectory. Ashley Quarcoo In the two weeks since the murder of George Floyd, protests have erupted around the United States and the world. …
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London- Times of Egypt Peaceful ‘Black Lives Matter’ (BLM) protests in London turned violent after heavy clashes between far-right activists and police in Parliament Square on Saturday. The far-right activists joined the protests claiming they are ‘statue defenders’, following calls to remove the statue of Winston Churchill from Parliament Square. …
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