Rabbi David Lau, the newly elected chief rabbi of Israel, said a remark he made about blacks that was widely condemned as racist was a “joke.”
Paraguay\’s soccer association has suspended the Jewish president of a team for hurling racial slurs at a colleague of Arab descent.
An Israeli school bus driver was suspended for making racist statements to Ethiopian children.
In October, Cindy Wilcox, then a member of the La Cañada Unified School District’s (LCUSD) Board of Governors, made public that she had filed an official complaint against a teacher at the district’s high-performing public high school. The public reaction was mixed, immediate — and intense.
A Canadian teenager was arrested for allegedly setting a Jewish classmate\’s hair on fire after making anti-Semitic remarks.
A Texas state representative apologized after using the slur \”Jew them down\” during a public hearing.
A video of fashion designer John Galliano saying he loves Hitler has emerged after he was suspended from the Christian Dior fashion house for allegedly harassing a couple, using anti-Semitic and racist slurs. The video, posted Monday on the website of the British The Sun newspaper, shows Galliano yelling at a different couple at the same cafe at a different time, and captures him saying \”I love Hitler.\” He also tells the couple \”People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f**king gassed.\”
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