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Police investigate anti-gay Bible verse carved into fence
A week before gay pride festivities kick off, a South Seattle man said his neighbor carved an anti-gay Bible verse into a fence. Seattle Police are investigating to see if it's a hate crime or just an act of free speech. Last weekend, 38-year-old Shaun Shaffer and his roommates decorated their home with four gay pride flags.
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How Cloudflare Helps Serve Up Hate on the Web
Cloudflare, a prominent San Francisco outfit, provides services to neo-Nazi sites like The Daily Stormer, including giving them personal information on people who complain about their content.
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Hate Map
917 Hate Groups are currently operating in the US. Track them below with our Hate Map.
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Russian Singer Swept Up In Chechnya's Anti-Gay Purge Reportedly Murdered
A Russian singer reportedly arrested as part of Chechnya’s anti-gay crackdown was murdered shortly after being detained, a source tell NewNowNext. Zelimkhan Bakaev was last seen on August 8 in Grozny, where he had come from Moscow for his sister’s wedding. His family say they haven’t heard from him since and have been unable to get answers about his fate.
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Gay Soccer Fans Warned To Not Hold Hands In Russia At 2018 World Cup
A group dedicated to ending discrimination in soccer has a warning for any gay soccer fans going to Russia for the 2018 World Cup: Don’t hold hands or show affection in public. It could be dangerous. The executive director of Fare (which used to be known as Football Against Racism in Europe) told the Guardian that the group will be issuing guidelines to LGBT fans in the run-up to the World Cup, which runs June 14-July 15, 2018.
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Suspected Cleveland gang member arrested in connection with hate crime against woman 'simply for being white'
A suspected gang member was arrested early Thursday in connection with an August incident in which he is accused of punching a 51-year-old woman in what police called a hate crime. Jermaine Hines Jr., 24, was arrested about 2 a.m. Thursday. Police have not released information regarding the circumstances surrounding his arrest. He will be held in the Cleveland City Jail until his first court appearance on Friday.
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Slender Man stabbing girl to be committed
One of two US girls convicted of a 2014 stabbing to honour the horror character Slender Man has been sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital. Anissa Weier, 16, pleaded guilty to being a party to attempted second-degree homicide, but claimed she was mentally ill at the time. She and Morgan Geyser lured a classmate into a Wisconsin wooded park where Geyser stabbed her 19 times as Weier stood by. The victim survived. All three girls were 12 at the time.
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Louisiana Man Arrested For Beating Black Teens Who Talked To White Girl
Though an arrest has been made, police say there’s evidence lacking of a racial motive. St. James Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested a white man in connection to an incident at an annual Christmas Eve bonfire event in Gramercy where two black teenagers who were beaten and hospitalized.
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Antisemitic incidents in US soar to highest level in two decades
Antisemitic incidents in the US surged 57% in 2017, the Anti-Defamation League said on Tuesday, the largest year-on-year increase since the Jewish civil rights group began collecting data in 1979. Close to 2,000 cases of harassment, vandalism and physical assault were recorded, the highest number of antisemitic incidents since 1994, it said. The rise comes amid a climate of rising incivility, the emboldening of hate groups and widening divisions in American society, according to ADL’s national director, Jonathan Greenblatt.
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Britain First leaders guilty of hate crime
The leader and deputy leader of far-right group Britain First have been found guilty of religiously-aggravated harassment. Paul Golding, 36, and Jayda Fransen, 31, were arrested over the distribution of leaflets and posting of online videos during a Muslim gang-rape trial. Fransen was convicted of three counts of religiously aggravated harassment. Golding was found guilty of one charge.
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Anti-Semitic incidents soared by 57 percent in 2017, Jewish watchdog says
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last year surged by 57 percent, according to data released on Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League. It is the highest tally that the Jewish civil rights group has counted in more than two decades. The New York City-based organization found 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents last year, up from 1,267 in 2016. That's the highest total since 1994 and the largest single-year increase since the group began collecting this data in 1979.
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She Survived the Holocaust, to Die in a 2018 Hate Crime
An 85-year-old woman who as a child narrowly escaped France’s most notorious wartime roundup of Jews has been murdered in Paris, and the authorities are calling it a hate crime. The body of the woman, Mireille Knoll, was found on Friday in her apartment in the city’s working-class 11th Arrondissement. She had been stabbed to death, and her body was partly burned after her attackers apparently tried to set fire to the apartment.
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Homophobic, religious and race hate crimes on public transport are soaring
The number of hate crimes reported to police across the country’s transport network has doubled over the past five years. Religious hate crimes on the railways, tubes and buses increased almost five-fold since 2013, while homophobic incidents saw a 200 per cent rise. British Transport Police (BTP) figures, obtained by The Independent through a freedom of information request, showed faith-linked attacks more than quadrupled from 64 in 2013 to 294 last year.
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Video Campaign Aims To Unify Poland Through The Power Of Bread
Hate crimes are on the rise in Poland. In response, a new YouTube video aspires to foster tolerance by having people from marginalized groups bake and sell bread to customers at a Warsaw bakery.
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Woman who performed antisemitic songs calling Auschwitz a 'theme park' convicted
A woman has been convicted for performing “grossly offensive” antisemitic songs that included lyrics calling Auschwitz “a theme park”. Alison Chabloz, 54, sang her compositions at a meeting of the far-right London Forum group, whose leader Jeremy Bedford-Turner has been separately jailed for stirring up racial hatred. A judge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court found Chabloz had violated laws criminalising “gross offence” and intended to insult Jewish people.
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Man who harassed woman in Puerto Rican T-shirt now facing hate crime charges
The man caught on video making racist comments to a woman wearing a Puerto Rican flag T-shirt is now facing additional hate crime charges. Timothy Trybus already faced a simple assault charge over the June 14 incident but a spokesperson for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office announced that Trybus will be in court for a bond hearing over two counts of a felony hate crime charges on Friday July 12.
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Jury Convicts Texas Man of Hate Crime in the Burning of Victoria, Texas, Mosque
The Justice Department today announced that a federal jury in Victoria, Texas, has returned guilty verdicts on all counts as charged related to the 2017 burning of a local mosque.
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The Synagogue Killings Mark a Surge of Anti-Semitism
In 2016, more than half of religious hate crimes in America targeted Jews, and in 2017 authorities have reported a surge of anti-Semitic incidents.
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PayPal Bans Far-Right Social Network Gab After Anti-Semitic User Kills at Least 11 at Synagogue
On Saturday, a firearm-wielding man massacred at least 11 people attending Shabbat services at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood and injured a number of others. The Anti-Defamation League described it as likely the deadliest single attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history. Authorities identified the suspect, who was captured after a gun battle with responding police, as 46-year-old Robert Bowers—a vitriolic anti-Semite who allegedly announced the attack on the social network Gab.
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Muslim groups raise enough money to cover funeral costs for all Pittsburgh victims
The fundraiser on the site LaunchGood is a joint effort by the groups Celebrate Mercy and MPower Change.
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