Human Rights

Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia on the rise in Europe, decline in US


WASHINGTON (IPS) - Both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have risen in Europe over the last four years, according to a survey conducted earlier this year by the Pew Research Center. While attitudes towards Muslims are substantially more negative than those against Jews across Europe, anti-Jewish sentiment as grown steadily in five of the six countries surveyed on the question. 

Jaffa's "renewal" aims at expulsion of Palestinians


Zaki Khimayl’s home and cafe are located on Jaffa’s beach, a stone’s throw away from Tel Aviv. However, like hundreds of other families in the Arab neighborhoods of Ajami and Jabaliya of Jaffa, Khimayl is up to his eyes in debt and trapped in a world of bureaucratic regulations apparently designed with only one end in mind: his eviction from Jaffa. Jonathan Cook reports. 

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