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French Suspect Surrounded, Planned New Hit Today

UPDATED

Mar 21, 2012 10:59 AM CDT

French Suspect Surrounded, Planned New Hit Today

24-year-old identified as Mohammad Merah

(Newser) - Conflicting reports out of Toulouse: Though USA Today reported earlier, by way of French TV , that a 24-year-old Muslim man suspected in a series of shootings had been arrested after a raid on an apartment, reports are now saying the building remains surrounded. CNN and Reuters report that some 300...

Gunman Likely Filmed
French School Shooting

Mar 20, 2012 6:29 AM CDT

Gunman Likely Filmed French School Shooting

Surveillance video shows a camera around the shooter's neck

(Newser) - As if there could be a crueler twist to the Jewish school shooting in Toulouse that yesterday rocked France: France's interior minister today revealed that the gunman likely filmed the killings. The school's surveillance video revealed that a video camera was attached to the killer's neck, reports...

France Puts
Toulouse on
Top Terror Alert

Mar 19, 2012 2:11 PM CDT

France Puts Toulouse on Top Terror Alert

Sarkozy says riot police will secure region until 'this criminal' is caught

(Newser) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy says authorities are raising the terrorism alert to its highest level across a swath of southern France where a gunman opened fire on a Jewish school before fleeing. Sarkozy said today's attack in Toulouse , which killed three children and a rabbi, was the worst-ever school...

Gun at French School
Linked to Earlier
Shootings

UPDATED

Mar 19, 2012 11:29 AM CDT

Gun at French School Linked to Earlier Shootings

Officials think same gun used in tragedy as 2 other shootings last week

(Newser) - At least three children and one adult were shot dead this morning, and five more people were injured, when a man on a black scooter opened fire near a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, reports the Telegraph . The shooting appears to be connected to two similar shootings in the same...

Academy Caves: Sacha Baron Cohen to Walk Red Carpet

Feb 25, 2012 2:58 PM CST

Academy Caves: Sacha Baron Cohen to Walk Red Carpet

Oscar flap may have been publicity ploy

(Newser) - Victory is Sacha's! Unless this was planned all along, of course. Turns out the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will let Sacha Baron Cohen walk the red carpet at the Oscars in character from his upcoming film The Dictator. But Deadline Hollywood smells a rat, saying Baron...

Fox Apologizes to Jews
for 'Jesus Killer' Poll

Dec 30, 2011 2:46 AM CST

Fox Apologizes to Jews for 'Jesus Killer' Poll

Poll asked who viewers blame for death of Christ

(Newser) - A Fox staffer in Latin America thought a good way to promote a Christmas special would be with an online poll asking people whether they thought the Jewish people were responsible for the death of Jesus Christ. Other options included Pontius Pilate or the high priests. Fox pulled the poll...

'Anti-Semitic'
Hanukkah
Vodka Ad Pulled

Nov 23, 2011 3:27 AM CST

'Anti-Semitic' Hanukkah Vodka Ad Pulled

'Christmas Quality, Hanukkah Pricing' slogan angers ADL

(Newser) - A New York City billboard selling cheap vodka with the slogan "Christmas Quality, Hanukkah Pricing" was taken down after a flood of complaints, including one from the Anti-Defamation League. "In a crude and offensive way of trying to make a point that their vodka is high quality and...

Europe's New
Rising Tide:
The Far Right

Nov 7, 2011 12:52 PM CST

Europe's New Rising Tide: The Far Right

Report: Islamophobia the 'unifying factor' among male youth

(Newser) - It's not just young American men who are getting kicked around in this era : Nationalism, immigration, and cultural identity have their European counterparts turning in droves to the arms of far-right politics, according to a new report. British think tank Demos used Facebook questionnaires to get information from 10,...

WikiLeaks Cables May
Imperil Baghdad Jews

Oct 8, 2011 1:59 PM CDT

WikiLeaks Cables May Imperil Baghdad Jews

'The older ones are refusing to leave,' priest says

(Newser) - Baghdad's few remaining Jews are being warned to flee after WikiLeaks published cables including their names last month, McClatchy reports. An Anglican priest working with the US embassy is trying to persuade the city's last Jewish members—all nine of them—that they are in danger. "Most...

Mel Gibson:
I Don't Have
a Jewish
Problem

Sep 10, 2011 9:48 AM CDT

Mel Gibson: I Don't Have a Jewish Problem

His camp tells TMZ he has no anti-Semitic leanings

(Newser) - So why would Mel Gibson decide to produce a movie about a famed Jewish warrior given his, er, Jewish problem? Easy, explains TMZ . Gibson doesn't think he has a Jewish problem. It quotes sources "very close" to Gibson as insisting that he doesn't hate Jews and that,...

ESPN Yanks Anti-Jewish
Fantasy Football Names

Sep 9, 2011 2:06 PM CDT

ESPN Yanks Anti-Jewish Fantasy Football Names

Site pulls leagues with anti-Semitic names

(Newser) - ESPN is cracking down on anti-Semitism. Of late, a gaggle of bigoted fantasy football enthusiasts have been creating league names like "Jews are Immoral" and "Jews are terrible". In response, ESPN expelled from the online community all such anti-Semitic designations, USA Today reports.

Galliano Guilty
of Making
Anti-Semitic
Slurs

Sep 8, 2011 7:21 AM CDT

Galliano Guilty of Making Anti-Semitic Slurs

Designer handed a suspended sentence

(Newser) - He managed to escape the six months in jail he was facing, but John Galliano didn't manage to escape a guilty verdict. A Paris court today convicted the former Christian Dior designer for making "public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race, or ethnicity." He was given...

John Galliano
Blaming Drugs
for Anti-Semitic
Tirade

Jun 22, 2011 4:46 AM CDT

John Galliano Blaming Drugs for Anti-Semitic Tirade

Booted fashion whiz testifies today in Paris

(Newser) - Fashion whiz John Galliano will blame drugs and claim amnesia today at his Paris trial for an anti-Semitic tirade against a Jewish customer in a local bar. The axed Dior creative director had a "triple addiction to alcohol, Valium, and sleeping pills," his attorney told Reuters . “The...

Early Hitler
Letter Shows
Anti-Semitic
Beginnings

Jun 7, 2011 3:21 PM CDT

Early Hitler Letter Shows Anti-Semitic Beginnings

1919 writing calls for "uncompromising removal of Jews"

(Newser) - The founder of a Jewish human rights organization said today the group has acquired a document by Adolf Hitler believed to contain his first written comments calling Jews a threat that should be removed. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said the center paid $150,000 to a...

Iran Blasts Cannes for Punishing Director Von Trier

May 24, 2011 2:11 PM CDT

Iran Blasts Cannes for Punishing Director Von Trier

His Nazi jokes are a form of free speech, says letter

(Newser) - Iran is suddenly all about free speech, criticizing the decision of the Cannes Film Festival to ban Nazi-joking director Lars von Trier. Iran's deputy culture minister wrote that Cannes had smirched its history and rendered its claims to defend free speech "a meaningless slogan." Cannes declared von...

Galliano to Stand Trial for Slurs

Mar 3, 2011 2:27 AM CST

Galliano to Stand Trial for Slurs

Christian Dior insists runway show will go on

(Newser) - Fashion designer John Galliano has lost his job for making anti-Semitic slurs ; he may now lose his freedom as well. French prosecutors have announced that Galliano will stand trial on charges of making racist insults in public, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of six months in prison and...

Galliano Heads to
Rehab, Apologizes

as designers support him

Mar 2, 2011 10:04 AM CST

Galliano Heads to Rehab, Apologizes

He's obviously going through 'a difficult time,' says Giorgio Armani

(Newser) - Friends tell the New York Times that former Dior designer John Galliano is entering rehab after news of his apparently drunk , anti-Semitic rants emerged. Galliano, while still denying the claims against him, says he understands "that the accusations made against me have greatly shocked and upset people" and that...

Sheen to
Jewish Group:
You Apologize
to Me

Mar 1, 2011 12:24 PM CST

Sheen to Jewish Group: You Apologize to Me

He wants a retraction of anti-Semitism accusation

(Newser) - The Anti-Defamation League accused Charlie Sheen of "borderline anti-Semitism" when he called Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre by his Hebrew name, Chaim Levine . But Sheen, via a letter from his lawyer obtained by TMZ , says that's not fair—and demands that the ADL issue a retraction....

Dior Fires
John Galliano

Mar 1, 2011 10:16 AM CST

Dior Fires John Galliano

Anti-Semitic remarks caught on video did him in

(Newser) - John Galliano is officially out at Christian Dior after a video surfaced of the designer making anti-Semitic remarks. Dior had previously suspended Galliano , after a couple accused him of making anti-Semitic comments and he was arrested for assault, but the fashion house said today it is firing him, the Wall ...

Galliano Caught
Ranting on Video:
'I Love Hitler'

Feb 28, 2011 9:29 AM CST

Galliano Caught Ranting on Video: 'I Love Hitler'

Meanwhile, designer files defamation claim

(Newser) - After John Galliano's alleged anti-Semitic rant and subsequent arrest, the British fashion designer filed a defamation claim against the couple accusing him. But he may have a harder time defending himself now, because it turns out he was caught on video saying, among other things, "I love Hitler."...