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Danish police said a man they shot dead early Sunday was likely behind the two shooting attacks Saturday in Copenhagen that killed two civilians and wounded five police officers. Officials said no evidence suggests other gunmen were involved in the shootings, one of which took place at a free-speech event at a cafe and the…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A shooting at a free speech event featuring an artist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad and a second shooting hours later outside a synagogue left two dead and five police officers wounded in Copenhagen, stirring fears that another terror spree was underway in a European capital a month after 17…
Policemen secure the area around a building in Copenhagen, Denmark, where shots were fired on February 14, 2015 outside the venue of a debate held on art and free speech. (MARTIN SYLVEST/AFP/Getty Images) Hours after a gunman opened fire at a Denmark cafe during a discussion about cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, killing one person…
close shareTools LONDON — The Copenhagen police said on Sunday that they had shot and killed a man believed to be behind two attacks that killed two people, one at a cafe and one outside a synagogue. The first attack took place on Saturday, when a gunman sprayed bullets into the cafe where a Swedish…
Sure, some might think this hip new tapestry from Urban Outfitters — yours, for only $69! — might be offensive, but that’s because they just don’t understand fashion. Or maybe they just don’t understand history: “Whether intentional or not, this gray and white stripped pattern and pink triangle combination is deeply offensive and should not be…
A French anti-racism organization on Tuesday filed an official complaint for discrimination after a company published a job ad online looking for a computer graphics designer who “if possible” is “not Jewish.” The job description, which was published Monday on specialized website www.graphic-jobs.com by graphic design agency NSL Studio and has since been removed, sparked…
Start Article Post Content Andre Singer’s “Night Will Fall,” debuting on HBO on Monday, tells the story of what happened to producer Sidney Bernstein and director Alfred Hitchcock’s hundreds of thousands of hours of footage of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.Vivid, chilling and horrific, the images were part of an Allied-commissioned project in…
For French Jews, the choice between France and Israel is no choice at all. Bullet holes scar the storefront of the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris. (Charles Platiau/Reuters) Journalists and Jews: The victims of the atrocity in Paris are a shattering reminder of an old historical conjunction. The link between Charlie Hebdo and Hyper…
You may know, after the attack on the kosher supermarket during the Charlie Hebdo assault, that French Jews have faced discrimination and attacks for years. What you may not know is the scale of France’s anti-Semitism problem. This statistics, in Natasha Lehrer’s big Guardianfeature on anti-Semitism in France, puts it in context: Half of all…
The hostage situation at a kosher supermarket in Paris on Friday, in which four people and the gunman died, has been called an “anti-Semitic attack” by French President François Hollande. It’s just the latest crime to fit that description in a country that has seen a rash of anti-Jewish incidents in recent years. Soon after Friday’s…