Stop xenophobia

The Age asked readers who are Muslim what it is like to live in Australia and how they explain extremism and Islamophobia to their children. Dozens of peopl

As Labour slowly eats itself over the antisemitism row, the finger of blame is pointed in an ever increasing number of directions.

I was not remotely surprised when I saw the news earlier today that Ken Livingstone had been suspended from the Labour party for making anti-Semitic remarks. After months of being told that anti-Semitism was not a problem on the Left, and that incidents in the past were merely coincidental ‘contained incidents’, this marks a turning point for Jews across the country. We no longer have to accept that defence.

Labour leader Andrew Little says Labour will monitor his Facebook page and remove any hate speech after anti-Semitic comments were posted on it. - New Zealand Herald

Review of "Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" by Ibram X. Kendi and "Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation" by Nicholas Guyatt

Sofina Nikat wasn't the first alleged killer accused of trying to blame a phantom black male. - New Zealand Herald

A post to an Auckland University Facebook page saying if you see a pack of young Maori/Polynesian males, be prepared to sprint has sparked criticism for racial profiling. - New Zealand Herald

Top Australian sporting stars will wear rainbow laces at fixtures this weekend as part of a campaign against homophobia.

Detailed historical research on the colonial frontier unequivocally supports the idea that Aboriginal people were subject to attack, assault, conquest and subjugation: all synonyms for the term 'invasion'.

A new study finds that students who attended more racially integrated high schools are more likely to wind up working with people from different backgrounds.

As a bisexual student with many gender diverse and sexually diverse friends, I am listening to this debate and wondering: have any of the politicians who are so adamant about what is best for students actually asked us?

A nasty feud that escalated Thursday between Donald Trump and his chief Republican rival over their wives set off a new wave of alarm among establishment Republicans, who fear the - New Zealand Herald

In the West, racists see skin color. In Algeria, they see religion.

Simmering tension within the British Labour Party over claims of antisemitism has boiled over. First MP Naz Shah was suspended; now the party’s former London mayor, Ken Livingstone has joined her. It’s an ideal moment to consider what antisemitism actually is.

Boris Johnson has come out with some pretty outlandish crap lately. You can’t even mention Europe without the guy instinctively regurgitating a load of tosh about draconian EU balloon regulations that don’t actually exist. You just sort of learn to drown it out, really.

But this week, BoJo has utterly redefined paranoia by insinuating that Barack Obama wants to see Britain leaving the EU because of his Kenyan heritage. Where do you even begin to unravel the craziness?

Beau Foster, 20, was leaving work with two friends when he saw his bus coming, and he did something we've nearly all done: he ran to catch it.

Racial profiling isn't a Facebook troll on social media- racial profiling is real, it's something that real people experience in their real lives. - New Zealand Herald

How many racist text threads among cops will it take for officials to recognize systemic problems?

A United Airlines pilot asked a Muslim family of five to leave a plane before it took off, citing "safety" issues.

Eaman-Amy Saad Shebley, her husband and three young children were about to take off on a flight bound for Washington at a Chicago airport when the pilot asked them to get off the aircraft.

The family had enquired earlier whether the air stewardess could provide five-point harness safety seats for their children.

Two videos filmed by Ms Shebley show the air stewardess and then the pilot asking the family to leave.

A recent example from the University of California shows that it is possible to clamp down on anti-Semitism without curtailing freedom of speech.

A senior Microsoft executive is apologizing after the company's artificial intelligence chatbot experiment went horribly awry.

Microsoft is in damage control mode after Twitter users exploited its new artificial intelligence chat bot, teaching it to spew racist, sexist and offensive remarks. - New Zealand Herald