Race And Ethnicity


JERUSALEM - An Irish Nobel peace laureate accused Israel of being an "apartheid" state during a deportation hearing before the country's Supreme Court Monday, prompting a strong rebuke from a justice who told her to keep her "propaganda" to herself.

JERUSALEM - An Israeli Supreme Court has chastised an Irish Nobel peace laureate for calling Israel an "apartheid state" during her deportation hearing.

PARIS - A respected Holocaust historian said Sunday that a recently uncovered 1940 document provides written proof of the personal involvement of Nazi-occupied France's wartime leader in persecuting Jews.

BRUSSELS - The European Union decided Wednesday to take legal action against France over its expulsions of Gypsies, or Roma, to poorer EU nations but said it lacked proof that Paris acted in a discriminatory way.

Although you rarely hear racial insults on Main Street these days, there's a place where unashamed bigotry is all too easy to find: tossed off in the comments sections of some of the Internet's most popular websites, today's virtual Main Street.
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