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Channel 13 anchor Lucy Aharish speaks on the network's evening news, February 22, 2026. (Screen capture: Channel 13)
March 8, 2026, 1:18 pm
Arab-Israeli journalist Lucy Aharish sues Likud activist over racist harassment
Lawsuit alleges Rami Ben-Yehuda led a racist campaign including shouting abuse outside TV news anchor’s home, trespassing, and posting online smears depicting her as a terrorist
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of former US president Barack Obama during an interview with commentator Brian Tyler Cohen published February 14, 2026. (X)
February 15, 2026, 9:59 am
Obama deplores lack of shame after Trump racist monkey clip
In interview, former US president asserts most Americans find such behavior ‘deeply troubling,’ will hurt Republicans in midterms; denounces ‘dictatorship-like’ immigration policies
By AFP
US President Donald Trump and former president Barack Obama stand on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2017, with first lady Melania Trump and Michelle Obama, prior to the Obama's departure to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., following the presidential inauguration. (Rob Carr/Pool Photo via AP)
February 6, 2026, 8:45 pm
Trump posts, then deletes, video that includes racist depiction of Obamas as apes
White House initially rejects ‘fake outrage’ over video on US president’s Truth Social account, before blaming an unnamed staff member
By AFP and ToI Staff
A soldier makes final preparations before the annual Memorial Day commemoration at the American cemetery in Margraten, on May 29, 2022. (Robin van Lonkhuijsen/ANP/AFP)
December 13, 2025, 3:58 pm
Officials removed exhibit on Black soldiers in WWII over fear of Trump’s ‘ire,’ emails show
Holocaust museums and Jewish veterans’ groups object to the move, which had not previously been explained, as distorting memory
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Women line up outside a hybrid distribution site to collect food at a refugee camp in Maban, South Sudan on August 20, 2025. (Guy Peterson / AFP)
November 3, 2025, 12:51 pm
As world rises up for Gaza, Sudanese in Israel say larger catastrophe being ignored
With 150,000 dead since April 2023, scale of violence, famine, and disease in Sudan has dwarfed that of the Strip but garnered barely any world attention, fueling charges of racism
By Ariela Karmel
Peter Giunta, former leader of the New York State Young Republicans, gives a TV interview in September 2025. (Screenshot)
October 16, 2025, 7:15 pm
‘To the gas chamber’: Young Republicans members exposed for antisemitic, racist chat
Publication of messages has led some to be fired or job offers pulled, although Vice President JD Vance dismisses controversy, saying people should ‘focus on the real issues’
By Luke Tress and ToI Staff
Jessica Chastain in 'The Savant.' (Courtesy of Apple TV+ via JTA)
September 27, 2025, 5:13 am
Apple TV+ postpones a Jessica Chastain thriller inspired by secretive ADL unit
A NYT report says the charged atmosphere around Charlie Kirk’s murder has delayed the release of ‘The Savant,’ based on a real-life highly covert anti-extremism monitor
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Screen grabs from videos posted to social media show right-wing demonstrators shouting profanities at MK Ayman Odeh, and surrounding his vehicle, in Ness Ziona, July 19, 2025. (X; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 20, 2025, 5:39 pm
Judge criticizes police for not arresting actual perpetrators of assault on MK Odeh
Court frees all 3 apprehended suspects, says cops failed to prove they committed crimes, notes videos show dozens of rioters involved; separate racist incident at Jerusalem cinema
By Jeremy Sharon, Leon Kraiem, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Screen capture of antisemitic content posted to a Canadian medical student social media server Comment reads 'If you mute me karma will make you choke during the MEM [medical interviews]'. (Doctors Against Racism and Antisemitism)
May 11, 2025, 6:47 pm
Jewish group exposes antisemitic posts of Quebec med school applicants and students
B’nai Brith Canada finds slew of misogynistic, racist and anti-Jewish hate content, including Holocaust jokes and denial on social media platform accessed by 1,400 people
By ToI Staff
Armenian Christians, accompanied by Israeli volunteers, enter the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday, April 13, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
April 14, 2025, 10:51 pm
On Palm Sunday, Israeli volunteers escort Christian processions to report racist incidents
Volunteers from the Religious Freedom Data Center accompany Armenian, Latin, clerics to and from Church of Holy Sepulchre during their annual holy week ritual
By Sue Surkes
Shabbat services at the 2025 Keshet Shabbaton for LGBTQ+ Jews of Color (Courtesy/Keshet)
March 13, 2025, 1:01 am
Isolated and excluded: New survey highlights challenges of global LGBTQ+ Jews of Color
Survey of 90 Jews in 20 states and four international locations conducted by US nonprofit Keshet finds most communities have a lot of work to do to make gay Jews of Color feel included
By Zev Stub
Entisar Hijaze speaks with Channel 12 on October 10, 2024. (Screen capture/Channel 12)
October 11, 2024, 1:33 pm
Arab teacher arrested over TikTok dance says she was held in police car overnight
Entisar Hijaze says she had meant no harm with video posted with Oct. 7 timestamp, is reportedly planning to sue police and Ben Gvir
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A person being arrested. (BrianAJackson via iStock by Getty images)
September 1, 2024, 11:30 pm
Reservist arrested for attempting to murder Arab passerby in Jerusalem
Shin Bet and police say 34-year-old suspect had racist motives, left house last month with rifle looking for Arab victim, but man he stopped managed to escape
By ToI Staff
Archivist Sarah Hopley at the office of the American Jewish Historical Society in New York City, August 7, 2024. (Luke Tress/ JTA)
August 23, 2024, 6:24 am
New ADL archive aims to show how hate — and the fight against it — have evolved
A multi-year initiative will catalog and digitize files kept since the Anti-Defamation League’s 1913 founding, aiding researchers and showing the public how hate speech is recycled
By Luke Tress
Protesters throw flares towards police officers in Liverpool on August 3, 2024 during the 'Enough is Enough' demonstration held in reaction to the fatal stabbings in Southport on July 29. (Peter Powell/AFP)
August 8, 2024, 1:11 pm
‘Doesn’t feel like home’: Liverpool Muslims fearful amid racist UK riots
‘It’s not just Muslims… everyone is scared’: Minority groups report feeling worried, afraid to leave home as violent and racist riots spread
By Sachin Ravikumar, Janis Laizans and Manon Cruz
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