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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 467

lynchings

Democratic Representative Ritchie Torres of New York, questions witnesses during a hearing of a special House committee dedicated to countering China, on Capitol Hill, February 28, 2023, in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)
January 18, 2024, 3:20 am
Pro-Israel Democrat: Praising October 7 is like cheering lynchings of African Americans
In speech marking MLK Day, Ritchie Torres says reactions to Hamas-led atrocities ‘revealed a barbarity of the American heart that reminded me of an earlier and darker time’
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative -- Police tape in Independence Park on July 30, 2015 (Garrett Mills/Flash90)
January 15, 2023, 3:17 pm
Man tased, slashed by teen gang after trying to break up Tel Aviv brawl
Sister of 18-year-old victim says assailants attacked him with tear gas, stun gun and a box cutter near Ramat Aviv park; police say 15-year-old arrested
By Michael Horovitz
Security camera footage showing an Eritrean man being shot in the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015, after he was thought to be a terrorist. (screen capture: Channel 2)
June 9, 2022, 12:34 pm
High Court upholds acquittal of men in lynching of migrant mistaken for terrorist
Panel of 3 judges rejects appeal by prosecutors, finds defendants did not act out of malice and believed they were facing an attacker who still posed danger
By ToI Staff
The crime scene in Binyamina where police suspect a Jewish mob beat an Arab driver on May 27, 2021. (video screenshot)
May 28, 2021, 3:32 am
Jewish mob beats Arab driver in Binyamina; Jewish family home firebombed in Lod
In Binyamina some 10 assailants smashed victim’s windows, yanked him out and struck him repeatedly; none hurt in Lod incident
By ToI Staff
This picture taken on December 12, 2019 shows a road blocked by flaming tires set by anti-government protesters in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. (Photo by AFP)
December 12, 2019, 5:22 pm
Iraq mob lynches teenager accused of attacking protesters
Protest movement distances itself from murder, which threatens its image as nonviolent
By AFP
US President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Oct. 21, 2019, in Washington (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
October 23, 2019, 5:08 am
Trump likens US House impeachment inquiry to ‘a lynching’
President sparks outrage with racially inflammatory language; Graham backs him, but not McConnell
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JAY REEVES
A crowd gathers to view the body of 32-year-old Rubin Stacy as he hangs from a tree in Fort Lauderdale, Fl., on July 19, 1935. Stacy was lynched by a mob of masked men who seized him from the custody of sheriff's deputies for allegedly attacking a white woman. (AP Photo)
December 20, 2018, 4:45 am
After 100 years, US Senate unanimously passes anti-lynching measure
Law that makes lynchings a federal crime was introduced by the chamber’s three African American senators
By AFP
Appointed US Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., answers a question during a televised Mississippi US Senate debate with Democrat Mike Espy in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)
November 21, 2018, 6:02 am
US senator apologizes to anyone offended by her ‘I’d attend a hanging’ remark
At Mississippi campaign debate with her African-American Democratic opponent, Cindy Hyde-Smith says sorry for earlier statement made in praise of cattle-rancher
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Musical artist R. Kelly performs the national anthem before an NBA basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Atlanta Hawks in New York, November 17, 201 (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
May 6, 2018, 4:26 am
At what point does crying ‘lynching’ trivialize the word?
References to the historically freighted term over the past few days by beleaguered celebrities has generated disgust
By Jesse J. Holland
The names of lynching victims are inscribed on weathering steel columns that hang from the ceiling at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, seen on April 20, 2018. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images/via JTA)
April 28, 2018, 7:52 am
What a new tribute to black lynching victims learned from Holocaust memorials
Nearly 4,400 people were murdered in lynchings from 1877 to 1950, according to the Equal Justice Initiative which initiated the newly opened National Memorial for Peace and Justice
By Ben Sales
Patrick Andrews and Brianna Borger in 'Parade.' (Michael Brosilow)
June 25, 2017, 3:22 am
Powerful musical recounts Atlanta lynching of falsely accused Jewish man
A century after the murder of Leo Frank, ‘Parade’ — now staged in Chicago — is a devastatingly relevant piece of drama
By Ronit Bezalel
Roi Avrahami. (Screen capture: Channel 10)
March 30, 2017, 10:46 am
Son of soldier killed in Ramallah lynching says no one told him of attacker’s release
Victims’ families learn from media that Hatam Faiz Khalil Magari, who was imprisoned for the 2000 attack, has been set free
By Alexander Fulbright and Sue Surkes
A Palestinian celebrating on top of the burned car of the two Israeli soldiers who were taken from it and lynched next to Ramallah, October 12, 2000. (Flash 90)
March 29, 2017, 10:49 pm
Palestinian policeman convicted of 2000 Ramallah lynch freed
Military court reduces sentence after finding problems with evidence used to convict Hatam Faiz Khalil Magari; Israel deports him to Gaza
By Sue Surkes
Rebecca Ferguson performs in Milan, Italy, on January 1, 2012. (CC-BY, Andrea Tarella - Flickr, via wikipedia)
January 3, 2017, 4:24 pm
Pop star insists on ‘Strange Fruit’ for Trump inauguration
Singer Rebecca Ferguson says she will only perform at President-elect Donald Trump’s gala if she can sing the anti-lynching Billie Holiday standard
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Jean-Claude Van Damme goes undercover as an ultra-Orthodox Jew in the 2001 movie The Order (screen capture: YouTube)
November 30, 2015, 5:19 pm
Israelis get anti-lynching warning: ‘You’re not Van Damme’
In online lecture, state prosecutor says anyone acting violently toward a disarmed attacker will face trial
By ToI Staff
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