Gee, that didn’t take long. Conspiranoid cranks claim (on no evidence) that Mossad was behind the Oslo terror attacks, providing an opportunity for the right-wing Israeli press to tar “anti-Zionists” as conspiranoid cranks.
Europe’s right-wing media voices all jumped to the al-Qaeda thesis in the Oslo terror attack—but it now emerges the perpetrator is a lone right-wing extremist who evidences the predictable Islamophobic rhetoric in his Internet footprint.
International solidarity actions will be held Saturday with a protest at Bilbao’s city hall to stop the imminent eviction and demolition of the Kukutza III Gaztetxea community center to make way for a housing development.
The European Court of Human Rights rejected two appeals from Swiss Muslims challenging Switzerland’s ban on construction of minarets, which was approved in a popular referendum sponsored by right-wing parties.
As thousands commemorated the 16th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia, Ratko Mladic faces genocide charges in The Hague—yet is still hailed as a hero by Serbia’s ultra-nationalists.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou announced he would dissolve his cabinet as a general strike shut Athens in protest of his new austerity plan and protesters blockaded the doors of parliament.
A court in St. Petersburg, Russia, sent two members of a neo-Nazi group behind bars for life for the murder of several African immigrants, North Caucasians and anti-fascist activists in St. Petersburg and Moscow over the past several years.
Refugees fleeing the violence in North Africa continue to die at sea, prompting an investigation by the Council of Europe—and a move by Italy and France to rewrite the EU’s policy that permits internal passport-free travel.
Authorities in Serbia announced the capture of Ratko Mladic, ending a 16-year manhunt for the former military commander of the self-declared Serb Republic in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The European Union called for new sanctions against Belarus after former presidential candidate Andrey Sannikau received a five-year prison term for organizing protests following last year’s contested elections.
Tens of thousands of protesters have filled the main squares of Spain’s cities for the past week to protest government austerity measures—in defiance of a government ban imposed ahead of municipal and regional elections.
Thousands walked off the job in Athens and other Greek cities to protest a package of proposed “reforms” and austerity measures. Police used tear gas and pepper spray in running street battles with black-clad youth.
