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Golden Dawn emerged as a fringe movement when it was founded in the early 1980s and since then, it has evolved into a far-right group within Greece. Members of Golden Dawn have been accused of carrying out acts of violence as well as hate crimes against immigrants , political opponents, homosexuals and ethnic minorities. [ 53 ]
Anti-Romani sentiment (also called antigypsyism, anti-Romanyism, antiziganism, ziganophobia, or Romaphobia) is an ideology which consists of hostility, prejudice, discrimination, racism and xenophobia which is specifically directed at Romani people (Roma, Sinti, Iberian Kale, Welsh Kale, Finnish Kale, Horahane Roma, and Romanichal).
The Holocaust was among the most significant events in modern Jewish history and one of the largest genocides in the history of the world. Approximately six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, accounting for roughly 2/3 of all European Jews. By the early 20th century, the Jews of Germany were the most integrated Jews in Europe.
American groups like the Immigration Restriction League, criticized these new arrivals along with immigrants from Asia and southern and eastern Europe, as culturally, intellectually, morally, and biologically inferior. Despite these attacks, very few Eastern European Jews returned to Europe for whatever privations they faced, their situation in ...
Contemporary white supremacist groups are part of a century-long history of Nazi and neo-Nazi activism in Sweden. [ 26 ] The right-wing populist Sweden Democrats , the second largest party in the Riksdag , was founded by far right activists who were involved in neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and fascist movements, including one co-founder who had ...
Anti-Slavic sentiment, also called Slavophobia, refers to prejudice, collective hatred, and discrimination directed at the various Slavic peoples. Accompanying racism and xenophobia , the most common manifestation of anti-Slavic sentiment throughout history has been the assertion that some Slavs are inferior to other peoples .
This timeline of antisemitism chronicles events in the history of antisemitism, hostile actions or discrimination against Jews as members of a religious and ethnic group.It includes events in Jewish history and the history of antisemitic thought, actions which were undertaken in order to counter antisemitism or alleviate its effects, and events that affected the prevalence of antisemitism in ...
Under the Lisbon treaty the European Union was given an extra degree of force and ability to address issues of human rights violations within its member states.. The Lisbon treaty came into force on 1 December 2009 and with it the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights became legally binding, having the same force as primary EU law and making it the primary source of human rights law within the ...