Incidents of racism around the world

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September 2026

• Israeli settlers burn two Palestinian cars in Beita, West Bank

  Israeli settlers attacked the eastern area of the town of Beita in the occupied West Bank and set fire to two cars parked in front of residents' homes.

  Sep 2 · Beita, Palestine1 source

• Israeli colonists torch Palestinian vehicle, spray racist slogans in Nahalin

  Israeli colonists set fire to a Palestinian-owned vehicle and spray-painted racist slogans on a house wall in the town of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem.

  Sep 1 · Nahalin, Palestine1 source

• Settlers set fire to mosque, write racist slogans in Bazzariya

  Settlers set fire to a room of the Emad al-Din Zangi mosque in the village of Bazzariya, northwest of Nablus, and wrote racist slogans on its walls.

  Sep 1 · Bazariya, Palestine13 sources

August 2026

• Medical student denounces racist comment on Instagram post

  A medical student from a favela community in Recife received a racist comment on his Instagram photo wearing a lab coat, saying 'I miss when favela people didn't enter med school… good times.'

  Aug 31 · Recife, BrazilXenophobia3 sources

• Activist calls Black Florida lawmaker a 'ghetto Black communist b****' on X

  Right-wing activist Laura Loomer posted on X calling Florida Rep. Angie Nixon a 'ghetto Black communist b****', drawing condemnation from Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and others.

  Aug 31 · United States5 sources

• Canadian outlet sells orange shirts denying residential-schools truth

  A Canadian media outlet announced the sale of orange shirts bearing slogans denying the history of Indigenous residential schools, including 'Evidence still doesn't exist' and 'Canada was built, not stolen'.

  Aug 31 · Canada1 source

• Turkish man shot dead by police in Belgian park after fight

  A Turkish worker living in Belgium was shot and killed by police in a park in Eupen after a confrontation with a group described as Ukrainian.

  Aug 30 · Eupen, Belgium1 source

• Two men attacked with anti-LGBTQ+ and racial slurs in Sacramento

  Two men walking home after a night out in Sacramento's Lavender Heights were mocked with anti-LGBTQ+ and racial slurs by a group of four men and then physically assaulted, leaving one victim bloodied.

  Aug 30 · Sacramento, United States1 source

• Reform UK's Zia Yusuf criticised over tweet about Somali-born Labour candidate

  Reform UK's Zia Yusuf posted a tweet questioning the loyalties of Sagal Abdi-Wali, a former child refugee born in Somalia tipped to stand for Labour in Holborn and St Pancras.

  Aug 30 · United Kingdom2 sources

• Bangladeshi delivery rider beaten with baton in Larnaka

  Two men on motorcycles struck a Bangladeshi food-delivery rider with a baton while he was delivering an order, causing him to lose control and crash.

  Aug 27 · Larnaka, Cyprus1 source

• Two Pakistani migrant brothers beaten in racist attack in Patisia

  An unknown assailant punched and kicked two Pakistani migrant worker brothers in Patisia, Athens, shouting a slur about Pakistan, breaking one brother's nose and injuring the other's face.

  Aug 27 · Athens, Greece1 source

• Crowd attacks migrant settlement on Ceuta beach, burning shacks

  A crowd stormed a migrant settlement on the beach in Ceuta, harassing the migrants, destroying their camp and setting fire to some of their shacks.

  Aug 27 · Ceuta, SpainXenophobia2 sources

• Young man of Moroccan origin beaten in Ceuta by group shouting racist slurs

  A 34-year-old man raised in Ceuta was assaulted by a group of people carrying Spanish flags who first shouted racist insults at him, then beat him with a stick and kicked him until he fell, near a gas station on Avenida González Tablas.

  Aug 26 · Ceuta, Spain1 source

• Racist graffiti targets Indigenous Elder at Cuttagee Bridge

  Racist graffiti was spray-painted at Cuttagee Bridge targeting Gary Campbell, an Indigenous Elder and Bega Valley Medallion recipient.

  Aug 24 · Cuttagee Bridge, Australia1 source

• Young Republicans post 'vote with the hard R' slur while campaigning

  The Lubbock Young Republicans posted a photo on Facebook while campaigning door-to-door that urged voters to 'vote with the hard R', a reference to a racial slur against Black people.

  Aug 22 · Lubbock, United States2 sources

• Palestinian-owned vehicle burned, racist slogans scrawled in Usarin

  Israeli colonists set fire to a Palestinian-owned vehicle and sprayed racist slogans in the village of Usarin, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

  Aug 22 · Ein Siniya, Palestine2 sources

• US brothers denied entry to Lisbon nightclub over skin colour

  Two American brothers were refused entry to the K-Urban Beach nightclub in Lisbon, where a bouncer told them he did not like Black people and called one of them a slur.

  Aug 21 · Lisbon, Portugal2 sources

• Brazilian tourist in Italy receives racist attacks after restaurant complaint

  A Brazilian tourist dining at a restaurant in Riccione, Italy, found an offensive note on her bill after complaining about undercooked eggs.

  Aug 19 · Riccione, Italy1 source

• Police shoot 14-year-old of Kurdish descent in Munich

  A police officer in Munich's Schwabing district shot and seriously wounded a 14-year-old boy of Turkish nationality and Kurdish descent who was carrying a realistic-looking softair pistol.

  Aug 17 · Munich, Germany1 source

• Governor's bodyguard calls student a 'monkey' in Ambon scuffle

  A bodyguard of the Maluku governor blocked a student from Seram Utara who was trying to deliver a letter and called him a 'monkey', a racial slur, during a confrontation at Merdeka Field in Ambon.

  Aug 17 · Ambon, Indonesia1 source

Other categories

• Religious Discrimination 320
• Queer Discrimination 93
• Sexism / Gender-Based Violence 876
• Xenophobia 141