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(IsraelNN.com) An IDF Major was rescued this afternoon (Monday) by PA police from a crazed Arab mob when he mistakenly entered the city of Jenin, in northern Shomron. Arab residents who first saw him and realized he was Israeli threw rocks at him, forced him out of his car and began beating him. A Palestinian Authority policeman called for help, and PA forces rescued the Israeli. He was transferred safely to the Jalameh checkpoint north of Jenin, where the IDF received him. The PA's Maan news agency reported that the officer entered the city from the west, driving a white...

Vehicle's passenger was beaten to death by several men, police say. AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF A group of men fatally beat a passenger in a car that police said accidentally struck a child outside an East Austin apartment complex, police said today. As many as 3,000 people were in the area following a Juneteenth celebration at the time, officials said. Austin police Cmdr. Harold Piatt estimated that dozens were in the parking lot of the Booker T. Washington apartment complex at the time and that preliminary information shows no witnesses apparently tried to prevent or stop the attack. "At this point, we...

A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said Wednesday. Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night. The man who was killed had been trying to stop the group from attacking the vehicle's driver when the crowd turned on him, authorities said. The Austin Police Department identified the victim as David Rivas Morales, 40. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police spokeswoman Toni Chovonetz said she had no further information, including how...

We now know with certainty that Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong is a self-serving creep who played the race card to advance his career. Whatever happens to him -- disbarment, being subjected to civil lawsuits or being pelted with tomatoes at a public square -- will not undo the damage his office inflicted on the three former lacrosse players at Duke University the 13 last months. His rush to judgment fit the liberal template of the university that convicted the players, the lacrosse program and the coach before the ink on the bogus charges was dry. All of it...

WASHINGTON - U.S. criminal investigators found no evidence to support the claim of Marines charged in the deaths of unarmed Iraqi civilians that five were shot after trying to flee the scene of a roadside bombing that killed one Marine, a senior defense official said Saturday. Investigators determined that all five Iraqis were shot within arm's length of each other and no more than 18 feet from the white taxi they were ordered to exit by members of a Marine squad in the western Iraqi town of Haditha, said the official, who is familiar with reports produced by the Naval...

Red America, my new blog at washingtonpost.com, has been under attack since its launch. It is a conservative blog on a mainstream media site, so many of the attacks were expected. If one bothers to read it, I believe it stands as a welcome addition to the opinion debate. The hate mail that I have received since the launch of this blog has been overwhelmingly profane and violent. My family has been threatened; my friends have been deluged; my phone has been prank called. The most recent email that showed up while writing this post talked about how the author...

GAFFNEY -- The nation will have a chance to see the state's case against five Spartanburg County teenagers charged with a racially motivated attack when Court TV airs coverage of the trial next week.

DETROIT - A full-page newspaper advertisement depicting black corpses hanging from trees and likening media coverage of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to lynching has drawn criticism in the home stretch of his re-election campaign. The mayor distanced himself from the ad, which was published this week in the city's largest black newspaper and echoes complaints he has made about media coverage. "This advertisement is not affiliated in any way with the Kilpatrick administration or the Kilpatrick for Mayor campaign," Kilpatrick said in a statement. "Detroiters are very passionate people, and while I appreciate the spirit of some of the content, I...

DETROIT - An advertisement in a local weekly newspaper has caused some controversy over its words and a photograph, Local 4 reported. The full-page ad on the back page of this week's The Michigan Citizen carries the headline, "Lynching Is Still Legal in America," and bears a photograph of three black men being lynched. The ad was purchased by the Citizens for Honest Government with the intention of depicting Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as a victim of media lynching, Local 4 reported. The price of the ad was not disclosed, but according to the rates posted on the newspaper's Web site,...

  Nigerian lynched for witchcraft   A mob in northern Nigeria has beaten to death a man who police say confessed to involvement in ritual murders.The incident came after three women were found murdered and mutilated in Bakori town in Katsina state. Their body parts are thought to have been removed for use in rituals. A police spokesman said that on Thursday, passers-by apprehended a man who appeared to be attacking another woman, who was screaming for help. "They took him to the office of the traditional chief of the town where he confessed to taking part in the...

WASHINGTON – In more than 200 years, the United States Senate has rarely found an occasion to apologize. But today the body is expected to apologize to lynching victims and their families for the Senate’s failure to enact federal anti-lynching legislation during the first part of the 20th century. From 1890 to 1960, 4,742 Americans were documented as having been lynched, with actual numbers believed to be much higher. During that time, nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced to the United States Congress. The United States House of Representatives even passed three anti-lynching bills, but all failed on the floor...

(CBS 5) Oakland police are learning more about a brutal beating caught on tape and sold on DVD. The DVD is called "World's Wildest Street Fights," and the scene was taped in Oakland about three years ago. Oakland police found out about the tape Monday, and don't know who the victim is, or if she's alive. "As it stands right now, or homicide section has not been able to identify any unsolved homicides for that time period," said Oakland Police Department spokesperson Danielle Ashford. Investigators believe that the woman was attacked in a parking lot that is now a charter...

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - Jewish congregations gathered in a suburban shopping center Wednesday to remember the lynching of a Jewish businessman on the same spot 90 years ago. Leo Frank was kidnapped from prison and hanged in 1915 after being convicted of killing a teenage girl at a pencil factory. Frank, a 29-year-old from New York City, had been sentenced to death for the 1913 strangulation of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old worker whose body was found in the factory's coal bin. But the evidence against Frank was thin, and the governor commuted the sentence to life in prison. Two months...

Letter from North America: “ ‘Ling Chi’ [lynching’s] Shadow” BBC Special Internet Correspondent: Fang Hu Zhai‘Ling chi’, using a knife to dismember a person piece by piece, was a method of torture practiced in ancient China. I am using ling chi here however as a borrowed translation to describe the history of ‘lynching’ in the United States. Most of the history of lynching, the “illegal punishment” by hanging of a criminal without any legal process whatsoever, is tied to southern white racists. In the past, they wantonly killed blacks, other minorities, even white people who opposed their views, and thus...

ISRAELI Arab leaders have called on the Government to refrain from investigating the lynching by Arabs of an Israeli soldier who shot dead four Arabs, including two women, on a bus last Thursday. Knesset member Mohammed Barakei warned that protests could erupt throughout the Arab sector if an investigation is carried out into the soldier's killing. A security official in the Israeli Arab town of Shfaram, where the shootings occurred, said the soldier, Eden Natan Zada, had been beaten to death by the mob after he had been subdued by police and handcuffed. But Mr Barakei denied this, and said...

WALTON COUNTY — With the 59th anniversary of the Moore’s Ford lynchings coming up on Monday, activists are gearing up for a re-enactment of the tragedy. Two black couples, George and Mae Murray Dorsey and Dorothy and Roger Malcom, were killed by a lynch mob of unmasked white men at the Moore’s Ford bridge on July 25, 1946. On Friday, state Rep. Tyrone Brooks (D-47, of Atlanta) held a press conference in Monroe to provide more details about the re-enactment

------------------------ Today: July 25, 2005 at 8:8:21 PDT Re-Enactment of 1946 Lynchings Planned By ERRIN HAINES ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA (AP) - Civil rights activists in Georgia hope to stage a re-enactment today of the lynchings that took place on July 25, 1946.

Reid cited Justice Hugo Black of Alabama as a former senator who was appointed to the Supreme Court. Black, a member of the Ku Klux Klan in his youth, was appointed to the court by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937. “I think it is a great idea,” Reid said about the possibility of appointing a senator to the Supreme Court. “Some outstanding people have come from the Senate. The last was an ex-Ku Klux Klansman who turned out to be one of the greatest civil-rights jurists of all time.”

JUST WHO OWES lynching victims an apology? Judging from some of the commentaries we've seen, you'd think the eight Republicans who did not cosponsor the Senate's lynching apology — including Sens. Judd Gregg and John Sununu — had all been unmasked as former Ku Klux Klan members. (The bill passed on a voice vote with no objections.) But alas, the only former Klansman in the Senate is a Democrat, which brings us to the issue at hand. What the Senate passed last week was not an anti-lynching bill, as some have portrayed it. It was a formal apology by the...

What, me apologize? Jay Bryant June 21, 2005 The United States Senate has passed a resolution, sponsored by Republican George Allen of Virginia and Democrat Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, apologizing as an institution for preventing the passage of anti-lynching legislation. We are still waiting for the Democratic Party to apologize for its role, which is far greater than that of the whole Senate, inasmuch as all the senators who prevented action to abolish lynching for all those decades, were Democrats. The old massahs were Democrats, too, and so were the whip-toting overseers who carried out their brutality on what they...