ANTI-CHINESE RACISM ON THE STAND
Thirty Years Later, A New Call "Against Racism and For Equal Rights"
Angela Davis: the iconic "Sweet Black Angel" at l’Humanité
A Black Couple Faces Racism In Mississippi
New Accusations against DSK
Racism in France: Less Violence, But Also Less Tolerance
Mascarade
Dieudonné’s Contempt Towards WWII Nazi Death Camp Deportees Arouses Indignation.
Jean Ziegler: “This World Order is not only murderous: it is absurd.”
Genes have no race.
Indictment of Three Anti-Semitic Policemen.
Following the Traces of Racism: “Slavery and the slave trade were midwives to the birth of capitalism.”
Commotion in Lille after the Desecration of Jewish Graves
Vichy: How the French State Became Anti-Semitic, by Tal Bruttman
JUPPÉ DOES NOT WANT A FRANTZ-FANON ALLEY IN...
Air Transport:Three Suicides at Air France in Marseille
Justice. A town takes on the State on behalf of the climate
A recently-published American study provides...
Farmers: a world on the edge of the abyss
"I could never have imagined what was waiting for us"
Ecology. When Citizens Regain a Hold on the Climate
ESSAI. FROM ONE CLASS TO ANOTHER, WITHOUT...
At the Death of of Samir Amin, the Damned of the Earth are in Mourning
Henri Clément: “No compensation in twenty years.”
Railway reforms. SNCF: the government reduces the debt in the hope of breaking the unions
Attempts by the extreme-right to intimidate marchers supporting migrants foiled
ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: « Juif ou pas Juif », un beau raté dans le contrôle d’Apple
"Jew or Not Jew" : a total failure for Apple’s audit process
Translated Tuesday 20 September 2011, by and reviewed by Bill Scoble
The app for iPhone and iPad is astonishing to say the least; for just 79 cents, one can have a supposedly exhaustive list of all the famous Jewish people in the world.
The incriminated app. Note the incredible option offering to find a Jew "at random".
What does the app’s description say? "You too can keep a catalogue of Jews in your phone - you never know"? Well no, but not far off: "Hey, did you know that Timsit was Jewish? - Of course, and was Marilyn Monroe really a Jew? How many times have we had this conversation, without knowing the answer?" And for the more fundamentalist, the app also presents the "half-Jews", from their father’s line, and the newly converted. It has been on sale for a month, without seeming to disturb Apple.
The creator of the app assures us that the reason for it is purely "for fun." SOS Racisme, LICRA (International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism) and some other organisations have clearly not found it to their taste and have complained. The complaint is also against Apple, who normally examines all applications thoroughly before validating them for the App Store. Remember that Apple censored Charlie Hebdo’s app, for "extreme" and "pornographic" content...
The French penal code leaves little ambiguity over what the creator and distributor of this app are risking, since it is illegal "to put or to hold in computerised memory, without the express consent of those concerned, personal data which, directly or indirectly, makes ethnic or racial origins, political, philosophical or religious opinions apparent..." A crime which is "punishable by five years of imprisonment and a 300,000 euro fine."
