Day: September 28, 2022

Academics & Education

CUNY pulls former CAIR staffer from anti-Zionism investigation Prof. Jeffrey Lax says choosing a former employee of the Council on American–Islamic Relations to conduct the probe showed 'at best, extremely poor judgment.'

September 28, 2022   

(JNS) The City University of New York (CUNY) has reversed course after it assigned a former employee of a vehemently anti-Israel NGO to investigate allegations of anti-Zionist discrimination. The probe came at the request of Prof. Jeffrey Lax, chair of the business […]

Academics & Education

Congress probes Oberlin College prof. with links to Iranian regime A letter sent to Oberlin wants answers on professor's 'apparent leading role in covering up the Iranian regime's atrocities'

September 28, 2022   

(Fox) Two Republican lawmakers from the Committee [on] Education and Labor called for an inquiry Wednesday into Oberlin College’s religion studies professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati due to his reported ties with the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism, the Islamic Republic of […]

Law Enforcement

Mustafa Dirani’s ‘extreme beliefs’ laid bare in court Lawyers have argued a man was not privy to a terrorist conspiracy unfolding in Sydney’s west despite sharing 'extreme' Islamic material.

September 28, 2022   

(NCA NewsWire) Lawyers for Mustafa Dirani have asked a jury to put his “extreme beliefs” aside in judging if he was part of a terrorist conspiracy that led to police accountant Curtis Cheng’s death. Mr Cheng was gunned down outside the Parramatta […]