(NY Post) Families of hostages held by Hamas believe that anti-Israel groups like Students for Justice in Palestine had “prior knowledge” of the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks — after the controversial activists proclaimed “we are back” in an Instagram post just […]
(NY Post) The families of hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack are suing detained Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil and several student groups for allegedly “aiding and abetting Hamas’ continuing acts of international terrorism.” The lawsuit, […]
(Reuters) The U.S. government has alleged that Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil withheld that he worked for a United Nations Palestinian relief agency in his visa application, saying that should be grounds for deportation. The U.N. agency known as […]
(WFLD) Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law last week that makes Illinois the first state to mandate the availability of halal and kosher meal options in state-run schools, hospitals, and correctional facilities. The bill is called the Faith by Plate […]
(CNN) A Cornell graduate student who has been a prominent voice at pro-Palestinian protests — and who faced intense criticism for declaring “glory to the resistance!” after the Hamas attack on Israel that left more than 1,200 dead — is being told […]
(Algemeiner) US Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY) has introduced legislation to deport non-citizen students who support any US-designated terrorist group, arguing that these individuals have abused the “privilege” of seeking an education in America. “It’s a privilege to come to America to learn […]
(CBC) The Quebec government has put forward legislation that would extend the province’s ban on the wearing of religious symbols to support staff in schools, and prohibit students from having their faces covered. Under Bill 94, the ban would apply to all staff […]
(NH Journal) Accusing him of “failing up” and “cashing out,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations says there should be no place at the University of New Hampshire for former Biden advisor Jake Sullivan, and it’s calling on the university to give him […]
(Free Beacon) A foreign graduate student and protest leader at Cornell University is suing the Trump administration over its executive order calling to expel pro-Hamas visa holders, arguing that the order has forced him to withdraw from “public engagement” and thus “deprived” […]
(NY Post) The 30-year fight for justice by the family of David Boim, the first American victim of Hamas who was gunned down aged 17, was given a huge boost by the Department of Justice this week. The DoJ and FBI have […]
(CBC) Quebec Education Minister Bernard Drainville says he will table a bill in the coming days to strengthen secularism in Quebec schools. Drainville made the announcement in a video posted on his X account. Premier François Legault shared the minister’s post and […]
(Politico) Federal authorities say they deported a Lebanese doctor holding an American visa last week after finding “sympathetic photos and videos” of prominent Hezbollah figures in a deleted items folder on her cell phone. Rasha Alawieh, a physician specializing in kidney transplants […]
(AP) The Justice Department on Monday announced the creation of a task force to investigate Hamas for its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel as well as potential civil rights violations and acts of antisemitism by anyone supporting the militant group. Agents […]
(GB News) A former headteacher who urged pupils to “recite the Koran” and “wear hijabs outside of school” has been appointed as the chairman of Ofsted. Sir Hamid Patel will take up the interim role while a successor for Dame Christine Ryan […]
(Jerusalem Post) A 27-year-old woman is currently on trial after she reportedly assaulted a middle-aged Jewish woman after a lecture on antisemitism in Hamburg, Germany, local media reported on Tuesday. German media outlet taz reported that the defendant, Ayan M., continually berated co-plantiff […]
(European Conservative) French police arrested and charged a teenager in connection with a planned terror campaign, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) has confirmed. The 17-year-old from Vesoul in Haute-Saône has been held since Thursday, March 13th. He is under investigation for […]
(Middle East Eye) The new interim chair of Ofsted, the UK’s school regulator, has previously criticised the official narrative around the Birmingham “Trojan Horse” affair, saying the episode left some Muslims worried that expressing their faith would bring about “establishment suspicion.” The Trojan […]
(Free Beacon) When Hamas-supporting Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil appeared in court on Wednesday, he was represented by, among others, Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer perhaps best known for defending al Qaeda terrorists. The Syrian-born Khalil had his green card revoked by Immigration […]
(European Conservative) Austrian school teachers have sounded the alarm over Muslim children who are fasting during the Islamic holy month. Due to dehydration and poor nutrition, the children — some of whom are as young as six — are constantly tired and […]
(European Conservative) A recent survey reveals a worrying explosion of antisemitism among sections of French youth. According to the survey, Jew-hatred is clearly thriving in recent immigrant populations of the Muslim faith, contaminating an entire age group. The Institut français d’opinion publique […]
(Anadolu) French far-right Member of the European Parliament Marion Marechal was indicted Tuesday for defamation following her accusations against the “Valeurs et Reussite” Muslim group behind a planned Muslim school in Valence, Francebleu broadcaster reported. The indictment was issued after Marechal claimed […]
(Canadian Press) The Quebec government has announced a new committee to make recommendations on how to strengthen secularism in the province, including by possibly restricting public prayer. Amid a flurry of concern over religious practices emerging in Quebec public schools, Secularism Minister […]
(LBC) A 20-year-old Londoner has been charged with two counts of expressing support for Hamas. Sarah Cotte, from Camden in North London, was arrested for making a public speech in October 2023 in which she appeared to endorse and celebrate the October […]
(NY Post) Columbia University protest ringleader Mahmoud Khalil was being investigated as a potential national security threat, a source said Monday — as President Trump warned that the anti-Israel agitator’s bust will be the “first arrest of many.” Secretary of State Marco […]
(Morocco World News) Al-Kindi, the only [Muslim] private high school in France and the sole Muslim institution with state partnership, is standing before the administrative court of Lyon today to appeal authorities’ decision to terminate its contract. The prefecture of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes announced […]
(BBC) A school teacher has been sacked after a video of him slapping a boy across the face at a local mosque was posted online. The video was posted anonymously in the West Yorkshire social media group by someone who claimed the […]
(NY Post) President Trump is giving this anti-Israel campus rabble-rouser a ticket to study abroad — for good. A Palestinian activist who led a coalition of twisted radicals seeking the “total eradication of Western civilization” responsible for riotous protests at Columbia University […]
(NY Post) Anti-Israel protesters who again stormed Barnard College’s Manhattan campus this week handed out sick “Hamas Media Office” leaflets glorifying the Oct. 7 terror attacks. The disturbing missives — including one titled “Our narrative … Al-Aqsa Flood,” the name the Palestinian […]
(Fox) The State Department has revoked the visa of a student who participated in protesting in favor of Hamas, a move in line with President Donald Trump’s call for canceling visas of students involved in the anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses. The […]
(Axios) Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups, senior State Department officials tell Axios. Why it matters: The effort […]
(Fox) A Muslim journalist warned the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that antisemitism has become an “industry” in the United States, and called for the Justice Department to investigate the “malign foreign influence” behind it. “Antisemitism is now an industry. It is […]
(Free Beacon) A Hamas operative who also wrote for a U.S.-based nonprofit publication bragged to his Israeli hostages about how the terror group “was in contact and actively coordinating” with anti-Israel protesters at American colleges, according to eyewitness accounts detailed in a […]
(Free Beacon) Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, an initiative funded by the left-wing William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, quietly deleted online references to its deputy director, Helyeh Doutaghi, who is also a member of the U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising entity […]
(Free Beacon) A research scholar at Yale Law School also moonlights as a member of a U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising entity, according to web postings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Those postings reveal that Helyeh Doutaghi, the deputy director of Yale Law […]
(Yle) The number of schools with Muslim pupils is steadily increasing. As a result, some schools are taking a stance on children fasting during Ramadan which began on Friday. Ville Raatikainen, head of basic education at the city of Helsinki, told Finnish […]
(CBC) Quebec’s education minister said Friday the government is considering expanding its ban on religious symbols to include daycare supervisors and other school aides. Bernard Drainville told Radio-Canada’s Tout un matin he was concerned that there are some school staff members who […]
(AFP) A public Roman university, La Sapienza, said Friday it had cancelled a pro-Palestinian student group’s event to present a book written by the slain leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar. The presentation by the Palestinian Student Movement was due to […]
(National Post) “Lived a hero and died a hero,” York University student Somar Abuaziza wrote on Instagram following the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last October. Last Tuesday, Abuaziza became president of the York Federation of Students (YFS), representing nearly 50,000 […]
(Toronto Sun) Canada could experience a lone-wolf terror attack soon, intelligence authorities have advised the federal government — and antisemitism is overwhelmingly the motivating factor. “Amid (rising) antisemitic hate, an undetected lone actor could commit an act of serious violence in Canada […]
(Arab News) The number of Arab and Muslim Americans seeking office in the state of Illinois has almost quadrupled from previous years’ elections, and some activists believe it is a response to the Gaza war, as well as rising anti-Arab racism and […]
(NL Times) Students across the Netherlands are reporting bans on prayer during school hours, with some even facing punishments for attempting to pray at school. Over 180 secondary schools have been named by students who say they are not allowed to pray […]
(Free Beacon) Northwestern University’s mandatory anti-discrimination training relies on unverified data from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that inflate Islamophobic attacks, giving the false impression that those attacks vastly outpace anti-Semitic hate crimes. The training also questions anti-Zionism’s ties to Jew-hatred […]
(Fox) In Minnesota, Muslims and Somali Americans talked politics, religion and how their votes were swayed in the 2024 election. Some showed a new affinity for the Republican Party under Donald Trump. “Somalis were inherently Democrats,” Salman Fiqy told Fox News Digital. […]
(Houston Public Media) Houston ISD’s calendar for next school year does not include a holiday for Eid al-Fitr — one of the biggest celebrations in the Islamic faith — and a local Muslim organization is calling on the district to reinstate it. […]
(National Review) Mapheze Ahmad Yousef Saleh was recently listed as a graduate student at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). She also happens to be the daughter of Ahmed Yousef, who served as a top adviser for the terrorist organization […]
(Daily Caller) Anti-Israel professors praised Palestinian terrorists as “resistance” fighters and downplayed the rape of Jewish women at a University of California, Berkeley, panel on Tuesday. UC Berkeley’s Department of Gender and Women’s Studies hosted the speakers who defended terrorists during a […]
(Free Beacon) Foreign students and professors have played a leading role in fomenting pro-terror and anti-Semitic demonstrations on U.S. college campuses. Now, many of them could face federal investigation or deportation following an executive order from President Donald Trump that calls on […]
(European Conservative) Negotiations between the right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the centre-right People’s Party (ÖVP) to form the next Austrian government have still not come to a conclusion, following a month of talks. The one issue both parties have come to an […]
(Jewish Insider) A discussion scheduled for Tuesday at Georgetown University Law Center featuring a convicted member of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is being postponed so that the university can “conduct a serious investigation,” Jewish Insider […]
(Fox) The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly provided “full funding” for al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to attend college in Colorado, unearthed documents apparently show. Al-Awlaki was an American-born jihadist who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in […]
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