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Muslim private school challenges termination of its contract in French court The large amount of inspections that Al Kindi gets in comparison to Catholic schools, as well as the [school’s] claims that the court’s allegations were already addressed, puts into question whether there is [Islamophobic] bias at play.

(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 […]

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Anti-Israel mob that stormed Barnard handed out ‘Hamas Media Office’ flyers glorifying Oct. 7: ‘Still think they don’t support terror?’

(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 […]

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State Department revokes first visa of foreign student linked to ‘Hamas-supporting disruptions’ President Donald Trump has called for foreigners in US on a student visa to be deported if they support terror groups

(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 […]

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Muslim journalist warns Senate of antisemitism ‘industry,’ calls for DOJ probe of ‘malign foreign influence’ Asra Nomani warns Senate Judiciary Committee of a 'frightening network of the far left and Islamist groups'

(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 […]

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Hamas hostage taker who wrote for US-based website boasted of ‘actively coordinating’ with American campus protesters, lawsuit alleges Abdallah Aljamal allegedly informed hostages that Hamas would 'ensure that the United States, as well as Jews and Israelis, are hated everywhere'

(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 […]

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Yale Law School scrubs references to administrator who is member of US-sanctioned terror financier Helyeh Doutaghi spoke at a Samidoun-sponsored event in Iran honoring Lebanese terrorist

(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 […]

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Yale Law School scholar is member of US-sanctioned terror fundraising organization Helyeh Doutaghi, deputy director of Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, placed on 'immediate administrative leave' as university investigates allegations

(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 […]

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Schools adopt varying approaches to Ramadan fasting As the number of schools with Muslim pupils grows in Finland, some are providing guidelines on Ramadan fasting, while others are not.

(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 […]

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Quebec education minister suggests expanding religious symbol ban to some school support staff Bernard Drainville vowed to introduce new legislation to strengthen secularism in schools

(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 […]

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York University student president urged to resign over ‘deeply concerning’ support for Hamas Somar Abuaziza has made dozens of social media posts appearing to support Hamas, its leadership and the October 7 attacks

(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 […]

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Rising antisemitism puts Canada at risk of terror attack, feds told The unsettling warnings are contained in a number of recently declassified security reviews

(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 […]

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Northwestern University mandatory anti-discrimination training pushes unverified CAIR data 'This omission is not an oversight; it reflects Northwestern's ongoing pattern of sidelining Jewish concerns in response to activist pressure,' anti-Semitism expert says

(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 […]

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Minnesota Muslims and Somali Americans speak out on politics, faith and being open to Trump in 2024 Salman Fiqy told Fox News Digital that the LGBTQ agenda was an issue and added, 'We see things from a conservative lens'

(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. […]

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‘It’s a gut punch’: Muslim group calls on Houston ISD to reinstate Eid al-Fitr as school holiday Houston ISD’s 2025-26 calendar does not include a day off for Eid al-Fitr, one of two major holidays for Muslims. The district had implemented a school holiday for Eid in 2023.

(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. […]

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Georgetown’s daughter of Hamas A woman listed as a graduate student at the university has family ties to the terror group and has cheered its attacks on Israel.

(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 […]

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Incoming Austrian government to crack down on those ‘unwilling to integrate’ As coalition talks continue, the fight against political Islam is the one area where the two parties are close to consensus.

(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 […]

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Georgetown Law event with PFLP terror group member postponed The university told Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) it is conducting a ‘serious investigation’

(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 […]

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USAID reportedly bankrolled al Qaeda terrorist’s college tuition, unearthed records show Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike during the Obama administration

(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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Terrorists use AI on social media to incite attacks against Jews in U.S., report finds Canadians are also susceptible to tactics used by terrorists online. 'There’s no differentiation just because we have a physical border,' says Marc Ginsberg, founder of the group behind the report

(National Post) A new report says that terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda use AI on social media to inspire lone wolf attacks against the Jewish community in the United States. But Canadians are not exempt from this kind of targeted […]

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Georgetown Law student group to host convicted member of PFLP terror group The school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter plans to host a discussion with Ribhi Karajah, who was imprisoned in Israel for failing to disclose his prior knowledge of a deadly terror attack

(Jewish Insider) A member of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who failed to disclose to authorities his prior knowledge of the 2019 bombing that killed an Israeli teenager is scheduled to speak at a Georgetown University […]

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Trump Department of Justice launches Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism 'The Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is the first step in giving life to President Trump’s renewed commitment to ending anti-Semitism in our schools,' task force head Leo Terrell says

(Free Beacon) The Trump administration is forming a multi-agency task force “to root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses,” the Department of Justice announced Monday. The task force stems from an executive order President Donald Trump signed last week […]

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France: Muslim private schools under threat of closure After French authorities ended the last association contract with a Muslim school, the community and its leaders denounce Islamophobic and discriminatory measures

(Middle East Eye) More than 600 primary and secondary students at the Al Kindi private Muslim school group, located in the suburbs of Lyon, in central-eastern France, risk not returning to their school at the start of the next academic year. On […]

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Washington Post cites sanctioned terror financier Samidoun in sympathetic piece highlighting ‘Palestinian prisoners’ freed In one case, WaPo described the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror org as a 'small leftist armed group'

(Free Beacon) The Washington Post cited the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an anti-Semitic organization under U.S. sanctions for providing material support to terrorists, in a sympathetic piece highlighting the “Palestinian prisoners” freed as part of the Israel-Hamas hostage deal. The Post described […]

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Hundreds of schools hit by Islamist bomb scare in anti-migration Hungary PM Orbán: 'If we had allowed migrants in, we would not be facing threats, but acts of terrorism.'

(European Conservative) Bomb threats targeting 292 schools across Hungary caused widespread evacuations and the cancellation of classes on Thursday, January 23rd. Police conducted thorough searches of the affected institutions, but no explosive devices were found, allowing pupils to return to school on […]

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Columbia University course on Israel disrupted by Palestinian protesters on first day of class Columbia President Katrina Armstrong: ‘We want to be absolutely clear that any act of antisemitism ... against members of our community is unacceptable and will not be tolerated’

(Jewish Insider) Columbia University students learning about the history of Israel found their first day of class thrown into chaos Tuesday after four masked demonstrators barged into the classroom, banged on drums, chanted “free Palestine” and distributed posters to students that read […]

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Trump’s executive order allows deportation of foreign Hamas supporters During his campaign, Trump pledged to pursue the deportation of foreign students participating in campus unrest and anti-Israel demonstrations who express solidarity with Hamas and Hezbollah.

(Israel Hayom) President Donald Trump has enacted an executive order enabling the deportation of foreign students and other non-citizens from the US for expressing support for organizations that the US government has designated as terrorist groups. According to a key section in […]

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French Muslims decry government actions against Islamic schools Measures against Islamic schools 'widely perceived as disproportionate and unjustified,' says French Council of Muslim Worship

(Anadolu) The French Council of Muslim Worship (CFCM) has expressed “a profound sense of injustice and discrimination” following administrative decisions impacting several private Islamic schools in France. In a statement issued Tuesday, the council criticized the recent termination of state contracts with […]