Academics & Education – Page 8

Ontario school played Palestinian protest song in Arabic as its Remembrance Day music 'They chose an Arabic song about peace for Gaza as the only song to play for a Remembrance Day service,' said a disappointed parent

November 11, 2024 Adrian Humphreys

(National Post) An Ottawa school played an Arabic-language Palestinian protest song associated with fighting in Gaza as the soundtrack to its Remembrance Day presentation, causing outrage and distress for some students and parents. The song was the sole musical accompaniment to a […]

Columbia student group rejects Veterans Day to hold ‘Martyrs Day’ event 'A day to honor the patriotism, love of country, and sacrifice of those martyrs,' writes anti-Israel group Columbia University Apartheid Divest

November 11, 2024 Lexi Boccuzzi

(Free Beacon) Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the infamous anti-Israel student group, protested Veterans Day by hosting a “Martyrs Day” event honoring “those martyred by the Israel-US war machine.” In an Instagram post, CUAD, which has celebrated Hamas terrorists and praised attacks […]

Pro-Hamas messages intensify on college campuses Pro-Palestinian protests have been less disruptive this fall, but at some schools, the rhetoric is more extreme.

November 10, 2024 Laura Meckler and Susan Svrluga

(Washington Post) When antiwar protests disrupted campuses nationwide last year, signs and chants demanded “Divest!” and “Cease-fire now!” This fall, much of the protest language has grown darker, celebrating the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, echoing language used by Hamas and declaring, “Glory […]

Sister of beheaded French teacher relieved after trial hears admission of one defendant’s guilt Family says it won't accept apology from accused unless they take on responsibility

November 8, 2024 Sunniva Rose

(National-UAE) Relatives of a French history teacher beheaded four years ago by a teenager were surprised by a confession of guilt in court from an associate of the killer. A sister welcomed how one of the defendants, a former friend of the […]

Pro-Hamas Bernie bro elected to Dearborn school board Amer Zahr has urged Muslims to 'stand with' Hamas and Hezbollah

November 6, 2024 Chuck Ross

(Free Beacon) Voters in Dearborn, Mich., a Muslim-American stronghold outside Detroit, have elected a former Bernie Sanders surrogate who defends the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah to serve on the city’s school board. Amer Zahr, a Dearborn-based activist, has urged Muslims to […]

Trial opens in France in the beheading of a teacher over prophet cartoons

November 4, 2024 Nicolas Vaux-Montagny and Sylvie Corbet

(AP) The trial of eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by an Islamic extremist after showing caricatures of Islam’s prophet to his middle school students for a lesson […]

Terrorist convicted of murdering 4 in Paris synagogue is lecturer at Canadian university Dr. Hassan Diab was convicted in France and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of four people, including one Israeli, in a terrorist attack in Paris in 1980

November 3, 2024 Itamar Eichner

(Ynet) Dr. Hassan Diab, a Lebanese terrorist with Canadian citizenship, who was convicted in a French court and sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Paris 44 years ago, accepted a teaching position at […]

Germany probes Iran-linked Mustafa Institute in Berlin — Bild

November 1, 2024 Benjamin Weinthal

(Iran International) Germany’s intelligence services are investigating alleged espionage activities involving 700 people linked to the Iranian state-run Al-Mustafa Institute in Berlin, according to the Bild newspaper. The report coincides with diplomatic tensions between Berlin and Tehran, following the execution of German-Iranian […]

Palestinian activist vows to fight ban after speech moves online

October 28, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Dutch News) A pro-Palestinian activist has held a speech via video link outside a building at Nijmegen’s Radboud University after he was banned by the Dutch government and campus authorities. Mohammed Khatib was due to give a lecture on the treatment of […]

Barred Palestinian activist might still give speech at Nijmegen university protest

October 28, 2024 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The controversial Palestinian activist Mohammed Khatib will still speak at Radboud University in Nijmegen on Monday, lecturer Harry Pettit, the organizer of the address, wrote on X. “He will not be silenced,” Pettit said, referring to the Dutch government barring […]

Parents accused of assaulting, trying to kidnap daughter in Lacey over arranged marriage

October 26, 2024 Martín Bilbao

(Olympian) A father has been accused of assaulting and attempting to kidnap his daughter at Timberline High School in Lacey on Oct. 18. The incident occurred in the afternoon at a bus stop near the school and in the presence of many […]

Court says that too many children are not going to school due to religious beliefs

October 26, 2024 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) More and more children do not have to go to school because of their [parents’] beliefs. They have been granted an exemption from compulsory education, and the court in Amsterdam is concerned about this. The judges say that it is […]

Dutch ban Palestinian prisoner activist from entry

October 25, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Dutch News) A controversial Palestinian activist who had been invited to give a lecture at Radboud University in Nijmegen next week has been banned from entering the Netherlands. Mohammed Khatib, who had been asked to talk about Palestinian prisoners and the Israeli […]

Quebec opens investigation on another religious incident in a public school 'If these events are confirmed, you can be sure decisions will be made,' says Education Minister Bernard Drainville. 'I'm not going to let this go on without a very firm and determined response.'

October 23, 2024 Philip Authier

(Montreal Gazette) The Quebec government has opened an investigation into another incident of religion reappearing in a public elementary school, with Education Minister Bernard Drainville saying Quebec will not turn a blind eye to the fresh allegations. One day after suspending the […]

Students at Montreal high school under investigation say teacher made comments that shocked class School service centre says it spoke to teacher following the remarks

October 23, 2024 Unlisted Author

(CBC) High school students at one of the four Montreal schools under investigation by Quebec’s Education Ministry for alleged toxic behaviour among staff say their teacher referenced wanting to hit them last week. The students’ account is one of the few specific incidents […]

A Montreal elementary school is at the centre of a secularism debate. Here’s how we got here Provincial politicians accused of pouncing on religion for political gain

October 22, 2024 Antoni Nerestant

(CBC) In the last few weeks, an elementary school in Montreal’s west-central Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood has been mired in controversy. This past weekend, 11 teachers were suspended for allegedly creating a toxic environment for students and staff that goes back to 2016. On […]

Liberal MNA Marwah Rizqy asks for police protection in wake of threats She says she fears for her safety and that of her family after speaking up about a toxic climate at the Bedford school.

October 22, 2024 Caroline Plante

(Montreal Gazette) Saying she fears for her safety and that of her family, St-Laurent MNA Marwah Rizqy has asked for police protection. Rizqy was repeatedly insulted after denouncing the situation at Bedford elementary school that came to light in a recent investigation […]

Ministry suspends licences of 11 teachers at Bedford school as Legault vows to reinforce secularism rules 'We have a group of teachers who tried to introduce Islamic religious concepts into a Quebec public school, putting aside science as a way of helping students,' the premier said.

October 22, 2024 Philip Authier

(Montreal Gazette) With the Legault government saying the evidence shows Quebec’s secularism law was being flouted, 11 teachers at Montreal’s Bedford elementary school have had their teaching licences suspended by the Education Ministry pending the conclusions of an investigation. And the government […]

PQ leader calls for stricter secularism rules in wake of ‘toxic’ climate report at Bedford school Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says the education minister only referred to 'ideological divergences' in a Radio-Canada interview, without acknowledging the religious part of the equation.

October 21, 2024 Philip Authier

(Montreal Gazette) Urging politicians to not shy away from the debate because it involves religion, Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon called Monday for stricter secularism rules in the wake of the Bedford school controversy. St-Pierre Plamondon said what happened in the […]

’11 teachers all at once?’: Parents shocked by suspensions at Montreal school Several Muslim parents with children at Bedford school said they fear the suspensions will fuel political discourse.

October 21, 2024 Jesse Feith

(Montreal Gazette) Parents at a Montreal primary school where 11 teachers were suspended over the weekend expressed shock and confusion during after-school pickup on Monday, with several questioning if the situation had been blown out of proportion. The suspensions, announced on Saturday, […]

Islamist hate preacher set for Netherlands seminar appearance Leader of terrorist group to appear at Dutch university, despite widespread bans elsewhere.

October 21, 2024 TEC News

(European Conservative) Mohammed Khatib, a leading figure in the Islamist Samidoun group, has been announced as the main speaker at a seminar hosted by Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), scheduled for the end of October, reports the NieuwRechts website. While the Islamist outfit […]

11 teachers suspended over allegations of ‘toxic’ climate at Montreal primary school

October 20, 2024 Christopher Reynolds

(Canadian Press) Eleven teachers at a Montreal elementary school have been suspended after a government investigation found they fostered a “toxic” climate of fear and intimidation. In a move it described as unprecedented, the Centre de services scolaires de Montréal said its […]

Who is Samidoun’s Charlotte Kates, the face of Canada’s newest terrorist entity? Kates made headlines in the spring after Vancouver police arrested her for praising the October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel as 'heroic and brave'

October 19, 2024 Stephanie Taylor

(National Post) It was September 2000, and Charlotte Kates was in college when violence erupted in the West Bank and Gaza. It was the beginning of what would become known as the second intifada — a violent uprising whose Arabic name means […]

Quebec government imposes measures to address ‘toxic climate’ at Montreal school

October 15, 2024 Sidhartha Banerjee

(Canadian Press) The Quebec government has appointed monitors to address a “toxic” climate of fear and intimidation at a French-language Montreal primary school, where some teachers allegedly subjected students to violence and claimed autism didn’t exist. Two monitors started working on Tuesday […]

The US sanctioned an anti-Israel group for backing terrorists. Months ago, its leaders were hobnobbing with Columbia University students Samidoun, an arm of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, props up anti-Israel campus activism

October 15, 2024 Adam Kredo and Jessica Costescu

(Free Beacon) The U.S. Department of Treasury, in a joint action with the Canadian government, sanctioned the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and one of its leaders for providing material support to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a […]

Pro-Hamas group that helped organize college protests is a ‘sham charity,’ Treasury says In an interview with NBC News earlier this month, a co-founder of the group known as Samidoun called Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel 'a brave and heroic operation.'

October 15, 2024 Tom Winter, Simone Weichselbaum and Chloe Atkins

(NBC) A pro-Hamas organization that has helped organize protests on American college campuses is a “sham charity” that fundraises for a terrorist group, the Treasury Department said Tuesday. In a joint action by the U.S. and Canadian governments, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner […]

French teachers seek state protection after Paty and Bernard killings Following the murders of Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, nationwide concerns over teacher safety in France have surged in recent years.

October 14, 2024 Oman Al Yahyai

(Euronews) In the years following the tragic killings of French teachers Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, there has been a sharp increase in the number of educators requesting protection from the state. According to recent data from the French Ministry of Education, […]

France’s Education Ministry reports drop in breaches of secularism rules

October 14, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Radio France) France saw a drop in cases of students flouting France’s strict secularism rules, or laicite, at the start of this school year, according to the new education minister Anne Genetet, who also called for more training for teachers in how […]

Minute of silence in memory of French teachers killed by jihadists

October 14, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Radio France) French middle and high schools will be observing a minute of silence Monday to commemorate Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, two teachers murdered during jihadist attacks in 2020 and 2023. Teachers are free to hold the moment of silence when […]

Montreal elementary school under investigation for ‘toxic’ learning environment 3 other CSSDM schools to be audited after reports of similar incidents

October 11, 2024 Holly Cabrera

(CBC) Quebec’s Education Ministry has placed a Montreal elementary school under watch after an investigation found that teachers fostered a “toxic” environment that psychologically harmed students for years. Reporting by Quebec radio station 98.5 FM in 2023 on incidents at the school […]

Violence in French school sparks debate on headscarf and secularism An 18-year-old student assaulted a teacher after being asked to remove her headscarf at a high school [in] Tourcoing, in the latest incident involving France's ban on hijab.

October 8, 2024 Oman Al Yahyai

(Euronews) An 18-year-old student was taken into police custody on Monday evening after allegedly assaulting her teacher at Lycée Sévigné in the northern French city of Tourcoing. The incident reportedly happened after the teacher asked the student to remove her headscarf, as […]

German pupil held after Solingen attack deemed ‘Islamist threat’

October 4, 2024 Unlisted Author

(DPA) A 15-year-old schoolboy who was detained after the August knife attack at a public festival in the German city of Solingen has been classified as a suspected Islamist, security sources told dpa on Friday. The boy from the neighbouring city of […]

Germany arrests teen suspected of planning terror attack on Jews during school trip to Holland The teenager, who reportedly shared pro-ISIS material on TikTok, was allegedly being groomed online to carry out attacks on Jewish community centers in Europe.

October 3, 2024 Danielle Greyman-Kennard

(Jerusalem Post) The Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor’s Office arrested a 15-year-old Turkish-German teenager for allegedly planning Islamist-style attacks against European Jewry, Spiegel reported on Thursday. The police reportedly classified the teenager as a “threat.” The teenager had been in contact with Islamist terrorists […]

German expert warns: Islamist and European antisemitism now dangerously intertwined A virtually lone voice in academia, Dr. Matthias Küntzel strives to research, study, and expose the underlying antisemitic discourse sported by Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.

September 26, 2024 Ohad Merlin

(Jerusalem Post) “As a German, I wanted to learn how Auschwitz could have happened. This brought me to researching the topic of antisemitism about 30 years ago,” Dr. Matthias Küntzel told the Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview. Küntzel is a German […]

House committee asks IRS to revoke tax-exempt status of anti-Israel groups that backed college protests

September 24, 2024 Josh Christenson

(NY Post) A powerful House panel asked the IRS Tuesday to revoke the tax-exempt status of nine nonprofits that sowed “chaos and discord” during anti-Israel protests on college campuses, according to letters exclusively obtained by the Post. House Ways and Means Committee […]

French school to be renamed after history teacher slain by Islamist in 2020

September 24, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Radio France) The school where history and geography professor Samuel Paty worked when he was killed by a young radicalised Islamist in October 2020 has voted to rename their establishment after him. The decision comes less than a month before the fourth […]

Anti-Israel activist says calls for ‘intifada’ are ‘not hate speech’ during Senate anti-Semitism hearing

September 17, 2024 Alana Goodman

(Free Beacon) An Arab-American activist invited by Senate Democrats to testify at an anti-Semitism hearing on Tuesday defended calls for “intifada” and praise for Hamas “martyrs” on college campuses, telling lawmakers these chants are “not hate speech.” Maya Berry, the executive director […]

Student activists sue UMD over decision to cancel Oct. 7 rally ‘First Amendment does not allow campus officials to establish free-expression-black-out days,’ suit says

September 17, 2024 Josh Kurtz

(Maryland Matters) University of Maryland student activists on Tuesday made good on their threat to sue the university after administrators blocked demonstrations on campus planned for the Oct. 7 anniversary of the bloody Hamas attack on Israel, which has led to a […]

Call for more Muslim professors: Quebec says anti-Islamophobia adviser must resign Quebec says anti-Islamophobia adviser must resign

September 13, 2024 Sidhartha Banerjee

(Canadian Press) The Quebec government renewed its call for Canada’s special representative on combating Islamophobia to resign Friday, after she sent a letter to college and university heads recommending the hiring of more Muslim, Arab and Palestinian professors. The existence of the […]

Head of $65K-per-year NYC school fired longtime French teacher after answer about France’s hijab ban made her daughter cry: suit

September 13, 2024 Peter Senzamici

(NY Post) Maybe it was lost in translation. A longtime French teacher claims the Upper East Side’s elite, all-girls Spence School fired her for giving a straightforward answer about France’s controversial hijab law — which triggered the principal’s daughter so much she […]

Upstate NY imam encourages Columbia students to ‘take out’ pro-Israel professor

August 31, 2024 Doree Lewak

(NY Post) An upstate imam urged student activists to “take out” an outspoken, pro-Israel Columbia University professor who’s returning to the embattled Ivy this fall after a year of antisemitic hate. Vassar-educated, Utica-based imam Tom Facchine made the plea about business school […]

Photos: Las Vegas teenager allegedly ‘pledged allegiance to ISIS,’ built bombs, threatened school shooting 17-year-old indicted as adult, facing numerous felonies

August 29, 2024 David Charns

(KLAS) A teenager accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack was found with bomb-making guides and was previously suspended for threatening a school shooting, according to documents and photos the 8 News Now Investigators obtained. Joshua Robles was 16 when Las Vegas […]

Biden-Harris admin stonewalls congressional probe into US nonprofits bankrolling pro-Hamas protests House Ed and Oversight committees tease subpoena after admin fails to produce 'suspicious activity reports'

August 21, 2024 Adam Kredo

(Free Beacon) The Biden-Harris administration is stonewalling a congressional probe into 20 anti-Israel nonprofit groups with suspected links to money laundering and terrorism financing, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Lawmakers are teasing a subpoena as a result. Congress initiated the probe […]

Harris appoints Muslim outreach chief with contentious views on Israel Nasrina Bargzie previously served as a policy adviser in Vice President Kamala Harris’s White House office and is best known for her contentious views on issues related to Israel and Palestine.

August 15, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Jerusalem Post) The Harris 2024 campaign has appointed Nasrina Bargzie as a new outreach leader to engage Muslim and Arab voters, according to NBC News on Tuesday. This move has already sparked controversy due to her past statements about Israel and Jewish […]

Tim Walz cozied up to anti-Semitic terror defender at 2019 CAIR event, photos show Hatem Bazian has for years defended anti-Israel terrorism

August 7, 2024 Chuck Ross

(Free Beacon) Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz spoke at an event for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in 2019, where he rubbed shoulders with an anti-Semitic scholar behind much of the Hamas propaganda on college campuses in the wake of Oct. […]

Iran masterminded anti-Israel protest in Canadian university

August 2, 2024 Negar Mojtahedi

(Iran International) Iran was behind the anti-Israel protests on at least one Canadian university in an attempt to undermine Western support for Israel and fuel divisiveness on Canadian soil, sources combating digital disinformation told Iran International. Cyber security company XPOZ, through the […]

Hamline University settles lawsuit over showing of Prophet Muhammad in art history class Instructor Erika López Prater sued the university for removing her after she upset a Muslim student

July 23, 2024 Josh Verges

(Pioneer Press) Hamline University has agreed to settle the religious discrimination lawsuit brought by an art history instructor who lost her job after showing paintings of the Prophet Muhammad during an October 2022 class. The tentative deal was reached Monday night after […]

School serves ‘halal only’ lunches as local council faces demands for urgent answers A mother was left bemused after her daughter’s secondary school refused to provide non-halal meat options

July 23, 2024 Jack Walters

(GB News) A local council is being quizzed by a leading Conservative politician after a secondary school started offering “halal only” lunches. Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies approached the Vale of Glamorgan Council after a constituent flagged Cowbridge Comprehensive School only […]

FBI says two former WKU students were terrorists

July 17, 2024 Beth Warren

(Louisville Courier Journal) Two former Western Kentucky University students became ISIS terrorist recruits and trained in Syria while attending the Bowling Green school, according to court records. One of the then-students issued a warning in an email to WKU in June 2015 […]

American Muslims for Palestine ordered to turn over potentially damaging donor documents in Virginia terror financing probe Leading anti-Israel group must open its books amid probe from Republican AG Jason Miyares, judge says

July 16, 2024 Adam Kredo

(Free Beacon) A Virginia judge on Tuesday ordered American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a prominent anti-Israel advocacy group, to disclose its funding channels as part of an investigation by Republican attorney general Jason Miyares into allegations of terrorism financing. AMP, a nonprofit […]