(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(NY Post) A student at CUNY’s Kingsborough Community College made vile anti-American and antisemitic statements online — urging his social media followers to replace fireworks with rocket-propelled grenades to celebrate Independence Day and proudly labeling himself the “Antisemite Of The Year.” The now-private Instagram […]
(Algemeiner) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to “clarify” her warning from earlier this week that “actors tied to Iran’s government” have encouraged and provided financial support to anti-Israel protests that have […]
(AP) The Iranian government is covertly encouraging American protests over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza in a bid to stoke outrage ahead of the fall election, the nation’s top intelligence official said Tuesday. Using social media platforms popular in the U.S., […]
(Middle East Monitor) The Administrative Court in Nice yesterday overturned an order to close the Avicenne Middle School in the French city. “Errors in the institution’s books do not justify taking such a final action,” said the court. “Avicenne School emerged stronger […]
(Free Beacon) The IRS is under renewed congressional pressure to pull the tax-exempt status for several key U.S.-based nonprofits that are fomenting pro-Hamas protests across the country just years after they played a leading role in the anti-police riots that erupted as […]
(Jewish News) A supporter of Hamas was invited to speak to student protestors at a “liberation encampment” at Sussex University on Tuesday. Al Jazeera journalist Shada Salhab was thanked for her support by students who expressed “solidarity” and posted a photograph on […]
(Times of Israel) Anti-Israel protesters at New York City’s Hunter College over the weekend displayed symbols of the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups and chanted in support of violent “resistance.” Footage from the Friday rally showed protesters, many of them wearing keffiyehs, […]
(Fox) A New Jersey school district apologized for offending a Muslim activist group this week after a middle school teacher featured a class quiz question naming the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, as a terror group. The Wayne Township […]
(AFP) Muslim voters are increasingly worried about the prospect of a far-right victory less than two weeks before France’s snap parliamentary elections, fearing the possible restrictions that could follow. For Sarah, there’s a “real risk” of seeing the National Rally (RN) win […]
(CBC) Since the start of the Israel-Gaza war in October, Montreal police have been beefing up relations with Jewish and Muslim communities as part of a series of measures aimed at maintaining peace. The surprise attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7 […]
(Breitbart) During a sermon at the University of Illinois Chicago, a speaker for the campus’s Muslim Students Association denounced America and democracy, describing them as a “cancer” spreading worldwide, while advocating for the adoption of Islam as the “new way of life” […]
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday France needed a new debate on secularism rules that ban religious symbols from classrooms and some sports, as he sought to rally support before snap elections. “There is this feeling that secularism is not always well […]
(Free Beacon) The daughter of Palestine Chronicle editor in chief Ramzy Baroud works for American Muslims for Palestine, a leading anti-Israel group that has defended Hamas terrorism and spearheaded anti-Semitic campus protests — activism that prompted Israeli terror victims to sue the […]
(Free Beacon) Embattled Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi has repeatedly claimed to have had a “limited” role at a think tank known for anti-Semitic rhetoric and affiliation with convicted terrorists. The group’s executive director had a different perspective. Mangi, the nominee for […]
(Reuters) Last year, Sihame Denguir enrolled her teenage son and daughter in France’s largest Muslim private school, in the northern city of Lille some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from their middle-class suburban Parisian home. The move meant financial sacrifices. Denguir, 41, now […]
(Fox) A lawsuit filed this month against National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) offers an important window into how Hamas terrorists are allegedly using the campus group to recruit America’s future leaders into its “terrorist cult,” according to two lawyers involved […]
(NY Post) The deranged cab driver who tried to mow down Orthodox students outside a Brooklyn Jewish school while screaming “kill all the Jews” has a disturbing history of deranged behavior, police sources and neighbors told the Post. Asghar Ali, 58, a […]
(NY Post) A maniac tried to mow down Orthodox students and a rabbi outside a Brooklyn Jewish school Wednesday while allegedly yelling “I’m gonna kill all the Jews” in a shocking antisemitic attack, sources told the Post. Video footage supplied by the […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) attended an awards gala this month with a Michigan cleric who called for pro-Israel members of Congress to be charged with “treason” and an activist who has repeatedly praised the terrorist group Hamas. Khanna, a […]
(ANSA) A middle school teacher in the northern city of Treviso has exempted two Muslim students from studying Dante on the grounds that it is a religious work that clashes with their Islamic faith, local dailies reported Friday, sparking a major row […]
(Jewish News of Northern California) An imam with a long history of antisemitic statements spoke to a small group of pro-Palestinian protesters at their Stanford University tent encampment on Wednesday evening. Amir Abdel Malik Ali addressed about 15 people, many wearing kaffiyehs […]
(Free Beacon) A House Republican asked the State Department on Wednesday to turn over “all records and correspondence it has had with radical pro-Hamas groups linked to the funding of the anti-Semitic protests that have exploded across college campuses in recent months,” […]
(AP) Brought into the international spotlight by the ban on hijabs for French athletes at the upcoming Paris Olympics, France’s unique approach to “laïcité” — loosely translated as “secularism” — has been increasingly stirring controversy from schools to sports fields across the […]
(Jewish News of Northern California) Students with Stanford University’s pro-Palestinian encampment announced on social media their plans to host an imam with a long history of antisemitic statements and calls for a Muslim caliphate in the U.S. Amir Abdel Malik Ali is […]
(Jerusalem Post) A total of 38% of students at Russell Group universities, a prestigious collection of 24 UK universities, stated that they believe Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel were an “understandable act of resistance,” according to a poll commissioned by StandWithUs […]
(Free Beacon) An imam linked to prominent Michigan Democrats like Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Rep. Rashida Tlaib said in a sermon this month that pro-Israel members of Congress were “stooges” of the Jewish state who should be charged with “treason.” On May […]
(Dallas Morning News) A Muslim civil rights organization is suing Gov. Greg Abbott and two Texas university systems on behalf of student activists, saying Abbott and the universities violated students’ First Amendment rights. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, argues Abbott’s […]
(Hill) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling out House Republicans over their request for the Treasury Department to investigate the finances of the pro-Palestinian student protesters who have set up encampments at scores of U.S. colleges in recent weeks. On […]
(Brussels Times) The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that it upholds the ban on hijabs in Flemish Community secondary schools. It rejected the applicants’ complaint that the ban is incompatible with freedom of religion. The case was brought by […]
(National Post) A 14-year-old Israeli-Canadian girl attending a high school in New Brunswick has told Canadian Jewish News that she was assaulted last month by another student for being Jewish. Shaked Tsurkan said she was attacked by an older female schoolmate at […]
(NY Post) A Columbia University student’s microphone appears to cut off just moments after she started delivering an anti-Israel commencement speech rant. Saham David Ahmed Ali tore into the Ivy League school as she delivered the class speaker address at the Mailman […]
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