(NY Post) The bumbling, bargain-bin hitman hired to assassinate an exiled Iranian-American journalist botched the high-stakes Brooklyn hit in spectacular fashion — including by trying to open her door, ordering food to his car as he lurked outside her home and then […]
(Morocco World News) The expulsion commission in Hérault, France, issued today a favorable opinion supporting authorities’ request to expel Algerian TikToker “Doualemn.” The three-magistrate commission endorsed the previous decision to deport the Algerian social media influencer, whose previous deportation attempt sparked diplomatic […]
(Euractiv) When Islamist terrorists murdered over 1000 Jews in Israel on 7 October, 2023, protests immediately broke out in Europe — some in opposition to the atrocities, others supporting them. A year later, when antisemitic riots erupted in Amsterdam, some were quick […]
(NY Post) It took nearly a year for a Lebanese illegal migrant who arrived under the Biden administration and admitted that he’s a Hezbollah terrorist hoping “to make a bomb” to get his deportation papers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the Post […]
(Middle East Eye) Former Conservative chair Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has endorsed the Labour government’s decision to pull funding from an Islamophobia reporting service accused of severely under-reporting hate crimes. Tell Mama, which is funded by the communities ministry, was founded in 2012. […]
(Reuters) A self-professed member of a Russian organized crime group said on Tuesday he once tried to kill an Iranian-American female journalist and activist, making the admission in testimony at a U.S. trial of two associates. Khalid Mehdiyev, 27, told jurors he […]
(AP) Two members of an Eastern European criminal organization were “hired guns for the government of Iran” in a plot to assassinate an Iran-born journalist at her New York City residence three years ago, a prosecutor told a federal jury in an […]
(Ynet) United States President Donald Trump on Monday appointed Hamtramck, Michigan, Mayor Amer Ghalib as the next U.S. ambassador to Kuwait. Ghalib, 45, a Yemeni-born Muslim immigrant, has been outspoken in his criticism of Israel. Just hours before his appointment he liked […]
(Algemeiner) Three young Syrian men rioted in front of the Jewish Museum in Munich this past weekend, spitting on photographs of Israeli hostages and deceased soldiers before one of the assailants threatened security personnel with a knife. The incident, first reported by […]
(NY Times) First, the Iranian government was accused of trying to lure a journalist and dissident from New York City to Turkey to abduct and imprison her. Then, according to U.S. officials, intelligence agents schemed unsuccessfully to kidnap the woman, Masih Alinejad. […]
(ITV) Police have arrested an alleged Hamas supporter who appears to have arrived in the UK by small boat last week. ITV News understands Abu Wadei was arrested by Immigration Enforcement on Sunday for entry without leave, and remains in police custody. […]
(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 […]
(Morocco World News) Algerian TikTok influencer Boualem Naman, known as “Doualemn,” was sentenced to a five-month suspended prison term on Thursday by the Montpellier Criminal Court for “public provocation to commit a crime.” During a highly publicized hearing on February 24, the […]
(Global News) On paper, Ameen Cohen is a 37-year-old banking professional with a business degree and a condo in Thornhill, Ont. But that is only his latest identity. At a deportation hearing in Toronto, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) revealed the […]
(Arab News) MPs in the UK have proposed making it a criminal offense to possess images of Muslim women not wearing hijabs without their consent. The suggestion was made in a report by the House of Commons’ women and equalities committee, which […]
(Daily Wire) Scott Hayes, 48, says he will likely have to go to trial for shooting an anti-Israel man who tackled him after a district attorney backed away from finalizing a disposition to resolve the case outside the courtroom. Hayes was charged […]
(BBC) The Home Office is launching an advertising campaign in Iraq to try to deter people from crossing the English Channel in small boats. Similar campaigns were launched in Albania and Vietnam by the previous Conservative government in 2023 and 2024. On […]
(BBC) The government has appointed former Conservative Attorney General Dominic Grieve to lead a review into creating a new definition of Islamophobia. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner launched a new working group tasked with understanding and defining hate crime targeted against Muslims. […]
(BBC) With police revealing human remains have been found in the search for missing Rania Alayed, a 12-year quest for the truth appears to be finally drawing to a close. The 25-year-old went missing in June 2013 and her husband was jailed […]
(BBC) Police searching for the body of Rania Alayed, who was murdered by her abusive husband 12 years ago, have found human remains. Ahmed Al-Khatib is serving a life sentence for killing the mother-of-three in a planned “honour killing” in Salford, but […]
(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 […]
(Toronto Sun) Answers are being sought by a Canadian senator over the activities of the B.C.-based leader of a Canadian terror organization. In a letter sent Tuesday to Public Safety Minister David McGuinty, Senator Leo Housakos expressed concern over a recent trip […]
(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 […]
(NL Times) [A] court has sentenced four men to 25 years in prison for the murder of Roshin, a 28-year-old Apeldoorn woman. The court found that the men — two brothers and two cousins of the victim — conspired to kill her […]
(NL Times) Three “extremist speakers” who were to be guests at an event in Utrecht this weekend will not be granted entry into the country. The minister of justice and security, David van Weel, and minister of asylum and migration, Marjolein Faber, […]
(BBC) A man who was jailed for conspiring to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) in a “landmark case” has had his sentence increased. Emad Kaky, 48, was jailed for four and a half years in October, after he arranged for a young […]
(AP) Authorities in Greece said Tuesday they detained 107 migrants in two separate operations near the island of Crete, as an official attributed an increase in people trying to cross the eastern Mediterranean to conflicts in the Middle East. A cargo ship […]
(Anadolu) The French government on Tuesday officially recognized the role of an imam as a profession, adding it to the list of occupations by the French Employment Agency. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau made the announcement during the closing session of the second […]
(Western Standard) Sweden has a problem with so-called honour killings against women and girls. The Swedish Police Authority has tracked honour-related crimes since 2019, reporting around 4,500 suspected cases by November 2021. Recent unverified reports on social media highlight the severity of […]
(JNS) A judge in The Hague last week dismissed the legal defense of an asylum seeker from Gaza who had claimed that his destruction of a wreath for Holocaust survivors last year was not motivated by antisemitism. The defendant, Muayad A., and […]
(LBC) Two people have been charged after a video emerged of a man burning a Koran and another man attacking him outside the Turkish consulate in London. Social media footage showed a man being kicked on the ground by his knife-wielding attacker. […]
(DPA) The German government does not have imminent plans for deportation flights to Afghanistan for Afghan immigrants who have committed crimes in Germany, according to a top spokesman in Berlin on Friday. Germany has struggled to deport people to Afghanistan since the […]
(European Conservative) Patryk Jaki MEP (Law and Justice; PiS) is beginning his “special trial” in Poland, after “liking” a Twitter post back in 2018 that showcased real security footage of migrant criminals. Polish prosecutors requested a three-year prison sentence for this “hate […]
(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 […]
(GB News) A Pakistani pedophile has managed to avoid deportation despite preying on “barely pubescent girls” as it would “harm his children,” a court has heard. The man, who has been granted anonymity for his own protection, was caught in August 2022 […]
(Axios) Iran’s threat to assassinate Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign was far more serious than publicly known — and led to extraordinary precautions by his team that included using a decoy plane to avert a feared attempt on his life. Why […]
(NY Post) The “hateful bigot” who was caught on camera accosting a Jewish man and going on an antisemitic rant inside of a Midtown office building has been hit with a hate crime, police said. Noora Shalash, of Lexington, Kentucky, has been […]
(Algemeiner) A former senior employee of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was caught on camera launching a profane and antisemitic tirade at Jewish men in New York City in a viral video posted to social media on Thursday. Noora Shalash, who […]
(NY Post) A female “hateful bigot” was caught on shocking video Thursday hissing to a Jewish man in a Midtown office building, “I want ISIS to kill all of you!” The wigged-out woman unleashed her antisemitic tirade in the lobby of 950 […]
(European Conservative) The image of Athens as one of Europe’s safest capitals is threatened by a wave of lawlessness, misogyny, and extremism imported by recent immigrants, many of them from Muslim-majority countries, primarily from Pakistan. Local analysts say that the increased number […]
(GB News) Police have been accused of “enforcing Sharia law on the streets of Britain” after naming a man who burnt a Koran in Manchester on Saturday. A 47-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of a “racially aggravated public order offence” over […]
(AP) A 29-year-old man pleaded guilty to federal charges Tuesday for firing a shotgun outside an upstate New York synagogue during the early months of the Israel-Hamas war. Mufid Fawaz Alkhader was arrested in December 2023 after firing two shots in the […]
(Algemeiner) Participants in an anti-Israel and antisemitic demonstration in Germany this past weekend called for Jews to be executed or handed over to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, sparking outrage among German leaders. Under the slogan “Hands off the West Bank,” protesters, […]
(ITV) A man has admitted to setting fire to the Islamic holy book, the Koran, which was live-streamed on social media. Martin Frost, 47, was filmed holding a flag of Israel before tearing out pages of the text and setting fire to […]
(AFP) A Stockholm court on Monday convicted a man of inciting ethnic hatred during four Koran burnings in 2023 that sparked outrage in Muslim countries, a verdict that reignited debate about the limits of freedom of expression. The verdict came just days […]
(GB News) A man has been arrested after appearing to burn a Koran in central Manchester this afternoon. The man, 47, was arrested on suspicion of a “racially aggravated public order offence” following an incident near the city’s Glade of Light Memorial, […]
(European Conservative) The shooting this week of 38-year-old Iraqi Christian refugee Salwan Momika might be linked to a foreign power, Stockholm officials have claimed. Muslim demonstrations erupted across Europe and beyond in recent years as a result of the anti-Islam campaigner’s burning […]
(AP) Swedish prosecutors said Friday they have ordered the release of five men who were arrested after the fatal shooting of an Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings. Salwan Momika staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam’s holy book in […]
(AFP) Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who was shot dead late Wednesday in Sweden, stoked international controversy with his Koran burnings. In June 2023, the 38-year-old with a chequered past sparked outrage when he stomped on the Islamic holy book and wrapped it […]
(AFP) An Iraqi refugee in Sweden who repeatedly burned the Koran in 2023, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, investigators said Thursday, with Sweden’s prime minister suggesting a “foreign power” might have been involved. Prosecutor Rasmus Oman confirmed to […]
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