Government & Politics

Government & Politics

Swedish MP’s participation in Hamas-tied conference sparks uproar The Social Democrats, who led Sweden as recently as 2021, advised its representatives not to attend the conference, but El-Haj went anyway

May 29, 2023   

(Jerusalem Post) Swedish legislator Jamal El-Haj, a member of the Riksdag, the national legislature, may face consequences in his Swedish Social Democratic Party after attending a conference affiliated with Hamas. The opposition lawmaker participated in “The 20th European Palestinians Conference: 75 Years […]

Government & Politics

Belgium swaps convicted terrorist to free aid worker jailed in Iran ‘Olivier Vandecasteele is on his way to Belgium,’ PM Alexander De Croo says.

May 26, 2023 , and   

(Politico) Iran has released Olivier Vandecasteele, a Belgian humanitarian worker who had been detained in Iran for more than a year, in exchange for convicted terrorist Assadollah Assadi, who had been imprisoned in Belgium. “Olivier Vandecasteele is on his way to Belgium,” […]

Government & Politics

Islamic charity linked to Iran shuts weeks after watchdog tried to take control Islamic Centre of England tells worshippers it has suspended activities until further notice

May 25, 2023   

(National-UAE) A British charity run by the UK representative of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, has closed only weeks after the aid watchdog removed its trustees. The Charity Commission this month announced it had removed the trustees from the board […]

Government & Politics

EU’s Johansson slams Greece over ‘deportation’ of migrants Footage showing Greek coast guard abandoning migrants in the open sea is ‘absolutely unacceptable,’ EU home affairs commissioner says.

May 24, 2023 , and   

(Politico) EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson criticized Greece for reportedly forcing migrants onto an emergency raft and abandoning them in the Aegean Sea. In an interview with POLITICO, Johansson said the episode was more than a pushback — when migrants are […]

Government & Politics

Comer says the rising number of terrorism suspects at the border is a ‘clear national security risk’ GOP launches probe of terrorism suspects crossing the border

May 19, 2023   

(Washington Times) House Republicans have launched a probe into the soaring number of terrorism suspects who’ve been detected trying to sneak into the U.S. under President Biden, calling it a “clear national security risk” and demanding Homeland Security cough up its plan […]

Academics & Education

Muslim groups ask court to quash Quebec’s ‘discriminatory’ school prayer ban The ban violates 'the fundamental rights of minors and adults in terms of their freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, but also individuals' right of association,' the organizations argue.

May 17, 2023   

(Montreal Gazette) Six Muslim groups are asking a Quebec court to declare unconstitutional a new provincial edict that bans religious activity in public schools. In a lawsuit filed this week, the groups asked Quebec Superior Court to “declare constitutionally invalid, inapplicable, inoperative […]

Government & Politics

Calls for UK to close ‘Iran-run’ Islamic Centre of England as watchdog removes trustees London-based office of charity was warned after speaker praised IRGC's Qassem Suleimani

May 10, 2023   

(National-UAE) Calls are being made to close a British charity run by the UK representative of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after the aid watchdog removed its trustees. The Charity Commission announced on Wednesday it had removed the trustees from the […]

Government & Politics

Bernie Sanders hosts Rashida Tlaib’s ‘Nakba Day’ after Kevin McCarthy canceled it The anti-Israel event, which was canceled by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, was relocated to the Senate side of the Capitol

May 10, 2023   

(Jewish Insider) After being canceled by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), a “Nakba Day” event organized on Wednesday by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was moved to the Senate side of the Capitol complex, to the hearing room of the Senate Health, Education, […]

Government & Politics

McCarthy blocks Rashida Tlaib’s anti-Semitic congressional event 'As long as I’m speaker, we are going to support Israel’s right to self-determination and self-defense'

May 9, 2023   

(Free Beacon) House Speaker Kevin McCarthy moved on Tuesday evening to block Michigan’s Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib from hosting an anti-Semitic congressional event planned for Wednesday, the speaker’s office confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon. McCarthy told the Free Beacon that he […]

Government & Politics

Rashida Tlaib will host congressional event to mourn ‘catastrophe’ of Israel’s founding Anti-Semitic Democrat will cohost event with radical groups that defend terrorists

May 8, 2023   

(Free Beacon) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) will host a congressional event this week to mourn Israel’s founding alongside an array of anti-Israel groups, some of which have defended terrorism. The Wednesday event marks the “Nakba,” a Palestinian term for the creation […]

Government & Politics

‘Antisemitism scandal’ candidate triumphs for Conservatives at local elections Shakeel Hussain — who previously wrote of 'Zionist murderers' and 'so-called antisemtism' — was voted in as a councillor at the local elections in Stockton's Ropner ward

May 6, 2023   

(Jewish News) A local election candidate at the centre of an antisemitism scandal has been voted in as a Conservative councillor on the Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council. Shakeel Hussain triumphed in Thursday’s vote in the Ropner ward, despite newspaper reports about the emergence of Facebook […]

Government & Politics

New research: $2 million in federal grants went to domestic Islamist groups 'The good news: That’s way down from the $16 million Trump sent them in 2018,' wrote Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum.

May 5, 2023   

(JNS) Of 60 federal grants, worth $15 million, given to Muslim organizations in 2022, $2 million went to groups “controlled by Islamists or involved in Islamist networks.” That’s according to a May 3 article by Sam Westrop in Focus on Western Islamism. […]

Government & Politics

Canada received assurances from Kurdish authorities it can repatriate 5 Canadians from Syria: lawyer 2 Canadian women and 3 children were detained and mistreated, say their lawyers

May 4, 2023   

(CBC) A lawyer representing five Canadians held in a detention camp in northeastern Syria says he’s been given assurances the federal government will repatriate them, but doesn’t know when that will happen. The two Canadian women and three teenage girls were supposed […]