(AP) Greece said Wednesday it is temporarily suspending asylum applications for migrants arriving on the island of Crete following a spike in arrivals from Libya. More than 2,000 migrants have landed on the Mediterranean island since the weekend, according to coast guard […]
(JNS) A group of European imams and senior Muslim leaders visited Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance center on Tuesday, where they laid a wreath in honor of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. The delegation — visiting the Jewish state […]
(Brussels Times) A Belgian intelligence report from late April describes the Collective for Inclusion and Against Islamophobia in Belgium (CIIB) as a “Muslim Brotherhood-leaning pressure group,” La Dernière Heure reported on Wednesday. The confidential document was written by the PFCECT, the integrated […]
(CNN) Top House Democratic leaders condemned GOP Rep. Randy Fine and demanded that he apologize after the Florida lawmaker suggested in a post on X that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is a terrorist. Fine was replying to an X post […]
(National-UAE) France’s European Institute of Social Sciences (IESH), historically linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, has voluntarily disbanded after government accusations of alleged terrorism links and illicit financing, an insider has told the National. The announcement comes as President Emmanuel Macron intensifies his […]
(NY Post) Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani co-founded a college club that invited a radical speaker who called Israel a bigger terror threat than Hamas — and boasted he was greatly influenced by a Palestinian leader nicknamed the “godfather of Middle Eastern terrorism.” […]
(Jewish News) The independent MP Adnan Hussain has drawn criticism after referencing “gas chambers” as he shared a newspaper report on Israel’s defence minister calling for the IDF to “concentrate” the population of Gaza in an area of Rafah. Highlighting the word “concentrate” the […]
(NY Post) Socialist New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani visited a controversial Brooklyn mosque to pray while on the campaign trail — just months after the imam had called for the destruction of Israel. Mamdani posted a picture of himself speaking […]
(Middle East Eye) A Dutch imam has been suspended from his mosque after meeting Israeli President Isaac Herzog as part of a delegation of Muslim figures from Europe visiting Israel. Youssef Msibih, an imam at Bilal Mosque in the northern Dutch city […]
(Reuters) A German court ruled on Tuesday that the government is obliged to issue visas to Afghan nationals and their family members who were accepted into a humanitarian admissions programme that the new centre-right coalition intends to shut down. A foreign ministry […]
(Times of Israel) When Imam Youssef Masbeh introduced himself to President Isaac Herzog on Monday, he could not help but start singing a special chant in Arabic, offering a reinterpretation of the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. Masbeh, who has served as a […]
(Daily Caller) The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether a Muslim advocacy organization it previously linked to Hamas should maintain eligibility to receive taxpayer funds, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration […]
(Iran International) A parliamentary report in the UK is set to warn that Iran remains one of the gravest state-based threats to British security, according to the Telegraph, while a separate investigation in Italy has uncovered a vast influence network supporting the […]
(LBC) The UK’s terror watchdog Jonathan Hall has said there is a “link” between migrants arriving in small [boats] and terror threats to Britain. Mr Hall was taking calls to mark the anniversary of the 7/7 bombings on Tom Swarbrick’s LBC show […]
(National-UAE) The French government on Monday said it would take new measures to tackle the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in France, including the disbanding of endowment funds and a new asset-freeze mechanism. An official 74-page report on the Muslim Brotherhood “required more ambitious […]
(European Conservative) A Shiite Ashura procession held on Sunday, July 6th, near Milan’s central station has sparked fierce public backlash over the treatment of women participants. Approximately 1,300 Shiite Muslims marched from Piazza Repubblica to Stazione Centrale on Ashura, a day of […]
(European Conservative) Monday, July 7th, is the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 terror attacks which killed 52 Londoners and injured almost 800 more. A gang of Islamist suicide bombers from Leeds, West Yorkshire, arrived in the capital and targeted public transport. Three […]
(Politico) A trial on a First Amendment lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s drive to deport pro-Palestinian academics quickly confronted a thorny legal issue Monday: whether foreigners in the U.S. enjoy the same free speech rights as American citizens. The administration’s stance on […]
(BBC) On 7 July 2005, 52 people were killed and hundreds more injured in bombings targeting London’s transport network during rush hour. The attacks sent shockwaves across the world — but particularly so in Leeds where three of the four suicide bombers […]
(Politico) At least five times in recent weeks, federal judges have forcefully rejected President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport pro-Palestinian student activists, issuing one stinging ruling after another to declare the efforts unconstitutional — with one judge comparing the deportation drive to […]
(JNS) A Jewish advocacy organization has strongly criticized New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani — a Democratic Socialist and current New York state assemblyman — after he shared a video the group says disrespects Chanukah and Jewish traditions. StopAntisemitism took to […]
(NY Post) Socialist mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani appears to defend al Qaeda fiend Anwar al-Awlaki — and blame America for turning the prostitution-loving cleric into a terrorist — in newly surfaced tweets. Al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, […]
(National-UAE) The 20th anniversary of the July 7, 2005, attacks in London, on Monday, throws a spotlight on how the UK’s counter-terrorism approach changed, and how its focus on Islamist groups has deepened social divisions. The bombings, also referred to as 7/7, […]
(AFP) Germany is to start deporting Syrians with criminal records, the interior ministry said Saturday, days after Austria became the first EU country to do so in recent years. The ministry had instructed the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) to […]
(BBC) A charity has been formally warned and one of its trustees disqualified after an “inflammatory” sermon in the days after the 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel. Language in the Nottingham Islam Information Point sermon, on 13 October 2023, included “the […]
(European Conservative) The Belgian nationalist party Vlaams Belang has voiced concern over a steady rise in the number of foreign imams entering Belgium during Ramadan. MP Francesca Van Belleghem reported that visa approvals for these religious figures increased from 31 in 2022 […]
(NL Times) A majority in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, adopted two asylum laws around midnight. The laws, drafted by former PVV Minister Marjolein Faber, are intended to implement “the strictest asylum policy ever” in the Netherlands. […]
(NL Times) Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof will be summoned before the Rotterdam District Court in the criminal trial of an intelligence worker suspected of leaking state secrets to Morocco, the court said on Friday. The case concerns 65-year-old [Abderrahim] el M., […]
(European Jewish Press) The Belgian federal government has announced that the pro-Palestinian organization Samidoun will be added to the OCAD database — Belgium’s official registry for tracking terrorism, extremism, and radicalization, a move which is seen as a first step towards a […]
(GB News) New analysis has suggested small boat migrants are 24 times more likely to go to prison than the average British citizen. The rate of foreign citizens in jail when compared to the overall migrant population in the UK is 0.18 […]
(Jewish News) Zarah Sultana has resigned from the Labour Party to “co-lead the founding of a new party” with Jeremy Corbyn. The Coventry South MP, who has sat as an independent since she had the Labour whip withdrawn last year, made the […]
(Reuters) German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt wants to negotiate a direct agreement with the Taliban on receiving Afghan migrants deported from Germany, he told Focus magazine in an interview. In August, Germany resumed flying convicted criminals of Afghan nationality to their home […]
(Reuters) Austria’s conservative-led government said on Thursday it had carried out its first deportation of a Syrian back to their home country in almost 15 years, making it the first European Union country to do so since the outbreak of Syria’s civil […]
(Fox) StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez said electing Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor would not only be “catastrophic” for Jewish residents, but all who reside in the city. “If Zohran Mamdani was elected as mayor, it would be hands down catastrophic […]
(Reuters) Austria is preparing to deport a Syrian man whose asylum status was revoked due to a criminal conviction, in what an EU official and rights groups say will be Europe’s first forced deportation to Syria since the fall of President Bashar […]
(Free Beacon) A former Obama administration staffer who once publicly wished death on President Donald Trump has found new work as a communications consultant for Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani — a democratic socialist who has called for “seizing the means of production” — […]
(Jerusalem Post) New York City mayoral primary winner Zohran Mamdani sponsored a bill that would force any New York synagogue or Jewish corporation that gives money to ZAKA, United Hatzalah, or the One Israel Fund to pay a fine of at least […]
(AP) Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, a new vote count confirmed Tuesday, cementing his stunning upset of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and sending him to the general election. The Associated Press called the race after the results […]
(AP) The European Union’s commissioner for migration says Europe will take a “firm” approach with authorities in Libya following a spike in illegal migration across the Mediterranean. Commissioner Magnus Brunner plans to travel to Libya next week with government representatives from Greece, […]
(ANSA) A group of four migrants from North Africa who were deported from Italy in July 2022 on terrorism charges that a Perugia court subsequently found to be unsubstantiated and shelved are suing the Italian state for two million euros in damages, […]
(Politico) U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand apologized to Zohran Mamdani on Monday after she falsely claimed in a radio interview that the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City had made “references to global jihad.” The junior senator and the mayoral […]
(Jewish News) A Labour minister has accused the pro-Gaza MP Ayoub Khan of “doing nothing for the Palestinian cause by aligning himself with antisemites.” In a fiery Commons exchange, Lisa Nandy took issue with [the] Birmingham Perry Barr [MP after] he responded […]
(Yabiladi) French far-right MEP Marion Maréchal is scheduled to stand trial on September 2, 2025, for defamation against the association Valeurs et Réussite, which runs an independent Muslim school in Valence. According to AFP, citing a source close to the case and […]
(LBC) A former Labour home secretary has warned that Britain faces an “enormous and ongoing threat” from Islamic terrorism in a major new report. Lord Blunkett, home secretary from 2001-2004, made the comments in the foreword of the Counter Extremism Group’s latest […]
(AP) In choosing Zohran Mamdani as their candidate for mayor, Democrats in America’s most Jewish city have nominated an outspoken critic of Israel, alarming some in New York’s Jewish community and signaling a sea change in the priorities of one of the […]
(Hill) House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said Zohran Mamdani, the winner of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, must prepare to “aggressively address the rise in antisemitism in the city of New York.” During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Jeffries […]
(NBC) Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee in New York City’s mayoral race, on Sunday again sidestepped an opportunity to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” saying that mayors shouldn’t “police speech.” “That’s not language that I use,” Mamdani said when asked […]
(NL Times) Terrorism in the Netherlands is primarily a “problem of homegrown origin,” according to a recent study examining the links between migration and terrorism. The report, shared Friday by Justice and Migration Minister David van Weel (VVD) with the Tweede Kamer, […]
(Algemeiner) Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has condemned presumptive New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani for his defense of the controversial phrase “globalize the intifada.” During a Thursday appearance on Brian Lehrer’s WNYC radio show, Gillibrand called on Mamdani to distance […]
(Algemeiner) New York City Mayor Eric Adams has accused mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani of spreading antisemitic views, citing Mamdani’s past remarks and anti-Israel activism as he starts his efforts to thwart the progressive insurgent. Adams’s repudiation comes in the aftermath of a […]
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