(Detroit Free Press) A Dearborn man has been charged with two counts of ethnic intimidation in what officials said was an antisemitic attack at a historic synagogue and preschool for Jewish students in Bloomfield Township. Hassan Yehia Chokr, 35, was arrested by […]
(BBC) A man has been found guilty of carrying out antisemitic attacks on three Jewish people. Abdullah Qureshi, 30, from Dewsbury, travelled to north London and attacked three people over two hours in Stamford Hill on 18 August. His targets included a […]
(Arab News) The UK’s governing Conservative Party has been accused of ignoring rising Islamophobia in Britain and within its ranks as new figures show a surge in anti-Muslim hate crimes nationwide, the Independent reported on Monday. Government figures show that hate crimes […]
(AP) The son of an Afghan refugee suspected in the shooting deaths of four Muslim men in New Mexico has reached an agreement with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to a charge that he provided a false address when buying two guns […]
(Jewish News) An Ofcom investigation into the BBC’s reporting of the Oxford Street Chanukah bus attack on a group of Jewish students has uncovered “significant editorial failings” following the broadcast. The BBC’s reports of the November 2021 incident claimed that an audio […]
(AP) A German court convicted the owner of a Turkish restaurant Tuesday of ordering an arson attack that he blamed on far-right extremists in the eastern city of Chemnitz four years ago. The arson attack in October 2018 happened a few weeks […]
(Anadolu) Hate crimes in the UK are on the rise because the government “tends to try to appease the far right by adopting some of their positions,” according to a prominent Muslim scholar. Anas Altikriti, CEO of Cordoba Foundation, told Anadolu Agency […]
(Jewish News) The Metropolitan Police have dropped their investigation into [an] antisemitic attack directed at Jewish passengers as they celebrated Chanukah on a bus in central London. In a statement to Jewish News, the Met confirmed their probe into the incident, footage […]
(Yeshiva World News) Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a 41-year-old Staten Island man has been convicted of charges of felony attempted assault, misdemeanor assault and menacing for a 2018 unprovoked attack against three Jewish men wearing Hasidic clothing that […]
(i24) The National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) reported on Monday the murder of a Jewish man earlier in August by a Muslim suspect northeast of Paris. “The BNVCA was requested by many correspondents who see information circulating about the murder […]
(Albuquerque Journal) Muhammad Atif Syed pleaded not guilty Friday to three counts of first-degree murder in a series of shooting deaths in July and August that rocked Albuquerque’s Muslim community. Syed, 51, entered the not guilty plea through his attorney during a […]
(Albuquerque Journal) A grand jury has indicted Muhammad Atif Syed on three counts of first-degree murder in a series of shootings that rattled Albuquerque’s Muslim community and drew international media attention. The grand jury indictment — made public Monday — added a […]
(AP) An Afghan refugee charged in the shooting deaths of two Muslim men and suspected in the killing of two others was ordered held without bond pending trial as prosecutors argued Wednesday that he was a danger to his own family and […]
(Reuters) National Muslim groups have linked the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico over the past year to sectarianism, but Muslims who knew the victims and suspected gunman point to revenge and personal feuds as possible motives. Police last week […]
(Albuquerque Journal) Federal authorities believe a son of the man accused in the high-profile shootings of Muslim men around Albuquerque may have played a role in at least one of the killings alongside his father. Shaheen Syed, 21, who used to go […]
(AP) In the six years since he resettled in the United States from Afghanistan, the primary suspect in the slayings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque has been arrested several times for domestic violence and captured on camera slashing the tires of […]
(Time) When police in Albuquerque announced that they were investigating whether the shooting deaths of four Muslim men in the city were connected — or even targeted — it set off panic from many in the Muslim community. Some isolated at home, […]
(CNN) Authorities have arrested 51-year-old Muhammad Syed as a suspect in the killings of two Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, they said Tuesday — slayings that along with two other killings of Muslim men in recent months have put the city’s […]
(Hill) The murder of four men in Albuquerque has put the Muslim community on high alert for future attacks, leaving some also concerned about the public perception of their Islamic faith. Police detained a primary suspect on Tuesday for the murders of […]
(New Arab) Following the arrest of the main suspect in the killing of Muslim men in Albuquerque — an Afghan Sunni immigrant who allegedly murdered four Shia Muslims — the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a press conference Tuesday evening in […]
(AP) Police announced a breakthrough Tuesday in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, charging a man from Afghanistan — himself a Muslim — with two of the slayings and identifying him as a prime suspect in the other […]
(Breitbart) A Malmö imam has been charged with incitement to racial hatred by Swedish prosecutors after antisemitic sermons in which he claimed Jews run the west and the Muslims who collude with Jews are “traitors.” Imam Basem Mahmoud is accused of spreading […]
(Algemeiner) The imam of a mosque in the French city of Toulouse has been found guilty in appeal of “inciting violence and racial hatred” for a sermon he delivered in 2017 in which he talked about killing Jews. The sermon delivered by […]
(JTA) Prosecutors in France said they are considering antisemitism as a possible factor in the death of an elderly Jewish man in Lyon, who police initially said had died in a dispute unconnected to his religion. The Tribune Juive Jewish paper on […]
(Algemeiner) France’s Jewish community has called on the authorities in the city of Lyon to retain the possibility of an antisemitic motive in the investigation of the chilling murder last Tuesday of an 89-year-old Jewish man. René Hadjaj was pushed to his […]
(JTA) A dispute between neighbors in France ended with the death of a 90-year-old Jewish man, according to police, who do not suspect an antisemitic motive. Police arrested a 51-year-old neighbor of the deceased, René Hadjaj, sometime after Hadjaj’s death on Tuesday […]
(VOA) After a six-year hiatus, U.S. President Joe Biden last week resumed the 22-year-old tradition of hosting an Eid celebration at the White House. “Muslims make our nation stronger every single day, even as they still face real challenges and threats in […]
(Algemeiner) Muslim activists in Germany who chanted antisemitic slogans at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin last Saturday were motivated not by a personal connection to the conflict, but by their exposure to bigoted religious and media messages, a leading Middle Eastern expert on […]
(Algemeiner) Germany’s interior minister denounced pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Berlin Saturday, who chanted antisemitic and anti-Israel slogans, attacked police officers and harassed journalists. “There is no place in our society for antisemitism,” Germany’s Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser tweeted on Sunday. […]
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(Canadian Press) An opposition bill aimed at fighting Islamophobia and other hate crimes was tabled in Ontario’s legislature Wednesday, but it was unclear if it would receive the support of the majority Progressive Conservative government. The bill from the New Democrats, if […]
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(Anadolu) Canada on Saturday announced its intention to appoint a special representative on combatting Islamophobia as part of the country’s anti-racism strategy, five years after a deadly mosque shooting in Quebec. “This year, on the eve of the five-year anniversary of this […]
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(Jewish News) The Community Security Trust has reacted furiously to claims made in the findings of an investigation into the BBC’s Chanukah bus reporting, that they were responsible for confirming the slur “dirty Muslims” could be heard in video footage of the […]
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(JTA) A new parliamentary report on the 2017 killing of a Jewish woman by a Muslim attacker was meant to restore French Jews’ faith in their country’s police and justice systems. Instead, the report released last week has added fuel to the […]
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(AFP) A French court on Wednesday sentenced the killer of an elderly Jewish woman to life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for 22 years, over the 2018 murder which caused an outcry over anti-Semitism in France. Yacine Mihoub was convicted of […]
(CBC) Leaders of Canada’s Muslim community are urging the Ontario government to take immediate action against Islamophobia and adopt measures they’re proposing to get to the root of “systemic discrimination.” Nadia Hasan, chief operating officer of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, on Monday discussed the […]
(OC Register) A new center focused on preventing hate and bullying opened its doors Wednesday, Nov. 3, in Anaheim, the first of its kind for the Council [on] American-Islamic Relations. The Center for the Prevention of Hate and Bullying will be based […]
(AFP) Two men went on trial on Tuesday over the 2018 murder of an elderly Jewish woman that provoked protests and alarm in France about anti-Semitic crime. The partly burned body of Mireille Knoll, 85, was found in her apartment in central […]
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