(Reuters) Two men were killed on Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, British police said. […]
(DPA) German conservative lawmaker Alexander Throm raised the question whether dual citizens convicted of terrorist acts on German soil should face easier revocation of their citizenship, following the arrest of three suspected Hamas operatives. Currently, German law allows citizenship to be stripped […]
(NL Times) Several parliamentarians in the Netherlands have expressed concern over the conflict between religious and democratic values at certain schools, as reported by Nieuwsuur on Monday. During a debate on primary education, Marleen Haage (GroenLinks-PvdA) and Ilana Rooderkerk (D66) emphasized that […]
(Deutsche Welle) Prosecutors in Berlin said they have arrested three suspected Hamas operatives. The suspects were preparing attacks on Israeli and Jewish institutions in Germany, authorities said. Hamas has been designated a terrorist organization by Germany, the EU, the US and several governments. The three […]
(JNS) The Richmond City Circuit Court held the AJP Educational Foundation, which operates as American Muslims for Palestine, in civil contempt on Monday for the Falls Church, Va., group’s failure to comply with a state investigation. “The attorney general’s office has the […]
(European Conservative) A priest in Spain is on trial in Málaga, facing up to three years behind bars for alleged hate speech after publishing an article critical of Islam. Fr. Custodio Ballester, known for his pro-life stance and doctrinal conservatism, is accused […]
(NL Times) Several Reformed Christian and Islamic schools are giving lessons that clash with democratic values like equality and tolerance, Nieuwsuur reported after examining mainstream, strictly Christian and Islamic education. Schools are required to teach children about democratic values and to live […]
(Daily Caller) The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act lawsuit on Monday against pro-Palestine protestors who allegedly targeted a synagogue in New Jersey during a Nov. 2024 demonstration that turned violent. Assistant Attorney General […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Ro Khanna, the Silicon Valley Democrat eyeing a presidential run in 2028, told the Washington Free Beacon last week he planned to reject Hamas at a controversial Arab-American political convention in Michigan this weekend. He didn’t, railing instead against […]
(Jewish News) A doctor who regularly posts diatribes about “Jewish supremacy” on social media and has called for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel has been allowed by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) to continue practicing medicine while the General […]
(Federalist) Dearborn, Michigan, Mayor Abdullah Hammoud insists the Detroit suburb is a “city that welcomes and embraces everyone.” He said as much after telling a Christian minister earlier this month that he wasn’t welcome in the city that Henry Ford called home […]
(Post Millennial) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) used its 31st anniversary gala in Washington, DC, this weekend to honor Mahmoud Khalil, a man long associated with Hamas-linked groups and extremist campus activism at Columbia University, presenting him with the organization’s 2025 […]
(Free Beacon) A trio of rising Democratic Party stars are slated to speak at an anti-Israel convention this week alongside a deep roster of Hamas sympathizers and anti-Semites. Michigan Senate candidate and former CNN contributor Abdul El-Sayed (D.), Rep. Ro Khanna (D., […]
(Fox) At Dearborn, Michigan’s first city council meeting since his clash with a local Christian minister went viral after a heated exchange over a controversial honorary street sign naming, Mayor Abdullah Hammoud declined to apologize for his saying the minister was “not […]
(Free Beacon) Columbia University is promoting a course at the pro-Hamas People’s Forum taught by an anti-Israel professor emeritus, Rashid Khalidi, which requires students to read a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader’s teachings. Khalidi was slated to teach […]
(GB News) Isis has issued a horrific threat to Britain as it urged its followers to attack “Jews, Christians and their allies.” A spokesman for the Islamic State, Abu Hudhaifa al-Ansari, encouraged supporters to pursue individuals of the two faiths throughout America, […]
(Catholic Herald) One of the Church’s leading conservative cardinals has claimed that politicians in European countries like Germany “live in fear” of Muslims, as he issued a stark warning about the future of Christianity on the continent. Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former […]
(AP) France’s president on Friday welcomed the arrest this week in the occupied West Bank of a key Palestinian suspect in a 1982 terror attack in Paris, calling it the result of “excellent cooperation” with the Palestinian Authority. The suspect, Hicham Harb, […]
(CBC) Justice Minister Sean Fraser tabled new legislation Friday introducing four Criminal Code offences, including one that would make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against identifiable groups in public using certain hate- or terrorism-related symbols. If passed, the Combatting Hate Act would target symbols used during the Holocaust, […]
(Fox) Christian minister Edward “Ted” Barham says he will not respond with hate after Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud told him he was “not welcome” during a heated city council exchange over a controversial honorary street sign naming that went viral. In a […]
(JNS) An Amsterdam court on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian to six months in prison for public violence and attempted aggravated assault during the November 2024 pogrom against Israelis in the Dutch capital. The man, identified only as Mahmoud A. by local media […]
(Jewish Insider) Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) wrote to Kathy Goldenberg, the president of the New Jersey State Board of Education, on Monday urging the state to reject calls from the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for the state’s […]
(CBC) The Liberal government is introducing new legislation on Friday to make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against identifiable groups in public using certain hate- or terrorism-related symbols like swastikas, CBC News has learned. A source with knowledge of the […]
(Jerusalem Post) The criminal trial of three French Muslim teenagers who planned an attack on the Israeli embassy in Belgium began on Tuesday, according to French media. Details of the intended attack included blowing up a truck with TATP explosives at the […]
(European Conservative) A book that has not yet gone on sale is already causing tremors in French politics. It is Les Complices du mal by Franco-Syrian journalist Omar Youssef Souleimane, and will be published in early October. The volume, the result of […]
(AFP) A teenager suspected of stabbing a teacher at a college in western Germany attacked another man on the same day and acted out of an “Islamist jihadist ideology,” prosecutors said Friday. The 17-year-old Kosovar suspect, identified by prosecutors as Erjon S., […]
(Free Beacon) Shoppers, diners, and commuters in the Dearborn, Mich., area will now head to their favorite hot spot on a street named in honor of Osama Siblani, an Arab-American newspaper publisher who has advocated for Israel’s destruction, praised terror groups like […]
(AFP) Three people have been arrested after an attack on two Jewish tourists in Venice earlier this week, local police said Thursday as Italian politicians strongly condemned the incident. “Two foreign Jewish tourists were surrounded and beaten by a group of 10 […]
(Global News) Writing under the alias “Sulaiman Dawood al-Kanadie,” he penned fiery propaganda for the Islamic State about attacks that would dwarf Sept. 11, 2001. In the ISIS magazine Voice of Khurasan, he praised the terror group’s late leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, […]
(Algemeiner) Amid a rising wave of anti-Jewish hate crimes, the German government is pressing the country’s main mosque association over its close ties to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urging it to publicly distance itself from his antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric. According […]
(Jewish Onliner) Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) this week petitioned the Department of Education to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for running what he termed “possibly illegal” anti-Israel educational initiatives in public schools, following investigative reports that exposed controversial lesson plans […]
(Euronews) The World Health Organization and several international NGOs have raised the alarm on the need to evacuate sick and injured children from Gaza. But some governments refuse to welcome patients from the Strip out of fear of repercussions to their security […]
(European Conservative) Since the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the climate for Jews in Germany has changed dramatically. Many report that they no longer feel safe, neither on the streets nor in educational institutions. Jewish families in Germany […]
(Free Beacon) Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Tuesday petitioned the Department of Education to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for running “possibly illegal” anti-Israel educational initiatives inside the country’s public schools. CAIR, whose leaders celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror […]
(Jewish News) The chief rabbi has told thousands of demonstrators that the expected recognition of Palestine by Britain “strengthens extremists in our midst” as he stepped up his public condemnation of the move. His comments came during Campaign Against Antisemitism’s third annual […]
(Free Beacon) Harvard University, where 33 student groups signed a statement blaming Israel for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, now says that calling someone a “terrorist sympathizer” can violate the school’s anti-discrimination policies, according to a mandatory training for all Harvard students obtained […]
(AP) Two armed Turkish men were being questioned Thursday after being arrested in Viterbo, near Rome, hours before a popular local festival, Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni said. Meloni praised police and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi for their “swift intervention” leading to the […]
(Fox) Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is facing a GOP-led censure resolution on Wednesday after her fiery remarks at a pro-Palestinian conference. Tlaib spoke at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit over the weekend, when she condemned both Democrats and Republicans for […]
(JNS) The House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, which is part of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, plans to hold a Sept. 10 hearing on antisemitism in K-12 schools. The hearing will “focus more broadly on trends […]
(JNS) A hospital in Belgium defended on Tuesday a physician who had last week identified in medical papers a patient as Jewish, but suspended him over antisemitic cartoons posted on his social-media account in 2023. The physician was identified as Dr. Qasim […]
(Breitbart) A Tunisian migrant was shot and killed by police in Marseille on Tuesday after allegedly stabbing multiple people while reciting verses from the Qur’an. The suspected knife attacker has been identified as 35-year-old Abdelkader D. from Tunisia. Le Figaro reports that […]
(Editors) It’s close, but Muslims in New York may now outnumber Jews. It’s a demographic race with political implications. Analysts trying to understand why Canada, Britain, and France are moving to recognize a Palestinian state have pointed to demographic shifts and growing […]
(Jerusalem Post) Law students of the class of 2025 at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) voted last week to name their class after controversial politician Rima Hassan, the rector of the university announced on Thursday. Hassan is a French-Palestinian politician with […]
(Israel Hayom) The JID organization for combating antisemitism revealed this morning (Friday) a serious incident involving a 9-year-old patient who came for medical treatment at the hospital in the town of Knokke in Belgium. After the girl received medical treatment, the doctor […]
(ANSA) No evidence has emerged against a Turkish man suspected of plotting to kill late Pope Francis in Trieste in 2024 and the suspect is not linked to any terror group, the Trieste police headquarters said Friday. “No evidence has emerged” of […]
(NL Times) A 45-year-old man from Turkey was arrested in the Netherlands for allegedly being part of a plan to kill Pope Francis over a year ago in Trieste, Italy, authorities in that country told newspaper Il Piccolo and press agency ANSA. […]
(Jewish News) A notorious “part-Palestinian British NHS doctor,” who regularly posts diatribes about “Jewish supremacy” on social media, has announced that she has been referred to an Interim Orders Tribunal (IOT), pointing to articles from Jewish News as part of the reason […]
(National-UAE) It has been 10 years since Sir John Jenkins’ landmark inquiry into the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK was wrapped up but he says the need to understand the movement’s role is now even more pressing. The former diplomat was commissioned […]
(Jewish News) Middle East minister Hamish Falconer has insisted the UK government remains “clear-eyed” about the threat the Iranian regime poses to British Jews in this country, adding this is one reason why Tehran now faces the reimposition of sweeping new sanctions. Speaking […]
(Jewish News) Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain has appeared to suggest Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust could have been provided “with land for a homeland, in Europe” rather than in Israel during an online debate about Zionism. The independent MP, elected on […]
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