Interfaith

CAIR proves irony is not dead

(IPT) One of our staffers made a mistake on social media Monday involving the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). When CAIR pointed it out, he acknowledged the error and deleted the inaccurate post. But that wasn’t good enough. CAIR likened his position […]

Crime

Welcome to sanctuary Sweden!

(Gatestone) Are you in a European country illegally, flouting your deportation requirement and instead committing arson? No problem. If the country to which you are to be returned might conceivably harm you (details unspecified), you are welcome instead to stay in Sweden, […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

Linda Sarsour’s blood libel

(IPT) When police officers in America shoot unarmed black people, Jewish hands lurk in the background. So says Linda Sarsour, perhaps the most visible Muslim political advocate in the United States — a co-chair of the national Women’s March and a campaign […]

Government & Politics

AfD’s Jews say German far-right party isn’t anti-Semitic A small number of Jewish people are founding a group to support the far-right Alternative for Germany party. They say the reports of the AfD's anti-Semitism are overblown.

(Deutsche Welle) Politicians and Jewish organizations have condemned a new Jewish group affiliated with the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD). The group, Juden in der AfD (“Jews in the AfD,” or JAfD), is preparing for a launch event on October 7 in the city of […]

Crime

Yazidi woman encounters ‘Islamic State’ captor in Germany The past she was attempting to flee came back to haunt a young Yazidi woman in a small town in Germany. Her former IS tormentor confronted her on the street and 'told me he knew everything about me.'

(Deutsche Welle) A 19-year-old Yazidi woman has fled Germany with her family after encountering the “Islamic State” (IS) fighter who had enslaved her in Mosul on the streets of Schwäbisch Gmünd, a town in Baden-Württemberg. Ashwaq Haji Hamid arrived in the southwestern state with her […]

Government & Politics

Jewish Democratic group refuses to endorse Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar over anti-Israel statements Omar, who has labeled Israel as an 'apartheid regime' that has 'hypnotized the world,' is favored to take a seat in Congress after winning her Democratic primary on Tuesday in Minnesota.

(JNS) Minnesota state lawmaker Ilhan Omar, who has labeled Israel as an “apartheid regime” that has “hypnotized the world,” is favored to take a seat in Congress after winning her Democratic primary on Tuesday in a heavily Democratic district in her state. […]