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(JTA) Fareed Zakaria, a prominent CNN host, wrote in an op-ed that Muslims should be “particularly thoughtful” when speaking about the Jewish state and people. Writing Friday in the Washington Post, Zakaria said he was responding to the debate about recent statements […]
(Daily Caller) Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), an American Muslim of Somali origin, shames American Muslims with the anti-Semitism she has brought to Congress. As a naturalized American and a Muslim woman myself, it was gratifying to see the first Muslim women in […]
(JTA) A Democratic candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates who describes himself as a “second-generation Palestinian refugee” has apologized for anti-Semitic and anti-Israel social media posts. “This slander campaign is using five-year-old Facebook posts from my impassioned college days, posts that […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday fired back at President Trump over his call for her resignation, accusing the president of “trafficking” in hate and intolerance. In a tweet, Omar accused the president of discrimination against “Jews, Muslims, Indigenous, immigrants, black people and […]
(Local) One of the key figures behind a successful campaign to have burqas banned in the Swiss canton of Ticino now wants Muslims banned from praying in public. The move by political maverick Giorgio Ghiringhelli comes in the wake of a number […]
(Breitbart) Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” Rep. André Carson (D-IN) argued Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was not antisemitic despite her antisemitic tweets. Carson said, “I think President Trump is speaking to his base, signaling to his base he’s with them. Ilhan is a […]
(Conservative Review) Newly elected Rep. Ilhan Omar will jet off to Los Angeles next month to keynote a fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a terror-tied organization that was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist financing case in […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is being criticized for refusing to answer questions after CNN senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju on Wednesday tweeted about their interaction on Capitol Hill. “Rep. Ilhan Omar in no mood to talk about her controversies this week,” Raju reported on […]
(Pioneer Press) Ilhan Omar has been talked to about this before. Last year, before she was elected to the House of Representatives, before she emerged from a crowded Democratic field in Minnesota’s liberal 5th Congressional District, leaders of Minneapolis’ Jewish community fashioned […]
(Hill) Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) said in a tweet on Tuesday that the “hardest part of serving in Congress” as a woman of color and one of the first Muslim women to serve is that “people hear you differently.” “No matter how […]
(IPT) Maybe Ilhan Omar had a point — it is all about the Benjamins baby. As the freshman U.S. representative was called out by her own Democratic Party leadership for anti-Semitic tweets implying Jewish money controls the Congress she now sits in, ideological […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) wrote in 2006 an op-ed for the Final Call, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s publication known for espousing anti-Semitism. Tlaib’s piece focused on how legal immigrants should not be deported for minor criminal offenses, […]
(Courthouse News) A Fourth Circuit panel sided Monday with a Maryland school district after a Christian student and her family opposed a lesson plan that taught about the Islamic faith. Caleigh Wood was an 8th grade student in Charles County Public School […]
(Roll Call) House Democratic leaders do not plan to strip freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar of her committee assignments or take other action against her for comments they said were offensive and invoked anti-Semitic tropes. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he takes […]
(Mediaite) Pro-Palestine activist and Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour weighed in on the controversy over comments by Rep. Ilhan Omar, in which the Minnesota Democrat mocked the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in tweets described by many as blatantly anti-Semitic. Sarsour has […]
(Politico) Rep. Ilhan Omar apologized for anti-Semitic comments Monday after coming under pressure from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats. The Minnesota Democrat sparked a firestorm Sunday night when she implied lawmakers’ support for Israel is driven by campaign donations from […]
(Politico) Freshman Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar ignited a new controversy on Sunday night when she suggested GOP support for Israel is driven by campaign donations from a prominent pro-Israel group. Omar singled out AIPAC, one of the most influential lobbying groups in […]
(AFP) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban launched his European elections campaign Sunday calling for voters to defend “Christian” nations against immigration, which he said led to the “virus of terrorism.” He also announced a seven-point package of tax breaks and subsidies to […]
(AFP) The support for a boycott of Israel by the first two Muslim women in the US Congress has opened a breach in the Democratic Party and threatens to create a fissure in the ironclad US-Israeli alliance. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib […]
(Hill) House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) blasted House Democratic leaders for not taking disciplinary action against Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) over criticisms of Israel that critics argue are anti-Semitic. The California Republican said the Democratic congresswomen’s comments were “more so” reprehensible […]
(AL.com) Alabama has executed Domineque Hakim Marcelle Ray for the 1995 slaying of a 15-year-old Selma girl, after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a federal appeals court stay based on the inmate’s request to have his Muslim spiritual adviser at his side […]
(AFP) Two French journalists on Thursday told a terrorism trial in Brussels that they had “no doubt” the accused Jewish museum killer is the man who imprisoned and tortured them in Syria. The former hostages came to Brussels to testify against Mehdi […]
(AL.com) An Alabama death row inmate scheduled to be executed Thursday night has been granted an emergency stay, and the Alabama attorney general’s office is appealing to the nation’s highest court. Domineque Ray’s execution is set for 6 p.m. Thursday at Holman […]
(Daily Wire) Anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) ran from CNN on Tuesday when the network pressed her over her support for anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israel. During a segment on “The Lead With Jake Tapper,” CNN’s Manu Raju […]
(IPT) Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar dodged a question about her comments concerning Israel Tuesday morning during a discussion about religious freedom at the Center for American Progress (CAP). Just last week, Omar said hearing Israel described as a democracy made her […]
(Times of Israel) One of American Jewry’s most senior leaders lashed out at US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Monday, accusing the young lawmaker of making anti-Semitic remarks. “I am very disturbed. I do believe Tlaib has made anti-Semitic comments,” Malcolm Hoenlein, the […]
(AFP) A young Frenchwoman on Monday pointed to Mehdi Nemmouche as the gunman at the Jewish museum in Brussels on May 24, 2014, the first witness at his trial to do so. Nemmouche, a 33-year-old Frenchman, faces life in prison if convicted […]
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(AL.com) The volunteer Muslim chaplain for a death row inmate set for execution next week said that there are prayers required of a Muslim before he dies, and that the inmate needs his assistance to die honoring his faith. “I know the […]
(AL.com) A federal judge ruled today against an Alabama death row inmate who sought a stay of execution to litigate his claim that prison officials are violating his religious rights because they won’t allow his Muslim spiritual adviser to be with him […]
(Jewish Journal) The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) California chapter called on the University of California chancellors to retract their stated opposition to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. In December, the ten UC chancellors issued a statement calling BDS “a […]
(Hill) Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) on Friday accepted Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) invitation to discuss religious discrimination over Somali tea after the two lawmakers traded barbs over social media this week. Zeldin, who is Jewish, on Twitter this week shared a vulgar anti-Semitic […]
(AL.com) A federal judge in Montgomery said he will issue a written order Friday in a case involving Alabama death row inmate Domineque Ray, who has sought to stop his execution because his Muslim spiritual adviser is not being allowed to join […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) traded barbs over Twitter on Wednesday after Zeldin called Omar’s appointment to the House Foreign Affairs Committee “crazy.” “Just learned Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar was also put on this committee [with] oversight of […]
(AFP) The Israelis orphaned by the murderous gun attack on Belgium’s Jewish Museum testified on Thursday in the trial of the accused attacker. The defendant, Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, appeared in the dock to insist that he was not behind the four […]
(Hill) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has invited House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) to join her on a planned congressional delegation to the West Bank after he criticized the trip in an interview. “Yo [Engel] how are we ever going to obtain peace?” […]
(AFP) The French alleged jihadist accused of carrying out a gun massacre in Belgium’s Jewish Museum denounced any attempt to intimidate trial lawyers and jurors Thursday. Appearing in the dock in Brussels main criminal court, 33-year-old Mehdi Nemmouche again denied shooting dead […]
(Swiss Info) The government has presented plans to spend up to CHF500,000 ($503,000) annually to protect minority groups in Switzerland against militant extremism and terrorist attacks. The proposal foresees financial contributions for additional building measures, including walls, security gates and video and […]
(Daily Caller) Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib has declined to address the fact that one of her top campaign allies repeatedly promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. A key fundraiser for Tlaib, Maher Abdel-qader, repeatedly promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, an investigation by the Daily Caller […]
(AFP) Two young Israeli women will Thursday face for the first time the alleged killer of their parents when they attend his trial for the Jewish museum attack in Brussels. The daughters of murdered Israeli couple Miriam and Emmanuel Riva will be […]
(Daily Wire) Anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) suggested in an interview this week that Israel should not be allowed to exist as a Jewish state, Israel is not a democracy, and compared Israel to Iran — which is the world’s leading state […]
(AP) Belgian prosecutors said Wednesday that they are investigating an apparent attempt to intimidate a lawyer in the trial of a suspect in the 2014 shooting attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum. The Brussels prosecutor’s office said that a baseball bat and […]
(AL.com) An Alabama death row inmate set to die by lethal injection next week claims his execution should be stayed because the prison won’t let him have a Muslim spiritual adviser present in the execution chamber. Domineque Ray, 42, is set to […]
(Breitbart) Countries that are unable to assimilate migrants should stop accepting more until they are able to integrate them, Pope Francis told reporters on the papal plane Monday. The pope put forward Sweden as an example of a country that had accepted […]
(Al-Monitor) Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress. She’s also one of Congress’ first two female Muslim lawmakers. As such, Tlaib wants to take the fight to the pro-Israel lobby by organizing a congressional delegation […]
(Hill) House Democratic leaders on Tuesday defended progressive freshman Reps. Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) against GOP accusations of anti-Semitism for their views toward Israel. The two freshmen have drawn ire from Republicans for their support of the boycott, divestment […]
(Daily Caller) Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s ties to anti-Semitism run deeper than previously known, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found. Tlaib, part of a heralded freshman class of House Democrats, has already come under scrutiny over her positions on Israel […]
(Free Beacon) Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour penned a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that omitted any mention of the Jewish people, two years after she attacked President Donald Trump for the same thing. In January 2017, the White House was criticized after […]
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