(JTA) The social media company Meta is adjudicating whether a key phrase used by pro-Palestinian activists constitutes acceptable speech. The company’s Oversight Board, an independent body tasked with reviewing Meta’s content moderation decisions, has taken up the question as it reviews three […]
(Jewish News) The National Union of Students has reached a settlement with ex-president Shaima Dallali, after she admitted a tweet posted on social media in 2012, for which she apologised, was antisemitic. A statement agreed by both parties confirmed that “a settlement […]
(ABC-Australia) In the hours before a 16-year-old boy stabbed a bishop in an alleged terrorism attack at a Sydney church, his parents’ frantic calls to him went unanswered. Two days earlier, the boy was in tears over the sudden death of a […]
(BBC) A Green Party candidate who shared anti-Semitic material relating to the Gaza conflict on social media has apologised, the party has said. The party was contacted by the government’s anti-Semitism adviser, Lord Mann, over posts by Bristol candidates Mohamed Makawi and […]
(Press Release) A man who shared propaganda glorifying Daesh and acts of terrorism on social media has today, Thursday, [25] April, been found guilty of terrorism offences following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command. Hamza Alam, 22 (27.07.01), of Romford, […]
(BBC) Labour has suspended a local election candidate and withdrawn its support due to anti-Israel posts he apparently shared on social media, it is understood. Abdur Razaq had been running for the party in the Preston with Preston Grange ward on North […]
(Free Beacon) Democratic Reps. Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), and Summer Lee (Pa.) posed for photos with a fundraiser last week who has spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and founded a Facebook group where Hamas terrorists are praised. The […]
(Jewish News) Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command have charged a woman with a terror offence as part of an investigation into online support of proscribed terrorist group Hamas. Sara El-Houssein, 23, of north-west London was charged on Thursday, 21 March, […]
(LBC) Access to social media has led to more children being radicalised, the UK’s terror watchdog has told LBC, as he hit out at the lowering of WhatsApp’s age limit. Jonathan Hall KC said the move to allow 13-year-olds access to the […]
(Daily Record) State lawmakers have paved the way for Attorney General Anthony Brown to remove American Muslim activist Zainab Chaudry from a state hate crimes commission by requiring that all members’ terms expire June 1. Brown will decide who on the commission […]
(Fox) The New York City Police Department defended the actions of its officers by releasing bodycam video that showed an officer gently helping a woman with her hijab after the radical anti-Israel activist claimed she was “brutalized” and her hijab was ripped […]
(Daily Wire) Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas admitted to Congress on Wednesday that an employee who was exposed by the Daily Wire as a Hamas supporter remains on the Department of Homeland Security payroll, even as she gloats about her employment […]
(Ynet) At just 26 years old, Raheem Boateng is already the intellectual leader of a radical Muslim group in Hamburg that greatly concerns the German security authorities. Since the beginning of the Gaza war, Boateng and his group’s influence have been steadily […]
(BBC) A man who admitted posting support for Hamas on social media has been sentenced for a terrorism offence. Ozain Yousef, 23, shared extremist material supportive of the group following its attack on Israel on 7 October, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard. Yousef, […]
(Jewish News) A Conservative Party candidate has withdrawn from the forthcoming local elections after a social media post emerged in which he appeared to have used the words “jew pigs.” Azmat Husain had been due to stand as the Tory candidate for […]
(USA Today) The independent board that oversees content moderation of Facebook owner Meta is urging the company to loosen restrictions on “shaheed,” arguing the blanket ban on the Arabic word which has been used to praise acts of violence has led to […]
(Swiss Info) The 15-year-old who attacked an orthodox Jewish man in Zurich on March 2 became radicalised in Tunisia and on internet forums, Zurich’s security director said on Monday. Investigations are still progressing in earnest, Mario Fehr said at the presentation of […]
(Age) TikTok is the only social media giant not signed up to a global anti-extremism pact, Australia’s top internet regulator says, as MPs call out the Chinese-owned company for the proliferation of graphic content stemming from the Hamas-Israel war on its platform. […]
(ABC-Australia) Australia’s eSafety commissioner has put the big social media companies on notice, demanding they do better to stop the proliferation of violent extremist material and activity on their platforms. Julie Inman Grant said YouTube-owner Google, Meta (owner of Facebook and Instagram), […]
(Swiss Info) Three minors with suspected links to jihadist extremism have been arrested in French-speaking Switzerland, according to a Saturday report by Swiss public broadcaster RTS. They are suspected of being active on a social network carrying jihadist content. Two were arrested […]
(Canadian Press) A Calgary teenager arrested over alleged terrorism-related posts on TikTok and other social media sites is to face a two-day peace bond hearing in late October. The 16-year-old was the fourth Calgarian — and third teen — to be arrested […]
(Press Release) Detectives from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command have charged a man in relation to social media posts, which allegedly show support for the proscribed terrorist group Hamas. The posts were flagged to the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) in […]
(BBC) A man who posted images online in support of Hamas has pleaded guilty to a terrorism offence. Ozain Yousef, 23, of Mexborough Place, Leeds, was arrested on 24 November 2023 on suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation. Police said he was […]
(GB News) A Muslim preacher who compared the October 7 attacks to Jews breaking out of concentration camps and attacking Nazis has been reported to the police. Sheikh Jaffer Ladak, the imam of the Baab-Ul-Ilm Centre in Leeds, made numerous comments on […]
(CBC) A report examining the risk posed by a Calgary man who claimed to be a member of ISIS and appeared to be planning to kill gay people in the city was described by a judge as “troubling.” Zakarya Hussein, 20, pleaded […]
(BBC) A 23-year-old man from Leeds has been charged with a terrorism offence following an investigation by counter-terrorism police. Ozain Yousef, of Mexborough Place, has been charged with one offence under the Terrorism Act 2000. He was arrested on November 24 on […]
(Jewish News) A senior judge who faced a barrage of criticism after he “decided not to punish” three women who had displayed paraglider images at a pro-Palestinian protest in London is to be investigated over alleged bias, reports say. Tan Ikram, the deputy chief magistrate, who allowed […]
(WJZ) Maryland lawmakers are considering removing the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also known as CAIR, from a state commission to prevent hate crimes. It follows controversial comments from the organization’s state director Zainab Chaudry on Facebook. WJZ investigator Mike Hellgren spoke exclusively […]
(Daily Record) Three state Democrats, each of whom is a member of the Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus, are pushing to remove American Muslim activist Zainab Chaudry from a state hate crimes commission for social media posts some have said are anti-Semitic. Late […]
(Jewish News) A minister has suggested a judge accused of giving “lenient sentences” for terrorism offences should be investigated for appearing to support a pro-Palestine social media post. The Home Office’s Chris Philp told MPs he would expect the Judicial Conduct Investigations […]
(BBC) A councillor has been kicked out of the Conservative Party over alleged antisemitic remarks, the BBC understands. The Salisbury Conservative Association said it had received a formal complaint about “offensive and inappropriate comments” by Salisbury mayor Atiqul Hoque on social media […]
(LBC) A judge who let three women who wore paraglider images at a pro-Palestine march walk free after being found guilty of terror offences is believed to have liked an anti-Israel social media post. Deputy Senior District Judge Tanweer Ikram is understood […]
(Iran International) Australia says it will not tolerate Iran’s attempts to suppress dissent abroad amid threats by regime officials to Australian citizens. In a statement communicated to Iran International, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs emphasized that “Australia does not tolerate, under […]
(Hill) X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, may be violating U.S. sanctions by accepting payments for premium accounts linked to Hezbollah and other sanctioned groups, according to a new report from the Tech Transparency Project. The Tech Transparency Project identified 28 […]
(AFP) Meta on Thursday said it had removed the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for violating its content policy. “We have removed these accounts for repeatedly violating our Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy,” a Meta spokesperson […]
(CBC) A former campus imam alleges he was dismissed by the University of Toronto Scarborough after a social media post he says was falsely attributed to him, which he maintains the school failed to properly investigate. Omar Patel says the university formally cut ties with […]
(Washington Examiner) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was harshly criticized by conservatives on social media on Sunday after a video was shared showing her speaking about her support for Somalia, the nation from which she hails. In the video, the liberal Minnesota leader […]
(JNS) “This province has no place for bigotry and racism. We stand with the Muslim community throughout Canada on this sorrowful day of remembrance.” So wrote David Eby, premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia and leader of the British Columbia […]
(National Post) Laith Marouf, the government-funded anti-racism consultant whose record of hateful tweets became an embarrassing controversy for the Liberals, is now the director of an anti-Israel online broadcaster. Free Palestine Television (FPTV) was launched after the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians […]
(AFP) Karim Benzema on Tuesday filed a complaint for defamation against French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who last year said the former Real Madrid star had “notorious” links with the Muslim Brotherhood. Darmanin, a tough-talking right-winger with designs on the French presidency, […]
(Jewish News) A Liberal Democrat councillor exposed by Jewish News for questioning evidence that Hamas carried out atrocities in Israel on October 7th has sparked renewed anger after refusing to confirm he has undertaken antisemitism awareness training for linking the Jewish state […]
(Montreal Gazette) A Montreal resident faces a criminal charge alleging he incited hatred and called for violence toward Jewish people beginning just days after Hamas carried out the Oct. 7 attack in Israel. The charge filed against Houssem Hammami, 37, became public […]
(Canadian Press) A youth court judge has granted a one-year peace bond to a 15-year-old Calgary boy who was arrested in October as part of an ongoing national security investigation. The teen, who cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, […]
(BBC) There has been an unprecedented 12-fold increase in hateful social media content being referred to specialist police officers since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, according to the UK’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit. Once focused on propaganda shared by the […]
(Jewish Insider) A legislative effort is underway in Maryland to remove the Council on American-Islamic Relations from a state hate crimes body after the organization’s Maryland director published a series of antisemitic Facebook posts after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel, […]
(AFP) Algerian international footballer Youcef Atal was handed an eight-month suspended sentence by a French court Wednesday for inciting religious hatred in a social media post about the conflict in Gaza. The 27-year-old defender, who plays for Ligue 1 side Nice, must […]
(Euro Weekly) Spanish authorities have scored another victory in the ongoing battle against online jihadist extremism. On Friday, December 22, the Guardia Civil reported how they recently apprehended an individual in La Rinconada, Sevilla, for spreading jihadist propaganda. This arrest highlights the […]
(BBC) A man accused of distributing terrorist videos via messaging platform Telegram has appeared in court via videolink. Mohammed Hamasaleh, 24, from Bolton, has been charged with seven counts of disseminating terrorist publications between March 2022 and January 2023. These include using […]
(Fox) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) appears to have scrubbed Democratic lawmakers’ praise for its group from its website following blowback over its leader’s controversial statements regarding Hamas, Fox News Digital has discovered. Nihad Awad, CAIR’s executive director, recently said he […]
(AFP) Algerian international footballer Youcef Atal went on trial in France Monday accused of inciting hatred after posting a video in which a Palestinian preacher purportedly threatens Israel with a “black day.” Atal, who plays for Ligue 1 side Nice, shared the […]
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