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Academics & Education

Columbia activists worked with Hamas, captors told rescued hostage Shlomi Ziv Shlomi Ziv's Hamas captor told him that Hamas provided financial support to CUAD and the Columbia AMP/NSJP affiliates for the encampment.

March 25, 2025   

(Jerusalem Post) Hamas kidnappers told rescued hostage Shlomi Ziv the terrorist organization had operatives on American campuses, according to a Monday lawsuit by October 7 victims, with the terrorists showing him articles and photographs of Columbia University protests. In a lawsuit filed […]

Academics & Education

Families of Hamas hostages claim anti-Israel protest groups like Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine had ‘prior knowledge’ of Oct. 7 attack in bombshell suit

March 25, 2025   

(NY Post) Families of hostages held by Hamas believe that anti-Israel groups like Students for Justice in Palestine had “prior knowledge” of the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks — after the controversial activists proclaimed “we are back” in an Instagram post just […]

Children & Teens

Germany sentences three teenagers with planning ISIS-inspired terrorist attack The group, of two 16-year-old and 17-year-old girls and a 16-year-old boy, were considering targeting a church, synagogue, or police station.

March 22, 2025   

(Jerusalem Post) Three teenagers were charged in the regional court in Dusseldorf with planning a terror attack in Germany, Bild reported on Saturday. The group, of two 16-year-old and 17-year-old girls and a 16-year-old boy, were considering targeting a church, synagogue, or […]

Health & Medicine

Man who took pressure cooker bomb into hospital jailed for life Farooq, who was a trainee nurse, was found guilty after his trial last year of attempting to launch an Islamic State-inspired suicide attack using a homemade bomb on the hospital where he worked in 2023.

March 21, 2025   

(Sky News) A man who took a viable pressure cooker bomb into a hospital in Leeds intending to “kill as many nurses as possible” has been jailed for life. Mohammad Farooq was sentenced to a minimum term of 37 years at Sheffield […]

Clothing

Knox Co. to pay woman $71K in lawsuit over Sheriff’s Office posting mugshot of her without religious headscarf Layla Soliz sued Knox County and the sheriff after a KCSO employee posted a mugshot showing her without her religious headscarf.

March 19, 2025   

(WBIR) Knox County has agreed to pay a Muslim woman $71,500 in a partial settlement agreement after she brought a federal lawsuit against the county and its sheriff in October 2024 for publishing a mugshot of her without her religious headscarf. While […]

Academics & Education

Foreign Cornell activist: Threats of deportation deprive my friends of their ‘rights to listen’ to my pro-Hamas rhetoric Momodou Taal, a British national, celebrated Oct. 7 and called on classmates to take their 'cue from the armed resistance in Palestine'

March 19, 2025   

(Free Beacon) A foreign graduate student and protest leader at Cornell University is suing the Trump administration over its executive order calling to expel pro-Hamas visa holders, arguing that the order has forced him to withdraw from “public engagement” and thus “deprived” […]

Crime

Dutch Jews decry courts, media, politics as mild verdicts handed down for Nov. ‘Jew hunt’ 4 receive light sentences for roles in last year’s Amsterdam riots after soccer match with Maccabi Tel Aviv; critics note prosecutors didn’t charge perpetrators with antisemitism

March 19, 2025   

(Times of Israel) A criminal court in Amsterdam on Wednesday sentenced four perpetrators of a “Jew hunt” in November to prison terms ranging from 11 days to three months. The four defendants were part of a group of as many as several […]

Crime

Prosecutors say Iran offered ‘blood money’ to Russian mob in murder-for-hire plot Jurors are expected to start deliberating Thursday in the case of two men accused of trying to kill Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad.

March 19, 2025   

(Courthouse News) Federal prosecutors on Wednesday told a jury that Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, two supposed members of the Russian mob charged with the attempted murder for hire of Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad, took half a million dollars in “blood money” […]

Cemeteries & Funerals

Community calls for action after the Canadian director of a terror group attended the funeral of Hezbollah’s leader in Beirut Charlotte Kates of Samidoun travelled to the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated by Israel.

March 19, 2025   

(Canadian Jewish News) The director of Vancouver-based Samidoun — which is listed as a terrorist entity by Canada and the United States — travelled to Beirut last month to attend the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah. While this may have provoked outrage in […]

Crime

Exiled Iranian journalist testifies against two men accused of trying to kill her Masih Alinejad described a suspicious encounter with her would-be hitman in the front yard of her Brooklyn home in 2022.

March 18, 2025   

(Courthouse News) Two summers ago, journalist and activist Masih Alinejad encountered a “gigantic” man in the driveway of her Brooklyn home. They had an awkward interaction. Alinejad said that the man was talking; she shouted, “What?” But the man kept speaking, and […]

Academics & Education

Deported Brown University professor had photos of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says The government’s explanation for Rasha Alawieh’s deportation came before a judge postponed a hearing on whether it defied a judge’s order that she not be deported without advance notice to the court.

March 17, 2025   

(Politico) Federal authorities say they deported a Lebanese doctor holding an American visa last week after finding “sympathetic photos and videos” of prominent Hezbollah figures in a deleted items folder on her cell phone. Rasha Alawieh, a physician specializing in kidney transplants […]

Crime

Iran official exposes Tehran’s global assassination program as US trial of alleged regime hitmen continues 'Iran is the principal source of regional instability,' declare the world’s leading democracies

March 17, 2025   

(Fox) The Manhattan-based federal trial of two alleged contract killers hired by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to murder the Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad coincided with shocking revelations that Tehran ordered the assassinations of dissidents in Europe, news that could have profound […]

Crime

Illegal immigrant who came to UK on small boat helped smuggle thousands of others into Europe from London home Ahmed Ramadan Mohamad Ebid, 41, has admitted to providing boats and crews and giving technical advice during Mediterranean Sea crossings.

March 17, 2025   

(Sky News) An illegal immigrant, who came to the UK on a small boat, was helping to smuggle more than 1,000 others into Europe within a month, a court was told. Ahmed Ramadan Mohamad Ebid, an Egyptian, was said to have played […]

Academics & Education

Hamburg woman on trial for attacking Jewish woman at university A Hamburg woman is facing trial for reportedly assaulting a Jewish woman after a university lecture on antisemitism.

March 15, 2025   

(Jerusalem Post) A 27-year-old woman is currently on trial after she reportedly assaulted a middle-aged Jewish woman after a lecture on antisemitism in Hamburg, Germany, local media reported on Tuesday. German media outlet taz reported that the defendant, Ayan M., continually berated co-plantiff […]

Crime

French commission approves expulsion of Algerian TikToker ‘Doualemn’ A March [6] hearing sentenced [Doualemn] to a five-month suspended prison term charging him with 'incitement to commit a crime or offense.'

March 12, 2025   

(Morocco World News) The expulsion commission in Hérault, France, issued today a favorable opinion supporting authorities’ request to expel Algerian TikToker “Doualemn.” The three-magistrate commission endorsed the previous decision to deport the Algerian social media influencer, whose previous deportation attempt sparked diplomatic […]

Academics & Education

French far-right politician indicted for defamation over comments about Muslim group Marion Marechal claimed on television that 'Valeurs et Reussite' linked to Muslim Brotherhood

March 11, 2025   

(Anadolu) French far-right Member of the European Parliament Marion Marechal was indicted Tuesday for defamation following her accusations against the “Valeurs et Reussite” Muslim group behind a planned Muslim school in Valence, Francebleu broadcaster reported. The indictment was issued after Marechal claimed […]

Crime

Trial set for men accused of targeting Iranian dissident in New York Prosecutors say the men helped direct a murder-for-hire scheme aimed at Masih Alinejad. The trial is expected to show Iran’s efforts to punish those who criticize it, no matter where they are.

March 10, 2025   

(NY Times) First, the Iranian government was accused of trying to lure a journalist and dissident from New York City to Turkey to abduct and imprison her. Then, according to U.S. officials, intelligence agents schemed unsuccessfully to kidnap the woman, Masih Alinejad. […]

Academics & Education

Muslim private school challenges termination of its contract in French court The large amount of inspections that Al Kindi gets in comparison to Catholic schools, as well as the [school’s] claims that the court’s allegations were already addressed, puts into question whether there is [Islamophobic] bias at play.

March 10, 2025   

(Morocco World News) Al-Kindi, the only [Muslim] private high school in France and the sole Muslim institution with state partnership, is standing before the administrative court of Lyon today to appeal authorities’ decision to terminate its contract. The prefecture of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes announced […]

Law Enforcement

Six of the ten jihadists from Barcelona who wanted to behead infidels released Three members of the terrorist cell have been released without precautionary measures.

March 10, 2025   

(E-Notícies) The National Police and the Mossos d’Esquadra dismantled a Pakistani terrorist cell installed in Barcelona last week. They arrested ten people who, according to the investigations, planned to behead activists and public figures critical of Islam. They also wanted to spread […]