(Free Beacon) The Biden administration on Thursday blocked a bipartisan delegation of House lawmakers from entering and inspecting a U.S.-run military facility near Doha, Qatar, where thousands of Afghan evacuees are being stationed prior to their possible relocation to America, according to […]
(Fox) Senate Republicans are demanding answers from the Biden administration amid reports that hundreds of Afghan evacuees are walking off U.S. military bases without completing the resettlement process. In a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of Defense […]
(Religion News) Shave or be shaved. Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, sailor Edmund Di Liscia faced a stark choice. According to his lawyers, he was told to either shave his beard voluntarily or be held down by his bunk mate and forcibly […]
(Reuters) Something unexpected is happening at U.S. military bases hosting Afghan evacuees: Many hundreds of them are simply leaving before receiving U.S. resettlement services, two sources familiar with the data told Reuters. The number of “independent departures,” which top 700 and could […]
(AP) The U.S. military expects to begin receiving new Afghanistan evacuees in the United States next week, as thousands begin to wrap up a three-week pause in Europe and the Middle East to get measles shots. Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. […]
(KVIA) The FBI is investigating the assault of a female Fort Bliss soldier by several male Afghan refugees at the Army’s Doña Ana Complex camp where thousands are currently being housed, officials told ABC-7 on Friday. “We can confirm a female service […]
(Daily Caller) A House floor debate over a funding bill for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system devolved into a shouting match, with multiple members accusing Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib of anti-Semitism. After left-wing Democrats successfully removed $1 billion for the […]
(AP) Poland is sending 500 additional army troops and special vehicles to its border with Belarus to strengthen it against increasing migrant pressures which the government says is orchestrated by Belarus and Russia to destabilize the European Union. “We are dealing with […]
(CBS) The U.S. government was housing nearly 20,000 Afghan refugees at military installations in five states as of Wednesday morning, while another 40,000 evacuees remained at bases overseas awaiting processing, according to internal federal data reviewed by CBS News. These figures, which […]
(JTA) Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib called for Israel to return the body of a woman who was killed while she attempted to kill Israeli soldiers. In a Twitter thread on Saturday, Tlaib, one of Israel’s harshest critics in Congress, slammed Israel for […]
(Hill) Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said the chances of more terrorist attacks like the ones on Sept. 11, 2001, “just went through the roof” because of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Graham, during an interview with guest host […]
(Post Millennial) Late Thursday night, following a day which saw the deaths of 13 US service members in a terrorist attack in Kabul, the deadliest day in a decade for US military in Afghanistan, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) posted a photo of […]
(Anadolu) Muslim groups in the US voiced support for the country’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) released a written statement late Tuesday, hailing President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw the US military from Afghanistan by the Aug. […]
(Defense One) Security screeners at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar have detected that at least one of the Afghans who was evacuated from Kabul Airport has potential ties to ISIS, a U.S. official confirmed to Defense One. Moreover, the Defense Department’s […]
(Kathimerini) Preparing for the possibility of migration pressure from Turkey in the coming weeks due to the developments in Afghanistan, law enforcement authorities, the coast guard and the armed forces are drafting plans to police and shield the Evros land border and […]
(AP) Poland has deployed hundreds of troops and is laying barbed wire along its border with Belarus to stop the arrival of migrants seeking to enter the country, officials said Wednesday. Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said more than 900 Polish troops were […]
(Fox) The Department of Defense is preparing to immediately house thousands of Afghan refugees on American military installations, Fox News confirmed late Sunday. Documents obtained by Fox News show DoD plans to potentially relocate up to 30,000 Afghan SIV applicants into the […]
(AP) A Syrian doctor has been charged in Germany with crimes against humanity for allegedly torturing people in military hospitals in his homeland and killing one of them, German federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Karlsruhe said in a […]
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(Courthouse News) A Dutch court on Friday found a Syrian asylum-seeker guilty of committing war crimes in Syria and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. The District Court of The Hague found that Ahmad al Khedr had participated in the execution […]
(Daily Wire) Women’s March cofounder Linda Sarsour was barraged with criticism after she promoted an antisemitic conspiracy about the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, on Twitter. On June 27, an expert recovery team with the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) joined emergency crews […]
(Dutch News) A Syrian man who has been a refugee in the Netherlands since 2014 should be jailed for 27 years for his role in the killing of a Syrian army officer, the Dutch public prosecution service said on Friday. Ahmad al […]
(Middle East Eye) US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar appeared to walk back her earlier criticism of her Jewish Democratic congressional colleagues for not having “been partners in justice,” after being accused of antisemitism. “I am someone who has survived war and experienced injustice […]
(Courthouse News) Mariam Taha Thompson, a 62-year-old contract linguist who worked for the Pentagon, was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison Wednesday for transmitting highly sensitive information to the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah. “Thompson’s sentence reflects the seriousness of her violation […]
(AFP) The trial of an Egyptian who attacked soldiers at the Louvre museum with machetes, shouting “Allah u Akbar” (God is greatest), opened Monday with a description of his “atypical” and enigmatic profile. Abdalla El Hamahmi, aged 33, is charged with “attempted […]
(BBC) A refugee in the Netherlands has gone on trial for war crimes over a killing carried out during the Syrian conflict. Ahmad Al K, 49, and his family arrived in the Netherlands in 2014. He was arrested in 2019 after he […]
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(Yle) Twenty-year-old Helsinki resident Fardowsa Mohamud has sparked a social media firestorm by calling attention to the Finnish military’s refusal to allow women service members to wear headscarves as part of their uniform. Mohamud said her dreams to serve as a peacekeeper […]
(Middle East Eye) As Palestinians were still looking for survivors under the rubble in Gaza, the White House officially tried to claim victory, citing praise by pro-Israel lawmakers and advocacy groups for President Joe Biden’s handling of the crisis. The administration’s approach […]
(CNN) Several Jewish people have been attacked in cities across the United States this week. Authorities are investigating assaults in New York and Los Angeles as tensions flare over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict amid days of violence between Israel and Hamas militants in […]
(NY Post) Pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters clashed and fireworks sent people running near Times Square Thursday as tensions in the region spilled into the streets of Manhattan, videos showed. Skirmishes between the groups erupted in the Midtown tourist hub as Israel and Hamas hoped […]
(Washington Post) Facebook has refused to remove a widely viewed attack ad that links Rep. Ilhan Omar to Hamas, even after her aides told the tech giant the message is inaccurate, hateful and threatened to subject her to death threats. The controversy […]
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(LA Times) An attack on diners outside a sushi restaurant by people shouting slogans against Israel is being investigated by Los Angeles police as an antisemitic hate crime. The attack came as a deadly battle continued in the Gaza Strip, escalating tensions […]
(Detroit Free Press) Saying they feel betrayed, thousands of Arab Americans protested across Dearborn on Tuesday afternoon as President Joe Biden arrived in the city to tour a Ford Rouge plant, blasting the president over his support for Israel during its conflict with Palestinians. […]
(AP) Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday and expelled nearly half of the thousands of migrants who jumped fences or swam onto European soil over two days after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat. Overwhelmed soldiers […]
(Detroit Free Press) As tensions heat up in the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians, metro Detroit’s Jewish and Arab American communities are reacting with frustration and anger at times, but also are looking at ways to keep the peace among the […]
(Daily Caller) Pro-Palestine groups organized dozens of anti-Israel demonstrations in major U.S. cities over the weekend after Israeli forces responded to rocket attacks from Gaza with airstrikes. Samidoun, a group designated as a terror organization in Israel with active chapters in the […]
(Detroit News) Fighting in Gaza that has flattened buildings and killed nearly 200 Palestinians is creating tensions in Metro Detroit ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit Tuesday. On Sunday, several hundred people gathered for a Justice for Jerusalem march at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center […]
(Politico) The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Saturday said it will boycott the traditional White House Eid celebration in protest at the Biden administration’s actions amid escalating violence between Israeli and Palestinian forces. President Joe Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
(JTA) Some 2,500 protesters in Austria against Israel’s actions in Gaza chanted about a massacre of Jews during a rally Thursday, Der Standard reported. Meanwhile, in England, an antisemitic slogan about Palestine was painted on the door of a synagogue. Eight people […]
(Fox) Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is fundraising off of backlash she’s received for her latest anti-Israel comments as violence between Israel and Hamas heats up. Omar’s campaign launched a fundraiser on Facebook Wednesday after criticism from Republican politicians such as Sen. Ted […]
(Free Beacon) A Fairfax County school board member referred to Israel as an “apartheid” state that “kills Palestinians” in two social media posts Thursday morning. In posts celebrating the end of Ramadan, Fairfax County School Board member-at-large Abrar Omeish wrote that Israel […]
(Daily Wire) Far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) spoke at a fringe rally on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., where other extreme leftists called for the elimination of the state of Israel. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” the activists […]
(JTA) Israeli flags were burned in front of two synagogues in Germany and the words “Free Palestine” were spray-painted on another one in Spain. The incidents this week are among the first manifestations of antisemitism in Europe connected to the escalation of […]
(Newsweek) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.) joined a pro-Palestinian protest that took place outside the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Tlaib and Carson both spoke at the event amid the escalating conflict pitting the Israeli military […]
(Breitbart) Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Monday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is “acting as the press secretary for Hamas,” the Palestinian terror organization, after she tweeted false information about recent clashes in Gaza. Omar, who is staunchly anti-Israel, and has a […]
(Jewish Journal) Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) accused the Israeli government of committing an “act of terrorism” with its airstrikes into the Gaza Strip on May 10. The Israeli strikes were in response to Hamas bombarding Israel with rockets earlier in the day. […]
(AFP) The government of French President Emmanuel Macron reacted with fury on Monday after a group of serving French soldiers published an open letter warning that “civil war” was brewing over his “concessions” to Islamism, weeks after a similar message from elements […]
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