(Radio France) Teachers at the Gambetta-Carnot school in Arras in northern France had twice reported Mohammed Mogouchkov to authorities when he was a student there. But he remained at the school and graduated, and on 13 October he stabbed to death a […]
(Free Beacon) The Biden administration, in its bid to promote the coronavirus vaccine to minority communities, awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds to a mosque known for its extensive ties to terrorist groups, whose imam has promoted female genital […]
(Iran International) Iranian agents are stirring up unrest in the UK through Gaza protests, according to a report by the British newspaper the Times. There is direct involvement of the Iranian regime through the physical presence of operatives at protests as well […]
(NY Post) Their views are hard to swallow. New York City’s omnipresent halal and other street vendors expressed near-universal support for Hamas with many telling the Post the terror group’s Oct. 7 attack in Israel which killed roughly 1,400 people was justified. […]
(Brussels Times) Belgium is set to remain at threat level 3 for some time following the Brussels attack and ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to Gert Vercauteren, the head of OCAD, the agency responsible for terror threat analysis. Since the attack in Brussels, […]
(AFP) Thousands of demonstrators protested in Paris on Saturday in a banned march in “support of the Palestinian people,” AFP correspondents saw. A large contingent of police blocked marchers in a central part of the capital. Among the protesters were elected officials […]
(BBC) A Birmingham councillor [has] been offered anti-Semitism training following complaints over TikTok videos appearing to question the extent of atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel. The Liberal Democrats launched an investigation after councillor Ayoub Khan, who represents Aston, posted a series […]
(Jewish News) A top London hospital has confirmed that a medic who appeared to support Hamas on social media is “not currently working” while an investigation takes place. It follows reports that Farah Bouamra, a physician associate at St. George’s University Hospitals […]
(NBC) President Joe Biden quietly hosted a meeting Thursday for a handful of Muslim leaders, according to four sources familiar with the White House gathering, as he faces pressure from the Arab American community over what they contend is his comparative disregard […]
(ITV) Police are searching for three women who wore pictures of Hamas paragliders and a man who held a poster supporting the terrorist group at pro-Palestine events in London. Social media footage of a protest in Whitehall on October 14 shows two […]
(AFP) Spanish police said Friday that they had arrested a man suspected of having links with an Islamist gunman who killed two Swedish football fans in Brussels this month. Officers arrested the unidentified suspect — who is wanted in Belgium for drug […]
(Swiss Info) The Security Policy Commission of the Senate (SIK-S) is also reacting to the attack on Israel and wants to ban the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas. It has submitted a corresponding motion. The decision was made by 8 votes to 0, […]
(Jerusalem Post) Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has been an outspoken supporter of the Palestinian cause. However, her alleged connections to the Hamas terrorist group have only recently been uncovered, according to the Canary Mission. In an article it published on October 25, […]
(London News Today) Western University has cut ties with its Muslim chaplain over social media posts it says “do not align with Western’s commitment to peaceful and respectful dialogue.” The announcement regarding Sh. Aarij Anwer was made in a statement issued Thursday by President […]
(Jewish News) An elected Liberal Democrat councillor has repeatedly questioned evidence of Hamas terrorist atrocities in Israel on 7 October, saying he “has a problem with the credibility” of an account of the massacre carried out at a kibbutz. Birmingham city councillor […]
(Euronews) Just a week ago, Abdesalem Lassoued plunged the city of Brussels into chaos. Not even his wife or his closest friends knew that the Tunisian, who was in Belgium illegally, was about to commit an act of terrorism. After he shot […]
(Dutch News) In total, 13 people who have a conviction for being a member of a terrorist organisation have been granted an official certificate of good behaviour, or VOG, over the past four years, legal protection minister Franc Weerwind told MPs on Thursday. Some […]
(Euronews) A 44-year-old Tunisian man suspected of complicity with the perpetrator of the attack in Brussels on 16 October was charged with “murder in a terrorist context” and imprisoned on Thursday, the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office announced. The man arrested on Wednesday […]
(NBC) Hours before President Joe Biden gave a rare prime-time address last week, his head speechwriter sat down with a group of senior Arab and Muslim American officials to go over the draft and take suggestions. Dissent was sprouting even inside the […]
(GB News) Nearly three-quarters of people think foreign nationals who glorify Islamist terrorism should be deported from the UK, an opinion poll has found. The poll by People Polling and commissioned by GB News found 74 per cent of people agreed foreign […]
(Politico) Federal law enforcement officials warned on Wednesday that Israel’s ongoing war with Palestinian militants could encourage more hate crimes in the U.S. In a public service announcement released Wednesday night, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it “has seen an increase […]
(JNS) The Anti-Defamation League has released a new report documenting a sizable increase this month in crimes and protests targeting Jews. “Preliminary data from ADL Center on Extremism indicates that reported incidents of harassment, vandalism and assault increased by 388 percent over […]
(CNN) US authorities have begun a new effort to target fundraising and other forms of support for Hamas, including any tentacles the terrorist group has into the United States, current and former US officials tell CNN. The move is part of a broader reassessment […]
(AFP) German counter-terror authorities Wednesday took over a probe into a suspected jihadist arrested for allegedly planning an attack, with a pro-Israel demonstration a possible target, prosecutors said. The 29-year-old was detained late Tuesday at his home in the western city of […]
(Brussels Times) A 23-year-old Palestinian man who reportedly told the Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil) that he intends to “die as a martyr by blowing himself up” has now been arrested, La Dernière Heure reports. The man was […]
(AP) The French soccer league suspended Nice defender Youcef Atal for seven matches on Wednesday after he shared an antisemitic message on social media. Nice had already suspended Atal last week until further notice and said that he apologized for his actions. […]
(VRT) A further arrest has been made as part of the investigation into Abdessalem Lassoued, the Tunisian failed asylum seeker, who shot dead two Swedish football supporters last week, in Brussels. A suspect, whose home was raided last week, has been questioned […]
(AFP) A Paris judge has charged two men suspected of links with the Islamist gunman who killed two Swedish football fans in Brussels this month, French anti-terror prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday. Abdesalem Lassoued, a radicalised 45-year-old Tunisian, shot dead the fans […]
(Deutsche Welle) Police in the western German city of Duisburg on Tuesday arrested a man who was allegedly planning a terror attack, multiple German media outlets reported. The man was supposedly planning to attack a pro-Israel demonstration with a truck to which he […]
(ITV) A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences and possessing indecent images of a child. Metropolitan Police officers arrested the 17-year-old in east London on suspicion of collecting material that is likely to be useful to a person committing […]
(Sky News) The decision to remove Shamima Begum’s British citizenship was “unlawful,” a court has heard, as her latest appeal against the decision begins. Ms Begum travelled to Syria in 2015 to join Islamic State, when she was aged 15, and her […]
(ITV) The chief of the Metropolitan Police has suggested the law may need tightening after his force decided a video of a man chanting “jihad” at a pro-Palestine protest on Saturday did not show any offence being committed. Sir Mark Rowley, following […]
(Politico) Maysoon Zayid, a Palestinian American comedian, did everything she could to get Joe Biden elected in 2020. She starred in a comedy event boosting him. She spoke on a call organized by the Biden campaign featuring Arab women supporting him. Biden’s […]
(Olive Press) The largest recruiter of jihadist terrorists in Europe was arrested by Spanish police today. Mustafa Maya Amaya was caught during an anti-terror operation by the Policia Nacional in Melilla. Amaya, a Spaniard of Belgian origin who converted to Islam, is […]
(JNS) Three teenagers have been arrested in France and a fourth in Belgium for planning a terrorist attack against the Israeli embassy in Uccle, a municipality of Brussels. On Aug. 31, a French judge indicted for “criminal terrorist association” two high school […]
(AFP) French police are holding two people suspected of being associated with the Islamist gunman who shot dead two Swedish football fans in Brussels earlier this month, anti-terror prosecutors said Monday. The suspects were presented to a judge on Monday with a […]
(Deutsche Welle) The trial of a 27-year-old Syrian man accused of murder and attempted murder began at the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Monday. Federal prosecutors, who took over the case on August […]
(AP) A federal judge on Monday ordered the release of a Maryland man who has been imprisoned for more than four years on charges that he plotted Islamic State group-inspired attacks at an airport and at a shopping and entertainment complex in […]
(NL Times) The 42-year-old man convicted of fatally shooting four people on a tram in Utrecht has again been accused of violent behavior in prison. Gökmen T. was captured, and has remained in custody, ever since the tram shooting at 24 Oktoberplein […]
(Daily Wire) A new poll released late last week found that the majority of Muslim Americans believes that Hamas was “justified” in committing terrorist attacks against Israel. The poll from Cygnal surveyed over 2,000 people from October 16-18 to gauge the public’s […]
(NY Post) A Hamas leader who allegedly ran the terrorist group’s operations in the West Bank has been hiding out in a state-funded home in a borough of London that has the highest Jewish population in all of Britain, according to a […]
(Breitbart) London’s Metropolitan Police have come under criticism for their seemingly lax approach towards pro-Palestine demonstrations and for giving excuses for those calling for “jihad” against Israel on the streets of the British capital. An estimated 100,000 anti-Israel protesters took to the […]
(Daily Caller) Federal officials are warning that members of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Hezbollah could be crossing through the southern border, according to an internal Oct. 20 memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The San Diego Field […]
(i24) French intelligence services have thwarted a terrorist cell that was planning attacks against the Jewish community, according to information reported Saturday by Le Parisien. Made up of young adults, of various nationalities, connected by encrypted messaging and video games, the cell […]
(NBC) As President Joe Biden declared unwavering support for Israel in the days after Hamas’ terror attack in Israel, Ahmad Ramadan, a former Biden adviser now leading coalition efforts for the Michigan Democratic Party, called the state party chair to raise the […]
(Fox) Border officials arrested 18 people on the FBI’s terror watch list in September, making fiscal year 2023 a record year for such encounters at the southern border. According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics released Saturday, 169 people on the […]
(Breitbart) An estimated 100,000 people joined a pro-Palestinian rally in London on Saturday, including supporters of radical Islam and far-left groups such as Antifa and various socialist organisations. The Metropolitan Police said that up to 100,000 people joined a rally to support […]
(Swiss Info) The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has opened an investigation into suspected Swiss financing of Palestinian militant group Hamas. “The criminal investigation was opened a few weeks ago, shortly before the Hamas attack in Israel,” Attorney General Stefan Blättler […]
(WATE) Following an eight-day trial, a jury has convicted Benjamin Carpenter, 31, from Knoxville of attempting to provide material support to ISIS. Carpenter is a United States citizen and according to court documents, he was the leader of Ahlut-Tawhid Publications, an international […]
(Times of Malta) Three Syrian men, tracked down following a magisterial inquiry into reports of terrorism-related activity, were on Friday charged with money laundering, involvement in a criminal organisation and sharing of terrorist material. One of the men, who faced the lesser […]
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