Legal

Federal judge rejects American Muslims for Palestine motion to dismiss decades-old terror-financing case The family of teenager David Boim is seeking to collect $156 million from groups alleged to have provided funding to Hamas

(Jewish Insider) A federal judge in Illinois rejected a motion for dismissal by defendants in a decades-old legal fight waged by the family of a slain Jewish teenager, whose parents allege that the defendants had, under other identities, provided funding to Hamas, […]

Government & Politics

Conservative senator demands to know why man linked to terrorist group is allowed to live in Canada 'The Trudeau government has a lot to answer for as their pledge to fight antisemitism appears to be nothing more than cynical politics'

(National Post) A Conservative senator grilled the governing Liberals Tuesday about why a man the Israelis say is a “high-ranking member” of a designated terrorist organization has been allowed to live in Vancouver. Last week, the National Post’s Terry Glavin wrote about […]

Government & Politics

Intelligence agency needs to keep a closer watch on extremism in prisons, report says Authors of internal review call out ‘lack of coverage’ of people convicted of terrorism

(CBC) Canada’s spies could be doing a better job of investigating extremism in the prison system, says an internal report. The document, obtained through an access to information request, emerged from a behind-the-scenes review of how the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the […]

News: North America

Is Khaled Barakat part of a terrorist group or a victim of Israeli intimidation? Israeli intelligence is not alone in situating Barakat, who resides in Vancouver, in the upper echelons of the PFLP’s chain of command

(National Post) He’s a high-ranking member of a Palestinian terrorist organization best known for dramatic airplane hijackings, suicide bombings and a 2014 massacre at a Jerusalem synagogue that left several worshippers severely injured and five dead, including Toronto-born rabbi Howie Rothman. That’s […]