(Daily Wire) Earlier this week, the Daily Wire reported that a school board member whose father was on the board of the mosque attended by 9/11 hijackers and who hired as imam a top al-Qaeda operative, opposed a resolution honoring the victims […]
(AP) A declassified FBI document related to logistical support given to two of the Saudi hijackers in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attacks details contacts the men had with Saudi associates in the United States but does not provide proof that […]
(Fox) A group of four Democratic congresswomen on Friday introduced a resolution condemning racism in the U.S. government and outlining relief for victims of racism 20 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Ilhan Omar [of] […]
(Daily Wire) A school board member whose father was on the board of the mosque attended by 9/11 hijackers and hired as imam a top Al-Qaeda operative on Wednesday forcefully opposed a resolution honoring the victims of the attacks. Abrar Omeish is […]
(Pew) An unprecedented amount of public attention focused on Muslim Americans in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The U.S. Muslim population has grown in the two decades since, but it is still the case that many Americans […]
(AP) Republican concerns over the screening process for thousands of Afghan refugees who stood side by side with Americans and are now being processed through Fort McCoy are unfounded “dog whistle crap,” Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Monday. Republicans, including former President […]
(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 […]
(JTA) Dozens of progressive Jewish leaders have signed a letter condemning the Israel lobby AIPAC for social media ads targeting Reps. Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the group of progressive Congress members known as “the Squad.” J Street, a […]
Why have the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) urged PayPal to cancel its planned project with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to investigate and close accounts the ADL considers too extreme? At first blush, the PayPal project may sound […]
(Hill) Democratic senators and families of victims of the 9/11 attacks called on Thursday for the Biden administration to declassify and make available key documents related to Saudi Arabia’s role in the terrorist attacks, ahead of the 20th anniversary commemorating the tragedy. […]
(Free Beacon) A Jewish Democratic group is pushing back on claims that it goes soft on anti-Semitic congresswoman Ilhan Omar, pointing to a single press release from more than two years ago that criticized the Minnesota Democrat for accusing American Jews of […]
(Religion News) The White House announced Friday (July 30) a slate of nominations and appointments for top religious affairs roles, including the first Muslim American nominated to be the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. President Biden will select Rashad Hussain as […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday reflected on her own painful experience with Islamophobia to push the Biden administration [to] appoint a special envoy to monitor anti-Muslim hate in the U.S. and worldwide. Omar was joined by other Muslim members of […]
(CNN) Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is leading a group of Democratic lawmakers in calling on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to create a special envoy to combat Islamophobia, as instances of anti-Muslim hate crimes continue to rise worldwide. Omar, one of three […]
(Free Beacon) Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee member who was targeted by a foreign spy during his early days in Congress, has met twice in the past nine months with a Hamas-linked charity that spends hundreds of millions […]
(NY Daily News) A Queens community activist challenging New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the 2022 midterm elections set a new fundraising record for progressive primary candidates in the first quarter of her campaign, her latest financial disclosure shows. Rana Abdelhamid, 28, […]
(Free Beacon) Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe welcomed an endorsement from an activist group that staunchly defends the anti-Israel boycott movement, calling into question his past opposition to the campaign. In a June tweet, McAuliffe said he was “tremendously grateful” to […]
(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 […]
(Fox) Anti-Defamation League President Jonathan Greenblatt blasted Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Wednesday after she defended comments equating the U.S. and Israel to the Taliban and said Jewish members of Congress weren’t “partners in justice.” The far-left “Squad” member made the comments during […]
(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 […]
(Forward) Rep. Ilhan Omar declined to apologize on Tuesday for comments she made earlier this month listing the United States and Israel alongside Hamas and the Taliban as entities that needed to be held accountable for what she called “unthinkable atrocities.” Asked […]
(Fox) House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy slammed Ilhan Omar as “anti-Semitic” and “anti-American” on Tuesday and called on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to remove the Minnesota Democrat from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. During an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” […]
(Hill) A trio of House Republicans on Monday introduced a resolution to censure and condemn Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) for what they call “defending terrorist organizations and inciting anti-Semitic attacks across […]
(CNN) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said House leadership “did not rebuke” Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar last week, after criticism from the left that the caucus was unfairly targeting Omar and mischaracterizing her comments about the US, Israel, Hamas and the […]
(Fox) “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., retweeted a video produced by an anti-Israel organization previously investigated by the FBI for possible terrorist ties. On Tuesday, one day after she posted a now-infamous tweet likening the U.S. and Israel to terror groups […]
(Daily Wire) A school board member gave a graduation speech in which she told a mainly immigrant class of high schoolers that they were entering a world filled with “racism, extreme versions of individualism and capitalism, [and] white supremacy,” and encouraged them […]
(Daily Caller) Hamas issued a statement on Friday denouncing Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for her equation of them and the Taliban to Israel and the United States. Issued by Dr. Basem Naeem of Hamas’ international relations office, the U.S.-designated terrorist organization said […]
(Daily Caller) Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib claimed that Muslim women in Congress don’t have freedom of speech in a Thursday tweet to her 1.4 million followers on Twitter. Tlaib’s comments came in response to House Democrats condemning Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday sought to clarify controversial remarks she made earlier this week during a House hearing, saying she was not equating the U.S. and Israel with terrorist organizations. “On Monday, I asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken […]
(JTA) Twelve of the 25 Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said the grouping of the United States and Israel with the Taliban and Hamas in remarks about pursuing war crimes prosecutions gives “cover to terrorist groups” and called on […]
(JTA) Jewish Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives met Wednesday to discuss antisemitism. The 25 members of the unofficial caucus ended up fulminating about a fellow Democrat, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, for appearing to liken Hamas and the Taliban to Israel […]
(Breitbart) Canadian Imam Younus Kathrada justified hatred toward Jews in a shocking recent sermon that claimed their “injustice” toward others and rejection of Islam and its prophets, while warning a mosque is no place for those unable or unwilling to hate. In […]
(Queens Chronicle) Muslim communities in South Queens, which formerly had expressed support of Eric Adams’ mayoral bid, have reined it in over the past month based on his comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The political arm of the Yemeni American Merchants Association, […]
(Free Beacon) Just before the Memorial Day weekend, Senate Democrats quietly confirmed a longtime anti-Israel activist to serve on the United States Postal Service’s Board of Governors, raising further questions about the Biden administration’s embrace of those who serve on the front […]
(Washington Post) The six Democrats vying to become Virginia’s lieutenant governor might have expected fireworks during their first and only debate before next month’s primary election. But they probably didn’t expect them to come from one of the two moderators, who asked […]
(Daily Caller) An ally to Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib and a former campaign staffer to Democratic Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders urged progressives to stop condemning anti-Semitism in a social media post Saturday. Comedian and activist Amer Zahr posted the video to […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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. […]
(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 […]
(AP) President Joe Biden, under political pressure, agreed to admit four times as many refugees this budget year as his predecessor did, but resettlement agencies concede the number actually allowed into the U.S. will be closer to the record-low cap of 15,000 […]
(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 […]
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During his April 28 speech to Congress, President Biden asserted that white supremacism is currently the most lethal terrorist threat to the country, implicitly downplaying the threat posed by Islamist terror. The Biden administration has yet to clarify its attitude toward Islamism, […]
(Free Beacon) President Joe Biden’s nominee for a top Small Business Administration job sits on the board of a group that lobbies in favor of the anti-Israel boycott movement and describes Israel as an “apartheid” state. Dilawar Syed, Biden’s pick for deputy […]
(AP) An email brought Faeza Satouf’s world to a standstill. The 25-year-old Syrian refugee had fled the civil war with her family in an all-too-familiar journey across the sea to Europe, where they finally arrived in Denmark and were granted asylum in […]
(Hill) The House passed legislation on Wednesday that would limit executive authority to issue future travel bans like the one imposed by former President Trump against several Muslim-majority countries. Lawmakers passed the bill along party lines, 218-208, with only one Republican joining […]
(Hill) The White House Friday reversed course on refugee admissions, after an earlier announcement maintaining a controversial Trump-era refugee cap was met with disdain by Democrats and immigration activists. Following a day of blowback from Democrats, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki […]
(Hill) President Biden on Friday signed an order speeding refugee admissions but maintaining fiscal 2021 admissions at 15,000, a cap set by the Trump administration and a number far below the 62,500 figure proposed to Congress earlier this year. The order would […]
(Hill) A group of House Democrats, led by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), wrote to President Biden on Friday calling for him to formally raise the refugee cap to 62,500 after he has delayed the increase for weeks. “Having fought for four years […]
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