Academics & Education

Columbia promotes course at pro-Hamas People’s Forum featuring PFLP terrorist’s teachings Rashid Khalidi’s class accuses Israel of transforming Palestinians’ ‘homeland into an exclusive Jewish national home’

(Free Beacon) Columbia University is promoting a course at the pro-Hamas People’s Forum taught by an anti-Israel professor emeritus, Rashid Khalidi, which requires students to read a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader’s teachings. Khalidi was slated to teach […]

Academics & Education

In a previous life, he ran an organization that funneled money to Hamas. Now he’s a journalism professor at Northwestern Ibrahim Abusharif teaches a mandatory seminar promoting Qatar after a lawsuit from a Hamas terror victim crippled the group he cofounded

(Free Beacon) Northwestern University describes journalism professor Ibrahim Abusharif as a “former book publisher” who “has been involved in projects to translate — from Arabic into English — the Quran.” It does not give examples of those projects, perhaps because they include […]

Academics & Education

Harvard tells students calling someone a ‘terrorist sympathizer’ can violate school policy Guidance comes after 33 student groups blamed Israel for Hamas's terrorist attacks

(Free Beacon) Harvard University, where 33 student groups signed a statement blaming Israel for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, now says that calling someone a “terrorist sympathizer” can violate the school’s anti-discrimination policies, according to a mandatory training for all Harvard students obtained […]

News: North America

‘Thieves, child killers, sexual abusers, thugs, criminals’: Syracuse University scholar, a Pulitzer Prize winner, goes on tirade against Israeli people Mosab Abu Toha, a featured speaker at the terror-tied People's Conference for Palestine, also likened the 'Nakba' to the Holocaust

(Free Beacon) A Syracuse University visiting scholar and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary described Israelis as “thieves,” “child killers,” “sexual abusers,” “thugs,” and “criminals” at a conference in Detroit over the weekend. Palestinian “poet” Mosab Abu Toha spoke at the […]

Citizenship

IS terrorist ‘Jihadi Ringo’ requests transfer to UK prison, sparking outrage IS terrorist El Shafee Elsheikh, known as 'Jihadi Ringo,' is currently serving eight consecutive life sentences in the US. The families of the victims oppose the move.

(Euronews) So-called Islamic State group terrorist El Shafee Elsheikh, known as “Jihadi Ringo,” has applied to transfer from a US high-security prison to the UK despite having his British citizenship revoked, triggering outrage from his victims’ relatives. The 37-year-old member of the […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

Mehdi Hasan slams Laura Loomer as far-right activist takes aim at Muslims in US government President Donald Trump has said he listens to Loomer's recommendations

(National-UAE) Far-right activist Laura Loomer on Tuesday was condemned by veteran journalist Mehdi Hasan after she called for the firing of another Muslim State Department employee. Ms Loomer accused Wardah Khalid of holding views inconsistent with President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda. […]

Academics & Education

With president under scrutiny, George Mason reinstates infamous SJP chapter months after police found guns and terrorist paraphernalia in leaders’ home The group recently released a pro-Hamas recruitment video, which the school says it referred to Virginia's AG

(Free Beacon) George Mason University, whose president has been in the national spotlight over race-based hiring practices that the Trump administration says violate federal civil rights law, has reinstated its Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, which it suspended last year […]

News: North America

Controversial Pulitzer Prize winner set to appear at Detroit conference alongside terrorists Mosab Abu Toha defended Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocities and assailed Israeli victims

(Free Beacon) Palestinian “poet” and writer Mosab Abu Toha, the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, is scheduled to appear at an upcoming anti-Israel conference alongside several radical speakers with ties to terror groups. Abu Toha, who defended the atrocities of Oct. […]

Government & Politics

DHS pulls funding from groups with ‘alleged terrorist ties’ after watchdog report Review follows Middle East Forum report claiming $25M in grants went to terror-linked groups between 2013-2023

(Fox) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reviewing federal security grants for Muslim groups with “alleged terrorist ties” after a new report linked past funding to “extremist” organizations. According to a DHS document obtained by Fox News Digital, 49 projects “with […]

Government & Politics

CAIR letter to Marco Rubio: We’re being targeted for Palestine advocacy MEE is the first to obtain the letter sent by the Muslim-American rights group, which asks the top diplomat to clarify recent remarks he made

(Middle East Eye) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has asked US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to clarify comments he made on a radio show earlier this week, where he appeared to threaten the domestic non-profit group with a terror designation […]

Academics & Education

University of Maryland will pay anti-Israel group that planned campus rally on October 7 The group says it 'will spend every dollar we receive ... organizing and supporting the movement for a free Palestine.'

(Daily Wire) The University of Maryland has agreed to pay Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) $100,000 after the university first defended, but then briefly tried to reschedule, a rally on the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attacks […]

Demonstrations

Mahmoud Khalil ripped over attempt to ‘justify’ Oct. 7 attack in Ezra Klein, NYT interview: ‘Must be immediately deported’

(NY Post) Anti-Israel campus leader Mahmoud Khalil was ripped Thursday over his attempt to “justify” the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks in a recent interview — with elected officials saying it boosts the Trump administration’s case seeking to kick him out […]

Academics & Education

Mahmoud Khalil pushes back on claims of antisemitism at Columbia in Ezra Klein interview 'I would say there is this manufactured hysteria about antisemitism at Columbia because of the protests,' said Khalil.

(JTA) Six weeks after being released by federal detention, Mahmoud Khalil, the first student pro-Palestinian protest leader to be arrested by the Trump administration last spring, said concerns about antisemitism at Columbia University reflected a “manufactured hysteria.” Khalil first made the allegation […]

Government & Politics

Ted Cruz unveils bill to designate Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, anticipates bipartisan support Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates already consider the Hamas-affiliated organization to be a terrorist group

(Free Beacon) Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is set to introduce legislation that would formally designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, financially crippling the global Islamist group and sanctioning its violent offshoots worldwide, according to a copy of the bill […]

Government & Politics

DC Circuit allows feds to withdraw from plea deal with accused 9/11 plotters The federal government had entered into a controversial plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and co-defendants Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al Hawsawi in 2024, when they accepted life in prison.

(Courthouse News) A D.C. Circuit panel ruled Friday that the United States can back out of a plea deal with the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and his two co-defendants, setting back the already long-running case and opening the door for […]

Academics & Education

State Department official defends canceling visas of pro-Palestinian academics The official testified at an ongoing trial that Trump’s deportation drive targets antisemitism and support for terrorism, not ideology or speech.

(Politico) A top State Department official vigorously defended the Trump administration’s drive to cancel the visas of pro-Palestinian academics, arguing that the effort does not abridge free speech and targets students who are supporting terrorism or promoting antisemitism. John Armstrong, State’s top […]

Crime

‘Physical threat’ from Iran on people living in UK has ‘increased significantly,’ watchdog says The Intelligence and Security Committee says there have been 15 Iran-backed murder or kidnap attempts on UK targets since the beginning of 2022 [through] August 2023.

(Sky News) The threat of physical attacks by Iran on people living in the UK has increased “significantly” since 2022, according to a new report by parliament’s intelligence watchdog. Iran poses a “wide-ranging, persistent and unpredictable threat” to the UK, according to […]

Academics & Education

Mahmoud Khalil seeks $20 million — or an apology — from Trump for 3-month detention Khalil filed a claim against the government on Thursday in a bid to stop its continued deportation campaign against pro-Palestine protesters on college campuses.

(Courthouse News) After 104 days in federal immigration custody, a stint that forced him to miss the birth of his first child, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is seeking $20 million from the Trump administration for his “politically motivated arrest,” according to his […]

Academics & Education

Trump officials used shadowy website to target pro-Palestinian academics for deportation, court records show The unsealed court records also reveal how deeply involved Trump aide Stephen Miller was in the effort to revoke the visas of pro-Palestinian academics.

(Politico) As the Trump administration identified pro-Palestinian academics to target for deportation, it relied heavily on an anonymously-run pro-Israel website that has been criticized for doxxing, according to newly unsealed court documents and testimony at an ongoing trial. To support President Donald […]

Academics & Education

Trump admin waffles in court on whether pro-Palestinian foreigners have full First Amendment rights It’s a central question in the first major trial of Trump’s second term.

(Politico) A trial on a First Amendment lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s drive to deport pro-Palestinian academics quickly confronted a thorny legal issue Monday: whether foreigners in the U.S. enjoy the same free speech rights as American citizens. The administration’s stance on […]