(BBC) A man accused of planning a terror attack “regularly expressed a wish to kill Jews,” a jury has been told. Jordan Richardson, 21, of Oliver Close, Howden, East Yorkshire, has been charged with engaging in conduct in preparation of an act […]
(Breitbart) A protest called for in central Berlin on Tuesday night featuring the paraglider symbol of the October 7th terrorist attacks was banned by German police with just hours to go before it was due to begin. A major police presence, with […]
(Jewish News) One of Manchester’s most prominent concert venues has been heavily criticised for ignoring Jewish community concerns about a hate preacher it hosted earlier this year — after it transpired that his social media account was one of [a] small number […]
(BBC) Counter-terrorism detectives have charged a 62-year-old woman with offences relating to the support of Hamas. The group is a proscribed terror group in the US, UK and EU. Sarah Wilkinson, from Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire, was charged on Sunday with five offences […]
(Sky News) The synagogue killer, Jihad al Shamie, radicalised himself after searching online for videos of the Islamic State terror group, according to a friend. The man, Qas, said al Shamie “started using [encrypted messaging app] Telegram and searching for ISIS videos. […]
(GB News) The father of the Manchester synagogue attacker praised the October 7 Hamas terrorists as “Allah’s men on earth” on the day of the massacre. Faraj Al-Shamie, whose son Jihad carried out the attack on the Heaton Park synagogue yesterday, said, […]
(Swiss Info) The Swiss Office of the Attorney General has opened the first criminal proceedings in connection with the law banning Hamas and related organisations, which came into force in May. The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) wrote in […]
(Reuters) Two men were killed on Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, British police said. […]
(DPA) German conservative lawmaker Alexander Throm raised the question whether dual citizens convicted of terrorist acts on German soil should face easier revocation of their citizenship, following the arrest of three suspected Hamas operatives. Currently, German law allows citizenship to be stripped […]
(Deutsche Welle) Prosecutors in Berlin said they have arrested three suspected Hamas operatives. The suspects were preparing attacks on Israeli and Jewish institutions in Germany, authorities said. Hamas has been designated a terrorist organization by Germany, the EU, the US and several governments. The three […]
(Jerusalem Post) A blogger from northern England was arrested on Thursday night over a post he made on X condemning the Hamas terrorist organization and Islam, according to British media reports. Pete North, 47, was arrested over the meme on suspicion of […]
(LBC) Kneecap rapper Liam Og O hAnnaidh has had his terror charge dismissed on a technicality after blundering CPS officials failed to ask the attorney general for approval. Mr O hAnnaidh, 27, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, was accused […]
(BBC) Three people have appeared in court charged with supporting and financing Hamas. Bisharet Ali, 61, from Kettering, Northamptonshire, and Mohmed Patel, 50, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, have been accused of inviting support for the proscribed terrorist organisation between 5 October 2023 […]
(Jewish News) A doctor who regularly posts diatribes about “Jewish supremacy” on social media and has called for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel has been allowed by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) to continue practicing medicine while the General […]
(Reuters) As French President Emmanuel Macron recognised Palestine statehood earlier this week, dozens of town halls across France hoisted the Palestinian flag in celebration — defying instructions by Macron’s interior ministry not to do so. By Wednesday, some had taken the flag […]
(NL Times) Palestinian journalist and activist Mustafa Ayyash, arrested Friday at Schiphol Airport at the request of Austrian authorities, will remain in pretrial detention for at least 20 more days, RTL reports. He appeared Monday before the examining magistrate at the Amsterdam […]
(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 […]
(AFP) More than 80 town halls in France hoisted the Palestinian flag Monday ahead of the recognition of a Palestinian state by President Emmanuel Macron in defiance of a government warning not to do so. Macron is to recognise a Palestinian state […]
(AP) Some French mayors have defied government orders and flown Palestinian flags on town halls, with more expected to follow suit as France prepares to formally recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly. It’s unclear how many cities will […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Bleuets mosque in Marseille has been given a closure notice from the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, seemingly due to its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. While the Muslim Brotherhood connection was not explicitly stated, both the imam, Smain Bendjilali, and […]
(Jerusalem Post) Palestinian journalist Mustafa Ayash was arrested at Schiphol airport, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported Saturday, citing pro-Palestinian organizations. Mustafa Ayash founded Hamas-affiliated news outlet Gaza Now, which has been sanctioned by both the United States and the United Kingdom for […]
(GB News) Isis has issued a horrific threat to Britain as it urged its followers to attack “Jews, Christians and their allies.” A spokesman for the Islamic State, Abu Hudhaifa al-Ansari, encouraged supporters to pursue individuals of the two faiths throughout America, […]
(AFP) France’s interior ministry has ordered prefects to oppose the display of Palestinian flags on town halls and other public buildings next week when Paris is set to formally recognise the Palestinian state. “The principle of neutrality in public service prohibits such […]
(CBC) Justice Minister Sean Fraser tabled new legislation Friday introducing four Criminal Code offences, including one that would make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against identifiable groups in public using certain hate- or terrorism-related symbols. If passed, the Combatting Hate Act would target symbols used during the Holocaust, […]
(Fox) Christian minister Edward “Ted” Barham says he will not respond with hate after Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud told him he was “not welcome” during a heated city council exchange over a controversial honorary street sign naming that went viral. In a […]
(JNS) An Amsterdam court on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian to six months in prison for public violence and attempted aggravated assault during the November 2024 pogrom against Israelis in the Dutch capital. The man, identified only as Mahmoud A. by local media […]
(Jewish Insider) Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) wrote to Kathy Goldenberg, the president of the New Jersey State Board of Education, on Monday urging the state to reject calls from the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for the state’s […]
(CBC) The Liberal government is introducing new legislation on Friday to make it a crime to intentionally promote hatred against identifiable groups in public using certain hate- or terrorism-related symbols like swastikas, CBC News has learned. A source with knowledge of the […]
(AFP) An Afghan man was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for a jihadist stabbing spree in Germany last year that killed a police officer and left five people wounded. The 26-year-old, only partially named as Sulaiman A. and found to […]
(Algemeiner) A US Army veteran and former contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) who has made discredited claims against Israel is scheduled to speak later this week at a conference organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a nonprofit advocacy […]
(European Conservative) A book that has not yet gone on sale is already causing tremors in French politics. It is Les Complices du mal by Franco-Syrian journalist Omar Youssef Souleimane, and will be published in early October. The volume, the result of […]
(Detroit Free Press) The mayor of Dearborn ripped into a resident who objected to the placing of two signs in the city honoring an Arab American leader, telling the resident he’s “not welcome here.” In his fiery remarks at Tuesday’s council meeting […]
(Free Beacon) Shoppers, diners, and commuters in the Dearborn, Mich., area will now head to their favorite hot spot on a street named in honor of Osama Siblani, an Arab-American newspaper publisher who has advocated for Israel’s destruction, praised terror groups like […]
(AFP) Three people have been arrested after an attack on two Jewish tourists in Venice earlier this week, local police said Thursday as Italian politicians strongly condemned the incident. “Two foreign Jewish tourists were surrounded and beaten by a group of 10 […]
(National Post) The Canadian government is “urgently” looking for a way to dissolve the not-for-profit status of Samidoun, a Vancouver-based anti-Israel organization that has been [designated] as a terror group, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly announced on social media on Thursday. “It is […]
(Algemeiner) Amid a rising wave of anti-Jewish hate crimes, the German government is pressing the country’s main mosque association over its close ties to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urging it to publicly distance itself from his antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric. According […]
(Daily Wire) A Democrat running for Senate in Maine will host a fundraiser on September 11 at a Washington, D.C., bar that has allied with Hamas sympathizers. Graham Platner, a 40-year-old Marine and Army veteran seeking to oust Republican Senator Susan Collins, […]
(Jewish Onliner) Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) this week petitioned the Department of Education to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for running what he termed “possibly illegal” anti-Israel educational initiatives in public schools, following investigative reports that exposed controversial lesson plans […]
(Euronews) The World Health Organization and several international NGOs have raised the alarm on the need to evacuate sick and injured children from Gaza. But some governments refuse to welcome patients from the Strip out of fear of repercussions to their security […]
(NY Post) A terminally ill 9/11 hero and his first-responder wife on Tuesday slammed Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani for associating with vile left-wing influencer Hasan Piker, who once said “America deserved” the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. “How can you hang […]
(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 […]
(European Conservative) Since the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the climate for Jews in Germany has changed dramatically. Many report that they no longer feel safe, neither on the streets nor in educational institutions. Jewish families in Germany […]
(Free Beacon) Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Tuesday petitioned the Department of Education to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for running “possibly illegal” anti-Israel educational initiatives inside the country’s public schools. CAIR, whose leaders celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror […]
(Algemeiner) The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) — a Belgium-based advocacy organization — is hunting IDF soldiers and government officials all over the world, attempting to manipulate the international legal system to arrest and prosecute Israelis for alleged crimes. Today, the HRF is […]
(Jewish Onliner) Amy Mek, founder and editor-in-chief of the RAIR Foundation, broke a story on Sunday exposing what she characterizes as “Sharia patrol” activities emerging in Houston, Texas. The investigation centers on Masjid At-Tawhid, a mosque located in Houston’s Fifth Ward, and […]
(Toronto Sun) With anti-Israel activism within Canada showing no sign of diminishing, one group is urging the government to close loopholes in Canada’s terror laws. In a new initiative, Canadian Women Against Antisemitism (CWAA) want sections of the Criminal Code of Canada […]
(Media Line) The Hamas terrorist network in the United States has spent more than two decades working to infiltrate America’s media and college campuses. The goal: to hijack the narrative and secure unintentional support for terrorism from the broader public. According to […]
(Jewish News) The chief rabbi has told thousands of demonstrators that the expected recognition of Palestine by Britain “strengthens extremists in our midst” as he stepped up his public condemnation of the move. His comments came during Campaign Against Antisemitism’s third annual […]
(National-UAE) The Reform UK party will ban the Muslim Brotherhood if it is voted into power in the next general election, its leader Nigel Farage has said. The UK has so far stopped short of following the example of countries such as […]
(National-UAE) An official definition of Islamophobia would present a risk to free speech, and plans to introduce one should be ditched, the UK government’s adviser on terror laws has said. Jonathan Hall, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said a definition would […]
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