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Academics & Education

UChicago prof, the brother of a convicted Iranian spy, says the ‘only hope for peace is the power and durability of Iranian missiles’ Alireza Doostdar is a member of the school's Faculty for Justice in Palestine chapter

June 20, 2025 and   

(Free Beacon) A University of Chicago professor whose brother was convicted of helping the Iranian regime spy on dissidents in the United States is cheering on Iran’s missile attacks against Israel. Alireza Doostdar, an associate professor of Islamic studies and a dual […]

Academics & Education

York University student president urged to resign over ‘deeply concerning’ support for Hamas Somar Abuaziza has made dozens of social media posts appearing to support Hamas, its leadership and the October 7 attacks

February 26, 2025   

(National Post) “Lived a hero and died a hero,” York University student Somar Abuaziza wrote on Instagram following the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last October. Last Tuesday, Abuaziza became president of the York Federation of Students (YFS), representing nearly 50,000 […]

Academics & Education

Trump Department of Justice launches Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism 'The Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is the first step in giving life to President Trump’s renewed commitment to ending anti-Semitism in our schools,' task force head Leo Terrell says

February 3, 2025 and   

(Free Beacon) The Trump administration is forming a multi-agency task force “to root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses,” the Department of Justice announced Monday. The task force stems from an executive order President Donald Trump signed last week […]

Academics & Education

Columbia University course on Israel disrupted by Palestinian protesters on first day of class Columbia President Katrina Armstrong: ‘We want to be absolutely clear that any act of antisemitism ... against members of our community is unacceptable and will not be tolerated’

January 21, 2025   

(Jewish Insider) Columbia University students learning about the history of Israel found their first day of class thrown into chaos Tuesday after four masked demonstrators barged into the classroom, banged on drums, chanted “free Palestine” and distributed posters to students that read […]

Academics & Education

Pro-Hamas messages intensify on college campuses Pro-Palestinian protests have been less disruptive this fall, but at some schools, the rhetoric is more extreme.

November 10, 2024 and   

(Washington Post) When antiwar protests disrupted campuses nationwide last year, signs and chants demanded “Divest!” and “Cease-fire now!” This fall, much of the protest language has grown darker, celebrating the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, echoing language used by Hamas and declaring, “Glory […]

Interfaith

CAIR leader mourns Hamas head Haniyeh: ‘His martyrdom is not in vain’ Terror group's leader attended Iranian president's inauguration, where chants of 'death to Israel' and 'death to America' rang out, shortly before his death

July 31, 2024   

(Free Beacon) Zahra Billoo, head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’s (CAIR) San Francisco branch, mourned the death of top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, portraying the terrorist as a martyr before calling for Israel’s eradication. “Never say that those martyred in the […]

Academics & Education

Anti-Israel protesters in NYC wave Hezbollah, Hamas flags, hold portrait of Sinwar Protesters at Hunter College chant for violent ‘resistance’ against Israel, trampling American and Israeli flags, ripping off anti-Hamas sticker from traffic light; no arrests

June 23, 2024   

(Times of Israel) Anti-Israel protesters at New York City’s Hunter College over the weekend displayed symbols of the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups and chanted in support of violent “resistance.” Footage from the Friday rally showed protesters, many of them wearing keffiyehs, […]

Academics & Education

UBC student group sues Jewish non-profit and former contractor, claiming defamation over pro-Hamas stickers 'Offensive' stickers were work of terminated contractor who acted alone: Hillel B.C.

February 8, 2024   

(CBC) The Social Justice Centre (SJC) at the University of British Columbia is suing a prominent Jewish organization and one former contractor for defamation after pro-Hamas stickers bearing the SJC’s logo were placed on campus in November. The stickers said “I [heart] […]

Academics & Education

Former U of T imam says he was let go for social media post he never made, petition calls for reinstating him Screenshots with no username, later including imam's handle, shared with school by Hillel Ontario

February 6, 2024   

(CBC) A former campus imam alleges he was dismissed by the University of Toronto Scarborough after a social media post he says was falsely attributed to him, which he maintains the school failed to properly investigate. Omar Patel says the university formally cut ties with […]

Crime

Baltimore lawmaker seeks to remove CAIR from Md. hate crimes commission Law creating the commission explicitly guaranteed CAIR, whose executive director praised the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, representation on the civil rights panel

January 4, 2024   

(Jewish Insider) A legislative effort is underway in Maryland to remove the Council on American-Islamic Relations from a state hate crimes body after the organization’s Maryland director published a series of antisemitic Facebook posts after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel, […]

Academics & Education

McKinsey says it canceled sponsorship of Arab Conference at Harvard The consulting giant was a major corporate sponsor of the weekend gathering before learning of the antisemitic views of one of the speakers

March 8, 2023   

(Jewish Insider) The consulting giant McKinsey & Company announced on Monday that it “stepped away” from last weekend’s Arab Conference at Harvard after learning of antisemitic views of one of its speakers. The firm’s statement followed a Jewish Insider report from the […]

Interfaith

Government-funded Canada Muslim org hosts anti-LGBTQ, pro-terrorism speakers One speaker has said in the past that all homosexuals deserve the death penalty, and another praised terrorist attacks from the recent terrorism wave in Israel.

July 1, 2022   

(Jerusalem Post) Featured speakers who have supported terrorism, antisemitic conspiracy theories and anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments are being hosted at a Friday Toronto convention by the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), which has received millions of dollars in funding from the Canadian government for […]

Interfaith

CAIR supports member that said ‘Zionist synagogues’ behind Islamophobia Zahra Billoo claimed Zionist organizations were behind Islamophobia, police brutality, and border control.

December 12, 2021   

(Jerusalem Post) After the outrage following remarks by CAIR San Francisco executive director Zahra Billoo — who said that Jewish Zionist organizations are “enemies” who are part of a conspiracy behind [Islamophobia] — the Council on American-Islamic Relations came out in support […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

Zionists are behind Islamophobia, US police brutality — CAIR official Billoo claimed Zionist organizations were behind Islamophobia, police brutality and [US border control]

December 6, 2021   

(Jerusalem Post) “Zionist synagogues,” the Anti-Defamation League, Hillel and other Jewish organizations are “enemies” who are part of a conspiracy behind [Islamophobia], American police brutality, and US border control, according to a speech made by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) San […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

Sameer Zuberi chosen as Liberal candidate for Pierrefonds-Dollard Over the weekend, the Conservative Party accused Zuberi of questioning Osama bin Laden's involvement in 9/11

September 17, 2019   

(CBC) Sameer Zuberi, a Montreal activist who has been outspoken against Islamophobia in the province, has been nominated as the Liberal [candidate] for Pierrefonds-Dollard. Until July, Zuberi was the diversity and engagement officer for McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, according to LinkedIn. […]