(NY Post) A billionaire Palestinian-American developer accused by Oct. 7 victims’ families of “aiding and abetting” Hamas has resigned from his position on the dean’s council at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, the Post can reveal, with the school acknowledging the civil […]
(Dallas Morning News) Muslim, Jewish and Christian community leaders gathered for a news conference Tuesday morning to condemn the slew of recent investigations into Muslim-centric neighborhood EPIC City. EPIC City, currently the subject of at least five investigations announced by Texas politicians, […]
(NY Post) A [Palestinian]-American developer — whose work in the Middle East was featured on “60 Minutes” and who was reportedly advising President Trump’s hostage envoy — was sued Monday by nearly 200 family members of Americans killed in Hamas’ Oct. 7, […]
(Deutsche Welle) The ongoing coalition negotiations between the conservatives of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) are said to have been riddled with heated arguments — sometimes to the point of doors […]
(Times of Israel) A criminal court in Amsterdam on Wednesday sentenced four perpetrators of a “Jew hunt” in November to prison terms ranging from 11 days to three months. The four defendants were part of a group of as many as several […]
(NL Times) Four men were convicted on Wednesday for crimes committed before and after a football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv FC of Israel. The harshest sentence given was the 12-week stint in prison that a 27-year-old man was ordered […]
(NY Post) A Muslim charity with links to Hamas was awarded more than $7.2 million in taxpayer cash, which has now disappeared, according to a watchdog group. An “immediate investigation” needs to be launched into the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) California […]
(National Post) A Jewish advocacy group says it is an “abuse of process” that a former Carleton University professor convicted in the 1980 bombing outside a Paris synagogue has not been extradited to France. Hassan Diab, who worked in the Ottawa-based university’s […]
(Ynet) United States President Donald Trump on Monday appointed Hamtramck, Michigan, Mayor Amer Ghalib as the next U.S. ambassador to Kuwait. Ghalib, 45, a Yemeni-born Muslim immigrant, has been outspoken in his criticism of Israel. Just hours before his appointment he liked […]
(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 […]
(JNS) Thousands of Dutch Islamists gathered in the central city of Utrecht in the Netherlands over the weekend to hear speeches by three extremist imams The Hague had unsuccessfully sought to ban. During the two-day “Ramadan Expo” at the Jaarbeurs Exposition Center, […]
(DPA) The suspect in Friday’s attack at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin was motivated by anti-Semitism, German prosecutors said on Saturday, as Interior Minister Nancy Faeser called for him to be deported to Syria from prison. “According to what we know so […]
(AFP) German police said Friday they had arrested a male suspect over a stabbing that badly wounded a 30-year-old Spanish man at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial near the US embassy. The unidentified attacker used a “stabbing weapon” in the assault around 6:00 pm […]
(JNS) A judge in The Hague last week dismissed the legal defense of an asylum seeker from Gaza who had claimed that his destruction of a wreath for Holocaust survivors last year was not motivated by antisemitism. The defendant, Muayad A., and […]
(Algemeiner) A former senior employee of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was caught on camera launching a profane and antisemitic tirade at Jewish men in New York City in a viral video posted to social media on Thursday. Noora Shalash, who […]
(Jerusalem Post) New information reveals even deeper connections between Hezbollah and the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), a new Belgium-based NGO with a declared mission to prosecute former Israeli soldiers abroad. “Over 1,000 cases have been filed against Israeli soldiers across the globe,” […]
(Jewish Insider) A member of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who failed to disclose to authorities his prior knowledge of the 2019 bombing that killed an Israeli teenager is scheduled to speak at a Georgetown University […]
(Algemeiner) Participants in an anti-Israel and antisemitic demonstration in Germany this past weekend called for Jews to be executed or handed over to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, sparking outrage among German leaders. Under the slogan “Hands off the West Bank,” protesters, […]
(DPA) Maryam has a clear idea of which party she does not want to see leading Germany for the next four years. Voting for the far-right and anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) on February 23 “is out of the question for me,” […]
(JNS) Ali Abunimah, co-founder and executive director of the anti-Israel Electronic Intifada website, was arrested by Swiss police ahead of a speaking engagement in Zurich on Saturday, the organization said. The Palestinian-American activist “is currently being detained and has had access to […]
(Jewish News) An MP has been criticised after calling for the release of “hostages on both sides” in a question put to Keir Starmer on the Gaza conflict during PMQs. The independent MP Iqbal Mohamed asked a question relating to allegations about Israel and […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) wrote to 460 town halls and educational centers asking them to boycott the UK’s Holocaust Memorial Day. The IHRC, which British media has linked to Iran, said it was “morally unacceptable” that Gaza was […]
(National Post) An Islamic group facing a withering reception to plans for a conference dedicated to overthrowing governments to start a Muslim caliphate has issued a rare media statement denying it poses a security risk, and accusing critics of creating fake news. […]
(Jewish News) An imam who claims Jews wage wars and spread corruption headlined a major venue in Manchester on Sunday despite calls for the event to be cancelled. Sheikh Mishary Alafasy, the imam and preacher of the Grand Mosque in Kuwait, addressed […]
(Jerusalem Post) Dyab Abou Jahjah, the man behind the Hind Rajab Foundation, which has been doxxing Israeli soldiers and seeking legal action against them in foreign states, admitted to joining Hezbollah as a youth and implied that he was returning to Lebanon […]
(Jerusalem Post) The Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation filed a complaint last week against an IDF soldier vacationing in Brazil, accusing him of “participating in massive demolitions of civilian homes in Gaza during a systematic campaign of destruction.” Subsequently, the Brazilian Federal Court […]
(NY Post) Jewish leaders slammed a massive crew of anti-Israel protesters who gathered in Times Square on New Year’s Day to call for “intifada revolution” on the same day an ISIS-inspired terrorist carried out a deadly car attack in the French Quarter […]
(National Post) Two Jewish groups are calling on organizers of a large Islamic conference scheduled for downtown Toronto this weekend to cancel two planned speakers, citing previous statements deemed antisemitic. Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) is an annual convention that, over two […]
(Morocco World News) The Al-Kindi school group, a Muslim private school in Décines-Charpieu, a commune in the region of Lyon in south-eastern France, is suing a French MP for defamation after the politician accused the school of “denying history” and not teaching […]
(JNS) A Dutch court will need to determine if it’s illegal to discuss antisemitism in the context of Muslim culture, following an appeal by a deputy prime minister regarding hate crime allegations leveled against her. Mona Keijzer, who is also the minister […]
(Jerusalem Post) British Muslim influencer Mohammed Hijab, known for his anti-Israel political activism, is suing Zionist political commentator Douglas Murray for defamation, a Thursday report from the Jewish Chronicle revealed. The cause for Hijab’s lawsuit is a column piece penned by Murray […]
(Swiss Info) Does it harm Switzerland’s good offices if it bans Palestinian militant group Hamas? Parliament has been debating this for years. Now the arguments in favour of a ban have won. Until now, Switzerland has deliberately exercised restraint in banning terrorist […]
(Arutz Sheva) The Metropolitan Police have declared that an imam’s prayer to “destroy Jewish homes” does not constitute a hate crime, the Jewish Chronicle reported. The anti-Jewish prayer was uttered at an east London mosque two weeks after the Hamas terrorist organization […]
(CTV) Canadian human rights advocate and former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler — who was the target of an alleged foiled assassination plot by agents of Iran — says he isn’t concerned about the alleged threats, because he has confidence in his […]
(Globe and Mail) Iran allegedly plotted to assassinate Irwin Cotler, a noted Canadian human-rights advocate and harsh critic of the clerical regime, but the attempt on his life was recently foiled by law-enforcement authorities. According to a source, the RCMP on Oct. […]
(Arutz Sheva) The anti-Israel organization “Canadian Defenders for Human Rights” announced the cancellation of a conference in memory of the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar that was supposed to take place in Mississauga, west of Toronto. Arutz Sheva — Israel National News […]
(NL Times) The Dutch government is committed to fighting anti-Semitic violence with far-reaching measures, Prime Minister Dick Schoof said in a parliamentary debate on violence in Amsterdam last week. The prime minister mainly promised to investigate various measures put forward by parliamentarians, […]
(National Post) An Ottawa school played an Arabic-language Palestinian protest song associated with fighting in Gaza as the soundtrack to its Remembrance Day presentation, causing outrage and distress for some students and parents. The song was the sole musical accompaniment to a […]
(Toronto Sun) The poppy is to remember Canada’s war dead. Not Hamas terrorists. There are few things more vile than hijacking the poppy to honour the death of a murderous terror leader. But it has happened. It seems, there’s no shame or […]
(NY Post) Steel City has an aspiring Hamas terrorist in its midst — and he likes Squad Democrats. The FBI and Pittsburgh police arrested two Pittsburgh-area residents Wednesday on hate-crime charges for allegedly damaging or defacing Jewish buildings in July. Shockingly one […]
(JNS) Germany’s coalition parties and the main opposition faction agreed on Saturday to pass a Bundestag resolution on antisemitism that for the first time will see the legislature name Muslim immigration as a driver of the problem. The draft resolution, which will […]
(National Post) Francesca Albanese, the embattled United Nations special rapporteur overseeing the Palestinian territories, is set to headline a Montreal event featuring Charlotte Kates, a leader of Samidoun, a designated terror group. The inaugural “Coordinating Council 4 Palestine” conference will be held on […]
(Jewish News) The 7 October Hamas attack was praised as “just so beautiful” at a “peace and unity” festival at one of the UK’s top exhibition centres. Iranian Press TV presenter Latifa Abouchakra also described the atrocities in which Hamas terrorists killed […]
(JNS) A top Dutch jurist on Sunday criticized prosecutors for saying Deputy Prime Minister Mona Keijzer was guilty of hate speech when she noted publicly that many Muslim immigrants are antisemitic. Afshin Ellian, a Tehran-born professor of law at Leiden University, in […]
(AFP) Weaving between market stalls in the working-class Brussels district of Molenbeek, Fouad Ahidar likes to remind voters he was a market vendor himself as a teenager — driving home his credentials as a people’s politician. Something of a rising star on […]
(Jerusalem Post) A conference funded by Al Jazeera and led by Hamas officials in Europe was canceled by its Brussels host venue’s website following a recent US Treasury designation. The European Palestinian Council for Political Relations (EUPAC), a Belgium-registered lobbying organization, organized […]
(DPA) Police in the German capital Berlin raided the homes of five pro-Palestinian activists on Monday morning, including a man believed to have thrown a microphone stand toward a local politician. Police and public prosecutors in Berlin said the five men are […]
(Jerusalem Post) “As a German, I wanted to learn how Auschwitz could have happened. This brought me to researching the topic of antisemitism about 30 years ago,” Dr. Matthias Küntzel told the Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview. Küntzel is a German […]
(JNS) The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which blamed the Jewish state for being attacked on Oct. 7 and which the White House removed from its national strategy on Jew-hatred, called on Sunday for the Biden administration to fire Deborah Lipstadt as U.S. […]
(JNS) On Sept. 11 — the 23rd anniversary of terror attacks — the U.S. House of Representatives received bipartisan approval for the markup of H.R. 9495, a bill that would terminate the tax-exempt status of terror-supporting organizations. The bill specifies how the […]
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