Citizenship

Tunisian group sues French-Tunisian imam for ‘high treason’ over visit to Israel Watchdog demands Hassen Chalghoumi loses citizenship after ‘undermining the prestige of the Tunisian state’

(Middle East Eye) A Tunisian organisation has filed a legal complaint against French-Tunisian imam Hassen Chalghoumi and called for him to be stripped of his Tunisian citizenship following his recent visit to Israel in the midst of its onslaught on Gaza. Chalghoumi, the […]

Clerics & Preachers

European Muslim leaders visit Yad Vashem in Jerusalem The group laid a wreath and lit an eternal flame in honor of the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its allies during the Holocaust.

(JNS) A group of European imams and senior Muslim leaders visited Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance center on Tuesday, where they laid a wreath in honor of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. The delegation — visiting the Jewish state […]

Clerics & Preachers

Group of Europe-based imams visits Israel, bearing ‘message of peace’ Delegation meets President Herzog; will spend a week touring the country, and meeting military, political and religious authorities, victims of October 7

(Times of Israel) When Imam Youssef Masbeh introduced himself to President Isaac Herzog on Monday, he could not help but start singing a special chant in Arabic, offering a reinterpretation of the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. Masbeh, who has served as a […]

Clerics & Preachers

‘Imam of Peace’ calls on Arabs, Muslims to embrace Israel Hassen Chalghoumi strives to bring people together to fight antisemitism and Islamism, more specifically political Islam.

(JNS) Born in Tunisia in 1972, Hassen Chalghoumi received his undergraduate degree from a university in Damascus before studying theology in Pakistan. The father of five children, he arrived in 1996 in France, where he became the imam of the Drancy mosque […]