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(Jewish News) A local election candidate standing in one of the most Jewish populated wards in England “no longer has the endorsement of Bury Conservative Party” after his inflammatory social media posts on Israel were revealed. Sham Raja, who had been confirmed […]
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(Algemeiner) The insurance giant GEICO has cancelled an event set to feature activist Linda Sarsour, apologizing and saying it “does not condone hatred.” Soon after a social media outcry against Sarsour’s planned appearance at a company event marking Middle Eastern and North […]
(Free Beacon) A new piece of House legislation would mandate that social media platforms remove terrorist organizations and their supporters or face a $50,000 fine for every infraction. The No Publicity for Terrorists Act, spearheaded by Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R., N.C.), is […]
(Jewish News) The National Union of Students has voted for a new president who only last week had to apologise for a historic tweet in which she posted the words of an infamous Islamic chant threatening “Jews” with an attack by “the […]
(LA Times) An Orange County man was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison Monday for selling methamphetamine to an undercover FBI employee while he was on supervised release following a 2009 terrorism conviction. Ahmed Binyamin Alasiri, 45, of Garden […]
(Radio France) Ten years after France was rocked by a series of Islamist shootings targeting Jewish children and French soldiers, President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday joined two of his predecessors — Nicolas Sarkozy and François Holland[e] — along with Israeli President Isaac […]
(Algemeiner) French presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse on Friday visited the Jewish school in [the] southern city of Toulouse that 10 years ago was [the] site of a deadly Islamist terror attack that took the lives of a teacher and three small children. […]
(Jerusalem Post) Police in the western German city of Münster on Thursday stormed the Hezbollah-controlled Imam-Mahdi mosque and its affiliated center because intelligence determined that the mosque and its center are pursuing violations of the constitution. Sources told the Jerusalem Post in […]
(WHYY) A Muslim athletic trainer was fired by a private girls school in Bryn Mawr over years-old social media posts criticizing Israel, the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) alleged Wednesday. The group has filed a federal Equal Employment […]
(Anadolu) France has shut down a mosque for a six-month period amid an ongoing drive against Muslims and their places of worship. The Al-Farouk Mosque in Pessac district near the city of Bordeaux in southwestern France was closed for allegedly defending “radical […]
(Algemeiner) The French interior ministry on Tuesday reversed a decision ordering the closure of a mosque in the riviera city of Cannes that was identified as a hotbed of Islamist agitation. The ministry waived what was termed the “administrative closure” of the […]
(Algemeiner) France’s interior minister on Wednesday announced the dissolution of two pro-Palestinian advocacy organizations, accusing them of inciting violence and hatred. Gerald Darmanin confirmed on Twitter that both the “Collectif Palestine Vaincra” (“Palestine Will Overcome Collective”) and the Palestine Action Committee were […]
(Reuters) Australia on Friday listed the entire Palestinian Islamist group Hamas as a terrorist organisation, calling the move a deterrent to political and religious violence and bringing Australia in line with the United States, the European Union and Britain. Australia had for […]
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(Sydney Morning Herald) The entirety of Palestinian group Hamas has been listed as a terrorist organisation by the federal government as Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews says the Coalition has no higher priority than national security. Reaction to the decision has been […]
(AFP) The small Mediterranean island of Cyprus has an outsized problem with irregular migration, says the interior minister of the EU member state located closest to the Middle East. “For us, this is a state of emergency,” Nicos Nouris told AFP, adding […]
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(Free Beacon) Democratic congresswoman Marie Newman’s (Ill.) decision to bribe a local Palestinian activist out of her 2020 primary race hasn’t just led to ethics issues — it also put a terrorist sympathizer in charge of her campaign’s foreign policy. Last June, […]
(Jewish News of Northern California) Zahra Billoo, a Muslim civil rights attorney and activist in the Bay Area who came under fire recently for controversial remarks attacking mainstream Jewish organizations, has been removed as a keynote speaker from San Mateo County’s RISE […]
(Fox) Researchers say they’ve uncovered a coordinated spike in Twitter activity sympathetic to the convicted terrorist “Lady Al Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui leading up to the hostage crisis at Texas’ Congregation Beth Israel, where an Islamic extremist demanded her release from a U.S. […]
(Fox) The campaign of “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has paid out $170,000 to an anti-Israel activist who has called Israel an “apartheid state” and has called for defunding the police multiple times. Tlaib’s campaign has paid $147,000 to Unbought Power LLC, […]
(Algemeiner) Last Friday’s decision by District Court Judge Andrew Hanen of Texas has been lauded as a landmark victory by supporters of Israel boycotts — an irony, given the opinion actually upholds the constitutionality of state laws that deem such boycotts discriminatory and […]
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(BBC) A Danish court has found three members of an Iranian opposition group guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia. The three men were detained by police in February 2020 and are members of the Saudi-backed Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of […]
(BBC) A man who attacked a shopper in a Marks & Spencer store would have continued to stab her if his weapon had not jammed in her handbag strap, a jury has heard. Munawar Hussain, 58, stabbed Janet Dell and the store […]
(CNS) U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides dismissed as “absurd” Amnesty International’s claim that Israel is an “apartheid” state — and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is outraged. “Come on, this is absurd,” Nides said on Twitter in response to the […]
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(Middle East Eye) More than 80 Muslim organisations, including rights groups, mosques and charities, have sent a letter to the US Department of Justice, calling on the administration to launch an investigation into whether an anti-Muslim group violated federal laws by allegedly […]
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(Times of Israel) A French imam known for his involvement in interfaith initiatives said he and his family have been living under threat from Islamists for years, emotionally recalling the toll the assaults and harassment have taken. In an interview with France […]
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(National-UAE) More than €52 million ($57.96m) in European Commission money was directly or indirectly given to organisations with alleged links to the Muslim Brotherhood between 2007 and 2020, according to a new report. The lion’s share of funding from the EU’s executive […]
(Jewish News) JNF UK has been censured by the Board of Deputies over its failure to “disavow” the “inflammatory and bigoted remarks” of its chair Samuel Hayek after a heated debate during Sunday’s plenary. Two-thirds of deputies voted in favour of a resolution […]
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(JTA) A new parliamentary report on the 2017 killing of a Jewish woman by a Muslim attacker was meant to restore French Jews’ faith in their country’s police and justice systems. Instead, the report released last week has added fuel to the […]
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(Fox) A coalition that represents more than 2,000 Orthodox Jewish rabbis on American public policy issues condemned a recent report from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) regarding “Islamophobia in the Mainstream,” calling the report “both pro-terror and antisemitic.” “In every case, […]
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(CNN) The FBI on Sunday identified Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British national, as the man who held four people hostage at a Texas synagogue in an hours-long standoff Saturday before a rescue team entered the building and killed the suspect. An […]
(IPT) Most Americans may not have heard of Aafia Siddiqui before Saturday, when a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, outside Dallas, and took the rabbi and three congregants hostage. Thankfully, the standoff ended without any hostage being harmed. But […]
(AP) A man held hostages for more than 10 hours Saturday at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting in a livestream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S. Army officers […]
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(VRT) VRT News has learnt that last October Belgian asylum and migration secretary Sammy Mahdi (Flemish Christian democrat) withdrew the residence rights of Mohamed Toujgani, the head imam at the Al Khalil Mosque in the Brussels borough of Molenbeek. Al Khalil is Belgium’s […]
(Jewish News) Board of Deputies senior vice-president Gary Mond has been asked to “step down from his duties” while an investigation into allegations of anti-Muslim sentiment takes place. Mond — the deputy for Israel charity JNF UK where he is a trustee […]
(Columbus Dispatch) The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ national office revealed more information on Wednesday afternoon about two people who came forward to say they were familiar with — and in one case, directly involved in — a plan to spy on American Muslims for the Investigative Project on Terrorism. […]
(Radio France) On Tuesday, the Covid-disrupted Paris terror trial resumed with evidence from Mohamed Abrini, one of the accused, on his religious convictions and his decision to join the ranks of Islamic State in Syria. Mohamed Abrini is a contradictory individual. He […]
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