(Florida’s Voice) Jarvis Kareem El-Amin, vice chairman of the Tampa-based Muslim nonprofit Masjid An Nasr, was terminated by the organization after allegedly making controversial comments regarding Charlie Kirk’s death. The Tampa Bay Young Republicans flagged the comments, prompting Hillsborough County Commissioner Joshua […]
(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, […]
(Fox) Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is facing a GOP-led censure resolution on Wednesday after her fiery remarks at a pro-Palestinian conference. Tlaib spoke at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit over the weekend, when she condemned both Democrats and Republicans for […]
(NY Post) Sen. Tom Cotton has sent a dire letter to FBI Director Kash Patel and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, urging an investigation into alleged Iranian spies that could be operating within the US intelligence community, the Post has exclusively learned. The […]
(Politico) The State Department on Saturday announced that it was halting all visitor visas for people from Gaza, pending a “full and thorough review” of the process to issue temporary medical visas to individuals from the war-torn strip. “All visitor visas for […]
(Iran International) Former Iranian nuclear negotiator and senior diplomat turned Princeton academic Hossein Mousavian has left the university in what is described by Princeton as retirement, while activists call it a dismissal following sustained campaign pressures. Mousavian’s 15-year tenure at Princeton University […]
(Jewish Insider) Inside a coffee shop in this small town of 8,500 people, hundreds of miles from the bustle of Manhattan, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro made his first public comments about Zohran Mamdani, criticizing the New York City Democratic mayoral candidate for […]
(Pew) Muslims make up slightly more than 1% of the U.S. adult population. But they can have a significant political impact in areas where they are most highly concentrated. For much of the last two decades, Muslims have been far more likely […]
(NY Times) Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, told an influential group of business leaders on Tuesday that he would not use the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which has been seen as a call to violence against Jews, […]
(NY Post) Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani co-founded a college club that invited a radical speaker who called Israel a bigger terror threat than Hamas — and boasted he was greatly influenced by a Palestinian leader nicknamed the “godfather of Middle Eastern terrorism.” […]
(AP) Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, a new vote count confirmed Tuesday, cementing his stunning upset of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and sending him to the general election. The Associated Press called the race after the results […]
(Politico) U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand apologized to Zohran Mamdani on Monday after she falsely claimed in a radio interview that the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City had made “references to global jihad.” The junior senator and the mayoral […]
(AP) In choosing Zohran Mamdani as their candidate for mayor, Democrats in America’s most Jewish city have nominated an outspoken critic of Israel, alarming some in New York’s Jewish community and signaling a sea change in the priorities of one of the […]
(Washington Post) Iran nearly succeeded in orchestrating an assassination of former secretary of state Mike Pompeo at a European hotel in 2022, and then-candidate Donald Trump and his campaign were told by intelligence officials last September that the longtime U.S. foe had […]
(Free Beacon) Far-left Zohran Mamdani supporters across the country celebrated their candidate’s victory in the New York Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday with cheers of “globalize the intifada.” Mamdani made headlines over his refusal to condemn the phrase — a call for […]
(Daily Signal) A member of Congress introduced a bill Tuesday asking the secretary of state to consider designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a foreign terrorist organization. The Council on American-Islamic Relations brands itself as a 501(c)(3) Muslim civil rights and advocacy group […]
(Daily Caller) Republican lawmakers in a Wednesday letter applied more pressure on Sarah Lawrence College to prevent pro-Hamas activists from terrorizing Jewish students as part of their expanding antisemitism probe. The House Education and Workforce Committee is asking the New York-based school […]
(JTA) No one voted against a resolution condemning the rise of hate crimes against Jews when it came to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday evening. But two congresswomen declined to vote yes. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a […]
(NY Post) US officials encountered 55 Afghan evacuees on the terrorist watchlist after the Biden administration’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from the Middle Eastern country, according to a Justice Department inspector general report. The report, released Tuesday, confirmed longstanding suspicions from Republican lawmakers […]
(KOSU) Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is calling for Afghan refugees to be swiftly expelled from the state. In 2021, nearly 2,000 Afghan refugees resettled in Oklahoma to flee the Taliban. The refugees, many of whom worked for American and allied organizations […]
(JNS) Members of both houses of Congress are pushing for the Muslim Brotherhood to be designated as a terror organization after an Egyptian man yelled antisemitic things while attacking Jews in Boulder, Colo., with what the FBI described as a “makeshift flamethrower” […]
(Free Beacon) Momentum has built for the U.S. government to formally designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization in the weeks since President Donald Trump’s Middle East trip, lawmakers and other sources familiar with the effort tell the Washington Free Beacon. […]
(Daily Caller) With weeks left in the 2024 election, Muslim Americans barnstormed mosques and community centers across Michigan with the purpose of preventing Vice President Kamala Harris — and the Democratic Party — from getting into the White House. They succeeded, and […]
(Bloomberg) The US State Department has notified Congress that it will shut down the office that helped resettle Afghan refugees who assisted the American war effort, provoking an outcry from nonprofit groups that helped evacuate people when the Taliban retook control of […]
(KERA) When Erin Ragsdale stood in front of Collin County commissioners during a meeting in March, she was excited to talk about a new project geared towards supporting the growing Muslim community in North Texas. EPIC City — a proposed development from […]
(Fox) Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., avoided answering questions from reporters regarding the shooting in Washington, D.C., that killed two Israeli Embassy staffers departing the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday evening. “I’m going to go for now,” Omar, the first Somali American elected […]
(Blaze) Five former associates of Florida Rep. Cory Mills (R) have now confirmed to Blaze News that Mills converted to Islam around the time he was married in 2014. Meanwhile, Mills’ girlfriend, in an apparent attempt to reassert control over the narrative, […]
(KERA) The U.S. Department of Justice is opening an investigation into a proposed Muslim development of a North Texas mosque. Sen. John Cornyn sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon last month asking them to […]
(NY Post) Republicans are calling for harsh measures to be taken against the anti-Israel rioters who stormed a Columbia University library — as the White House praised the Ivy League school for swiftly calling in cops to disperse the mob. “We are […]
(Blaze) Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), a rising star in Republican circles and on TV news, told Blaze News he was married by a radical Muslim cleric but did not realize it at the time. Mills rocketed to the heights of political celebrity […]
(NY Post) Only a third of Muslim-Americans identify as Democrats as the party reels from political setbacks with a bloc of voters it hemorrhaged in the 2024 election cycle, according to a stunning survey exclusively shared with the Post. When asked to […]
(NY Post) Radical Israel-bashing “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib is doing a text blast to raise funds for a super PAC backing Zohran Mamdani for mayor — but not everyone is pleased with the solicitation. Tlaib’s pitch recently showed up on the mobile […]
(Free Beacon) The two Harvard University students who faced criminal charges for assaulting an Israeli classmate during an anti-Israel “die-in” protest will take an in-person anger management class and perform 80 hours of community service as part of a pretrial diversion program, […]
(Politico) Trump administration officials have discussed allowing some Afghan refugees to remain in the United States, days after a group of potentially vulnerable migrants from the war-torn country received emails from Customs and Border Protection revoking their humanitarian parole status, according to […]
(Reuters) The United States has deported to Rwanda a resettled Iraqi refugee who it long tried to extradite in response to Iraqi government claims that he worked for the Islamic State, according to a U.S. official and an internal email. Omar Abdulsattar […]
(KERA) Both U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are each seeking to expand a probe into a proposed North Texas development project led by a local mosque. In a Friday letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, Cornyn […]
(Washington Post) Days before masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public […]
(Newsweek) Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton were spreading “hateful misinformation” regarding proposals for a new Islamic-themed settlement in the state, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim advocacy group in the United States, told Newsweek. Abbott’s […]
(CBC) Every Friday afternoon, Mustapha Ramadan stands outside the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) mosque in Mississauga, Ont., organizing a long line of cars arriving for prayers. He’s one of many Muslims who say they plan on voting in the upcoming […]
(JTA) Only a week after being sworn into Congress, Jewish Rep. Randy Fine directed his latest inflammatory statement at a Muslim colleague. On a podcast Wednesday, the Florida Republican and self-proclaimed “Hebrew Hammer” called Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib a “terrorist” and said […]
(Free Beacon) Al Jazeera has long courted controversy for platforming terrorists across the Middle East, where it is banned from operating in Israel and some Arab countries for promoting extremist ideologies. But the Qatar-funded network’s support for Hamas terrorists isn’t just confined […]
(Axios) The Trump administration is discussing plans to try to block certain colleges from having any foreign students if it decides too many are “pro-Hamas,” senior Justice and State Department officials tell Axios. Why it matters: The effort — which could include […]
(NY Post) Antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour is playing a huge role in trying to get socialist Zohran Mamdani elected NYC’s next mayor. The Hamas-supporting, Palestinian-American firebrand is pushing Mamdani by spreading a message of anti-Israel hate and leaning on lefties to join […]
(NH Journal) Accusing him of “failing up” and “cashing out,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations says there should be no place at the University of New Hampshire for former Biden advisor Jake Sullivan, and it’s calling on the university to give him […]
(Free Beacon) New Jersey gubernatorial candidate and Newark mayor Ras Baraka (D.) spoke Tuesday at an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement rally that featured the Council on American-Islamic Relations New Jersey (CAIR NJ), an anti-Semitic group that justified the Oct. 7, 2023, attack […]
(Detroit News) President Donald Trump has chosen Dearborn Heights Mayor Bill Bazzi to be his nominee for U.S. ambassador to Tunisia, rewarding a second Metro Detroit Muslim mayor who backed his candidacy in 2024. Trump last week appointed Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib […]
(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 […]
(Detroit Free Press) President Donald Trump announced Friday evening that Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib will be his next ambassador to Kuwait. Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social account, saying Ghalib had helped him win Michigan, which has the highest percentage […]
(Free Beacon) A Hamas operative who also wrote for a U.S.-based nonprofit publication bragged to his Israeli hostages about how the terror group “was in contact and actively coordinating” with anti-Israel protesters at American colleges, according to eyewitness accounts detailed in a […]
(Free Beacon) A research scholar at Yale Law School also moonlights as a member of a U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising entity, according to web postings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Those postings reveal that Helyeh Doutaghi, the deputy director of Yale Law […]
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