(Algemeiner) French Jews commemorated on Friday victims of the horrific 2012 shooting attack at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, which took place during a days-long killing spree that claimed the lives of seven people. On March 19, 2012, Islamist terrorist Mohamed […]
(Algemeiner) France on Thursday began commemorations for the ninth anniversary of a devastating Islamist terror spree that claimed the lives of seven people, including three children at a Jewish school and two soldiers in the French army. The tributes to the victims […]
(Algemeiner) The head of an influential Turkish Muslim association in Germany resigned from his position on Thursday after his antisemitic social media postings were exposed by a left-wing group, vowing at the same time to clear his name. Mustafa Keskin — the […]
(Algemeiner) US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) called Israel a “racist state” in an interview Tuesday with the left-wing news program Democracy Now!, and falsely claimed that it was denying coronavirus vaccines to Palestinians. “I think it’s really important to understand Israel is […]
(Algemeiner) A video showing two Palestinian skaters racing through an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of the Belgian city of Antwerp as they unfurled a huge Palestinian flag has been removed from YouTube after going viral. Uploaded on Sunday, the video featured Gaza-born twin […]
(Algemeiner) Six years after the tragic events, commemorations began Thursday to the victims of the 2015 Islamist attacks in Paris against the Charlie Hebdo magazine, on Jan. 7, and the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket two days later. “This morning, 6 years later, […]
(Algemeiner) A French imam is to be prosecuted for racial hatred over a sermon he delivered in 2017 calling for Muslims to “fight the Jews.” Algerian-born Mohamed Tatai was indicted at the end of 2018 for “public verbal provocation to hatred or […]
(Algemeiner) Prosecutors at the trial in France of 14 defendants charged with providing support to the Islamist terrorists behind the January 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris began their closing arguments in court on Monday, amid concern that the antisemitic character of the […]
(Algemeiner) A top American Muslim group expressed its opposition to peace with Israel on Tuesday, calling on its followers to protest outside the White House during the signing of the historic peace agreements between the Jewish state, the UAE and Bahrain. The […]
(Algemeiner) The president of the leading Jewish group in the UK sharply criticized a major Muslim organization after its leadership was forced to resign en masse due to an antisemitism scandal. Trustee and director Almoutaz Tayara of Islamic Relief Worldwide was discovered […]
(Algemeiner) While widely panned by mainstream commenters, US Jewish journalist Peter Beinart’s New York Times op-ed earlier this week in which he called for a one-state solution to the Middle East conflict did earn the praise of some on the far-left — […]
(Algemeiner) Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — who has faced antisemitism accusations in the past — was criticized on social media on Wednesday after tweeting a statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day that did not [mention] Jews. “This #HolocaustRemembranceDay — and every day — […]
(Algemeiner) An Arabic-language Canadian newspaper published an article by a Hamas official that glorified terrorists and accused Israel of stealing the organs of Palestinian prisoners, prompting a police complaint. According to B’nai Brith Canada, on Feb. 28 the paper al-Meshwar, whose publisher […]
(Algemeiner) Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib faced a firestorm of criticism on Sunday after retweeting a false assertion on the micro-blogging website accusing Jews of murdering a Palestinian child in Jerusalem, with critics describing the claim as a “blood libel.” Eight-year-old Qais Abu […]
(Algemeiner) A prominent Canadian Jewish group raised concerns on Thursday about several “extremist” speakers scheduled to appear at an Islamic conference in Toronto this weekend. The event in question — titled “Reviving the Islamic Spirit” — began on Friday at the Metro […]
(Algemeiner) In a major break with the past, the German agency for domestic security — Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz — has published a 40-page report whose title translates as “Antisemitism in Islamism.” The report defines Islamism as a form of political extremism among […]
(Algemeiner) French media outlets revealed on Wednesday that a man who described himself as the “heir of Mohamed Merah” — the Islamist terrorist who murdered three young children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse in March 2012 — was arrested […]
(Algemeiner) B’nai Brith Canada has welcomed the cancellation of a television show it said presented “hateful” content. “Thanks to roughly 1,000 Canadians who signed B’nai Brith’s petition demanding that the program be cancelled, Muslim Perspectives, starring radical imam Zafar Bangash, will no […]
(Algemeiner) Anti-Israel activist and [Women’s] March co-chair Linda Sarsour was excoriated as an “antisemite” on Sunday by a former ally who once headed the DC chapter of the popular political movement. Mercy Morganfield, who is also the daughter of famed American blues singer-songwriter Muddy […]
(Algemeiner) As Christians around the world celebrate Christmas, footage has emerged of an Islamist cleric in Canada telling an assembly of Muslim young people in British Columbia that “major sins” like “murder” and “adultery” were “nothing compared to the sin of congratulating […]
(Algemeiner) The Palestinian cause is an Islamic struggle that should be “marketed” as a humanitarian concern to non-Muslims, a prominent imam told a recent “Workshop for Palestine” held at the Islamic Center of Union County, NJ. “Although our cause is Islamic, when we market and present […]
(Algemeiner) Danish imam Mundhir Abdallah recently defended himself against hate speech charges pending against him by calling for jihad against Israel. Abdallah, imam of the Al-Faruq Mosque in Copenhagen, has been indicted as a result of a sermon he delivered on March […]
(Algemeiner) The 13th Congressional District in Michigan is one of the state’s poorest and neediest. Still reeling from the departure of longtime US Representative John Conyers, 89 — the “dean” of the House of Representatives and the longest-serving African-American member of Congress […]
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