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Muslim organizations across U.S. react to Trump’s controversial remarks 'President Trump's remarks today are a dangerous new low that will lead to more death threats on Congresswoman Omar and a surge in bigotry against American Muslims.'

July 16, 2019 Omri Nahmias

(Jerusalem Post) Muslim organizations across the US reacted Monday night to US President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks about a group of four progressive congresswomen. “President Trump’s remarks today are a dangerous new low that will lead to more death threats on Congresswoman […]

Rashida Tlaib compares ‘racist’ Israel to 19th-century US segregation Rashida Tlaib also said of US President Donald Trump: 'We are allowing a crooked CEO to run this country.'

July 14, 2019 Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman

(Jerusalem Post) Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib claims that “there is continued dehumanization and racist policies by the State of Israel that violate international human rights, but also violate my core values of who I am as an American.” In an interview published Saturday […]

Muslim Advocates defend Ilhan Omar against Fox News 'This is not a critique of Omar’s ideas or politic[s]. This is hate speech directed at her as a Muslim and as an immigrant.'

July 11, 2019 Unlisted Author

(Jerusalem Post) The head of a Muslim advocates group has condemned conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson for accusing US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of being “living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country.” Scott Simpson, public […]

Increase of Hezbollah members in German state, says intel report Chancellor Merkel refuses to outlaw terrorist entity in Germany.

July 4, 2019 Benjamin Weinthal

(Jerusalem Post) The intelligence agency for Germany’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia revealed on Thursday that the number of Hezbollah members rose in 2018. According to the intelligence document reviewed by the Jerusalem Post, the number of Hezbollah members climbed from […]

French imam in Jerusalem: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism Hassen Chalghoumi is currently leading a delegation of French and Belgian Muslims in Israel to improve Muslim-Jewish ties.

June 13, 2019 Jeremy Sharon and Shaked Karabelnicoff

(Jerusalem Post) French Imam Hassen Chalghoumi, currently heading a delegation of French Muslims in Israel, said on Wednesday that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, and blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for incitement against Jews in France and Belgium. Chalghoumi is on his second visit to […]

Hezbollah members rise to 1,050 in Germany amid growing Jew-hatred — intel Merkel rejects appeals to ban Lebanese terrorist group.

June 4, 2019 Benjamin Weinthal

(Jerusalem Post) A new German intelligence report asserts the number of Hezbollah members and supporters has climbed from 950 in 2017 to 1,050 in 2018 amid rising Jew-hatred in the federal republic. The Jerusalem Post reviewed the hair-raising new numbers from the […]

Jewish Democrat: Don’t make a big deal if Tlaib leads visit to W. Bank 'Israel is giving her more attention than she deserves,' said Klein, who served two terms as a congressman from Florida, before being defeated by Alan West in 2010.

June 4, 2019 Herb Keinon

(Jerusalem Post) Israeli officials should offer to meet US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib if she brings a small group of congressmen to the West Bank in August, on a trip she is planning to run concurrently with an AIPAC-backed trip for new representatives, […]

Is a CAIR staffer legitimizing modern blood libels? The organization was officially designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates in 2014.

May 19, 2019 Unlisted Author

(Jerusalem Post) A Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) organizer, Zohra Lasania, the program director of CAIR-Pittsburgh, reportedly gave legitimacy to a Zionists-ISIS conspiracy, according to the Middle East Forum, a conservative think-tank. Lasania reportedly posted on Facebook an article first published by […]

Finnish MP under fire for comparing Israel to ISIS Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the head of the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told the Jerusalem Post on Sunday: 'This guy [Hussein al-Taee] is obviously an antisemite.'

April 28, 2019 Benjamin Weinthal

(Jerusalem Post) The newly elected Finnish MP Hussein al-Taee of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) is facing a wave of criticism this week for comparing Israel to the Islamic State, antisemitic rants against Jews and pro-Iranian regime advocacy. The Finnish-Kurdish […]

ZOA calls to remove Rashida Tlaib from Democratic Party 'Someone who knowingly and enthusiastically consorts with the most virulent antisemites, blood-soaked terrorists and conspiracy theorists is clearly beyond the pale, or no one is beyond the pale.'

April 25, 2019 Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman

(Jerusalem Post) The Zionist Organization of America is calling on pro-Israel organizations and “decent Americans” to urge the removal of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) from the Democratic Party and congressional committees. “Someone who knowingly and enthusiastically consorts with the most virulent antisemites, […]

Conservative, Jewish American journalist is suing CAIR and Twitter Laura Loomer claims that her ban was issued by a request made by CAIR after repeatedly speaking out against the foundation and its policies.

April 18, 2019 Unlisted Author

(Jerusalem Post) Laura Elizabeth Loomer, a Jewish far-right American activist, filed a lawsuit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations Foundation, CAIR Florida and Twitter for being banned from the social media platform and several other platforms. Loomer was banned from Twitter, PayPal, […]

Online petition calls for investigation of Omar, Tlaib and CAIR

March 15, 2019 Hagay Hacohen

(Jerusalem Post) An online petition started by the group Stop Antisemitism calls on the US attorney general William Barr and special antisemitism envoy Elan Carr to take a deep look at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR. The petition, shared on change.org […]

Laurie Cardoza-Moore claims Ilhan Omar may have ties to Muslim Brotherhood 'Omar may be in violation of a federal statute for fundraising for two Muslim Brotherhood charities that seek to destroy America,' she claimed.

March 7, 2019 Ilanit Chernick

(Jerusalem Post) Laurie Cardoza-Moore, president of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN), called on the US Justice Department “to launch a full and thorough investigation” into Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) “possible connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.” Cardoza-Moore, an Evangelical leader who hosts […]

Muslim activist guilty of assaulting pro-Israel activist in Australia Yemini said that the primary reason he filed a complaint against Ekermawi was 'to give this man a taste of his own medicine.'

March 5, 2019 Jeremy Sharon

(Jerusalem Post) A Muslim activist in Australia named Sam Ekermawi who has filed numerous racial vilification and discrimination complaints against prominent Australians was found guilty on Friday of assaulting pro-Israel activist Avi Yemini during a scuffle outside a courthouse in Sydney in […]

Freshman lawmaker calls Israel a ‘regime,’ secures coveted committee seat She spoke to CNN and defended a tweet she posted in 2012 that claimed that 'Israel has hypnotized the world.'

January 17, 2019 Michael Wilner

(Jerusalem Post) Ilhan Omar, a newly elected Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, secured a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday, bringing to that high-level forum experience as a Somali refugee, perspective as one of the first two Muslim women elected […]

Belgium region’s kosher slaughter ban goes into effect The ban should serve as 'a wake-up call' to Jewish communities across Europe to the necessity of building ties with national governments, a senior European rabbi said.

December 31, 2018 Jeremy Sharon

(Jerusalem Post) A ban on kosher slaughter by the Flanders region of Belgium will go into effect January 1, after legislation prohibiting animal slaughter without pre-stunning was passed in the region’s parliament in July 2017. Slaughter according to Islamic law will also […]

NGO rescinds award to U.S. Women’s March due to antisemitism Social democrats accused US Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour of antisemitism.

November 11, 2018 Benjamin Weinthal

(Jerusalem Post) The think tank for the German Social Democratic Party withdrew its Human Rights Award to the Women’s March USA in Washington, DC, on Thursday because doctoral students associated with the foundation accused the organizers of the march of hardcore antisemitism […]

Paypal halts services for UK charity with alleged ties to terrorism The termination of Paypal's service for War on Want means that people who choose to donate to the organization can no longer do so through PayPal.

October 23, 2018 Yvette J. Deane

(Jerusalem Post) PayPal stopped providing services to War on Want, a UN NGO, after UK Lawyers for Israel, a pro-Israel consortium of lawyers, provided evidence to PayPal claiming to show that the charity had ties with terrorist organizations. UK Lawyers for Israel […]

Austria slated to ban Hezbollah and Hamas symbols Austrian media reported this past week that the government’s ban will be expanded to include symbols of Turkey’s ultra-radical nationalist Grey Wolves.

October 6, 2018 Benjamin Weinthal

(Jerusalem Post) Austria’s conservative government plans to impose a ban of Islamic extremist symbols from the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas. The ban is scheduled to go into effect in March. Austrian media reported this past week that the government’s ban will […]

PayPal shuts German NGO account with links to Palestinian terrorists PayPal also closed the accounts of five pro-BDS organizations in France since January.

September 20, 2018 Benjamin Weinthal

(Jerusalem Post) The US online payment service PayPal has closed the account of the Germany-based NGO International Alliance — an organization that sympathizes with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization and supports boycotting Israel. The Jerusalem Post launched […]

‘No Jew in Germany’: German police assault Israeli professor It is unclear why the police confused the victim with the suspect.

July 12, 2018 Benjamin Weinthal

(Jerusalem Post) The police in the West German city of Bonn allegedly mistakenly beat an Israeli philosophy professor after a German of Palestinian origin attacked him because he was wearing kippah. According to a Thursday report in the Rheinische Post, the 20-year-old […]