(Washington Examiner) A coalition of pro-Israel watchdogs is pressing the Biden-Harris administration to sanction a network of groups that the coalition warns are fronts for Palestinian terrorist factions, according to a letter. The letter, sent on Wednesday to the Treasury Department and […]
(Washington Examiner) The mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, made headlines last month for endorsing former President Donald Trump. Mayor Amer Ghalib doesn’t check stereotypical Trump supporter boxes. He’s a 45-year-old Muslim, an Arab American immigrant from Yemen, and the leader of the country’s […]
(Washington Examiner) As former President Donald Trump looks to cut away at Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent surge in the polls, his campaign is zeroing in on a key voting demographic it is hoping to siphon away from Democrats: Arab and Muslim […]
(Washington Examiner) President Joe Biden’s White House National Security Council recently hosted the leader of a group with a track record of collaborating in Gaza with Hamas officials, the Washington Examiner confirmed. The NSC held a meeting in Washington, D.C., on Sept. […]
(Washington Examiner) “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has cut ties with a political consultant the Washington Examiner reported this year has a history of working for groups linked to Palestinian terrorist factions. The reason for the Tlaib campaign’s decision is unclear, and […]
(Washington Examiner) “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) targets one audience more than any other for her campaign’s Facebook ads: fans of the Qatari-backed website Al Jazeera. Tlaib’s campaign has spent over $81,000 on ads in the last 90 days, largely to draw […]
(Washington Examiner) Pro-Palestinian groups are urging Vice President Kamala Harris to break with President Joe Biden on Israel during her first debate with former President Donald Trump on Tuesday. Harris will meet Trump for the first time this week for the pair’s […]
(Washington Examiner) Over the course of President Joe Biden’s time in office, an anti-Israel group that receives large checks from Democratic megadonor George Soros has seen its top staffers score 60 trips to the White House for high-level meetings, according to records. […]
(Washington Examiner) Under Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the state of Minnesota awarded over $2 million to an Islamic group that fundraises for a charity linked to an al Qaeda affiliate, according to funding records reviewed by the Washington Examiner. The Islamic Association […]
(Washington Examiner) Former President Donald Trump took aim at Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) on Thursday over the governor’s ties to a Muslim cleric who promoted a pro-Hitler movie. “He’s praised a Hitler-supporting radical Muslim [imam] named Asad Zaman, […]
(Washington Examiner) As he campaigned to be Minnesota’s next governor, Tim Walz called a Muslim cleric who promoted a pro-Adolf Hitler film a “master teacher” who offered Walz lessons over the time they “spent together,” according to footage at a 2018 event […]
(Washington Examiner) Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, […]
(Washington Examiner) An organization connected to an anti-Israel activist who fundraises for “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has quietly dissolved in Virginia, documents show. Corporate records filed in Virginia show the advocacy arm of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a nonprofit […]
(Washington Examiner) “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars since being elected to Congress to a consulting firm led by an anti-Israel activist working on behalf of groups linked to Palestinian terrorist factions, records show. Tlaib, who […]
(Washington Examiner) A federal judicial nominee under fire for his prior role at an anti-Israel group was a key figure at a Muslim lawyers conference co-sponsored by a terrorism-linked group that the Biden White House disavowed over its Hamas support, documents show. […]
(Washington Examiner) He’s called Palestinian terrorists “freedom fighters,” bragged about telling the White House he won’t “apologize for Hamas firing rockets at Israel,” and defended the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in the Jewish state. Meet Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab […]
(Washington Examiner) House Democrats accepted donations late last year from a staunch anti-Israel activist who helps lead an organization long accused of sharing ties to Palestinian terrorism, records show. CEO Hussam Ayloush of the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, […]
(Washington Examiner) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was harshly criticized by conservatives on social media on Sunday after a video was shared showing her speaking about her support for Somalia, the nation from which she hails. In the video, the liberal Minnesota leader […]
(Washington Examiner) Congressional Democrats pocketed campaign donations from a leader within an anti-Israel organization that has long been accused of being linked to Palestinian terrorism, records show. Over the last two decades, Hussam Ayloush has sprinkled tens of thousands of dollars combined […]
(Washington Examiner) A Department of Homeland Security official was put on leave after a report that they had previously worked for the Palestinian Liberation Organization. A DHS spokesman told the Washington Examiner that Nejwa Ali had been placed on administrative leave. Ali […]
(Washington Examiner) The leaders of the Senate Homeland Security Committee are pushing the federal government to reveal unredacted documents related to Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, urging officials on the 22nd anniversary to turn the materials over to lawmakers […]
(Washington Examiner) The Senate is expected to vote later this week on confirming a top Biden administration nominee who has received scrutiny from Republicans over his anti-Israel ties. President Joe Biden renominated Dilawar Syed to be deputy administrator of the Small Business […]
(Washington Examiner) Border Patrol agents in southeastern Arizona arrested a Pakistani national on the FBI’s terrorism watch list who attempted to illegally enter the United States from Mexico last week, according to two federal sources. Two senior Customs and Border Protection officials […]
(Washington Examiner) Two men who held key positions at nonprofit groups that were found liable in a Hamas terror financing scheme helped organize campaign fundraising events for Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) in 2018. The men, who organized events that were paid for […]
(Washington Examiner) At least eight Democratic members of Congress share close ties to a nonprofit group that is now subject to discovery in a landmark federal civil lawsuit that seeks to hold the group financially liable for the terrorist slaying of an […]
(Washington Examiner) Forty-two people on the U.S. government’s terror watch list have been arrested attempting to enter the United States illegally since President Joe Biden took office, according to federal data obtained by the Washington Examiner. The 42 arrests happened across the […]
(Washington Examiner) As the Biden administration moves to ship tens of thousands of Afghan refugees into American communities to live, there is growing concern that the vetting process to weed out “known or suspected terrorists,” including those involved in IED attacks on […]
(Washington Examiner) Almost none of the 82,000 people airlifted from Kabul in August were vetted before being admitted to the United States, despite claims to the contrary from the Biden administration, according to a congressional memo summarizing interviews with federal officials who […]
(Washington Examiner) Unprecedented numbers of known or suspected terrorists have crossed the southern border in recent months, the outgoing Border Patrol chief said. The head of the Border Patrol, Rodney Scott, told his 19,000 agents before retiring on Aug. 14 that their […]
(Washington Examiner) Rep. Ilhan Omar criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday over the agency’s potential deportation of illegal immigrants back to Somalia, citing coronavirus fears as a reason to halt the deportations. “ICE is set to deport dozens of individuals from […]
(Washington Examiner) The State Department said it has an “unwavering” commitment to bringing Islamic State fighters who killed U.S. citizens to justice. The agency sent this message as the families of the dead renew calls for captors, some of whom are being […]
(Washington Examiner) President Trump accused Rep. Ilhan Omar, a U.S. citizen who was a childhood Somali refugee, of wanting to make the U.S. government like the country from where she fled. Holding his first campaign rally in months, Trump on Saturday railed […]
(Washington Examiner) Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar’s assertion that President Trump is waging unjust “economic warfare” against Iran served as fuel for her critics, who were quick to point out her support for sanctions on other countries in the Middle East. “This makes […]
(Washington Examiner) Rep. Ilhan Omar accused President Trump of trying to create a “distraction” by killing Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an attempt to ignite a war with Iran. “So what if Trump wants war, knows this leads to war and needs the […]
(Washington Examiner) Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Monday addressed criticisms about the group that was going to sponsor her trip to Israel. During a press conference with Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a reporter asked Tlaib about Miftah, which works to […]
(Washington Examiner) Rep. Ilhan Omar said she would not dignify with a response President Trump’s assertion that she is pro-al Qaeda. “I will not dignify it with an answer because I know that every single Islamophobe, every single person who is hateful, […]
(Washington Examiner) The Trump administration has ended the surge of Muslim refugees into the United States during the Obama era, significantly boosting the percentage of Christians accepted into the country. At the end of the Obama administration, not only were more refugees […]
(Washington Examiner) Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., quietly deleted at least three tweets that were widely criticized as being anti-Semitic, journalists noticed this week. The freshman congresswoman was condemned by Republicans and members of her own party earlier this month for two tweets […]
(Washington Examiner) Ranchers and farmers near the U.S.-Mexico border have been finding prayer rugs on their properties in recent months, according to one rancher who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation by cartels who move the individuals. The mats are […]
(Washington Examiner) Freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., was photographed with a Palestinian activist who praised the terrorist group Hezbollah, said Israel did not have the right to exist, and has called for Israeli “Zionist terrorist” Jews to return to Poland, where roughly […]
(Washington Examiner) Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., Monday called on the Department of Justice to immediately halt federal funding to the Nation of Islam, after the Washington Examiner first reported that the group has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the government […]
(Washington Examiner) In a glowing profile of representative-elect Ilhan Omar, the New York Times portrays her critics as merely scared of somebody different, all the while glossing over her misrepresentation of her position on Israel and record of unapologetically peddling anti-Semitic conspiracy […]
(Washington Examiner) The Nation of Islam defiantly defended its government-funded work teaching religion to federal prisoners on Thursday, calling the program “a great benefit and blessing to the American Penal System.” A black nationalist group led by Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of […]
(Washington Examiner) The Nation of Islam and its leaders have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government since 2008 to teach religious study programs for federal prison inmates, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner. A black nationalist […]
(Washington Examiner) Administrators at Ripon College in Wisconsin have ruled that a Sept. 11 memorial cannot take place on campus because it may offend Muslim students. The private school cited bias reports that were filed during last year’s Sept. 11 memorial project, […]
(Washington Examiner) President Trump’s belief that immigration is “changing [the] culture” of Europe is wrong, the European Union’s ambassador to the United States said Friday. “Europe is not going to become a Muslim continent any time soon,” Ambassador David O’Sullivan said at […]
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