(Jewish Insider) Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) began his town hall meeting with Jewish constituents on Tuesday night with an apology. “As a young congressman, I’ve got to tell you I’m sorry,” Rose confessed to the crowd gathered by the Council of Jewish […]
(NY Post) Gov. Andrew Cuomo charged Monday that the Democratic Party’s response to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic remarks was “muted” because too many of the party’s officials are fearful of retribution. “You’ve had on the Democratic side voices of anti-Semitism. And I […]
(Hill) The student activists who confronted Chelsea Clinton at a vigil in New York City for victims of the New Zealand mosque shootings on Friday said that Clinton’s comments concerning Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) criticism of the Israel lobby “made her vulnerable” to […]
(Daily Caller) A group of NYU students confronted Chelsea Clinton on Friday over her recent condemnation of Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, leaving the former first daughter apologizing profusely. The confrontation took place at an NYU vigil meant to honor the 49 […]
(Asbury Park Press) A Point Pleasant man was sentenced Friday to 16 years in federal prison for plotting to use a pressure cooker to commit terrorism in New York City on behalf of the Islamic State group. Gregory Lepsky, 22, had pleaded […]
(WABC) February 26, 1993, was a day that changed New York City forever. Tuesday marked 26 years since a car bomb exploded in an underground parking garage of the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring hundreds. The city held a […]
(IPT) Linda Sarsour, dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism, will speak next month at a New York University program on immigration. The announcement for the March 25 event, sponsored by NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute, makes no reference to Sarsour’s divisive views. It ignored the […]
(NY Post) A Manhattan man was arrested at JFK Airport for trying to leave the country to join a Pakistani terror organization, officials said Friday. Jesus Wilfredo Encarnacion, 29, allegedly told an unnamed co-conspirator in November that he wanted to hook up […]
(NY Times) Maeen Ali remembers the worry he felt when he first spotted the “Punish a Muslim Day” screed online. The letter, mailed last spring throughout England, encouraged violence that ranged from pulling off a woman’s head scarf to bombing mosques. Each […]
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(NY1) Debbie Almontaser stopped by Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene as she promoted her first book “Leading While Muslim.” She says the backlash she received as the founding principal of the country’s first Arabic-language public school inspired her to write it. “I […]
(Brooklyn Eagle) “We want to be provocative — but in the best possible way,” said Brooklyn Historical Society President Deborah Schwartz as she introduced the latest entry in the organization’s winter events: a roundtable discussion featuring Dr. Debbie Almontaser, founding principal of […]
(IPT) Turkish NBA star Enes Kanter did not join his New York Knicks teammates when they play the Washington Wizards in London today due to his fear he could be assassinated by Turkish spies. An Istanbul prosecutor on Tuesday drafted an extradition […]
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a metro Atlanta man they said was plotting to attack the White House but instead got entangled with the FBI. Hasher Jallal Taheb, 21, of Cumming, was taken into custody in Gwinnett County while allegedly […]
(Forward) Last week, 13 prominent rabbis held a secret meeting — with Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour, leaders of the Women’s March. The reason: to try to decide whether the rabbis and their congregations should attend the third annual march, scheduled for […]
(NY Observer) The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will remove an art installation featuring a nine-foot-tall statue of Saudi Arabia’s flag from the World Trade Center campus. “We have been in contact with the 9/11 Memorial and various stakeholders, […]
(NY Post) A Muslim firefighter who collected $224,000 in a settlement from the city for alleged harassment — including being fed pork by fellow Bravest — threatened to “kill everyone in the firehouse” three times, new court records allege. As previously reported, […]
(NY Observer) A sculpture celebrating Saudi Arabia’s place in the G20 Summit was erected on the World Trade Center grounds last week, a stone’s throw away from the 9/11 memorial. Shaped to resemble a piece of candy, the nine-foot-tall statue bears the […]
(PJ Media) In late December 2018, New York residents spotted a white and blue “Muslim Community Patrol” (MCP) vehicle that looks like an official NYPD vehicle. Yet in a statement to PJ Media on Wednesday, the NYPD disavowed any link to the […]
(Fox) Dozens of inmates convicted of terrorism-related crimes will be released from prison over the next five years, and lawmakers in several states think local law enforcement have the right to know if they’re moving into their neighborhood. That’s why officials are pushing […]
(NY Post) New York’s Muslim community has a new security group watching over it. A car from the new Muslim Community Patrol has been spotted around the city, joining the Jewish enclave’s Shomrim and the Brooklyn Asian Safety Patrol among New York’s […]
(Canadian Press) A young Canadian convicted of plotting terrorist attacks in New York City was sentenced by an American court on Wednesday to 40 years in prison, his Canadian lawyer said. The sentence handed down to Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 20, came despite […]
(Brooklyn Eagle) A protest demonstration outside Republican state Sen. Martin Golden’s Bay Ridge office organized by left-leaning Muslim and Jewish groups might have had enough power to sway undecided voters to vote for his Democratic opponent Andrew Gounardes, according to a leader […]
(Brooklyn Reader) The New York Coalition to End Female Genital Mutilation hosted the inaugural V-March on Saturday to call on city agencies to organize a coordinated response to end female genital mutilation (FGM). The V-March, a celebration of women’s “voices, victories and […]
(Daily Wire) On Tuesday, New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who is Jewish, condemned New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand for associating with anti-Semitic Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour. Last Thursday, Sarsour introduced Gillibrand at a “#CancelKavanaugh” rally. Hikind was furious. He started […]
(Breitbart) New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s continued association with anti-Israel radical Linda Sarsour is “appalling,” while the politician’s seeming turn against Israel “is certainly not what New Yorkers support,” declared Gillibrand’s Republican challenger, Chele Farley. “We absolutely cannot have that,” stated Farley […]
(Queens Chronicle) In many other parts of the world, the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam has been targeted and persecuted. But in the Holliswood section of eastern Queens, it has found loving neighbors. Last Friday, about 200 people came to a ceremony at […]
(Queens Chronicle) City Council members were in Jamaica on Aug. 21 to announce grants to 14 community-based agencies that serve the city’s Muslim community. Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) and Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) attended Jumu’ah prayers at the Islamic Circle […]
(Breitbart) Left-wing Islamic activist Linda Sarsour reportedly has ties to the father of the man arrested for allegedly training children to carry out school shootings on a New Mexico compound. Police arrested Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, last week for allegedly holding a series […]
(Hill) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) on Monday compared President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies to “a jihad.” Cuomo, who is facing a challenge from the left in his campaign for reelection in November, drew the parallel during a visit to Puerto Rico. “This administration is on […]
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