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Academics & Education

Yale Law School scrubs references to administrator who is member of US-sanctioned terror financier Helyeh Doutaghi spoke at a Samidoun-sponsored event in Iran honoring Lebanese terrorist

March 6, 2025   

(Free Beacon) Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, an initiative funded by the left-wing William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, quietly deleted online references to its deputy director, Helyeh Doutaghi, who is also a member of the U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising entity […]

Crime

DA backs away from deal to keep Scott Hayes from going to trial for shooting anti-Israel attacker Hayes was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after shooting a man who charged through traffic to tackle him.

March 5, 2025   

(Daily Wire) Scott Hayes, 48, says he will likely have to go to trial for shooting an anti-Israel man who tackled him after a district attorney backed away from finalizing a disposition to resolve the case outside the courtroom. Hayes was charged […]

Academics & Education

Yale Law School scholar is member of US-sanctioned terror fundraising organization Helyeh Doutaghi, deputy director of Yale Law School’s Law and Political Economy Project, placed on 'immediate administrative leave' as university investigates allegations

March 4, 2025   

(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 […]

Government & Politics

Ex-USAID official says Biden ditched vetting reforms as his administration steered grants to terror supporters 'Vast sums of U.S. money have been diverted to fund terrorists in Gaza, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan,' says Max Primorac

February 26, 2025   

(Free Beacon) The Biden administration ditched the first Trump administration’s U.S. Agency for International Development vetting reforms — and went on to send “vast sums of U.S. money” to Middle Eastern countries that ended up in the hands of terrorists, a former […]

Clerics & Preachers

They dream of building Muslim-centric neighborhoods near Dallas. Will it work? The developments are facing questions from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and commenters on social media.

February 24, 2025 and   

(Dallas Morning News) For the members of one of North Texas’ largest mosques, the 402-acre tract of land that straddles Collin and Hunt counties is the start of a dream. The East Plano Islamic Center’s members hope the dream will materialize in […]

Government & Politics

House Dem in charge of caucus-wide messaging praises activist who pledged to ‘take’ Jews ‘back to Poland’ Rep. Debbie Dingell oversees House Dems’ communications arm

February 24, 2025   

(Free Beacon) Rep. Debbie Dingell (D., Mich.), who leads a committee tasked with communicating “where House Democrats stand” on key issues, recently paid tribute to an anti-Israel activist who hailed the leader of the terrorist group Hezbollah as a “hero” and has […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

CAIR slams Elon Musk for ‘reckless’ comment on American Muslim groups Muslim advocacy group warns Musk's remarks fuel Islamophobia, endanger communities and misrepresent nonprofit organizations

February 24, 2025   

(Anadolu) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday for a comment on X that it says fuels Islamophobia and endangers American Muslim communities. The criticism came after Musk appeared to support a post falsely labeling Muslim and […]

Academics & Education

Northwestern University mandatory anti-discrimination training pushes unverified CAIR data 'This omission is not an oversight; it reflects Northwestern's ongoing pattern of sidelining Jewish concerns in response to activist pressure,' anti-Semitism expert says

February 24, 2025   

(Free Beacon) Northwestern University’s mandatory anti-discrimination training relies on unverified data from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that inflate Islamophobic attacks, giving the false impression that those attacks vastly outpace anti-Semitic hate crimes. The training also questions anti-Zionism’s ties to Jew-hatred […]

Academics & Education

Minnesota Muslims and Somali Americans speak out on politics, faith and being open to Trump in 2024 Salman Fiqy told Fox News Digital that the LGBTQ agenda was an issue and added, 'We see things from a conservative lens'

February 23, 2025 and   

(Fox) In Minnesota, Muslims and Somali Americans talked politics, religion and how their votes were swayed in the 2024 election. Some showed a new affinity for the Republican Party under Donald Trump. “Somalis were inherently Democrats,” Salman Fiqy told Fox News Digital. […]

Clerics & Preachers

An Islamic enclave in Texas? The urban project that could impose Sharia law near Dallas There are fears that the project would implement a governance model based on Islamic principles that could conflict with the U.S. legal and cultural framework.

February 18, 2025   

(Voz) In Texas, an ambitious urban development project has triggered intense debate. It is EPIC City, a planned community near Dallas that, according to its promoters, will follow Sharia or Islamic law. The initiative, led by the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) and […]

Academics & Education

‘It’s a gut punch’: Muslim group calls on Houston ISD to reinstate Eid al-Fitr as school holiday Houston ISD’s 2025-26 calendar does not include a day off for Eid al-Fitr, one of two major holidays for Muslims. The district had implemented a school holiday for Eid in 2023.

February 18, 2025   

(Houston Public Media) Houston ISD’s calendar for next school year does not include a holiday for Eid al-Fitr — one of the biggest celebrations in the Islamic faith — and a local Muslim organization is calling on the district to reinstate it. […]

Academics & Education

Georgetown’s daughter of Hamas A woman listed as a graduate student at the university has family ties to the terror group and has cheered its attacks on Israel.

February 13, 2025   

(National Review) Mapheze Ahmad Yousef Saleh was recently listed as a graduate student at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). She also happens to be the daughter of Ahmed Yousef, who served as a top adviser for the terrorist organization […]

Legal

Durham man pleads guilty to supporting, attempting to join ISIS According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Alexander Justin White pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide and attempting material support to ISIS.

February 11, 2025   

(WRAL) A Durham man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to aiding and attempting to join the terrorist group ISIS months earlier. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Alexander Justin White pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide and attempting material support to ISIS. White, […]

Academics & Education

Georgetown Law event with PFLP terror group member postponed The university told Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) it is conducting a ‘serious investigation’

February 10, 2025   

(Jewish Insider) A discussion scheduled for Tuesday at Georgetown University Law Center featuring a convicted member of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is being postponed so that the university can “conduct a serious investigation,” Jewish Insider […]

Academics & Education

USAID reportedly bankrolled al Qaeda terrorist’s college tuition, unearthed records show Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike during the Obama administration

February 10, 2025   

(Fox) The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly provided “full funding” for al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki to attend college in Colorado, unearthed documents apparently show. Al-Awlaki was an American-born jihadist who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in […]

Books

Inside Trump’s Iran fear

February 9, 2025   

(Axios) Iran’s threat to assassinate Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign was far more serious than publicly known — and led to extraordinary precautions by his team that included using a decoy plane to avert a feared attempt on his life. Why […]

Legal

Appeals court looks set to let Pentagon out of 9/11 plea deals An appeals court signaled it will override a military judge’s ruling that the agreements avoiding the death penalty were binding.

February 7, 2025   

(Politico) A federal appeals court appears poised to rule that the Pentagon has the authority to withdraw from plea deals ruling out the death penalty that were negotiated with three Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. […]

Government & Politics

Sept. 11 plea deal includes lifetime gag order on C.I.A. torture secrets The clause is included in a disputed plea agreement between a Pentagon official and the man accused of planning the attacks that killed 3,000 people.

February 7, 2025   

(NY Times) Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the prisoner at the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who is accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, has agreed to never disclose secret aspects of his torture by the C.I.A. if he is allowed to […]

Academics & Education

Terrorists use AI on social media to incite attacks against Jews in U.S., report finds Canadians are also susceptible to tactics used by terrorists online. 'There’s no differentiation just because we have a physical border,' says Marc Ginsberg, founder of the group behind the report

February 6, 2025   

(National Post) A new report says that terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda use AI on social media to inspire lone wolf attacks against the Jewish community in the United States. But Canadians are not exempt from this kind of targeted […]

Academics & Education

Georgetown Law student group to host convicted member of PFLP terror group The school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter plans to host a discussion with Ribhi Karajah, who was imprisoned in Israel for failing to disclose his prior knowledge of a deadly terror attack

February 5, 2025   

(Jewish Insider) A member of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who failed to disclose to authorities his prior knowledge of the 2019 bombing that killed an Israeli teenager is scheduled to speak at a Georgetown University […]