Government & Politics

‘Squad’ members cozy up to anti-Semitic fundraiser who promoted Holocaust denial Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Summer Lee, and Ilhan Omar pose for pictures with Maher Abdel-qader

(Free Beacon) Democratic Reps. Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), and Summer Lee (Pa.) posed for photos with a fundraiser last week who has spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and founded a Facebook group where Hamas terrorists are praised. The […]

Government & Politics

Muslim Americans who soured on Biden see Israel aid package as further betrayal 'If our votes and the votes of people who support the Palestinian human rights are so important, then Biden should be listening,' one activist said.

(NBC) “Outraged,” “point of no return” and “absolute disaster” are how some Muslim American organizers have described their reactions to an aid package for Israel that is making its way through Congress for President Joe Biden to sign into law. Many Muslim […]

Immigration

Man on terrorist watchlist was dropped from program that monitors migrants The Afghan national was enrolled in Alternatives to Detention, which tracks migrants' locations via ankle monitor, mobile app or phone. It didn’t last long, NBC News has learned.

(NBC) When an Afghan national on the FBI terrorist watchlist was arrested last Thursday after having spent nearly a year in the U.S., immigration officials said he had been enrolled in a program that tracked his location via ankle monitor, mobile app or telephone. But […]

Demonstrations

Iran attack widens rift between activist left and Dem moderates The latest flashpoint in the Israel-Gaza war shows both sides calcifying their stances.

(Politico) Moments after Iran launched an attack on Israel, around 400 pro-Palestinian protesters in Chicago broke out in chants of “Hands off Iran!” The head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, claimed Iran “is responding […]

Clothing

NYPD says officer did not rip off anti-Israel activist’s hijab during arrest: ‘Wholly untrue’ The activist, Nerdeen Kiswani, shared a video on X that she claims contradicts what the NYPD said

(Fox) The New York City Police Department defended the actions of its officers by releasing bodycam video that showed an officer gently helping a woman with her hijab after the radical anti-Israel activist claimed she was “brutalized” and her hijab was ripped […]

Immigration

Man on terror watchlist was released by Border Patrol With border security funding blocked in Congress, the case illustrates the challenges U.S. officials face in identifying migrants who may pose national security threats.

(NBC) An Afghan migrant on the terrorist watchlist spent nearly a year inside the U.S. after he was apprehended and released by Border Patrol agents last year, U.S. officials told NBC News. The man was arrested in February and then released last […]

Clerics & Preachers

‘Death to America,’ ‘Death to Israel’ chants pour out of Muslim protesters in Michigan on last [Friday] of Ramadan Dearborn has become ‘hotbed for hate,’ according to 1 expert

(Fox) Protesters in Dearborn, Michigan, shouted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” during an International Al-Quds Day rally held in the town. “Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Al-Quds Day, this is why he would say to pour all of your […]

Clothing

NYC agrees to $17.5 million settlement over forced removal of hijabs for mugshot photos Men and women who were forced to remove any religious head coverings for NYPD photographs are eligible for approximately $7,000 to $13,000 in settlement payments from the city.

(Courthouse News) New York City agreed on Friday to pay a $17.5 million settlement to resolve a class-action civil rights lawsuit brought by New York women who were forced to remove their religious headscarves in NYPD mugshot photos for the department’s facial […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

White House ramps up defense of embattled Muslim American judicial nominee First to NBC News: Biden’s top aides are pushing the Senate to confirm Adeel Mangi to be a U.S. appeals court judge as Sen. Jacky Rosen becomes the third Democrat to oppose him.

(NBC) Facing a potentially devastating Democratic defection in the Senate, the White House is ramping up its fight to confirm an embattled judicial nominee who would be the first Muslim American to serve as a U.S. federal appeals court judge. The White […]

Government & Politics

Dem Rep. Jahana Hayes stands by letter she wrote praising Hamas-friendly group CAIR Islamic advocacy group's leader said he was 'happy to see' Hamas kill Jews on Oct. 7

(Free Beacon) Connecticut congresswoman Jahana Hayes (D.) is defending a letter she wrote praising the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic advocacy group whose leader said he was “happy to see” Hamas kill Jews on Oct. 7. The group does valuable […]

Academics & Education

At Columbia, an Israeli-designated terror group teaches ‘Palestinian Resistance 101’ — and lauds plane hijackings 'The fact is that October 7 changed the world ... we saw the potential of a future for Palestine liberated from Zionism,' Samidoun's Charlotte Kates says

(Free Beacon) On Sunday, a group of keffiyeh-clad individuals huddled around a computer to discuss the “Palestinian resistance.” Charlotte Kates, a member of the Israeli-designated terror group Samidoun, praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack for showing “the potential of a future for […]

Government & Politics

FBI: Since Oct. 7, ‘almost every major terrorist org in world’ has threatened US 'We’ve also seen an uptick in threats against the Jewish community here in the United States and abroad,' said Robert Wells, assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division.

(JNS) The United States has been in a “heightened terrorism threat environment” since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, and “almost every major terrorist organization in the world,” including Al-Qaeda and ISIS, have called for terror attacks against the United States, […]

Holidays

CAIR MN removes Shaun King as event keynote speaker following backlash The decision came seven hours after the activist was announced as the speaker for the fundraiser.

(Star Tribune) Minnesota’s branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Thursday night it will remove activist Shaun King as its keynote speaker for an upcoming Ramadan fundraiser, hours after backlash over the announcement that King was selected. A little before noon, […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

Biden nomination of the first Muslim American to a federal appeals court in peril Two Democratic senators said they will oppose the nomination of Adeel Mangi to the powerful 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

(NBC) President Joe Biden’s nomination of Adeel Mangi to be a powerful U.S. circuit court judge is in peril after two Senate Democrats announced they will oppose his nomination. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., have said they will […]

Interfaith

Pew: Half of US Muslims say ‘valid’ Hamas reasons to fight Israel, 21% say Oct. 7 attack ‘acceptable’ Just 18% of U.S. Muslims said that Israel had valid reasons to go to war against Hamas.

(JNS) Regardless of how they feel about Oct. 7, almost half of U.S. Muslim adults (49%) say that Hamas had “valid” reasons to fight Israel, and 21% of that demographic said that Hamas’s terror attack on Oct. 7 was either “completely acceptable” […]