A British-born Muslim woman has been found guilty of helping her husband plan a terrorist attack against Jews in an attempt to carry out “jihad at home.” Shasta Khan, 38, A British-born Muslim denied being involved with Mohammed Sajid Khan’s plans to attack the Jewish community in Bury, the BBC reported Thursday. She reportedly told…
Sen. John McCain took to the Senate floor to condemn a suggestion by Rep. Michele Bachmann that the federal government has been penetrated by Muslim Brotherhood agents. A letter sent last week to inspectors general of several federal agencies by Bachmann (R-Minn.) and four other Republicans in the House of Representatives suggested that Egypt’s Muslim…
President Barack Obama “absolutely” supports holding a moment of silence at the London Olympic Games to honorthe 11 Israeli athletes and coaches killed at the 1972 games in Munich, ABC News reported. “We absolutely support the campaign for a minute of silence at the Olympics to honor the Israeli athletes killed in Munich,” National Security…
Hannah Rosenthal, the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, will become the president of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation. The choice, announced Wednesday, comes after an almost two-year-long process of introspection and restructuring, according to the Federation. Rosenthal is expected to start in her new position in the fall. “We were looking…
A South African government minister expressed strong support for a proposal to ban products from the West Bank from being labeled as originating from Israel. In a policy briefing on South Africa-Palestinian relations July 14 at the College of Cape Town, South African Deputy Minister of International Relations Marius Fransman said that economic diplomacy could…
The California mother accused of taking her teenage daughter and two friends to smear feces and scrawl swastikas and ?Jew? on homes in the San Fernando Valley in an anti-Semitic vandalism spree pleaded guilty to her actions. Catharine Whelpley pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor by driving…
NBC sportscaster Bob Costas said he will call out the International Olympic Committee for denying Israel?s request for a moment of silence for the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Games. Costas, according to the Hollywood Reporter, will add his voice to the U.S. Senate, the German Bundestag, the Canadian and…
U.S. and Swedish officials denied widespread reports that the suspected suicide bomber who blew up a bus of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria was an Islamic militant from Sweden who served two years at Guantanamo Bay. The reports named the long-haired suspect as Mehdi Ghezali, a Swedish citizen, with Algerian and Finnish origins, the Times of…
Wearing checked Bermuda shorts and blue t-shirt and carrying a small rucksack, the bomber blended in seamlessly with the relaxed crowds travelling to Bulgaria?s sandy Black Sea coast. The man in his mid-30s, long dark curly hair under dark blue cap, roamed for an hour under the gaze of surveillance cameras through airport buildings and…
Disgraced ex-congressman Anthony Weiner called 2011 his ?best year? as he carried out a sit-down interview flanked by his wife and their baby boy. The scandal-tarred lawmaker, who was forced to resign over inappropriate text messages to women, insisted he was a changed man and pooh-poohed reports he plans to return to politics in the…
The Jewish social justice organization Bend the Arc announced the opening of a Washington office, as well as the creation of a political action committee and a non-profit arm. The group said Wednesday that it plans to use the new entities to promote a more rounded, progressive agenda and focus on domestic topics instead of…
