Tag: Terrorism
Terrorist attacks stark reminder for European Jewry, loud alarm for general society
As Austrians were making the most of their last night in restaurants, cafes and bars on Nov. 2 before the onset of a new lockdown, a 20-year-old Islamic terrorist fired at passersby in Vienna’s...
This group wants a caliphate, and sees even Hamas as a ‘nationalist’ target
The 15,000 Muslims who crowded into the courtyards of the Temple Mount mosques on Oct. 30 became another news story about COVID-19. But the real story was much bigger: the enormous anti-France protest near the al-Aqsa...
Vienna terror suspect was jailed in 2019 for trying to join ISIS
The main suspect in Monday’s deadly terror attack in Vienna had been convicted on terror-related charges in April 2019 but secured an early release in December.
The suspect, identified as Kujtim Fejzulai, 20, was sentenced...
Austrian leader: ‘We must fight not only terrorism but the ideology behind it’
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has seen long and difficult days since forming his second government at the beginning of January this year.
Shortly after forming a coalition that set a precedent in Europe—between his own...
Israeli court rules Palestinians must compensate terror victim’s family
The Jerusalem District Court ruled on Monday that the Palestinian Authority must pay NIS 13 million ($3.8 million) in compensation to the family of Tzipi and Gadi Shemesh, who were murdered in a suicide...
Netanyahu, Rivlin express ‘total solidarity’ with Austria following Vienna terror attack
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday expressed the Jewish state’s strong support for Austria in the wake of the terrorist attack in Vienna on Monday.
“Israel condemns the brutal attack...
French president says pro-Hamas group connected to beheading of teacher
French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday that a pro-Hamas group is connected to the beheading last week of a history teacher in Paris.
The suspect in the murder has been identified as 18-year-old Abdoullakh Abouyezidovitch Anzorov, a...
Paris teacher beheaded after showing class Muhammad cartoon
A history teacher in a Paris suburb was beheaded on Oct. 16 after he showed his class cartoon pictures of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
The victim, identified as Samuel Paty, 47, taught at a middle...
Ex-Nazi hunter calls on Barr to block Erekat from entering US for Harvard post
American attorney and ex-Nazi hunter Neal Sher has called on U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr to deny Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Saeb Erekat entry into the United States to mentor students at Harvard University.
In...
Saudi Arabia uncovers terror cell trained in Iran by Revolutionary Guards
On September 23, Saudi Arabia revealed the existence of a terrorist cell in the kingdom trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). A Saudi government spokesman said that 10 operatives, three of whom...