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Law enforcement respond to Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
March 15, 2026, 12:10 am
Iran war puts many in US on high alert, but synagogue attack shows prevention’s limits
Michigan synagogue firebombing, separate shooting in Virginia highlight challenge of detecting self-radicalized attackers as Middle East tensions ripple onto US soil
By Reuters and ToI Staff
MK Almog Cohen argues with MK Ofer Cassif during a Knesset House Committee meeting, October 29, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 29, 2024, 9:19 pm
Following stormy debate, lawmakers advance measure to deport terrorists’ relatives
Bill allowing interior minister to expel, without trial, citizens who encourage family members to commit attacks ‘not constitutional,’ says rights organization ACRI
By Sam Sokol
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. (AP/Susan Walsh)
May 25, 2023, 9:31 pm
Oath Keepers boss gets 18-year sentence for seditious conspiracy in US Capitol riot
Prison term for Stewart Rhodes is the longest to be handed down so far in the hundreds of cases related to the January 6 attack
By Michael Kunzelman, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
File: Medics evacuate a man injured during riots in Acre, northern Israel, May 12, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)
July 28, 2022, 3:02 pm
Arab Israeli man indicted on terror charges for Acre mob assault
Suspect accused of participating in a violent attack against a Jewish man in the northern town during the May 2021 riots; victim sustained life-threatening injuries
By Jeremy Sharon
A person brings flowers to the perimeter of the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, New York, May 16, 2022. (Matt Rourke/AP)
June 7, 2022, 7:43 pm
US warns of high risk of extremist violence after mass shootings
Department of Homeland Security cites January standoff at a synagogue in Texas linked to al-Qaeda supporter — but stresses that greatest threat stems from domestic terrorism
By Agencies
Assistant Attorney General for National Security Division Matthew Olsen, seen from a video monitor, testifies remotely before a US Senate Judiciary Committee during a virtual hearing to examine the domestic terrorism threat one year after January 6, on Capitol Hill, on January 10, 2022, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
January 12, 2022, 12:20 am
US Justice Department establishing unit focused on domestic terror
Assistant AG says number of FBI investigations into suspected violent extremists has more than doubled since spring 2020: ‘We have seen a growing threat’
By Eric Tucker
President Joe Biden delivers remarks about his proposed ‘Build Back Better’ social spending bill as Vice President Kamala Harris looks in the East Room of the White House, October 28, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)
October 29, 2021, 8:16 pm
Biden’s Tree of Life anniversary remarks use term worrying both left and right
Reference to ‘domestic terrorism’ has civil liberties groups concerned over impingement of freedoms; Republicans allege those against virus measures have been labeled as such
By Ron Kampeas
US President Joe Biden speaks to American service members at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, England, June 9, 2021. (AP Photo/ Patrick Semansky)
June 15, 2021, 2:27 pm
Biden administration pushes plan to combat US domestic terrorism
Justice Department mulls recommending specific law on the matter, as report indicates increased threat posed by extremists
By MICHAEL BALSAMO
A man suspected of planting pipe bombs at political party headquarters in Washington, DC, on January 5, 2020, in surveillance footage released by the FBI. (Screenshot/YouTube)
March 10, 2021, 4:08 am
FBI releases new footage of Washington pipe bomb suspect
Man is suspected of planting explosives at headquarters of both Republican, Democratic parties the night before the storming of the US Capitol
By AFP
Neo-Nazis and white supremacists encircle counter-protesters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., August 11, 2017. (Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
February 3, 2021, 6:42 pm
ADL proposes ‘whole of society’ offensive against domestic terrorism
Citing Capitol storming, group calls on Biden administration to convene a ‘Preventing Domestic Terrorism Summit’ to bring together state, federal and private sector officials
By Ron Kampeas
District of Columbia National Guard stand outside the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, after a day of rioting protesters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
January 22, 2021, 11:16 pm
Biden to review ‘serious, growing national security threat’ from domestic groups
US law enforcement and intelligence may pivot from focus on overseas terror toward the threats posed by violent extremism at home
By Eric Tucker
A mourner prays at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York, September 11, 2020. (John Minchillo/AP)
January 19, 2021, 11:51 pm
US soldier arrested in plot to blow up New York City’s 9/11 Memorial
Cole James Bridges believed he was communicating with Islamic State; provided detailed instructions on tactics for terror attacks, including on American soldiers in Mideast
By Larry Neumeister
Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, the vertical struts that once faced the outer walls of the World Trade Center towers, after the terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York, September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
September 11, 2020, 6:52 am
19 years after 9/11, US still fears foreign terror, underplays domestic attacks
Devastating 2001 events symbolize terrorism for many Americans, causing them to underestimate risk of homegrown, far-right extremism, experts say
By Jeff Gruenewald
Blood runs from the lip of a man wearing a shirt with swastikas after he was punched by a protester outside a University of Florida auditorium where white nationalist Richard Spencer was preparing to speak, Thursday, October 19, 2017 in Gainesville, Fla. (Will Vragovic/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
February 21, 2020, 1:52 am
White supremacists increasingly collaborating across borders, experts say
Extremists forming alliances, working together, inspiring each other in growing international movement similar to jihadism; many blame Jews for facilitating immigration
By Ben Sales
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal speaks during a news conference in Jersey City, New Jersey, December 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
December 12, 2019, 8:33 pm
New Jersey AG: Shooting ‘fueled by anti-Semitism,’ being probed as terror attack
Gurbir Grewal confirms assailants who stormed Jersey City kosher market expressed interest in Black Hebrew Israelites, says ‘the evidence points toward acts of hate’
By AP and ToI Staff
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