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Sweden’s Liberal Party leader and Minister of Education and Integration Simona Mohamsson wears a Star of David as she takes part in a pre-election debate in Sweden on August 17, 2026 (Screencapture/YouTube)
August 19, 2026, 8:07 pm
Swedish minister, daughter of Haifa Palestinian, wears Star of David at election debate
Liberal Party leader Simona Mohamsson says she chose to wear Jewish symbol on behalf of Jewish children who cannot, amid surge in Swedish antisemitism; she’s subject to torrent of online hate afterwards
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: German federal police guards at the border control station Kiefersfelden, southern Germany, May 15, 2025. (Michaela Stache / AFP)
November 5, 2025, 10:16 am
Germany bans Islamic group accused of calling for caliphate, inciting against Israel
Muslim Interaktiv to have assets confiscated; police search several properties belonging to two other Muslim groups as part of probe over similar allegations
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A Syrian Druze man who just crossed into Israel, in Majdal Shams on July 17, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
July 17, 2025, 4:53 pm
Hailing Israel as protector, Israel’s Druze reunite with relatives along the Syrian border
After violence broke out in Druze-majority Sweida, 1,000 Israeli Druze burst through the fence into Syria. Most have returned, bringing a sense of relief that the IDF joined the fray
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: A cordon with the logo of the German Federal Police (Bundespolizei) is pictured in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany on November 1, 2024. (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
December 10, 2024, 3:13 pm
Germany arrests three Islamic extremists over suspected attack plot
Assault rifle and knives found as police swoop in on two Lebanese-German brothers in Mannheim and a German-Turkish man from Hochtaunus
By AFP
Illustrative: Smoke billows from an airstrike in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on August 26, 2023. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
September 29, 2024, 3:17 pm
US strikes on Syria kill 37 with links to ISIS, al-Qaeda, including 2 top terrorists
CENTCOM says strikes ‘will disrupt ISIS’ capability to conduct operations against US interests; also targeted Islamic State training camp earlier this month, killing 28 terrorists
By AP and ToI Staff
A police officer walks outside the Islamic Center Hamburg with the Imam Ali Mosque during a raid Wednesday, July 24, 2024, Hamburg, Germany. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)
August 29, 2024, 5:52 pm
Germany boots head of banned Islamic center over alleged Hezbollah links
Mohammad Mofatteh ordered to leave within 14 days or face deportation; Hamburg official says he is ‘top religious representative of inhumane regime in Tehran’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Egyptian-American analyst and author Hussein Aboubakr Mansour at his home in Washington, DC, July 3, 2024 (screenshot from Zoom interview)
August 14, 2024, 10:00 am
How an Egyptian raised on Jew-hatred turned DC lobbyist for Arab-Israeli cooperation
He fled the Morsi regime in 2012. Now, Egyptian-American analyst Hussein Aboubakr Mansour meets with DC policymakers to create an alliance against extremism
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council, with German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1941. (German Federal Archive via Wikimedia Commons)
February 25, 2024, 9:35 am
A New York Yiddish center finds Nazis lurking deep within Hamas’s ideology
Starting Feb. 26, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research sponsors a 3-part webinar with scholars countering the view that October 7 was ‘payback’ for Israel’s rule over the West Bank
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Imam Ahmad Zoud goes on an anti-Semitic rant during his Friday sermon at the Sydney mosque Masjid as-Sunnah Lakemba on December 22, 2023. (Screen capture: MEMRI, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 2, 2024, 11:43 pm
In sermon, Australian imam says Jews are ‘bloodthirsty, treacherous monsters’
Referencing Oct. 7 attacks, Ahmad Zoud of Sydney celebrates how ‘those cowards collapsed in the face of the attacks by the mujahideen, and ran away from them like rats’
By ToI Staff
Pedestrians pass by a poster depicting French teacher Samuel Paty placed in the city center of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, 30kms northwest of Paris, on November 3, 2020, following the beheading of the teacher on October 16. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
December 9, 2023, 3:33 am
6 French teens convicted over role in beheading of teacher by Islamic extremist
Samuel Paty was killed in 2020 near school after showing Prophet Muhammad cartoons in class on free expression; 8 adults, including parent of involved teen, to be tried separately
By Angela Charlton
A police officer at the scene of an incident in the Polish capital city of Warsaw, October 14, 2023.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
November 21, 2023, 12:56 pm
Suspected Islamist woman arrested for planting explosive device on Warsaw street
38-year-old Polish suspect holds Islamist extremist sympathies and was found to have photo of Osama bin Laden in her home
By AP
A police officer walks through garbage left behind by revelers at Times Square after the New Year celebrations on January 1, 2023 in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/AFP)
January 4, 2023, 9:35 pm
Man who attacked cops in Times Square allegedly motivated by US support of Israel
Trevor Bickford, 19, traveled to New York to ‘carry out jihad,’ say prosecutors, who charged Maine resident with assault and attempted murder in New Year’s Eve attack
By AFP
Hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area just south of Mogadishu, in Somalia on February 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)
June 3, 2022, 3:10 am
Can jihadists truly deradicalize? Jewish author speaks with terrorists to find out
In ‘Home, Land, Security,’ Carla Power charts the return of extremists to mainstream society. Raised in the Midwest and Mideast, journalist has some advice for Western governments
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: Police officers stand outside an apartment building during a search in Osnabrueck, Germany, November 6, 2020. (Festim Beqiri/TV7News/dpa via AP)
May 13, 2022, 5:31 pm
German police: 5 stabbed and wounded on train in suspected Islamic terror attack
Iraqi-born man stabs five passengers on train near city of Aachen before being overpowered by a police officer and two other passengers
By AP
Imams from the Paris Mosque gather before paying their homage to the victims of the November 13, 2015 attacks, near the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, on Friday, November 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant, File)
February 6, 2022, 12:02 am
In bid to fight extremism, Macron seeks to reshape Islam in France
Forum of Islam — a new body made up of clergy, laymen and women — is set to lead Europe’s largest Muslim community, with all its leaders hand-picked by the government
By Barbara Surk
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