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Charlotte Littlewood speaks at a London Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism event in this undated photo. (Lakruwan Rajapaksha/ London Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism)
March 14, 2026, 2:17 pm
UK extremism expert: As Islamist narratives go mainstream, politicians fear confrontation
Charlotte Littlewood says Britain is losing an ‘uphill battle’ as groups like the Muslim Brotherhood use antisemitism as a strategic tool to undermine Western societies
By Robert Philpot
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion delivers a victory speech early on February 28, 2024 after securing reelection (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 25, 2025, 4:14 am
Jerusalem mayor says rioters broke his windshield during visit to Haredi neighborhood
Moshe Lion’s office says he wasn’t injured in incident and that police have launched an investigation into latest attack on elected official by ultra-Orthodox extremists
By ToI Staff
Haredi extremists chant "Traitor" and bang on the door of Shas MK Yinon Azoulay's apartment in Ashdod, November 19, 2025. (X screenshot)
November 20, 2025, 11:14 am
Extremist Haredi protesters chant ‘traitor’ at Shas lawmaker’s door
Yinon Azoulay becomes third ultra-Orthodox MK to be attacked over proposed conscription bill
By ToI Staff
An image of former British chief rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks from 2013. (Courtesy © Blake-Ezra Photography Ltd.)
November 11, 2025, 11:01 am
Five years after his death, online course aims to make Rabbi Sacks’s philosophy go global
A scholar mentored by Sacks hopes to preserve and disseminate the former UK chief rabbi’s legacy as one of the greatest modern Jewish thinkers
By Rossella Tercatin
Haredi extremists riot in Beit Shemesh on August 29, 2023. (Screen capture/X)
August 30, 2023, 3:45 am
Police extract Beit Shemesh mayor from school as Haredi extremists riot outside
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox locals converge on building being toured by Aliza Bloch, vandalize her car parked nearby, start a fire and hurl objects at the school
By ToI Staff
Jewish extremists from the Or l'Achim and Lehava organizations scuffle with police outside a Messianic Jewish convention in Jerusalem, June 22, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 23, 2023, 11:28 am
Jewish extremists try to interrupt Messianic Jewish event in Jerusalem
Protesters attempt to break into main hall, block participants from getting to convention; police arrest activist for allegedly attacking officer
By Michael Horovitz
Far-right Israeli wedding-goers celebrate the killings of the Dawabsha family, brandishing rifles and calling for revenge against Palestinians, December 2015. (screen capture: Channel 10)
March 2, 2023, 6:20 pm
Four convicted on appeal of incitement at infamous 2015 ‘wedding of hate’
Jerusalem District Court rules that the accused as minors were aware they were celebrating the murder of a Palestinian family, and therefore liable to incitement charges
By Jeremy Sharon
File: A member of the Jewish Lev Tahor cult in Bosnia and Herzegovina in television footage broadcast by the N1 BiH news outlet on January 28, 2022. (Screenshot/ YouTube)
February 22, 2022, 2:11 am
Bouncing around the Balkans, Lev Tahor cultists struggle to evade attention
Dozens of members of the extremist Jewish sect are sequestered in a North Macedonian hotel after locals threatened them; they reportedly arrived via Romania, Bosnia and Montenegro
By David I. Klein
A young woman and member of the Lev Tahor community in the Canadian city of Chatham, Ontario, Nov. 29, 2013. (Rick Madonik/Toronto Star via Getty Images, JTA)
April 20, 2021, 11:24 am
Feds charge extremist Jewish sect Lev Tahor with exploiting, kidnapping children
Five leaders of the fanatical ultra-Orthodox group, now located in Guatemala, charged over the arranged marriage of a 12-year-old, other crimes
By Shira Hanau
Demonstrators protest in Ashdod against the closure of businesses in the city on Shabbat, on January 20, 2018. (Flash90)
July 17, 2019, 4:07 am
Pew report: PA less restrictive on religion than Israel; Iran slightly worse
Israel is one of the top 22 most religiously restrictive countries in world, with sixth-highest level of ‘interreligious tension and violence’ — a worse score than Syria, says Pew
By Ben Sales
Cologne's Central Mosque run by German-Turkish organization DITIB is pictured on September 29, 2018 in Cologne, western Germany, prior to the visit of the Turkish President. (AFP PHOTO / Patrik STOLLARZ)
December 29, 2018, 10:32 am
German government in talks on foreign financing of mosques
According to local reports, Berlin asks Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others to report planned funding of religious facilities
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative image of the Imam of Drancy, Hassen Chalghoumi (C), Lebanese Imam Mohammad Ali Al-Husseini (2L) Egyptian Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb (3R) posing with others as they prepare to take part in The Muslim March Against Terrorism in Paris on July 8, 2017. (AFP/Francois Guillot)
April 24, 2018, 7:39 pm
30 French imams say they’ll help counter Muslim extremism, oppose anti-Semitism
Religious leaders complain over ‘the confiscation of our religion by criminals… who are ignorant, disrupted, and idle youth’
By JTA
Maajid Nawaz speaking at a Liberal Democrat campaign event in West Hampstead, London, in 2015. (Wikimedia commons/flickr/eregis)
February 19, 2018, 12:47 am
The British activist who went from radical Islam to staunch Israel ally
Maajid Nawaz spent 5 years in an Egyptian prison for espousing extremism. Now living in London, he educates about the dangers of radicalization in the Western world
By Robert Philpot
70,000 Hindus in India rally for Israel under Hindu Samhati Banner in Kolkata, February 14, 2018. Pictured: Sri Tapan Ghosh, head of the Hindu Samhati. (Vijeta Uniyal)
February 15, 2018, 1:36 pm
In Calcutta, tens of thousands at pro-Israel rally by far-right Hindu movement
Marking 10 years of the Hindu Samhati movement, demonstration includes violent dust-up with media, arrests of protesters, and mass conversion of 14-member Muslim family
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Sara Bonchek
February 6, 2018, 2:26 pm
Sara Bonchek
One woman’s extremism is another’s truth
There’s violence in our midst; why are we quibbling over how stringent authentic Judaism is?
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