Michael Sachs pulled into the synagogue parking lot in his GMC Sierra Elevation, took off his Stetson and picked up his transparent tallit bag, containing his Jewish prayer shawl. On his way into B’nai Emunah, also called “The Synagogue,” he fist-bumped the armed security guard, and once inside, replaced the cowboy hat with a kippa.
A pro-Hamas group that led a riot at the University of Washington still operates despite the United States sanctioning its foreign affiliate as a front for terrorism.
Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return UW, or SUPER UW, called on Seattle locals in a September Instagram post to join an Oct. 7 protest marking three years of Israeli “genocide.” The group openly labels itself an ally of the U.S.-designated terrorist group Masar Badil and its youth branch, according to posts documented in a Friday report by George Washington University.
The co-pilot who attempted to hijack an Israel-bound flight posted videos of Al Qaeda leaders and clips appearing to show plans to target Israeli planes three years ago.
Omani national Hamam Al Hammami, 29, severely wounded captain Smit Machchhar using the onboard crash axe as he tried to take control of the Flydubai plane on its way to Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
The prosecutor general of the United Arab Emirates, Hamad Saif al-Shamsi, said this morning that the co-pilot was ‘attempting to carry out a terrorist act’.
Passenger airline crashes are unusual, intentional ones are rare and intentional pilot crashes are virtually unheard of. Passenger planes are generally flown by highly trained airline pilots, many of them are veterans of their respective air forces, and they remain calm in a crisis.
That’s why there hasn’t been a single case of an American airline pilot deliberately crashing a plane and only one case of an airline pilot taking down a western plane with all onboard and that took place in 2015 when a suicidal first officer crashed Lufthansa’s Germanwings Flight 9525.
The BBC should be ashamed of its Gaza coverage. The latest embarrassment is the revelation that 53 of the people killed in Gaza who the BBC described as ‘journalists’ were, in fact, Hamas terrorists. As the Telegraph reports, most of the obituaries appeared on BBC Arabic, while 10 featured on the BBC’s English coverage. Among them was Abdullah Darwish, an Al-Aqsa TV cameraman who was also a Hamas fighter who participated in the 7 October attacks.
Antisemitic flyers were distributed this week to a Belleville, Ont., synagogue targeted in a shooting last month as well as the surrounding neighbourhoods, the synagogue’s president said Friday.
Norman Weddum said he woke up Thursday morning to find four different flyers blaming Jewish people “for everything under the sun” had been distributed overnight to the Sons of Jacob synagogue and throughout the city’s east end.
“The number of flyers that were distributed and posted, it couldn’t have been done by one person,” he said.
A dozen Jewish teachers have filed human rights complaints against four Ontario school boards and two teachers’ unions, alleging they were discriminated against amid persistent incidents of antisemitism.
The group named in their complaint the Toronto District School Board, York Region District School Board, Simcoe County District School Board, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation.
The federal government, through Public Safety Canada, published a document last week ostensibly describing progress on its “National Commitments to Combat Antisemitism — Summer 2026.”
It’s a classic example of closing the barn door after the horses have fled.
OTTAWA – The federal government has identified “anti-Zionism” as a driver of anti-Jewish hate — a major policy shift that has prompted a range of reactions.
The change took place on Sept. 24 when Public Safety Canada published a progress report on federal efforts promised in January to combat antisemitism.
The report said Ottawa sought to do a better job of recognizing and responding to “contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, including anti-Zionism.”
In what the media is hailing as some sort of stunning achievement, the Mamdani administration released an antisemitism policy. This booklet mostly consists of setting up various groups to hold meetings and some security funding for synagogues.
Of course security funding would be much less needed if Mamdani didn’t insist on allowing Muslim and Marxist hate rallies outside synagogues. That’s the equivalent of legalizing arson and then funding some smoke detectors.
A flight bound for Israel was forced into an emergency landing after one pilot allegedly attacked another in a suspected hijacking attempt before being overpowered by passengers.
Flydubai flight FZ1073 was travelling from Dubai to Tel Aviv when the cockpit brawl broke out, with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claiming the attacker was trying to crash the plane after stabbing the other pilot.
🚨 BREAKING: A pilot aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv attacked the other pilot and attempted to seize control of the aircraft in terror attack.
The plane, carrying 174 Israeli passengers, plunged 14,000 feet before the situation was brought under control and… pic.twitter.com/FAgyt7dOpK
— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) September 30, 2026
The Carney Liberals are to be commended on finally taking concrete action to tackle the scourge of antisemitism, but as recent fatal and terrifying events have shown, the lateness of their initiative has allowed the ancient hatred to flourish.
We must also wait to see if the new tools will be adequate for police who will have the difficult job of enforcing the law.
The federal government recently released a progress report on its National Commitments to Combat Antisemitism. In its introduction, the report makes clear just how deeply entrenched antisemitism is in Canada.
Five men arrested on suspicion of a bomb plot near a Royal Air Force base may have been conducting a “dry run”, it is feared.
The British nationals, all aged in their 20s, were detained on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act and preparation of a terrorist act contrary to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act near RAF Fairford on Sunday.
They had travelled to the area in three vans, found 400m from the Gloucestershire air base, which were later examined by army bomb-disposal specialists and a robot.
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RAF Fairford incident involves ‘foreign actor’, says Rubio
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the suspected terror plot at RAF Fairford “clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor”.
In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Rubio said “I think it ties us to the reality here, and that is we are dealing with elements in the world, and in the case of Iran, for example, who have openly threatened to attack American interests globally”.
He did not provide evidence or further details. Tehran has strongly denied any involvement.
JERUSALEM — A slew of reports that Arab officials warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about a serious threat emerging from Gaza days before the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas have put the longtime Israeli leader on the defensive less than 30 days before a pivotal election.
Ever since the attack, the most deadly in Israel’s history, Netanyahu has argued that Israeli security chiefs collectively failed to foresee the surprise attack by Hamas — but that he led the fightback, scoring redemptive battlefield victories in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran.
In a pre-recorded speech played at the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas presented an extraordinarily positive picture of the reforms he claims his government has carried out. According to Abbas, the PA has fulfilled the commitments it made to the international community.
