(CNSNews.com) – Sri Lanka’s government has blamed a little-known local Islamist group for the Easter Sunday bombings, but officials and security experts suspect global jihadists were connected to the deadly attack. “There must be a wider international network behind it,” cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne told reporters of the coordinated suicide bombings on churches and hotels […]
by Daniel Pipes Gatestone Institute April 22, 2019 Did you know that that the War on Terror actually “is a war for natural resources – and that terrorism has little to do with it”? So argues John Maszka in his book, Washington’s Dark Secret: The Real Truth About Terrorism and Islamic Extremism (Potomac, 2018), as […]
France demanded that Israel stop the freezing of tax revenues of the Palestinian Authority and transfer all the funds collected for the PA to Ramallah including the amounts paid by the PA to terrorists and their families. According to the report on Channel 12 News, the French demand received a clear response from Prime Minister […]
An anti-Semitic tirade in a Northern Ireland bar filmed by Jewish director and author Tuvia Tenenbom is being investigated by police. Someone who saw the video on social media apparently filed the complaint. Tenenbom, who has written several books that explore how Jews are viewed in the world, including “Catch the Jew,” was in Northern […]
In a tasteless example of misleading clickbait, Newsweek published this headline, comparing a small and quickly extinguished fire near the Al Aqsa mosque to yesterday’s blaze at Notre Dame. Complete with video of the blaze consuming Notre Dame cathedral, this article inspired dramatic reactions on social media, as readers had no idea of the truth, […]
President Donald Trump shared in the world’s horror at news that Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a Catholic landmark dating to the 13th century, was being ravaged by fire. “No cathedral in the world like it,” Trump told a crowd at Nuss Truck and Equipment in Minneapolis, where he spoke at a scheduled event, adding […]
The Daily Telegraph reported on the transfer of dozens of animals from a decrepit zoo in Gaza to Jordan thanks to an international NGO. Other media outlets made sure to include Israel’s role in facilitating this major cross-border operation. The BBC, for example, wrote: “Israel’s Land Crossing Authority chief said in a statement the country […]
by Raymond Ibrahim Gatestone Institute April 14, 2019 Countless churches throughout Western Europe are being vandalized, defecated on, and torched. In France, two churches are desecrated every day on average. According to PI-News, a German news site, 1,063 attacks on Christian churches or symbols (crucifixes, icons, statues) were registered in France in 2018. This represents a 17% […]
Chlorine was used in a deadly attack on the Syrian town of Douma in 2018, the world’s chemical weapons watchdog determined Friday, reports AFP. The report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said two cylinders containing the poison gas landed on a housing block in Douma in April. The team’s mission […]
Yorai Feinberg was taking a break outside his Berlin restaurant when a man screamed at him: “Go back to your gas chambers!” Shaken by the abuse, the 37-year-old Israeli posted a video of the December 2017 incident, filmed by his friend, on social media. The video went viral and unleashed a torrent of anti-Semitic hate […]
