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Wall Street Journal
an hour ago
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- Wall Street Journal
How Can Congress Keep American Jews Safe?
Your editorial 'The Intifada Comes to Boulder' (June 3) rightly states that the recent violent attacks against American Jews, in Colorado and Washington, 'are intended to terrorize the Jewish diaspora.' You advise that this will get worse 'if it isn't denounced by all political sides.' That's true, but it mustn't be the end of the discussion. Republican and Democratic politicians have condemned these heinous attacks. What the American Jewish community needs now are concrete steps to keep us more safe and secure. Congress has underfunded the Nonprofit Security Grant Program—the largest federal program to support security at synagogues and other Jewish sites—administered by the Department of Homeland Security. For 2025, Congress appropriated $275 million for NSGP grants. Last year more than $900 million in applications were submitted. Congress should appropriate at least $500 million for NSGP grants for the coming year.
Yahoo
8 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Michigan anti-discrimination law would explicitly ban antisemitism under new proposal
A Democratic lawmaker in the Michigan House of Representatives introduced legislation June 4 to amend the state's civil rights law to include an updated definition of antisemitism, saying recent attacks on Jewish communities in the U.S. have created a crisis. Rep. Noah Arbit, D-West Bloomfield, said during a June 3 news conference the Michigan Antisemitism Protection Act would create a 'gold standard definition of antisemitism' within the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, the state law that bans discrimination in housing, employment, education and public accommodations on the basis of certain protected classes, including, religion, age, race, sex and sexual orientation. 'If adopted, these standards would assist relevant state institutions, agencies and authorities identify and elevate potential instances of illegal discrimination against Jews in Michigan,' Arbit said. He added the bill, HB 4548, would not affect constitutionally protected free speech, but would add protections for ethnicity in arenas already covered by the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. Specifically, the bill would add ethnicity as a protected class and adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of antisemitism. The IHRA states: 'Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.' Arbit, who is Jewish, said a June 1 attack at a Colorado event drawing attention to Israeli hostages held by Hamas and the fatal shootings of two Israeli embassy workers in May outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington are the latest instances of targeted violence against Jews in the U.S. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the alleged perpetrator of the Boulder, Colorado, attack, was charged with a federal hate crime after telling investigators he wanted to kill all Zionist people, according to an FBI affidavit. The attacks, however, aren't isolated instances of targeted violence, Arbit said. 'Over the last decade and a half, American Jews have watched our vibrant synagogues congeal into fortresses. The anxiety that our sanctuaries or Sunday schools could be the next target for a gunman or terrorist pervades Jewish communities across Michigan,' he said. Arbit was joined by Michigan's two other Jewish lawmakers, Sen. Jeremy Moss, D-Southfield, and Rep. Samantha Steckloff, D-Farmington Hills. Steckloff said all three lawmakers have received calls from the FBI about credible threats against them, adding she had a police detail on her home. Steckloff said it's important to push back against antisemitic tropes, including the idea that Jews control societal institutions. She also said American Jews should not be blamed for what the government of Israel has done, referencing the ongoing war in Gaza. 'We cannot continue to hate American Jews because of what is going on overseas,' Steckloff said. HB 4548 would bar discrimination on the basis of accusing Jews of being more loyal to Israel or the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide than in the U.S. While the IHRA states that manifestations of antisemitism may include targeting the state of Israel, the group also states that criticism of Israel similar to criticism of another country cannot be considered antisemitism. The bill states discrimination "does not include criticism of the State of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country, nation, state, or government." Holding Jewish people collectively accountable for Israel's actions, however, is considered antisemitism under the bill and under the IHRA's working definition. The definition was adopted in 2016. Contact Arpan Lobo: alobo@ This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: New Michigan bill would adopt definition of antisemitism in state law
New York Post
17 hours ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Miranda Devine: Migrant crime defined Biden's legacy — and Trump is tasked with cleaning up the mess
The disasters of Joe Biden's open border policy are coming home to roost. The Molotov cocktail attack by a Hamas-loving Egyptian illegal migrant on a group of American Jews in Boulder, Colo., is just one deadly consequence. The national police blotter is bulging with rapes, murders, robberies, assault, antisemitic attacks and all manner of crimes that never would have been committed if not for Biden's insane decision to disband the suite of border protection policies President Trump had successfully implemented in his first term. Just in the last month, Larisha Thompson, a 40-year-old mother of two, was murdered in her car during a random robbery attempt by six illegal migrants from Honduras aged 13-21 in South Carolina, and 18-year-old Air Force cadet Ava Moore was killed in a hit-and-run on her Jet Ski in Texas by two illegal migrants. Their names can be added to the growing tally of victims like Laken Riley, Rachel Morin and Jocelyn Nungaray, whose blood is on Biden's hands. It was a point of pride for Biden to stop building Trump's border wall, abandon Trump's Remain in Mexico policy and institute catch-and-release so that 15 million to 20 million illegal migrants crossed the border during his presidency and melted into the heartland. He did it all with a flurry of executive orders on Day One, and a malign leftist as Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. 'Mass entry' mobile app Together, as the national media turned a blind eye, they set about systematically undermining border security and making illegal migration more efficient, creating the CBP One mobile app to allow mass entry without vetting, providing work permits without immigration hearings and flying illegal migrants at taxpayer expense in the dead of night into cities and towns across America. They tied the hands of Border Patrol agents and even falsely accused some on horseback of racism for simply doing their jobs. Despite Biden's lie that he was powerless to close the border and needed Congress to pass new laws, Trump in his first 100 days managed to virtually stop all illegal migration with executive orders and a strong border czar, Tom Homan, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. DHS announced in April that migrant crossings were down by 99.99%. Only five illegal aliens had been 'temporarily' allowed into the US, most for health reasons, such as suffering a heart attack as they crossed the border. That is a staggering drop from the roughly 68,000 illegals released by the Biden administration during the same month last year. As well, fentanyl overdoses reportedly have declined. Promises to keep But as spectacularly successful as the Trump administration has been, getting the border under control is the easy part. Now the president has to fulfil his Inauguration Day promise to deport 'millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came,' in the face of extraordinary pushback from a handful of Trump-deranged activist district judges. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has ordered ICE to double its quota to 3,000 illegals arrested per day at a 'minimum,' he told Fox News, with the goal of 1 million deportations a year. But even if the administration achieves that goal, despite the lawfare being waged against it, that's one-quarter or less of the people Biden let in. Biden and Mayorkas' deliberate rush to bring in as many illegal migrants as quickly as possible meant that vetting fell by the wayside. 'All of us who are in national security, this is what keeps us up at night,' one senior administration source told me this week. 'This unknown factor of having an open- border asylum system being exploited by millions of people who have come into this country — and we don't know who they are.' He points out that under the cursory vetting system of the Biden years, there was no derogatory information on Boulder firebombing suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who was granted a tourist visa and illegally overstayed with no consequences. What we do know about potential 'ticking time bombs' who have entered the country is frightening enough. When Trump-appointed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard came into office, she immediately ordered the National Counterterrorism Center to cross-reference asylum applications from visa overstayers and illegal border crossers with the database of known terrorists. They identified 1,200 illegal aliens with terror ties who were allowed to remain in the US by Biden. These are people who applied for asylum but were released into the US because Biden had eliminated Remain in Mexico, which used to allow for thorough vetting of asylum claims before anyone entered the country — and also provided a deterrent to bogus claims. The intelligence source says another enormous risk Biden has saddled us with lies in the roughly 100,000 Afghan evacuees who were rushed in after Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan without proper vetting. Then there are the eight Tajikistan nationals with alleged ties to ISIS who were arrested at the southern border last June, who were believed to be plotting a terrorist attack on US soil. Never heard from again What we weren't told, says the intelligence official, is that there were another 400 suspected terrorists from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan who were brought in last year by the same people-smuggling network and melted into the country, never to be heard from again. Analysts who made this worrying discovery tried to tell their bosses in the Biden administration and were told to ignore it, claims the intelligence source. 'They just had to stew on the information' and say nothing. Get Miranda's latest take Sign up for Devine Online, the newsletter from Miranda Devine Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Want even more news? Check out more newsletters Now that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has designated eight violent criminal cartel gangs, among them Tren de Aragua and MS-13, as terrorist organizations, the NCTC has added another 30,000 aliens somewhere in the country with suspected terrorist ties. That doesn't account for potential terrorists among the roughly 2 million 'gotaways' who deliberately evaded apprehension when they crossed the southern border, despite the freebies on offer if they registered with Border Patrol. 'These are just the knowns,' says the intelligence official. 'There are millions [of gotaways] we don't know about. These are the folks that had a lot to hide, who had blatant ties to terrorists and were here on a mission, not somebody looking for a better life.' Just what that mission is we dread to find out, but what we do know is that Biden and his enablers made America a lot less safe.
Scottish Sun
2 days ago
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- Scottish Sun
Family of terrorist who hurled Molotov cocktails at pro-Israel demonstrators detained by US immigration cops
The family of a terrorist suspect who threw Molotov cocktails at pro-Israel activists were detained by immigration cops. Mohamed Sabry Soliman's wife and five kids were yesterday seized by the Department of Homeland Security after it emerged he illegally outstayed his US visa. 2 Mohamed Sabry Soliman is alleged to have yelled 'you all deserve to die' and 'Free Palestine' in Boulder, Colorado, at American Jews Credit: AP 2 Soliman was seen bandaged in his mugshot after the horror attack Credit: Alamy Egyptian national Soliman, 45, reportedly injured 12 people, including an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, on Sunday. The suspect yelled 'you all deserve to die' and 'Free Palestine' in Boulder, Colorado, at American Jews calling for the return of Israeli hostages. The shirtless fiend used an improvised flamethrower and petrol bombs, leaving several victims with severe burns, in the attack at a busy shopping centre in Boulder, Colorado. Kristi Noem of the DHS said: 'This terrorist will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. 'We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this attack. 'I am continuing to pray for the victims of this attack and their families.' Soliman will be charged tomorrow, including with 16 counts of attempted murder. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden, for allowing Soliman to illegally overstay a tourist visa. Prosecutors believe he had planned the attack for a year and was only put off by waiting for one of his daughters to graduate from high school. Soliman was born in Egypt and lived in Kuwait for 17 years before moving to Colorado, where he worked as an Uber driver, in August 2022.
The Irish Sun
2 days ago
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- The Irish Sun
Family of terrorist who hurled Molotov cocktails at pro-Israel demonstrators detained by US immigration cops
The family of a terrorist suspect who threw Molotov cocktails at pro-Israel activists were detained by immigration cops. Mohamed Sabry Soliman's wife and five kids were yesterday seized by the Department of Homeland Security after it emerged he illegally outstayed his US visa. Advertisement 2 Mohamed Sabry Soliman is alleged to have yelled 'you all deserve to die' and 'Free Palestine' in Boulder, Colorado, at American Jews Credit: AP 2 Soliman was seen bandaged in his mugshot after the horror attack Credit: Alamy Egyptian national Soliman, 45, reportedly injured 12 people, including an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor , on Sunday. The suspect yelled 'you all deserve to die' and 'Free Palestine' in Boulder, Colorado, at American Jews calling for the return of Israeli hostages. The shirtless fiend used an improvised flamethrower and petrol bombs, leaving several victims with severe burns, in the attack at a busy shopping centre in Boulder, Colorado. Kristi Noem of the DHS said: 'This terrorist will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law . Advertisement 'We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this attack. 'I am continuing to pray for the victims of this attack and their families.' Soliman will be charged tomorrow, including with 16 counts of attempted murder. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has blamed his predecessor, Joe Biden, for allowing Soliman to illegally overstay a tourist visa. Advertisement Most read in The Sun Breaking Exclusive Prosecutors believe he had planned the attack for a year and was only put off by waiting for one of his daughters to graduate from high school. Soliman was born in Egypt and lived in Kuwait for 17 years before moving to Colorado, where he worked as an Uber driver, in August 2022. Eight burned after man shouting 'free Palestine' targets crowd with Molotov cocktails in 'terror attack' in Colorado
