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A woman was arrested on Thursday after dousing Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home in Atlanta, Georgia, with gasoline during an attempt to set the home on fire. The 26-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, is charged with criminal attempt to commit arson and criminal attempt to damage government property. She could also face federal charges in connection with the incident. Atlanta police officers responded to Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home shortly after 5:45 p.m. on Thursday following reports of vandalism. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum told reporters that two tourists from Utah told officers they observed...

Nihad Awad, co-founder of the Muslim civil rights organization, defended the Oct. 7 attack while claiming Israel has no right to self-defense (President of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Nihad Awad ...) The co-founder and executive director of a major American Muslim civil rights organization characterized Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel in which more than 1,200 were killed as Gazans “break[ing] the siege, the walls of the concentration camp.” “Yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege and throwing down the shackles of their own land and walk free into their land that they were...

The suspect was identified as Mufid Al Khader, 28, officials said. A man arrested in connection with shots that were fired outside a synagogue in Albany, New York, on Thursday has been federally charged, officials said. Mufid Fawaz Alkhader was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, FBI spokesperson Sarah Ruane told NBC News. Alkhader is 28, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter. No one was injured in the incident, in which two shots were fired from a shotgun outside Temple Israel around 2 p.m., Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins...

An appeals court upheld the disorderly conduct convictions Friday of actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police. Smollett, who appeared in the TV show “Empire,” challenged the role of a special prosecutor, jury selection, evidence and many other aspects of the case. But all were turned aside in a 2-1 opinion from the Illinois Appellate Court. Smollett had reported to police that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack by two men wearing ski masks. The manhunt for the attackers...

Police are treating 'Irish lives matter' graffiti which has appeared in west Belfast as a 'hate incident' The graffiti appeared after signage saying the community "will no longer accept the re-housing of illegal immigrants" was erected in the Suffolk area on Tuesday. The West Belfast MLA Gerry Carroll said there was no place for this "racist poison". While Sinn Féin MP Paul Maskey described it as an "attempt to create fear and intimidate people". Inspector Andrew Matson said: “We are treating the matter as a hate incident. “Our local Neighbourhood Policing Team have been undertaking enquiries in the area and...

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The attack happened at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson, a medium-security prison that has been plagued by security lapses and staffing shortages. The person was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity. The Bureau of Prisons confirmed that an incarcerated person was assaulted at FCI Tucson at around 12:30 p.m. local...

A Florida man has been arrested and charged after he was caught on camera viciously punching an elderly shopper at a Walmart last month. Joseph Albert McFadden, 34, has been accused of aggravated battery on elderly after he was seen brutally punching the victim twice in his face and fleeing the scene. The unsettling attack occurred on October 11 at around 10am, as the victim, in his 80s, was leaving Walmart in Lauderdale Lakes with a shopping bag in his hands. McFadden was arrested at another Walmart in the county last week after the store's security staff identified him and...

Four teenagers charged as adults with the murder of fellow student Jonathan Lewis have had their mugshots released ahead of their next court appearance.

A Chicago man enjoying a slice of pizza was savagely beaten and robbed by two brutes in a brazen daylight attack caught on camera Monday — a day before the House Judiciary Committee visited town to hear testimony about how “soft-on-crime” policies have turned the Windy City into an “active warzone.” The victim, an unidentified 33-year-old, was walking down a residential alleyway in Bucktown around 2:55 p.m. when two males ran up to him from behind and delivered a brutal sucker punch to his head. Collapsing face-first into a chain-link fence, the victim cried out in surprise as his assailants...

A Muslim man was shot outside a mosque in Rhode Island as he set up a table to sell Islamic clothing on Friday morning. He was bending down to arrange his table outside the Islamic Center of Rhode Island around 11.40am when a suspect in a vehicle opened fire on him and quickly fled the scene. The man, who remains unidentified, sustained a non-life-threatening injury and was rushed to Rhode Island Hospital for treatment, according to authorities. Imam Abdul-Latif Sackor said that the shooter lingered across the street for approximately 20 minutes before discharging a gunshot. He believed that the...

This story isn’t making national headlines. Four women were injured in a stabbing spree at Louisiana Tech University on Monday morning.

A 61-year-old straphanger was stabbed in the head by a screwdriver-wielding maniac in a random attack onboard a Manhattan subway Thursday night, police and law enforcement sources said. The man was randomly stabbed with the tool twice – in the head and face – while seated on a southbound 1 train around 9:40 p.m. at the 59th Street-Columbus Circle subway station, authorities said. The victim was taken to Mount Sinai West and is in stable condition.

The Department of Justice and FBI pride themselves on being the top federal agencies to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of hate crimes. Their zeal for tracking down racists and targeting Americans based on fabricated white supremacy allegations apparently stops, however, when it comes to classifying the type of anti-white crimes that occurred at Covenant School earlier this year.On March 27, 2023, Audrey Hale, a woman masquerading as a man, shot and killed three children and three staff at a Christian grade school before local police took her out.Even though the ambush bore several telltale signs of a hate crime,...

Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom: #BREAKING: Elderly Jewish Man Dies After Vicious Assault At Palestinian Protest | The Yeshiva World https://theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2237571/tragedy-in-los-angeles-elderly-jewish-man-dies-after-vicious-assault-at-palestinian-protest.html 7:09 PM · Nov 6, 2023

Surveillance video captured the appalling moment a St. Louis teenager attempted to grab a baby from a mother’s arms as she crossed the street with her husband. The incident happened in the Central West End neighborhood Sunday, as a family of crossed the street at around 8.30am. The mother - wearing a blue jacket - is seen holding her 11-month-old baby as the father walks beside them. A man in a gray hoodie, identified as 19-year-old Anthony McGee, begins to move towards the family. Suddenly, McGee grabs the infant. The father manages to fight him off before chasing him out...

An Indiana woman, who cops described as a “terrorist,” has been arrested after she allegedly plowed her car into what she thought was a Jewish school.Ruba Almaghtheh, 34, allegedly backed her vehicle into a building associated with Black Hebrew Israelites in Indianapolis late Friday night while several adults and children were inside, Fox 59 reported.The driver copped to targeting the building, which houses the Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge, because she was allegedly offended by a “Hebrew Israelite” symbol out front, according to a police report.“Yes. I did it on purpose,” Almaghtheh allegedly said in the wake of...

Tlaib is known for her explosive rhetoric; she has used the phrase “from the river to the sea” .. the words are antisemitic and code for .. the eradication of Israel. ... Lee Zeldin, the Republican New York gubernatorial candidate who served with her in the House, called her “evil.” ... In 2019, Israel barred both Tlaib and US Rep Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from entering the country. President Donald Trump claimed both women hate “all Jewish people” ... Tlaib grew up speaking Arabic as her first language. ... In 2018 she ran for Congress when longterm Democrat rep. John Conyers...

A fiend strangled a woman from behind – causing her to black out – in a heinous, apparently unprovoked attack in the East Village last week, cops said. The 25-year-old woman was walking near Houston Street and Avenue D around 4:10 a.m. on Oct. 22 when an unidentified approached and strangled her from behind, police said. The sudden attack caused the victim to fall to the ground and black out briefly, authorities said. When the woman got back on her feet, her assailant ran off toward Avenue C, police said.

“With the current climate and the state of affairs in the world it is troubling that an individual — or, individuals — would act out in such a manner,” East Hampton Town Police Captain Chris Anderson told Newsday. Another phrase read “Jeden die.” It appeared they intended to write “Juden” — the German word for “Jews.” “The spelling is not great,” Anderson said, noting even the “Free Palestine” graffiti was difficult to understand.

Ibrahim Bharmal 'worked for the Council on American Islamic Relations,' according to Stanford University. Article image Campus Reform November 1, 2023, 4:41 pm ET Video circulated online Wednesday morning showing a group of pro-Hamas students at Harvard University entrapping a group of Jewish students and shouting “Shame” at them. The Canary Mission, a nonprofit that investigates anti-Semitism, is now claiming a ringleader in the physical confrontation is Ibrahim Bharmal. ”Ibrahim Bharmal participated in physically and verbally assaulting an Israeli student during an anti-Israel “die-in” protest at Harvard University (Harvard) in October 2023,” the nonprofit states. [Campus Reform | Harvard creates...