Extremism

Jewish community was top target of extremist threats in Belgium in 2025

Belgium’s threat analysis body said Islamist extremism remained the largest threat category, while Jewish groups were the most common target in 2025.

Students take part in a pro-Palestinian protest in front of the Israeli Embassy in Brussels, Belgium May 30, 2024.
 Young Jewish men holding Israeli flags as they dance at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 29, 2022.

Jerusalem Day violence exposes dangerous culture of impunity in Israel - opinion

San Diego Police officers block the access to the Islamic Center of San Diego following a shooting in southern California, on May 18, 2026.

Law enforcement was aware of San Diego mosque shooter prior to deadly attack - report

A Police officer guards the Olympic cauldron in Piazza Angelo Dibona on February 07, 2026 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

Italian teenager re-arrested in Florence for terrorism recruitment


Hizb ut Tahrir: The jihadist group infiltrating UK, Bangladesh campuses

Hizb ut Tahrir, established in Jerusalem in 1953, has a history of promoting antisemitism and engaging in activities with violent inclinations.

 The Hizb ut Tahrir logo.

Religious tolerance begins with religious leadership - opinion

Imagine if the roles were reversed, with Christians spitting at Jews in some European capital.

Jerusalem police secure the Old City ahead of the Jerusalem March during the Feast of Tabernacles, October 4, 2023

Germany bans right-wing group spreading neo-Nazi ideology

The headquarters of the group, dubbed "Artgemeinschaft," as well as 26 homes belonging to 39 members were searched in the early hours across 12 states,

 Wreaths are pictured at the Gleis 17 (Platform 17) memorial, a platform at Berlin-Grunewald train station from where Jewish citizens were deported by train to the Nazi concentration camps between 1941 and 1945, in Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2021

Right-wing extremist attitudes on the rise in Germany - study

Percentage of Germans with an 'antisemitic worldview' more than doubles in two years * Percentage who 'totally reject' antisemitism drops * Study comes days after 40+ Jewish gravestones overturned

 Maximilian Krah, Alternative for Germany (AfD) party member and member of the European Parliament of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, speaks during the European election assembly 2023 of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Magdeburg, Germany, July 29, 2023.

Texas sees rising amount of hate and extremism, ADL report states

The ADL also recommends the state of Texas policies that they believe would be effective in fighting the rising amount of extremism.

 The flag for the state of Texas

MKs, public figures raise over NIS 1m. for murderer of Palestinian family

Many voicing support for Amiram Ben Oliel allege that his confession was extracted under the duress of torture.

 Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit) is seen visiting the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 29, 2023.

Has the Taliban won? - opinion

We turned our back on the people, including women and children, whom we said we were going to protect.

 TALIBAN SOLDIERS celebrate on the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul, on a street near the US embassy in the Afghan capital, last month.

Violence spikes between Israelis and Palestinians, risking regional conflict

More than 210 Palestinians and 35 Israelis have been killed so far this year, the highest death toll in the conflict since 2005, with some blaming Iran’s influence in the West Bank.

 Israeli settlers hurl stones at Palestinians during the annual harvest season near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank on October 7, 2020.

Turkish-backed extremist groups in Syria sanctioned by US - analysis

These groups were often part of the plethora of Syrian rebel groups that operated in northern Syria since the Syrian civil war began in 2011.

TURKEY-BACKED Syrian rebel fighters walk through a field of flowers in Idlib’s southern countryside, in Syria in April

2 synagogues evacuated during livestreamed Shabbat services as wave of bomb threats enters 4th week

At least 26 congregations in 12 states have received the threats, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which is raising alarm about the barrage.

 ‘IN OSLO, Norway, it was only walking past that allowed me to see the Oslo Synagogue at all. And, merely walking by, I was approached by a security guard who wanted to know what I was doing there,’ says the writer.