Posts Tagged ‘hate-bias’
Man arrested after threatening to bomb Lakewood Church on Christmas Eve
A man was taken into custody on felony charges after he threatened to detonate a bomb at Lakewood Church on Christmas Eve. Houston Police Department officers responded to the church at around 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve. They were dispatched after receiving a call from a man who threatened to “blow up the church” with…
Read MoreJordanian National Pleads Guilty to Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility
Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, 44, of Orlando, pleaded guilty today to four counts of threatening to use explosives and one count of destruction of an energy facility. “With this plea, we are holding this defendant accountable for his threats to carry out hate-fueled mass violence in our country, motivated in part by his desire to…
Read MoreMissouri Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Civil Rights and Arson Charges for Setting Fire to Mormon Church
A Missouri man pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses for setting fire to a house of worship. According to court documents, Christopher Scott Pritchard, 48, pleaded guilty to a two-count information charging him with arson for setting fire to the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on April 28, 2021. Pritchard…
Read MoreGMU student linked to pro-ISIS accounts barred from campus after FBI uncovers attack plot
A freshman at George Mason University (GMU) has been banned from campus after allegations of operating pro-ISIS and al-Qaeda social media accounts, officials said Thursday. Court documents reveal that Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, 18, an Egyptian national living in Falls Church, Virginia, operated multiple accounts on X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and Telegram. These accounts…
Read MoreMichigan Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime for Plotting Mass Shooting of Gay Community
A Michigan man pleaded guilty today to one count of committing a hate crime by attempting to carry out a mass killing. According to court documents, Mack Davis, 22, of Owosso, admitted that he attempted to conduct a mass killing of individuals at a political party headquarters and a nearby bar in the Eastern District…
Read MoreUK man detained for knife attack on immigration law firm
A British Nazi sympathiser who targeted a prominent immigration lawyer in a knife attack was on Thursday sentenced to indefinite detention in hospital. Cavan Medlock, 32, took a knife, handcuffs, a Nazi flag and a Confederate flag to the London office of law firm Duncan Lewis in September 2020 and demanded to see Toufique Hossain,…
Read MoreAustralian Police Launch A Special Operation To Investigate Increased Antisemitic Attacks
Australian federal police launched a special operation to investigate an increase in antisemitic threats and violence since the war between Israel and Hamas began last year. Jewish leaders say prejudice against their community has reached unprecedented levels, with most incidents reported in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia’s largest cities where 85% of the nation’s Jewish population…
Read MoreUniversity of Michigan regent says home targeted in antisemitic attack
“Anti-Semitic vandals” targeted the home of University of Michigan Regent Jordan Acker on Monday, the official announced in an Instagram post. The individuals threw an object through a window of the home Acker shares with his wife and three daughters, as well as appeared to demand through a spray-painted message that the school divest from…
Read MoreAustralian synagogue fire declared terrorism in a decision that increases investigation resources
Australian law enforcement authorities on Monday declared an arson attack on a synagogue last week a terrorist act in a decision that increases resources available to the investigation. Arson squad detectives have been investigating the blaze that extensively damaged the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on Friday. But the investigation was taken over on Monday…
Read MoreMan arrested in Quebec for alleged plot to kill Jews in NYC being held in Rimouski
A Pakistani man arrested in Quebec for an alleged plot to kill Jews in New York City is being held in a detention centre hundreds of kilometres from Montreal, where he says the French-speaking guards don’t understand him. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, who appeared remotely in Quebec Superior Court this morning, says he’s the only person…
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