Posts Tagged ‘hate-bias’
South Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Civil Rights Crime for Racially Motivated Shooting
The Department of Justice announced that Jonathan Andrew Felkel, 34, entered a plea of guilty today before United States District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis for violating the housing rights of his Black neighbor, J.M., in violation of 42 U.S.C. §. 3631. As the defendant admitted at the plea hearing, on July 17, 2025, Felkel, while…
Read MoreMedina County man arrested for allegedly making threats against mosque, FBI says
A Medina County man has been charged with making threats against a mosque and illegally possessing firearms while using controlled substances, according to federal court documents. 20-year-old Wyatt James Brzoska of Valley City faces federal charges for interstate threats and unlawful possession of firearms while using a controlled substance. According to a criminal complaint filed…
Read MoreTN arsonist agrees to plead guilty to bombing offices of historic civil rights center
A Tullahoma white supremacist is ready to plead guilty to a million-dollar firebombing that destroyed the administrative offices of a historic East Tennessee civil rights and social justice center in 2019. Regan D. Prater, who authorities said aligns himself with Nazi causes, drove from his home to the New Market area Highlander Center on March…
Read MoreUK police charge 2 men with spying on the Jewish community for Iran
British police have charged two men with spying on the U.K.’s Jewish community on behalf of Iran. Iranian-British national Nematollah Shahsavani, 40, and 22-year-old Iranian citizen Alireza Farasati have been charged with engaging in conduct likely to assist a foreign intelligence service. Prosecutors said the country the charges relate to is Iran. Frank Ferguson, head…
Read More4 teens suspected of terror offenses in Rotterdam synagogue explosion, Dutch prosecutors say
Four teens arrested on suspicion of setting off an explosive outside a Dutch synagogue are suspected of terror offenses, prosecutors said Monday, after they appeared before an investigating magistrate. The suspects, whose names weren’t released in line with Dutch privacy rules, are suspected of “causing an explosion, arson and attempted arson, all with a terrorist…
Read MoreExplosion at Amsterdam Jewish school ‘a deliberate attack’ says mayor
An explosion at a Jewish school in Amsterdam was a “deliberate attack against the Jewish community”, the mayor of the Dutch capital has said. Femke Halsema said the overnight blast caused limited damage to the outer wall of the school in the Buitenveldert district. No injuries were reported. “This is a cowardly act of aggression…
Read MoreDutch police arrest four men over Rotterdam synagogue fire
Dutch police said Friday, March 13, they had arrested four young men on suspicion of setting off an explosion outside a synagogue in Rotterdam that caused a brief blaze and damage to the building. After the blast, police monitored other synagogues as a precaution and stopped a vehicle near another building driven by someone matching…
Read MoreMan who rammed his vehicle into Michigan synagogue was naturalized citizen from Lebanon, DHS says
The armed man who rammed his vehicle into one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues Thursday has been identified as a 41-year-old naturalized citizen born in Lebanon, according to federal officials. Ayman Mohamad Ghazali was fatally shot by security officers after driving through a hallway at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township near Detroit, Michigan,…
Read MoreBelgian interior minister slams ‘anti-Semitic act’ as police probe Liège synagogue explosion
Belgium’s prime minister vowed to combat antisemitism on Monday, after a pre-dawn blast damaged a synagogue in eastern Belgium, with prosecutors in charge of organised crime and terrorism heading up the investigation. The explosion took place around 4:00 am (0300 GMT) in front of the synagogue, causing no injuries, police said. “Antisemitism is an attack…
Read MoreDefendant Charged with Damaging the Brooklyn Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Movement
Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, a complaint was unsealed charging Dan Sohail with intentionally damaging religious property, specifically the global headquarters for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement (Chabad Headquarters) in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Sohail was taken into federal custody earlier today and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Clay…
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