August 18, 2026

Anti-Israel Protests US

Multiple Jewish Bakeries SHOT AT, Attacked with Gunfire and Vandalism in Antisemitic Attacks gellerreport.com
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Multiple Jewish-owned Toronto bakeries targeted in antisemitic attacks

Toronto police are investigating after two locations of Jewish-owned Kiva’s bagel bar were targeted in separate incidents Sunday morning, including one where a window was struck by gunfire.

In multiple posts to social media, police say officers were first called to the Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue West area at around 8 a.m. after reports that a window at a Jewish-owned bakery had been struck by gunfire.

Investigators located evidence of a firearm discharge at the scene. However, no injuries were reported.

Roughly 20 minutes later, officers responded to another location of the “same Jewish owned bakery chain” near Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue West after receiving reports of a broken window.

“We don’t know when the shooting occurred. Both incidents occurred sometime overnight,” police told CP24 in an email.

At this time, no suspect descriptions have been provided.

Democrat Tlaib Offers to ‘Help’ Mamdani Arrest ‘War Criminal’ Netanyahu: ‘Call Me’ slaynews.com
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Far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) urged New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to follow through on his campaign pledge to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and offered to assist him with the effort.

Mamdani repeatedly promised during his campaign that he would direct the New York Police Department to enforce an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court over Netanyahu’s role in the war in Gaza.

The socialist mayor has since acknowledged that New York City lacks the independent legal authority to carry out such an arrest.

“Arrest him,” Tlaib said in a statement.

“He’s a war criminal.”

Tlaib Offers to Assist with ‘Citizen’s Arrest’

Mamdani’s proposal divided House Democrats, with some endorsing the effort while others acknowledged that a city mayor has no authority to enforce an ICC warrant.

Tlaib said she was uncertain whether Mamdani could instead pursue a citizen’s arrest.

“I don’t know if it applies to citizen’s arrest,” Tlaib said.

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“The last thing [unions] should do is violate the rights of the very people whose rights they exist to protect.”

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has opened an investigation into the National Education Association (NEA) following a discrimination charge alleging the nation’s largest teachers union subjected Jewish educators to antisemitic harassment, denied leadership opportunities, and fostered a hostile environment for Jewish members.

The charge was filed by The Louis D. Brandeis Center Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism, which alleges the NEA violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by discriminating against Jewish members based on religion, ancestry, and national origin. According to the complaint, the EEOC’s Washington Field Office has already begun gathering evidence and communicating with the Brandeis Center regarding the allegations.

“The last thing [unions] should do is violate the rights of the very people whose rights they exist to protect,” said Kenneth Marcus, chairman and CEO of the Brandeis Center and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. Marcus said the organization is working with EEOC investigators to provide documents, witness information, and other evidence supporting what it describes as “pervasive anti-Semitism” within the union.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has legitimized Jew-hatred in NYC. This is the result. This coffee shop should be shut down.

A coffee shop in New York City that attacked Rep. Dan Goldman, whose primary against fellow Democrat Brad Lander ended yesterday, took to Instagram to express its revulsion at having inadvertently sold him coffee. The Justice Department noticed, and is investigating.

NBC New York: A social media tête-a-tête between a New York City coffee shop and a Democrat in Congress has caught the attention of the federal government. Poetica Coffee, a chain of half a dozen locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, told Rep. Dan Goldman he was no longer welcome in their stores for his support of Israel. The store made the declaration in a since-deleted Instagram post accompanying what appeared to be a surveillance image of the lawmaker standing by the register.

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Toronto police have linked multiple shootings, including one at the U.S. Consulate in March, to complex gun-for-hire networks

TORONTO — Police in Canada said Tuesday they have linked multiple shootings, including at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto in March, to “multilayered” gun-for-hire networks that have also targeted synagogues in the city.

Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw told a news conference that young adults are being recruited through encrypted messages and paid by the networks to carry out the shootings and have to film them to get paid. Some of the firearms used in the attacks have since been seized by investigators.

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Hundreds of Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during commencement ceremonies over the weekend, openly protesting Google CEO Sundar Pichai as he prepared to deliver the school’s keynote address.

The demonstration highlighted growing hostility toward major technology companies on college campuses, where students have increasingly targeted tech executives over issues ranging from artificial intelligence to military contracts and foreign policy.

U. Michigan Commencement Hijacked By Anti-Israel Prof. legalinsurrection.com
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A faculty commencement speaker at the University of Michigan used his spot to slam Israel. The president of the university said that those remarks deviate from the remarks submitted in advance:

I spoke about this on the Laura Ingraham show tonight:

 

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On Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced the joint work of regional offices in Charlotte, NC, and Houston, TX to foil an alleged terror plot by a Lexington, NC woman to incite a mass casualty event at a synagogue in Houston.

A Lexington woman is facing charges after allegedly plotting to murder congregants at a Texas synagogue, according to Davidson County warrants.

On Wednesday, the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office arrested Angelina Han Hicks, 18, of Lexington, on two counts of felony conspiracy. According to warrants, the charges are for conspiring to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.

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Those arrested were identified as Alexander Nicholas Dean, Shaun Lynn Chase, and Max Francis Smith, all of whom were booked into King County Jail following the Sunday night riot outside Town Hall.

Three individuals arrested during a violent protest targeting Jews at a fundraiser in downtown Seattle were not charged and have already been released.

According to documents obtained by The Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI, those arrested were identified as Alexander Nicholas Dean, Shaun Lynn Chase, and Max Francis Smith, all of whom were booked into King County Jail following the Sunday night riot outside Town Hall on 8th Avenue.

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A national free speech group is calling on the Catholic University of America to allow pro-Israel speakers on campus – or else face an accreditation complaint.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sent a second letter to CUA leadership on Friday, asking it to remove its restrictions on Students Supporting Israel.

The intervention follows a proposal earlier this year for the group to host Israeli homeland security expert Dany Tirza as well as Jewish Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida, as The College Fix previously reported.

The university is requiring the club to host a pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel speaker.

While the school says this is part of their policy, that is only supposed to apply when an invited speaker takes a view contrary to the Catholic Church, such as if a club invited a pro-abortion speaker. However, the university did not even apply this policy, allowing the campus Democrats club to host a speaker who supports abortion, according to Student Supporting Israel’s leadership.

The Catholic university in Washington, D.C. allowed an event with an anti-Israel speaker, for example, but did not present the pro-Israel side, FIRE also said.

“We again strongly urge CUA to approve SSI’s event requests and assure students that the university will not condition event approval on student’s willingness to arrange for and host speakers opposed to their own viewpoint,” Program Counsel Jessie Appleby wrote to President Peter Kilpatrick.

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As Congress debates antisemitism legislation and the Religious Liberty Commission holds hearings on rising hate, a case pending before the Supreme Court reveals a more mundane threat: city officials who use zoning bureaucracy to shut down Jewish prayer in a private home.

Daniel Grand invited a handful of neighbors to his house on a Saturday morning to pray. The City of University Heights, Ohio, served him with a cease-and-desist order, calling his home an “illegal house of worship.” Mayor Michael Dylan Brennan then encouraged Grand’s neighbors to surveil his home and report any religious activity for punishment.

When a city criminalizes home worship, you’d figure the homeowner has recourse. On paper, yes. In practice, no. In reality, municipalities across the country destroy faith communities not through action but through something more sinister: selective inaction.

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Footage from the scene showed Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst convicted under the Espionage Act, among the crowd.

New York City police arrested dozens of anti-Israel agitators on Monday after they attempted to storm the Manhattan office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) before spilling into the streets and stopping traffic.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) told the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) that “multiple” arrests were made following the disruption, but did not give an exact number.

Oliya Scootercaster captured video showing the radicals, many affiliated with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and other anti-Israel groups, attempting to enter a building they claimed houses offices for Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). After being denied access, several protesters removed outer clothing to reveal their t-shirts branded with the slogan “fund people, not bombs.”

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NEW YORK — A Pakistani man pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge Wednesday, saying it was a “morally reprehensible idea” to support the Islamic State group by plotting to use automatic weapons to kill Jewish people at a Brooklyn center.

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 21, said he answered the group’s call for Muslims to kill Jewish people by plotting to attack the Jewish center in October 2024.

He entered the plea in Manhattan federal court over 18 months after he was brought to the United States from Canada, where he was arrested on Sept. 4, 2024, in or near Ormstown, Canada, which is 12 miles from the U.S. border.

In a release, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said Khan planned a mass shooting to coincide with the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks “with the explicit goal of killing as many Jews as possible.”

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure into law Monday that gives him along with other Florida leaders the ability to label groups as domestic or foreign terrorist organizations and expel state university students who support them.

The law, criticized by free speech advocates, allows a top official at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to designate a group as a domestic or foreign terrorist organization, with the governor and three other members of the Florida Cabinet approving or rejecting the designation. Besides the governor, the Cabinet is made up of the state attorney general, the chief financial officer and the agriculture commissioner, all of whom are elected separately.

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The 41-year-old Lebanese national who targeted the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Mich., on March 12 “acted under Hezbollah’s direction and control,” according to the Department of Justice.

Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove his car into Michigan’s largest synagogue and opened fire on March 12. A security guard was injured by Ghazali’s car inside the synagogue, but otherwise, no one was hurt.

“This man acted under Hezbollah’s direction and control,” said Jerome Gorgon, Jr., the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. “I’ve seen some odd attempts to explain away or even lessen this terrorist attack by claiming that he was an isolated lone wolf, but that is misleading,” said Gorgon.

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The FBI said on Monday that an attack on the largest Jewish temple in ‌Michigan earlier this month was an “act of terrorism” inspired by Hezbollah.

Ayman Ghazali, a 41-year-old man who was born in Lebanon and became a U.S. ‌citizen in 2016, killed himself during the March ⁠12 attack, when he crashed his truck ⁠into the Temple ⁠of Israel synagogue before opening fire on security guards ‌and causing an explosion using fireworks, said Jennifer Runyan, the special agent in ⁠charge of the ⁠Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Detroit field office.

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Last week, a terrorist tried to kill Jewish children at the Temple Israel Synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan. Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, drove his truck — which was laden with fireworks and accelerants — into the synagogue. He exchanged fire with two security guards and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The media ran interference for Ghazali, saying his family was killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon as part of Operation Roaring Lion. The New York Times called him a “quiet restaurant worker,” and the Mayor of Dearborn Heights, where Ghazali was from, said the Lebanon strikes were the motivation behind the Temple Israel attack, attempting to justify it because Ghazali “lost family members.” Except that wasn’t accurate. It turns out Ghazali’s brother, Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali, was a Hezbollah terrorist.

But now it’s revealed that Ayman Ghazali also had deeper ties to Hezbollah than initially reported, including Ghazali’s ties with other members of Hezbollah, an overseas trip, and odd behavior in the weeks before the terrorist attack.

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The New York Times has caught a lot of justified flak the last few days for how softly it has framed its profiles of the Islamic perpetrator of an anti-Jewish attack on a Michigan synagogue. “The Michigan Synagogue Attacker Was a Quiet Restaurant Worker.” At least Sunday’s print headline was better: “Recalling Attacker’s Last Days Before Driving Into Synagogue.”

Critics faulted the terrorist-sympathetic framing of the story, like another headline: “Family Members of Michigan Synagogue Attacker Died in Airstrike in Lebanon.” The story initially included insistence from sources that members of the man’s family killed in an Israeli air strike there were not members of Hezbollah.

As confirmation of the man’s Hezbollah links emerged, that denial was quietly excised.

On Thursday, March 12, 2026, two separate Islamists attempted to murder Americans, with one succeeding and the other being stopped before he could do further harm. Islamist Lebanese “immigrant” Ayman Mohammad Ghazali attempted to murder Jews at a Michigan synagogue. He was killed by security after driving his car into the synagogue.

Islamist Mohamed Jalloh was successful in his attack on Old Dominion University. He killed one and injured another before ROTC members stopped him and stabbed him to death. He killed one man, Lt. Colonel Brandon Shah. Had the ROTC members not stopped him, the death toll would have been much higher. The same goes for the synagogue attack; had security not stopped the Islamist, there would be many dead, including children who were present at the time of the attack.

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Michigan Synagogue Attacker a Lebanese National – breitbart.com

The West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, Temple Israel attacker is identified as a Lebanese national, according to reporting by FOX News’s Bill Melugin.

Breitbart News reported that the attacker drove into the Temple Israel building Thursday and was engaged by security and killed. The attacker’s vehicle was registered to a Dearborn, Michigan, resident from Lebanon.

Melugin is now reporting that “DHS confirms to FOX News that the Michigan synagogue attacker has been ID’d as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a Lebanese national who first entered the U.S. in 2011 on an IR1 immigrant visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen.”

He noted that Ghazali “was naturalized into a U.S. citizen in 2016 during the Obama administration.”

There is a school at Temple Israel and no children or staff were harmed in the attack.

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ROTC students subdued and killed Old Dominion University gunman, officials say – ABC News

When a gunman opened fire at Virginia’s Old Dominion University, on Thursday, killing an instructor and injuring two other people, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) students stepped in to subdue and kill the suspect, officials said.

The suspect, identified as Mohamed Jalloh, a former Army National Guardsman who was convicted of giving material support to ISIS, allegedly was trying to commit a terrorist attack, FBI Special Agent in Charge Dominique Evans told reporters.

The gunman opened fire in Constant Hall, an academic building, around 10:43 a.m. and was found dead minutes after officers arrived, Old Dominion University Police Chief Garrett Shelton said during a press briefing.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger identified the person who was killed as Lt. Col. Brandon Shah.

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In addition to the attack in Virginia on Thursday that left one dead and two injured at the hands of an ISIS-sympathizing gunman who the FBI says shouted “Allahu Akhbar” prior to opening fire, there was an attack in Michigan involving a rifle-wielding madman who crashed his car into a synagogue in a “targeted act of violence against Jewish community,” according to the FBI.

 

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Our Catherine Salgado told you everything you need to know about the shooter at Old Dominion University who killed one and wounded two others.

The man who killed one victim and injured two others Thursday morning at a Virginia university has a previous conviction for supporting a murderous Islamic jihad movement.

A retired military ROTC instructor at Old Dominion University is dead after Mohamed Bailor Jalloh committed a targeted shooting the morning of March 12 at Old Dominion University. At least two ROTC students were injured, and Jalloh is dead, taken out by one of the students. Federal sources have told Fox New that Jalloh is the same individual previously convicted of providing material aid to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Jalloh was himself a former National Guard member, so it seems the U.S. government doubly failed to vet him for extremist views, first in his citizenship process and then when he signed up for military service. Jalloh also secured early release from his prison sentence.

 

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An FBI team conducted active-shooter preparedness training at a Michigan synagogue just weeks before an attacker targeted the building Thursday.

A suspect crashed an explosives-laden truck into the entrance of a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Mich., on Thursday afternoon, forcing his way into the building. FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau conducted active shooter preparedness training at the synagogue earlier this year with clergy and staff.

“Just months ago, our team at FBI Detroit Field Office conducted active-shooter preparedness training with the clergy and staff at Temple Israel, focusing on the Run, Hide, Fight principles and real-world decision-making under pressure,” Patel told Fox News Digital.

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One might have thought the campus chaos that followed Oct. 7, 2023, would force a moment of academic sobriety.

After the massacre in Israel, the country watched elite universities descend into moral confusion — students chanting slogans they barely understood, administrators hiding behind procedural evasions, and faculty members serving not as guides but as accelerants. The congressional hearings that followed did not merely embarrass higher education. They revealed something deeper: The line between scholarship and activism had been blurred beyond recognition.

And yet much of the academy appears to have learned nothing.

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Thirty-three protesters who took over a University of Washington engineering building in May 2025, causing roughly $1 million in damage, are finally facing trespassing charges.

The King County Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday charged them with misdemeanor criminal trespass, “but stopped short of accusing anyone of vandalism and the destruction inside,” KOMO News reported, adding 23 of them are UW students who also served suspensions for their actions.

During the May protest, masked individuals had obstructed two streets near the building, blocked its entrances and exits, and set fires in two dumpsters, according to a university official at the time. They also chanted “death to the police,” video showed.

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In the spring of 2024, a group of anti-Israel students took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. There were two custodians in the building at the time who ultimately sued the school, claiming they were basically held hostage.

Now a New York judge has overturned the disciplinary actions against these students. Once again, the radical left is untouchable.

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Columbia University ‘occupiers’ who held staff hostage have discipline overturned by NY judge

A New York state Supreme Court judge has vacated disciplinary sanctions against 22 former and current Columbia University students who took over Hamilton Hall in April 2024 during anti-Israel protests.

Justice Gerald Lebovits ruled on Feb. 27, 2026, that the university had improperly relied on sealed arrest records in its internal disciplinary proceedings against the students and the sealed arrests were the only evidence students were in the building during the occupation.

“Ultimately, this court concludes that the underlying disciplinary determinations were not impermissibly delayed. But respondent’s internal hearing panel was statutorily barred from taking into account the fact that petitioners had been arrested in Hamilton Hall,” Lebovits wrote. “And the fact of petitioners’ sealed arrests was the only evidence before the hearing panel that petitioners were in Hamilton Hall while it was occupied. As a result, the panel’s determinations that petitioners committed most of the charged disciplinary violations… are arbitrary and capricious.”

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A viral video shows U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) helping Capitol Police to physically remove a protester from a Senate Armed Services hearing on Wednesday.

Footage from the scene shows Brian McGinnis, a Marine Corps veteran and Green Party candidate for Senate in North Carolina, being removed from the hearing by U.S. Capitol Police. McGinnis had disrupted the hearing to protest ongoing U.S. military action in Iran during the hearing.

The video, which was filmed by an anti-war activist, shows McGinnis accusing lawmakers of supporting a “war for Israel” as Capitol Police officers were escorting him out. McGinnis refused to budge, at which point Sheehy and a group of Capitol Police officers began to physically remove him from the chamber.

“No one wants to fight for Israel!” McGinnis repeatedly shouted as he was being removed. A bystander then pointed out that McGinnis’ hand appeared to be stuck in the door, at which point the group slowed down in order to remove it.

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Another “Dead ICE Agents Can’t Kill” flyer was found at Penn State University, prompting the College Republicans and College Democrats to issue a joint statement of condemnation on Saturday.

Found by a member of the Penn State College Republicans, the flyer was hung near the HUB-Robeson Center, a central part of daily life for students at Penn State, according to the statement.

This is the second time that particular flyer has been put up on campus. In early February, Penn State police launched an investigation into the flyer when it first appeared, the Centre Daily Times reported.

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An under-the-radar primary in North Carolina is gaining national attention after morphing into another competitive battleground for progressives waging war against establishment Democrats, putting incumbent Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC) at risk of losing her seat in the state’s bluest district.

The 69-year-old Foushee is facing Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam, a younger, more left-leaning candidate, in the March 3 primary. The congresswoman has been in this position before, defeating the 32-year-old Allam by nine points in the 2022 primary to replace former Rep. David Price.