Michael Starr

Journalist. @HonestReporting investigative media manager. Former @Jerusalem_Post correspondent. October 7 War veteran. Opinions are my own.

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Connecticut man arrested after slapping kippa off Jewish man’s head

36-year old East Haven resident Paul Smith was charged with intimidation with bias and disorderly conduct, the New Haven Police Department announced last Monday, after allegedly harassing a group of Jewish men.

Smith had allegedly accused the group of Jewish men of being baby killers who liked genocide, before slapping the kippa off of one of their heads on June 2.

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Toronto man charged for antisemitic threats against community center

50-year-old Thomas Andrew Hardcastle was arrested and charged with criminal harassment and uttering threats on Friday, according to the Toronto Police Service, after sending antisemitic communications to a Toronto community center last Monday before going there to threaten the victims.

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14 people are arrested at protests outside an Israeli real estate event at a London synagogue on Sunday, according to Met Police.

Five were arrested for violent disorder, one for assault of an emergency worker, one for common assault, seven for public order offences — including four for racial or religiously aggravated matters.

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“Palestine is Arab.”

Protesters chant outside Edgware United Synagogue on Sunday, against an Israeli real estate event.

Activists claimed that Palestinian land was being sold, while according to the Board of Deputies of British Jews, no land beyond the Green Line was promoted.

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South Carolina man charged after defacing Jewish school, Holocaust memorial with noose and swastika flyers

Dalton Ray Mullis was charged on Friday for defacing buildings in a Charlotte Jewish community complex, according to the US Department of Justice, after allegedly affixing flyers with Totenkopf, swastikas, and nooses on several buildings.

In January, the 24-year-old allegedly sprayed adhesive and placed the “threatening materials” on a Holocaust memorial, Jewish day school, and an employee building.

Between January and April, Mullis allegedly shared the exploits on social media, alongside other antisemitic messages and imagery.

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‘I just hit two synagogues in 5 minutes:’ New Mexico man charged for attacks on synagogue and JCC

25-year-old Rex Crofton was charged with damaging religious property for attacks in which he smashed the doors of the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Greater Albuquerque and Congregation Albert on June 2, the US Department of Justice announced on Friday.

Crofton allegedly drove to the synagogue, exited his vehicle, and shattered the doors’ glass with a metal implement. After giving the synagogue the middle finger, he allegedly drove to the JCC, and repeated the attack.

The suspect supposedly sent messages to family members boasting of the alleged crimes, and that he would have relished the opportunity to kill intervening police officers.

“I just hit two synagogues in 5 minutes,” Crofton allegedly said.

Crofton faces up to three years in prison if convicted of damage to religious property.

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ICYMI over shabbat: Four Palestine Action activists were each sentenced to several years in prison for a violent 2024 raid on a Bristol Elbit Systems factory.

The raid, in which a gate and entrance was rammed down with a former prison van, saw the activists wielding sledgehammers and other weapons that were used to harm two British Police officers and a security guard.

Samuel Corner, 23, was sentenced to eight years prison for attacking Sergeant Kate Evans with a sledgehammer, fracturing her spine.

"What happened that night changed the life of one of our officers," Avon and Somerset Police Chief Constable Sarah Crew said in a press statement. "For Sgt Evans, this has been deeply personal, painful and lasting."

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@technopopulist @BigDaddyLiberty They were slapped on the wrist for years. At one point, every week they were attacking factories, universities, insurers, whatever, with limited repercussions. The issue couldn’t be ignored anymore with the Brize Norton incident and this sledgehammer incident.

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Pro-Palestinian protester convicted of public nuisance after scaling Big Ben

Pro-Palestinian protester Daniel Day was convicted of causing a public nuisance after climbing and protesting from Big Ben last March, the Crown Prosecution Service announced on Thursday.

The 30-year-old Westcliff-on-Sea resident refused to come down for 15 hours, causing disruptions, street closures, and emergency service disruptions that cost taxpayers £67,000.

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The US Treasury on Wednesday sanctioned nine people and companies it alleged were part of an Iranian regime weapons procurement network, including several operating out of China.

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Zara Jabbi is wanted in connection to the March US consulate shooting in Toronto, which was alleged by the US DoJ to be connected to Iranian proxies.

In executing a warrant for him, Constable Marc Pinizzotto was shot and killed. Nicholas Bennett had been charged for the murder.

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A Toronto police officer died while searching for suspects tied to a US consulate shooting that has been tied to an Iranian proxy terror group.
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A Toronto Police officer was shot and killed executing a search warrant in relation to a US consulate shooting that according to the US DoJ was linked to an Iranian proxy group.

Iranian proxy operative Al-Saadi, arrested in May, allegedly told a source that the consulate and a March synagogue shooting were orchestrated by Ashab al-Yamin. Toronto Sun reported that the warrant on Thursday was also connected to a synagogue shooting.

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Today, we mourn the loss of Constable Marc Pinizzotto.

“No words can capture the impact on Marc’s family, who expected him to come home today. We as a Service will support them and each other,” Chief Myron Demkiw said. “This loss will have a profound impact on the Toronto Police Family. Our Service, our members, and all members of the larger policing family are deeply saddened.”

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@JoeTruzman They should probably keep training.

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A New South Wales man was charged for sending abusive messages to a witness for the Royal Commission on Antisemitism on Thursday.

The 59-year-old was also charged for prohibited weapons found at his residence, alongside white supremacist pamphlets and Hitler's Mein Kampf.

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An Ontario Chabad was targeted by vandals for the second time in two weeks on Monday, according to the Chabad of Guelph and Guelph Police Service.

"Zionist dogs...stop killing children...the goyim know."

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Al-Ahrar, which also has a branch in New Jersey, confirmed its affiliation in a statement in which it called for the release of the Iranian proxy commander that allegedly orchestrated attacks on Jewish, Israeli, and Iranian dissident targets across Europe and North America.

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A Toronto-based activist group is calling for the release of a Hezbollah terror cell commander who was charged by the USDOJ.
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More evidence that Samidoun is still operating in Canada despite being banned as a terrorist entity, as Al-Ahrar Toronto confirms being part of Masar Badil — which is staffed by Samidoun’s officers and both led by Khaled Barakat. Barakat is alleged to be a PFLP official.

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Columbia University anti-Israel student activist Mohsen Mahdawi appealed an immigration court order to deport him to Jordan, according to his legal representation American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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Columbia University anti-Israel student activist Mohsen Mahdawi appealed on Wednesday an immigration court order to deport him to Jordan, according to his legal representation ACLU.

Mohsen, arrested last April for supposedly undermining US foreign policy and government counter-antisemitism efforts with his campus activism, had been ordered deported last Wednesday.