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Analysis
Jerusalem Post: Witkoff's Israel visit aims to explore red lines, acceptable terms in Iran negotiations – analysis
Discourse around the possibility of direct negotiations between the United States and Iran has shifted from quiet channels to the public sphere amid the arrival of the Trump administration's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, in Israel on Tuesday, where he is slated to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials.
United States
Wall Street Journal: Trump Says He Seeks $1 Billion ‘in Damages’ From Harvard
President Trump said he is seeking $1 billion in damages from Harvard University, the latest escalation in his administration’s fight with the institution over alleged antisemitism. Trump posted on social media after the New York Times reported that his administration had dropped its demand for a $200 million payment to the government to settle the dispute.
Reuters: Hundreds of Nazi-linked accounts discovered at Credit Suisse, US lawmaker says
An investigation has identified 890 accounts at Swiss lender Credit Suisse with potential Nazi links, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley said ahead of a Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday on banks' facilitation of the Holocaust. These included previously undisclosed wartime accounts for the German Foreign Office, a German arms manufacturing company, and the German Red Cross, added the lawmaker, who chairs the committee and has followed the investigation into Credit Suisse for years.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: In 92NY talk, Bret Stephens urges ‘dismantling’ ADL and investing more in Jewish identity
In a speech that described antisemites as an “axis of the perfidious, the despotic, the hypocritical, the cynical, the deranged and the incurably stupid,” Bret Stephens asserted that supporters of the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish defense groups should largely abandon their current strategy for combating antisemitism and instead redirect their resources toward strengthening Jewish life itself.
Spectrum News 1: New NYPD statistics show rise in antisemitic hate crimes
New numbers from the NYPD show a rise in antisemitic hate crimes. Anti-Jewish hate crimes increased by 182% in January 2026 compared to January 2025, statistics released Monday show. Overall, hate crimes within that same window increased by 152%.
KBIA: Antisemitism in schools bill raises free speech concerns
Last month, Representative George Hruza (R-St. Louis County) introduced a bill to the Missouri House of Representatives that would create stricter protections for Jewish students in Missouri public education. HB 2061 would adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism and hold schools accountable to a stricter system of addressing and reporting antisemitic behavior. Hruza says his goal is to reduce antisemitic behavior on campuses and ensure Jewish students feel safe in their identity.
News Tribune: White nationalists claimed WA man doxxed them. How a judge responded
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused a Washington man of infiltrating a white nationalist group and using confidential information to harass and threaten people in the organization. Five members or affiliates of the group Patriot Front sued David Capito II, who apparently has ties to Tacoma, in July 2023. The suit alleged Capito used a fake identity and false pretenses to join, and then secretly gathered information from the plaintiffs by taking pictures of license plates, recording individuals with hidden microphones and cameras, and exploiting the group’s website to gain unauthorized access to private chats and video links.
Austria
Blue News: Nazi costumes cause horror at carnival
After a carnival ball in a small town near Salzburg, a suspected right-wing extremist incident is causing widespread discussion in Austria. As reported by "Salzburger Nachrichten" and ORF Salzburg, several groups with clearly right-wing extremist costumes were noticed at the party on January 31.
Czech Republic
Romea: Czech court must revisit SPD movement's lawsuit over being included in the Interior Ministry's extremism report for the first half of 2023
The District Court for Prague 7 will have to re-examine the lawsuit of the "Freedom and Direct Democracy" (SPD) movement objecting to the Czech Interior Ministry mentioning the SPD in its extremism report for the first half of 2023. The first-instance verdict rejecting the objection was overturned by the Municipal Court of Appeal in Prague last week in closed session.
France
AFP: France issues warrants for two Franco-Israelis for ‘complicity in genocide’
French authorities have issued warrants for two Franco-Israeli nationals for “complicity in genocide,” over allegations that they tried to stop humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, a legal source said Monday. According to a lawyer for the NGOs that made a legal complaint last year, it is the first time a country has considered the blocking of aid as potential “complicity in genocide.”
Reuters: French prosecutors seek public office bans in Le Pen appeals trial
French prosecutors urged an appeals court on Tuesday to largely confirm a previous court's ruling against French far-right officials in an EU embezzlement trial, without saying yet how this will apply to longtime party chief Marine Le Pen. The initial ruling, in March last year, was a major setback for Le Pen as it banned her from running for office for five years, effective immediately.
Jerusalem Post: 'Deeply alarming': Jewish primary school in Paris vandalized, CCTV damaged
A Jewish primary school in Paris’s 20th arrondissement was vandalized this weekend in what Jewish groups have decried as a reminder of the alarming level of antisemitism Jewish communities in France face. On Saturday night, unknown individuals went to Beth Loubavitch-Beth Hannah and smashed three windows, damaged surveillance equipment, and ripped off a plaque. According to the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office, the plaque was later found in a nearby square.
United Kingdom
BBC: Alleged extremist makes second court appearance
A suspected Islamic State extremist from the UK accused of travelling to a terrorist stronghold in Somalia has appeared in court. Mohamed Farah Mohamoud, from Bristol, allegedly plotted terrorist acts and went to the African country for five weeks between 29 January and 4 March 2025.
BBC: Convicted terrorist and police killer denied parole
An al-Qaeda terrorist who stabbed to death a policeman has been denied parole. Kamel Bourgass, 52, is serving a life term after being convicted of murdering Det Con Stephen Oake, 40, during a 2003 police raid in Manchester.
The Sun: Dangerous extremists will face tough US-style ‘supermax’ rules in jail to keep prison guards safe
Britain’s most dangerous lags will be locked away in US-style “supermax” prison wings and be blocked from weaponising European human rights laws. Ministers announced plans for tougher restrictions today following the “horrific” cooking oil attack on guards at HMP Frankland last year.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan International: Taliban’s Narrative Faces Growing Challenges Online, Says Group Official
A Taliban official said the group’s messaging channels are weak and warned that failing to compete on social media would allow opposing narratives to gain ground. Saeed Khosti, head of the Department for the Registration of Jihadi Works and Documents at the Taliban’s Ministry of Information and Culture, said the “social media battlefield” could not be abandoned. “If we leave this field empty, the enemy’s narrative will grow stronger and the Taliban will be defeated,” he said.
Gaza Strip/West Bank
Times of Israel: Gaza technocratic committee replaces its logo with the PA’s; Israel fumes
Israel reacted angrily Monday night after the Palestinian technocratic committee tasked with managing the daily affairs of postwar Gaza in place of Hamas replaced its logo with the one used by the Palestinian Authority. “Israel will not accept the use of the Palestinian Authority’s symbol, and the PA will not be a partner in the administration of Gaza,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said.
Jerusalem Post: 'Hero' Gaza hospital director and op-ed writer for NYT revealed to have been Hamas colonel
A Gaza doctor and hospital director who criticized Israel in two separate New York Times op-eds has been revealed to be a Hamas colonel. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is a Palestinian pediatrician and the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya. The IDF arrested him on December 27, 2024, and he has since been held in an Israeli prison.
Times of Israel: Thwarted tree-planting underscores daily torments for embattled Palestinian hamlet
The ramshackle Palestinian hamlet of Umm al-Khair, located in the South Hebron Hills region of the West Bank, is no stranger to hardship and adversity. Since October, the village has had a demolition order hanging over more than a dozen of its structures. In July, peace activist Awdah Hathaleen, one of the village’s most prominent residents, was shot dead, allegedly by an extremist Jewish settler from the area.
Iraq
Arab Weekly: Iraqi anti-terrorism judges start investigating ISIS detainees moved from Syria
Iraq’s judiciary announced on Monday it has begun its investigations into more than 1,300 Islamic State (ISIS) extremist group detainees who were transferred from Syria as part of a US operation. “Investigation proceedings have started with 1,387 members of the Daesh terrorist organisation who were recently transferred from the Syrian territory,” the judiciary’s media office said in a statement, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
Israel
Jerusalem Post: Israel's Knesset moves to try Nukhba terrorists as Phase I of Trump's Gaza plan ends
The Knesset on Tuesday began accelerating efforts to pass the bill to bring Nukhba terrorists to trial, which was spearheaded by Constitution Committee Chairman MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionist Party) and MK Yulia Malinovsky (Yisrael Beytenu).
Times of Israel: IDF said to give Netanyahu document outlining how Hamas is rebuilding in Gaza
The military recently delivered a document to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu detailing how the Hamas terror group is gaining strength in the Gaza Strip and rebuilding its capabilities since the ceasefire that took effect in October, according to a Monday report.
Lebanon
Naharnet: Qassem says Hezbollah can also inflict 'pain' on Israel
Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Tuesday warned Israel that his group can also inflict “pain” at the right “timing,” amid an intensification of Israeli strikes on Hezbollah members and alleged arms depots. “The enemy can inflict pain upon us, but we are also capable of inflicting pain upon it, and everything has its timing,” Qassem said in a televised speech marking the birth of Imam al-Mahdi.
Naharnet: Hezbollah MP accuses state of negligence and 'complicity'
Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah on Tuesday demanded the state to shoulder its responsibilities, accusing it of inadequacy, negligence, helplessness, and even complicity.
Syria
Reuters: Syrian security convoy enters key Kurdish city under US-backed deal
Syrian government security forces entered the Kurdish-controlled northeastern city of Qamishli on Tuesday, security sources and witnesses said, implementing a U.S.-backed deal to bring Kurdish-run regions back under central government control. The accord, declared on Friday, staved off the risk of more conflict between Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which lost swathes of eastern and northern Syria to government troops in January.
Yemen
Yemen Online: Houthi Militias Raid Home of Retired Pilot in Sana’a
In the early hours of Monday, Houthi militias stormed the residence of retired Air Force pilot Colonel Moqbel Al-Kumani in the Yemeni capital, before forcibly taking him to an unknown location. His brother, Yahya Al-Kumani, wrote on his official Facebook account that the raid involved two military vehicles and another carrying women known as “Zeinabiyat.”
Pakistan
Asharq al-Awsat: Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition Launches ‘Idmaj’ Rehabilitation Initiative in Pakistan
The Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC) launched in Islamabad on Monday the Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration Initiative for Individuals with Extremist Ideologies and Terrorist Behavior, known as Idmaj.
Nigeria
Associated Press: Nine arraigned for deadly attack in Nigeria that killed over 150
Nine people accused of carrying out a deadly attack in north-central Nigeria were arraigned before a federal court on Monday, charged in connection with the deaths of more than 150 people. The defendants are being charged with 57 counts of terrorism and could be sentenced to death or life imprisonment if convicted. They pleaded “not guilty” to the charges relating to the attack on Yelewata, a community in the Guma area of Nigeria’s Benue state, in June last year.
Australia
Jerusalem Post: Anti-Zionist Jewish group joins Hezbollah-linked bodies to oppose Herzog Australia visit
An anti-Zionist Jewish organization has teamed up with a Hezbollah-linked group and a Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization to demand that the Australian government deny President Isaac Herzog a visa to Australia for his forthcoming visit this month.
Jerusalem Post: Bankstown Nurses plead 'not guilty' after threatening to kill Israeli patients in viral 2025 video
Two Sydney nurses who threatened Israeli patients in a viral video last year pleaded not guilty in their arraignment on Monday. Last February, Bankstown Hospital nurses Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 27, and Ahmad Rashad Nadir, 28, went viral online after they were recorded telling Israeli English teacher and social-media influencer Max Veifer they would harm Israeli patients.
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