CAIR

May 19, 2026 — Scott Johnson

From Saint Paul to San Diego

Featured image On Sunday afternoon we went to see Douglas Murray speak at the Temple of Aaron in Saint Paul. Douglas spoke in conversation with Ken Agranoff, who is retiring after 39 years as the temple’s executive director. The event was held to honor Ken’s service and his retirement. Ken has kept the trains running on time at the temple through rabbinic administrations dating back to the great Rabbi Bernard Raskas, of »
May 9, 2026 — Scott Johnson

Adam Hamawy then & now

Featured image Having been appointed a federal district judge by President Reagan, Michael Mukasey stepped down from the bench to serve as President George W. Bush’s last and best Attorney General. He is of counsel to Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. Judge Mukasey presided over the trial of the Blind Sheikh in 1995. Then-Assistant United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy prosecuted the case and wrote the memoir Willful Blindness to recount what »
November 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Pay-for-slay, CAIR style

Featured image Palestinan Authority President-For-Life Mahmoud Abbas has long rewarded the murder of Israelis with the pay-for-slay program administered by the PA’s so-called Martyrs Fund. The fund paid regular stipends to families of terrorists imprisoned or killed by the Israel Defense Forces for their acts. “Martyrdom” by the killing of innocent Israelis was to be rewarded. The payments were supposedly terminated earlier this yeaar, but I would subject that supposition in this »
November 5, 2025 — Bill Glahn

Minor miracles

Featured image And I mean minor. From the Minnesota Star Tribune, Mayor Jacob Frey beat back a challenge from democratic socialist Omar Fateh for a third term leading Minnesota’s largest city. We had to wait a few extra hours for the result, to see if the colossally- stupid, ranked-choice voting system would screw things up. It didn’t. In the end, Frey was credited with just over 50 percent of the vote, seeing »
November 1, 2025 — Bill Glahn

CAIR endorses Fateh for Mayor

Featured image CAIR endorses Omar Fateh for Mayor of Minneapolis, The CAIR-backed, Super PAC Unity & Justice Fund has also put $10,000 behind the Minneapolis mayoral campaign of sitting state Sen. Omar Fateh. I’ve updated the donor list to the Fateh-friendly Working Peoples Project to reflect the last-minute donation. Who is Unity & Justice? You won’t figure anything out from reading their website. From the New York Post, writing about donors to »
August 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson

Late to CAIR

Featured image The Council on American Islamic Relations — CAIR — is something of a Hamas front group that is unfailingly described as a civil rights organization. This is an old story that is well told in Andrew McCarthy’s 2010 book The Grand Jihad in a chapter (chapter 8: “The Americans Don’t Know Anything”) that is excerpted in the 2014 NR column “The Roots of CAIR’s Intimidation Campaign.” Discover the Networks covers »
December 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson

MS. found in a Molotov cocktail

Featured image The Washington Free Beacon has published executive editor Collin Anderson’s intensely reported story “‘Death to Jews’: Inside the Home of 2 SJP Leaders at George Mason University, Police Find Guns, Ammo, and Terrorist Flags.” It’s a long story reported with the assistance of the Free Beacon’s Jessica Costescu. This is how it opens: When police searched the home of two Students for Justice in Palestine leaders, a pair of sisters »