Argentina’s foreign minister has told the chairman of the Jewish Agency that investigations into the bombings of Israel Embassy and the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires in the 1990s would continue. Last week, a paper reported that Argentina would drop the investigation of Iranian suspects in return for better trade relations with Tehran. read more »
Assailants have targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia in near-simultaneous strikes, wounding several people in a car bombing in New Delhi. World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder called the attacks “acts of terrorism against peaceful diplomats and innocent civilians.” read more »
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» Iranian bomb suspect arrested in Malaysia - Agence France Presse
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» Singapore assassination plot against Barak foiled - Jerusalem Post, Israel
» Netanyahu: Iran's terror acts undermine the world's stability - Haaretz, Israel
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 were a brutal assault on the entire West, against the Western Way of Life and its core belief: freedom. Our values must be defended and upheld against the terrorists, writes the president of the World Jewish Congress. read more »
» At a rebuilt AMIA Jewish center, Argentinians remember 9/11 victims - JTA, USA
» Religious leaders call for unity 10 years after 9/11 - Washington Post, USA
» Rabbi Schneier briefs White House staff on 9/11 anniversary - Jewish Journal, USA
Terrorists in the Gaza Strip have continued to fire rockets onto Israeli territory. A nine-month-old baby was wounded when a missile hit a home near Ashkelon. Israel's Air Force struck back, bombing targets in Gaza. On Friday, an Islamic Jihad leader announced a ceasefire. read more »
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Ronald S. Lauder and Dan Diker have called on the international community to step up efforts against terrorism in the Middle East, following a series of attacks against civilians in southern Israel committed by Palestinian terrorists from Gaza. read more »
More than 40 lawmakers from across South America met in Buenos Aires at the invitation of the Latin American Jewish Congress – the regional chapter of the World Jewish Congress – on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the AMIA center bombing – the worst-ever terrorist attack on the continent. read more »
» Peruvian army veteran warns of growing Iranian presence - Jerusalem Post, Israel
» Jewish groups reject Iranian AMIA cooperation - Jerusalem Post, Israel
» SIGN THE PETITION: Justice for the victims of the AMIA bombing in Argentina
» Ronald S. Lauder on the anniversary of the 1994 AMIA bombing: No impunity for mass murder!
On the eve of the 17th anniversary of the 1994 terrorist attack against the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, the Latin American Jewish Congress has launched an online petition to bring the masterminds of the terror attack to trial. It will be delivered to Argentine President Cristina Fernández. Sign it now! read more »
» Ronald S. Lauder on the anniversary of the 1994 AMIA bombing: No impunity for mass murder!
Recent events, and statements by Islamists and other fanatics, have shown time and again: terrorists still regard Jews and Jewish sites as legitimate targets, anywhere in the world, writes the president of the World Jewish on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA center in Buenos Aires. read more »
» Jews: Argentina and Iran both failed in bomb probe - Associated Press, USA
» SIGN THE PETITION: Justice for the victims of the AMIA bombing in Argentina
A Canadian national of Lebanese origin who once lived in the Detroit area is being accused by US authorities of having traveled to Israel in 2000 to detonate a bomb on behalf of Hezbollah. read more »
In a letter, WJC leader Ronald S. Lauder congratulated US President Barack Obama the US military on eliminating the world's top terrorist. read more »
» Hamas denounces killing of Bin Laden - Los Angeles Times, USA
A fan page posted on the social networking site ‘Facebook’ by radical Palestinian groups has been deleted after the World Jewish Congress and many others called for its removal. read more »
The WJC leadership expressed outrage at the murder of five members of a Jewish family, including two children and an infant, by Palestinian terrorists in the Samarian settlement of Itamar and called on the Palestinian Authority to do something against the daily incitement against Israel in the media, mosques and schools. read more »
A Pakistani-American national has been arrested by US federal authorities in connection with an alleged plot to bomb several Metrorail stations in the Greater Washington area. read more »
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21 people were involved in plotting the terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai in November 2008, including four serving officers of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and three former officers of the Pakistani Army, the suspected terrorist David Headley has reportedly told Indian investigators in June 2010. read more »
» Chabad House in Mumbai, hit by terrorists in 2008, to be rebuilt
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» Roger Cukierman, WJC Vice-President at the Strategic Review: Terrorism 
In Buenos Aires, several hundred people, including the well-known Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, have commemorated the 16th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center, in which 85 people died and hundreds were injured. read more »
» Join the Facebook group 'Justice for the victims of the AMIA Jewish Community Center bombing'
» How concerned are you that or your family could be a victim of a terrorist attack?
Germany's government has banned the Turkish organization IHH following evidence that it collects donations for Hamas-related ‘welfare’ projects in the Gaza Strip. read more »
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The presidents of Venezuela and Syria, Hugo Chávez and Bashar al-Assad, met in Caracas and accused Israel of spreading terrorism in the Middle East. read more »
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An influential Muslim scholar has issued a global ruling against terrorism and suicide bombing. Dr Tahir ul-Qadri says his 600-page judgement, known as a fatwa, completely dismantles al-Qaeda's violent ideology. read more »
» Officials believe latest bomb attack in India was meant for Jewish center
» How concerned are you that or your family could be a victim of a terrorist attack?
A bomb that exploded in a crowded café in the Indian city of Pune on Saturday and killed nine people was likely meant for the nearby Chabad house, Indian authorities have said. read more »
» How concerned are you that or your family could be a victim of a terrorist attack?
Police in Egypt said they had arrested 25 Muslim extremists suspected of having planned a terrorist attack against Jewish pilgrims who visited the grave of Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira near Alexandria. read more »
» Islamists in Paris issue death threats against "imam of the Jews"
» How concerned are you that or your family could be a victim of a terrorist attack?
» Mr. Mike Whine at the WJC Strategic Forum, Jerusalem, 19 October 2009
A senior Israeli official accused Iran's shadowy Quds Force on Friday of masterminding a string of attacks on Israeli diplomats abroad this week, fleshing out allegations denied by Tehran. read more »
The US government is worried that Iran will consider a terror attack on American soil, but it has no specific or credible threat about such a plot. read more »
Thai police say they believe men detained after prematurely exploding bombs in Bangkok on Tuesday were intending to target two Israeli diplomats. read more »
A plot to assassinate Defense Minister Ehud Barak was foiled by Singaporean authorities in cooperation with the Mossad, during his visit to the island country earlier this week, according to a Kuwaiti newspaper report. read more »
Five arrested on suspicion of involvement in New Delhi attack against Israeli embassy; Thai police investigating Tuesday's botched bombing, one suspect reportedly fled to Malaysia. read more »
Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak has accused Iran of being behind a bombing that rocked a crowded residential area of Bangkok on Tuesday. read more »
Assailants have targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia in near-simultaneous strikes, wounding several people in a car bombing in New Delhi. World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder called the attacks “acts of terrorism against peaceful diplomats and innocent civilians.” read more »
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and top US security officials told Jewish community leaders there is no imminent threat of an attack on Jewish targets in the United States. read more »
Two rabbis in the UK were said to be among a group of potential targets for a gang of nine terror suspects, a court has heard. read more »
The mother and aunt of a young Palestinian man who brutally slaughtered nearly an entire Jewish family last year went on Palestinian Authority television recently to praise his murderous actions and to denounce Israel. read more »
Three men were detained last week after planning to attack two Israelis employed by a Jewish school in Baku, the Azerbaijan Ministry of National Security has revealed. read more »
Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor of the Jewish Association of Thailand said he was in close contact with the authorities and they had taken measures to ensure the safety of his family and guests. read more »
An Israeli court has sentenced a Palestinian man to life in prison in the stabbing death of an American woman last December in a forest near Jerusalem. read more »
The thwarted Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States also involved an attack on the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires. read more »
The United States on Tuesday accused Iranian officials of plotting to murder the Saudi ambassador to the US. The alleged plot also included plans to bomb Israel's Embassy in Washington and the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Argentina. read more »
The US has accused Iran of backing a plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US and to blow up the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, detailing an alleged conspiracy that could drag relations between the US and Iran to a new low. read more »
Israelis have been barred from entering Egypt's Sinai Peninsula via the Taba crossing due to serious and credible terror threats. Other foreign nationals were allowed to enter the area, according to reports. read more »
A 9/11 memorial ceremony at the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires called for common cause in halting terrorist attacks. read more »
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 were a brutal assault on the entire West, against the Western Way of Life and its core belief: freedom. Our values must be defended and upheld against the terrorists, writes the president of the World Jewish Congress. read more »
World Jewish Congress Vice President Rabbi Marc Schneier was among those who briefed White House staff ahead of tenth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks. read more »
The Swedish government has allocated US$ 622,000 in its fall budget to increase security at the country's synagogues. read more »
Eight people were injured in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian who rammed a stolen taxi into a police roadblock outside a nightclub and then got out of the car and began stabbing people. read more »
Terrorists in the Gaza Strip have continued to fire rockets onto Israeli territory. A nine-month-old baby was wounded when a missile hit a home near Ashkelon. Israel's Air Force struck back, bombing targets in Gaza. On Friday, an Islamic Jihad leader announced a ceasefire. read more »
Ronald S. Lauder and Dan Diker have called on the international community to step up efforts against terrorism in the Middle East, following a series of attacks against civilians in southern Israel committed by Palestinian terrorists from Gaza. read more »
Assailants armed with heavy weapons, guns and explosives launched three attacks in quick succession in southern Israel near the border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding about a dozen more, officials said. read more »
The family of an American contractor killed in the Gaza Strip can sue the Palestinian Authority, a US appeals court ruled. read more »
Jews and Israelis were attacked in a total of 57 countries outside Israel between 1968 and 2010, the report 'Terrorist incidents against Jewish communities and Israeli citizens abroad 1968-2010' by the Community Security Trust in Britain shows. read more »
More than 40 lawmakers from across South America met in Buenos Aires at the invitation of the Latin American Jewish Congress – the regional chapter of the World Jewish Congress – on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the AMIA center bombing – the worst-ever terrorist attack on the continent. read more »
"We demand appropriate actions, not words," says director of Latin American Jewish Congress; "talking doesn't equal progress." read more »
Seventeen years after 85 people died in Argentina's worst terrorist attack, their relatives criticized both Iran and their own government Monday for failing to solve the case. read more »
On the eve of the 17th anniversary of the 1994 terrorist attack against the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, the Latin American Jewish Congress has launched an online petition to bring the masterminds of the terror attack to trial. It will be delivered to Argentine President Cristina Fernández. Sign it now! read more »
Iran has offered to "collaborate" with Argentina's investigation into the worst terrorist attack in the South American nation's history, the bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people in 1994. read more »
Recent events, and statements by Islamists and other fanatics, have shown time and again: terrorists still regard Jews and Jewish sites as legitimate targets, anywhere in the world, writes the president of the World Jewish on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA center in Buenos Aires. read more »
A Canadian national of Lebanese origin who once lived in the Detroit area is being accused by US authorities of having traveled to Israel in 2000 to detonate a bomb on behalf of Hezbollah. read more »
President Evo Morales of Bolivia has apologized to the head of Argentina’s Jewish community for inviting, and meeting with, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi, who is wanted in connection with the 1994 terrorist attack against the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. read more »
Relatives of victims of the 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires will receive financial compensation from the government, the Argentine Congress has decided. read more »
The United Nations special tribunal investigating the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri will indict five Hezbollah members for the 2005 killing, the' Asharq Alawsat' newspaper reported on Monday. According to the report, the special tribunal will ask the Lebanese government to allow it to personally interrogate the five suspects. read more »
Police commissioner, district attorney stress that remaining charges still accuse Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh of posing a legitimate threat to city's Jewish community. read more »
The government of Bolivia has said it had taken steps to ensure that visiting Iranian Defense Minister Ahmed Vahidi, who is accused by Argentina of involvement in the 1994 AMIA bombing, leaves the country immediately. read more »
Two men who allegedly intended to mount a terrorist attack in New York City, likely on a synagogue, have been arrested. read more »
In a letter, WJC leader Ronald S. Lauder congratulated US President Barack Obama the US military on eliminating the world's top terrorist. read more »
Terrorist attacks against Israel have more than doubled in the last month, according to figures compiled by the country’s General Security Service. The Israeli government warned its citizens from traveling to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt for fear of terrorist attacks and abductions during Pessach. read more »
A fan page posted on the social networking site ‘Facebook’ by radical Palestinian groups has been deleted after the World Jewish Congress and many others called for its removal. read more »
Israel has asked Argentina to clarify if a report is true that Argentine Foreign Minister Timerman offered Iran to stop investigating Iranian terror suspects in exchange for better bilateral trade relations. read more »
The WJC leadership expressed outrage at the murder of five members of a Jewish family, including two children and an infant, by Palestinian terrorists in the Samarian settlement of Itamar and called on the Palestinian Authority to do something against the daily incitement against Israel in the media, mosques and schools. read more »
The Palestinian Authority has settled a lawsuit brought in the US state of Rhode Island over the killing of an American couple in Israel by Hamas gunmen in 1996. read more »
Police in Athens have arrested a Palestinian man who holds a Lebanese passport and is suspected of being a member of the terrorist group Fatah-al-Islam. read more »
The US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly discovered a plot devised by the Islamist terror network al-Qaeda of Osama Bin-Laden to poison buffets and salad bars at several hotels and restaurants in the United States over a single weekend. read more »
The German government has increased security at airports and train stations after the government received indications of a planned terrorist attack in November. read more »
The Israeli government has issued a travel warning for Israeli citizens traveling in the Sinai and urged them to return home immediately, citing plans about a kidnapping plot. read more »
Yemeni security officials have arrested a female university student and her mother in connection with the dispatch of two packages addressed to several Jewish institutions in the Chicago area and seized last week in England and in Dubai on US-bound cargo planes. read more »
A Pakistani-American national has been arrested by US federal authorities in connection with an alleged plot to bomb several Metrorail stations in the Greater Washington area. read more »
21 people were involved in plotting the terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai in November 2008, including four serving officers of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and three former officers of the Pakistani Army, the suspected terrorist David Headley has reportedly told Indian investigators in June 2010. read more »
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement has presented plans for rebuilding Nariman House in the Indian city of Mumbai, nearly two years after it was devastated by Islamist terrorists. The new Jewish center will be dedicated to Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rikva, who died in the attack. read more »
French authorities arrested eleven men on Tuesday morning on suspicion of involvement with the terrorist network al-Qaeda and planned terror plots. read more »
Intelligence agencies have reportedly foiled a series of terrorist attacks planned by Pakistan-based Islamists in three European countries. read more »
At an ‘iftar’ dinner at the White House, US President Barack Obama has defended a controversial plan to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York, saying Muslims had a “right to do so.” read more »
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington was backing Argentina in its call for Iran to extradite the suspects in 1994 AMIA bombing. "Argentina and the United States cooperate closely in the fight against terrorism,” she said. read more »
A Jordanian citizen was killed and three others wounded by rockets fired at targets in Aqaba, Jordan and Eilat, Israel, the two border cities on the Red Sea coast. read more »
In Buenos Aires, several hundred people, including the well-known Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, have commemorated the 16th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center, in which 85 people died and hundreds were injured. read more »
Germany's government has banned the Turkish organization IHH following evidence that it collects donations for Hamas-related ‘welfare’ projects in the Gaza Strip. read more »
The presidents of Venezuela and Syria, Hugo Chávez and Bashar al-Assad, met in Caracas and accused Israel of spreading terrorism in the Middle East. read more »
Masked gunmen set fire to a United Nations-run summer camp for Palestinian children in Gaza. read more »
A homemade bomb went off in the early hours of Monday outside the synagogue of Tver, 170 km northwest of Moscow. No one was injured. read more »
The highest body of Muslim clerics in Saudi Arabia has issued a important religious ruling against terrorism, saying that committing terrorist acts, and even funding them, was against Islamic law. read more »
Leaders of both parties in the United States Senate have reportedly urged the Obama administration to consider placing the Turkish charity involved in the Gaza flotilla incident on the list of terrorist organizations. read more »
The European Jewish Congress has called on the European Union and European governments to immediately ban the Turkish group IHH, which led one of the six Gaza Flotilla ships. read more »
A court in Mumbai has found Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving Pakistani gunman from the terrorist attacks in November 2008, guilty of murder, terrorism and waging war on India. read more »
In an unusually strong warning, Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau has urged Israeli citizens currently on the Sinai peninsula to immediately return to Israel, citing "concrete evidence of an expected terrorist attempt to kidnap Israelis in Sinai." read more »
Police is Saudi Arabia have arrested over a hundred suspected terrorists who were allegedly plotting an attack against oil installations in the country. read more »
Terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired several rockets against civilian targets in Israel, killing one Thai worker. Israel’s Air Force retaliated by bombarding smuggling tunnels on Gaza’s border with Egypt. read more »
During the Gaza war, Hamas fighters used children as human shields and established launching pads in the vicinity of mosques and hospitals, according to a detailed report by the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. read more »
Israel’s government has ordered the IDF to seal off the West Bank for 48 hours "for security reasons" and highlighted the risk of attacks. read more »
The jailed Hamas leader Sheik Hassan Yousef has disowned his eldest son after learning that he was a spy for Israel. read more »
An influential Muslim scholar has issued a global ruling against terrorism and suicide bombing. Dr Tahir ul-Qadri says his 600-page judgement, known as a fatwa, completely dismantles al-Qaeda's violent ideology. read more »
Egyptian police have arrested a 49-year-old tailor who reportedly confessed to carrying out last Sunday’s firebomb attack against the main synagogue in downtown Cairo. read more »
Britain and Ireland have called in Israel’s ambassadors in London and Dublin as Mossad is widely blamed for killing a Hamas leader in Dubai. read more »
A bomb that exploded in a crowded café in the Indian city of Pune on Saturday and killed nine people was likely meant for the nearby Chabad house, Indian authorities have said. read more »
Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical US-born Islamic cleric of Yemeni origin, who is believed to have close ties to the terror network al-Qaeda, has reportedly admitted that the Nigerian man accused of trying to explode a bomb on a Detroit-bound airliner in December was his student. read more »
Police in Egypt said they had arrested 25 Muslim extremists suspected of having planned a terrorist attack against Jewish pilgrims who visited the grave of Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira near Alexandria. read more »
Since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington DC, the Madrid and London train bombs, and the attacks in Bali, Islamic terrorism has posed a major threat to the world. Before that Jewish sites were also a particular target of Islamic terror groups, resulting in the 1992 Israeli Embassy and the 1994 AMIA bombings in Buenos Aires, as well as the attacks against synagogues in Djerba and Istanbul.
The advance of radical Islam in many countries creates a fertile climate for terrorist action. It undermines inter-ethnic and inter-faith relations, provides the basis for terrorism and threatens democratic values.
Violence supposedly justified in the name of G-d is misguided. The spread of violence and terror must be fought by eradicating its root causes, halting the proliferation of arms to countries sponsoring terrorism, and by actively defending democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
Legislation prohibiting the incitement to terrorist acts and spreading of hate propaganda, particularly by radical clerics preaching in mosques, needs to be adopted and properly enforced.
Governments must be induced to prosecute and, where possible, expel radical Muslim clerics spreading hate messages and inciting violence.
Governments need to provide adequate security measures to protect Jewish centres and Jewish individuals from terrorist threats.
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