Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a radical Islamist terrorist organization, established by Egyptian students inspired by the 1979 Iranian revolution. PIJ's goal is the violent destruction of the state of Israel, and like Hamas it frequently attacks Israeli civilians in pursuit of that goal. However, PIJ is smaller and receives less funding than Hamas, and does not engage in governance practices, focusing instead on violent attacks. It launched its first attack in 1986, and often utilizes suicide bombing as a tactic.
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Hate Group
An organization whose goals and activities are primarily or substantially based on a shared antipathy towards people of one or more other different races, religions, ethnicities/nationalities/national origins, genders, and/or sexual identities. The mere presence of bigoted members... Read more
Colleyville Synagogu…
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and... Read more
Aafia Siddiqui
Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who studied neuroscience at Brandeis and MIT in the 1990s and returned to Pakistan in 2003. She allegedly worked as a courier and financier for Al Qaeda. She was taken into custody... Read more
Holy Land Foundation
The Holy Land Foundation was a Texas-based charity whose five founding officers were sentenced in May 2009 to between 15 and 65 years in prison for funneling over $12 million to Hamas.