Radicalization

East Jerusalem pharmacy student indicted for plotting mass-casualty attack using poison

Prosecutors accused a pharmacy student from Beit Hanina of preparing terrorist attacks involving lethal poisons and explosive devices, allegedly intended to cause mass casualties.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN, JAMES GENN
Collection of glass vials with medicines (illustrative)
A flydubai plane carrying passengers from flight FZ1073 arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, after a suspected terror attack aboard their original flight from Dubai to Israel forced an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, September 30, 2026.

Flydubai hijacker researched airlines, planned killing pilot, crash into Tel Aviv skyscraper

"The dream was to crash into Ben-Gurion Airport," Omani pilot Hamam al-Hammami said during interrogation, an Israeli source told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

|ByIDAN KWELLER, DANYA SAPERSTEIN, AMICHAI STEIN
The flydubai rescue flight for hijacked flight FZ1073 lands in Israel on September 30, 2026.

Flydubai hijacker's years in Australia under scrutiny as authorities probe link to country - report

Sources familiar with the case said the pilot, an Omani citizen, stayed in Australia on a student visa issued in 2014. He studied in the country from 2015 to 2017, when he left.

|ByELI LEON
The Statue of Liberty stands in the foreground as the ‘Tribute in Light’ public art installation commemorating the September 11, 2001, attacks shines from the Lower Manhattan skyline on September 11, 2026.PremiumPremium

'Hiding in plain sight': Political Islamism is exploiting America's freedoms - opinion

Political Islamism is exploiting America’s democratic freedoms and institutions. Washington must recognize the threat before it becomes too deeply entrenched to uproot

|ByERIC R. MANDEL

Man accused of plotting attack for Islamic State at San Francisco pier

The man is suspected of planning to carry out an attack before Christmas.

DECEMBER 23, 2017ByREUTERS
Pier 39, looking north from near the entry point. San Francisco, California, USA.

Hamas’s failure

It is an important lesson for would-be Islamists everywhere that a reactionary version of Islam is not the answer to the pressing socioeconomic problems facing Gaza.

OCTOBER 2, 2017ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Shadi Abu Obeid (L), a member of the Palestinian Fatah movement, is greeted by a relative in Gaza City after his release from a Hamas prison on October 1, 2017.

'LGBT behavior' to be barred from Indonesian TV

Lawmakers in Indonesia proposed a law that would ban all LGTB television characters from the screen.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017ByHAGAY HACOHEN
‘Transparent’ TV series

FBI investigating 1,000 white nationalist and domestic terror cases

During his first congressional testimony, FBI director Christopher A. Wray confirms his bureau is working on a thousand domestic terrorism cases, from Islamic jihadists to home-grown radicals.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017ByHAGAY HACOHEN
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on "Threats to the homeland" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 27, 2017.

Arab-Israeli ISIS fighter killed in Syria

Israeli-Arab former resident of Shefa-Ámr died in Syria last weekend while fighting for Isis.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017ByYASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA
Rami Hugirat

Shame on the IDC

We need to resist legitimizing Trumpesque ideas – and inviting Sebastian Gorka to be a keynote speaker isn't the way.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017ByELANA MARYLES SZTOKMAN
US President Donald Trump hosts a recent meeting at the White House. His administration, the author writes, has enabled intolerance and fake-news era extremists.

The future of Spanish Jewry

Barcelona’s Jewish quarter, across from the site of last week’s terrorist rampage, is filled with tourists and community members.

AUGUST 22, 2017ByCAROLINE GLICK
A PERSON writes messages on a sidewalk at Las Ramblas in Barcelona on Saturday

Radical Muslim leader claims Israel plans to 'assassinate' him

Israel outlawed Raed Salah’s group in November 2016.

JULY 29, 2017ByYASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPOST.COM STAFF
Raed Salah

First Mosul, Now Raqqa: ISIS is on the run

The ultimate goal of ISIS is to take over the world.

JULY 17, 2017ByMICAH HALPERN
SPOILS OF war. Islamic State vehicles captured by the Iraqi army.

Salman Abedi: Profile of the Manchester murderer

Suicide bomber blamed for the death of 22 people is believed to have recently returned from Libya.

MAY 24, 2017ByREUTERS
Salman Abadi, the man identified as the Manchester suicide bomber (handout)