Benjamin Netanyahu after the elections. Screengrab youtube
According to the partial official results, Likud has 26 seats, Yashar 21, Netanyahu’s bloc 53, and the opposition bloc 48. Double-envelope ballots are being counted separately.
Vote counting in the elections for the 26th Knesset is continuing, and the distribution of seats among the political blocs still leaves neither side with a majority sufficient to form a government.
According to the latest official results update on Wednesday at 8:48 p.m., with approximately 88.6% of the votes counted, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc holds 53 seats, the opposition bloc has 48 seats, and the Arab parties hold a combined 19 seats.
Likud, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, remains the largest party in the Knesset with 26 seats, having lost one seat compared to the previous update.
The Yashar Party, led by Gadi Eisenkot, receives 21 seats, also a decline of one seat, placing it second. The Joint List gains one seat, rising to 12, the same number as the Beyachad Party led by Naftali Bennett, which also receives 12 seats.
The Democrats, led by Yair Golan, receive eight seats, while Yisrael Beytenu, led by Avigdor Liberman, has seven. Ra’am, led by Mansour Abbas, also gains one seat, bringing its total to seven, the same number as United Torah Judaism, Shas, and Otzma Yehudit.
The Religious Zionism and Zehut joint list, led by Bezalel Smotrich and Moshe Feiglin, receives six seats.
According to the partial results, the bloc supporting the current coalition under Netanyahu holds 53 seats, eight short of the majority required to form a government. The opposition bloc stands at 48 seats.
The Reservists and Economic Party, led by Yoaz Hendel and Yaron Zelekha, receives 2.63% of the vote, while the Amcha Yisrael Party, led by retired Brigadier General Ofer Winter, stands at 1.61%.
The Central Elections Committee is continuing to receive and verify the results from regular polling stations. At the same time, votes cast in double envelopes are being processed and counted separately, following the required verification procedures.
The additional votes could change the distribution of Knesset seats among the parties, particularly where the margins between party lists are narrow.
Voter turnout in the elections reached 77.7%, the highest since 1999. Turnout among Arab voters was approximately 80%, while participation among IDF personnel stood at 79.9%.
As the counting of votes from regular polling stations nears completion, the political establishment is entering the next stage of the struggle to form a government, with neither bloc currently holding the required majority.
The British authorities have developed a whole new way to express their hatred of Israel. It’s so convoluted that people can only shake their heads in disgust. The situation involves a British citizen who was deemed “vulnerable” to Israeli manipulation because she was a non-Jew supporting Jews and Israel. This episode recalls state police investigating a citizen’s supposedly suspicious activities in a totalitarian country.
Holly Passmore, 44, from County Durham, supports the Jewish community and Israel, particularly after October 7, 2023, even though she wasn’t Jewish. Because of her online influence, the Israeli embassy invited her to visit Israel with other media representatives, a trip she took in June 2025.
While Passmore was in Israel, someone made an anonymous report to a British counterterrorism program called Prevent, which is tasked with identifying people who are “vulnerable” to radicalization that could lead to terrorist acts.
The language used in the anonymous tip (which Passmore eventually obtained) was both sinister and absurd. According to the anonymous referrer, Passmore was “over-identified with the conflict between Israel and Palestine” and “supportive of Israel to the point that she has travelled to Israel.”
As a result of this report, after Passmore returned from Israel, two officers from Durham Constabulary showed up unexpectedly at her home in July 2025 with an odd set of questions:
‘They said it was a safeguarding matter [and said I] may be at risk of manipulation…They asked me what my links are to Israel, whether I planned on returning to Israel.
‘They asked me why I was interested in ‘Jewish issues’ because County Durham it’s not a Jewish area. They even asked me if I’d ever been to Auschwitz, and I said, ‘yes’.’
Remarkably, the police intelligence report itself acknowledged that supporting Israel and traveling there were not counterterrorism concerns. Nevertheless, Passmore found herself answering questions about her interest in Jews and Israel.
In October 2026, when Passmore eventually obtained a copy of the police file and the story made the news, she discovered that her National Health Service medical records had classified her as a “vulnerable adult” on June 23, 2025, just eight days after her return from Israel. That designation remained until May 18, 2026. Passmore suspects a connection between the designation and the Prevent investigation, although she has been unable to establish one.
It’s important to understand that although Passmore has some health issues, including autism and ADHD, she has demonstrated her competence by pursuing a master’s degree in Holocaust studies at the University of Haifa while raising a nine-year-old son with severe autism. Once investigators completed their interview with Passmore, it should have been apparent that, if anyone’s motives deserved investigation, the anonymous accuser’s did.
The police tried to explain that their investigation was a “safeguarding” matter and that they had removed the designation. However, a closer look at the facts suggests other explanations.
Apparently, British authorities are suspicious of anyone who supports Israel and the Jews. Passmore believed that the police knew she wasn’t at risk of manipulation but suspected that she might have nefarious intentions because of her “extreme” interest in Israel. Why would a non-Jew be so vocal about her support for Israelis and Jews?
The police used her supposed vulnerability to negative influences as a justification for their investigation and perhaps even as a way to discourage her from openly demonstrating her support for Israel and the Jewish community.
When Passmore requested a copy of the investigation report, two officers visited her again, supposedly to assure her that they didn’t consider her a threat or an extremist. They also “urged” her to stop discussing her case online. I’m sure she was mollified.
My assessment of the situation is more sinister. Whether those specific police officers intended to intimidate Passmore, their actions’ effect was unmistakable. A British citizen who had committed no crime found herself being questioned by police about her support for Jews and Israel. Even after assuring her that she wasn’t an extremist, officers reportedly urged her to stop discussing her experience online.
The message to other Britons is chilling: Show too much interest in Israel, express too much sympathy for Jews, or speak too publicly about either, and you may find yourself answering questions from the police.
In a supposedly free country, that’s extraordinary. This is what happens when a program intended to protect people from radicalization is used to investigate people who oppose antisemitism.
The far-left mayor of the multicultural Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, has argued that so-called “far-right” politicians such as those from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally should be banned from speaking in public over their supposed racist rhetoric.
In the wake of the apparent schizophrenia shooting in Trappes last week, which, prior to any thorough investigation, was instantly branded by the local Muslim mayor as being a product of Islamophobia and racism, the left has attempted to seize on the issue and to promote the censorship of their political rivals.
Appearing on broadcaster LCI, Saint-Denis Mayor Bally Bagayoko said that Le Pen’s National Rally party should face “sanction” over the shooting in Trappes, which left one dead and five injured.
“I’m in favour of saying that those who make racist remarks all day long shouldn’t be given airtime,” Bagayoko said, according to La Journale du Dimanche, adding that RN politicians should be censored “from the moment they make racist remarks.”
When pressed on if his own far-left La France Insoumise (LFI/France in Rebellion) party — led by radical socialist Jean-Luc Mélenchon — would mandate such censorship if given power, he said that in “Act 1” they will fight the National Rally at the box, and that “Act 2” would see “all those who participate in spreading hatred will be heavily punished, including in the media.”
The leftist Mayor also shared and agreed with a statement from the National Union of Journalists, which claimed that “verbal violence” and racism are “festering” within French broadcast media, thereby “endangering” journalists and citizens of the republic.
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“By paving the way for the far right, we bear a clear responsibility. It is therefore time to ensure that democratic debate takes place with respect for the individual—without trivializing the lethal ideology of an anti-republican party, and, above all, without treating racism as just one opinion among others,” the media union claimed.
The demands for censoring anti-mass migration parties such as the National Rally came amid media reports that the Trappes shooter was inspired by racism and antipathy towards Muslims, as initial media reports and left-wing politicians claimed.
However, Olivier Christen, of the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT); said on Tuesday that while the suspect does not contest the facts of the case, he denies the “racist nature of his crimes”.
Christen also noted that “no leaflets from a political party were found in his vehicle”. This contradicts a report on Monday from the left-liberal establishment Le Monde newspaper, which claimed that there was National Rally promotional material found in the suspect’s car. “No leaflets from a political party were found in his vehicle,” he said.
In contrast to this apparent fictitious connection, the Paris police prefect, Patrice Faure, has referred Mayor Bagayoko to court for allegedly inciting the recent wave of youth riots across the country.
The Malain-heritage Muslim mayor has been one of the most prominent supporters of the protests and has been accused of justifying the violence seen by saying that it is “a possible understandable or legitimate response to the actions of law enforcement.” He denied that he was inciting violence.
The Swiss Government has frozen CHF 1.25 million (€1.33 million) in public funding destined for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), accusing the medical charity of breaching contractual disclosure duties following allegations of sexual exploitation in Chad.
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), an arm of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), withheld one tranche of Bern’s CHF 6.25 million annual pledge to the non-governmental organisation (NGO) after Swiss media published internal communications detailing long-standing misconduct allegations.
The frozen sum forms part of the CHF 6.25 million earmarked for 2026. Switzerland paid some CHF 7 million (€7.45 million) to MSF projects in Chad and South Sudan across 2024 and 2025, including CHF 2 million (€2.13 million) for the programme now under scrutiny.
An internal MSF investigation identified 59 separate allegations of sexual misconduct, abuse and exploitation concerning humanitarian operations in eastern Chad, where hundreds of thousands of refugees have arrived fleeing the civil war in neighbouring Sudan.
Some of those allegations were corroborated. Others could not be verified because neither the victims nor those accused could always be identified, MSF said.
Staff members were alleged to have conditioned the provision of humanitarian relief, jobs and financial assistance on sexual acts with displaced women and girls.
The cases involved contracted staff, daily workers, external contractors and suppliers. MSF employs 872 locally hired and 81 international staff in Chad, where it has operated since 1981.
MSF ultimately dismissed 18 personnel, including six affiliated with the organisation’s Swiss section, and barred them from any future work with the charity.
The administrative dispute in Bern centres on institutional transparency and compliance rather than the abuse itself, which MSF does not contest.
According to reports published by NZZ am Sonntag and drawn from internal correspondence, Swiss authorities received an initial alert regarding misconduct claims in November 2024.
A federal official wrote the following month that the FDFA had no urgent questions. By the summer of 2025 the file was treated internally as closed and, in February 2026, the SDC cited MSF as an example of transparency.
Officials in Bern argue, though, that the charity failed to proactively disclose the true breadth of the allegations and resulting dismissals.
The full extent of the scandal emerged publicly in June 2026 following investigative reporting by the Associated Press, prompting the SDC to formally demand complete documentation from the charity.
MSF had completed its internal report in July 2025. The Associated Press had already reported in November 2024 that Sudanese women in eastern Chad were being offered aid and employment in exchange for sex.
The FDFA determined that MSF violated its contractual obligations to provide timely and comprehensive notifications regarding serious institutional misconduct.
MSF representatives acknowledged procedural shortcomings, conceding that the scale of the findings had not been communicated “proactively and early enough”.
The charity said it had remained in constant contact with the SDC, admitted weaknesses in its 2024 recruitment and said it had since revised hiring, induction and training procedures, and opened confidential reporting channels.
Bern said the funds would remain frozen pending a review of the internal inquiry files.
The Swiss Confederation is currently assessing potential further sanctions, as well as an independent external review. The SDC said it had no evidence at this stage of deliberate concealment by the charity.
In response to the governance failure, Swiss authorities announced that statutory reporting requirements for all State-funded non-governmental organisations would be tightened from 2027, with stricter abuse-reporting clauses written into every partner contract.
Shopkeepers are facing a staggering financial toll following the widespread damage and looting during the Oct. 17 demonstrations, with preliminary estimates out of the IFRAP Foundation surpassing €1 billion.
“Initial reports from insurance companies indicate that the losses will exceed one billion euros,” reported CCI France on Tuesday. “For Paris, we’re talking hundreds of millions,” France’s network of chambers of commerce, CCI France, has stated, as cited by Le Figaro.
Damage in Paris alone already stretches into the hundreds of millions of euros.
IFRAP’s €1.1 billion estimate includes nearly €910 million in physical property damage and €190 million in lost business revenue due to forced closures and reduced activity. The financial hit is heavily concentrated on businesses (€666 million) and public property (€200 million), the latter including the fire-ravaged Limoges City Hall.
These amounts would eclipse the summer 2023 riots, which cost insurers €793 million across 16,400 claims, with the unrest spanning 11 nights and impacting 672 municipalities.
Rating agency Morningstar DBRS estimates the current damage could peak at €1.2 billion, provided the unrest subsides.
Comparing these estimates to the Yellow Vest movement, which caused retail revenue losses averaging €400 million per weekend between late 2018 and early 2019, IFRAP’s baseline estimate for the Oct. 17-18 riots projects €190 million in operating losses for just the single weekend.
Still, the damage is real. During Saturday protests, “city center businesses lose up to 80% of their revenue,” said CCI France.
In response to the crisis, CCI France President Alain Di Crescenzo is urging authorities to ban all demonstrations, including those in suburban areas, until after the holiday season. “We absolutely must revive commerce,” he stressed.
In the wake of the riots, French government bonds were unloaded by investors in a dramatic sell-off. Ratings agency Moody’s was expected to downgrade France’s credit rating last week but instead maintained its long-term sovereign credit rating at Aa3 with a negative outlook. Some say, this reprieve may not last long.
Funding from the EEA and Norway Grants has once again become available to Hungary. Three organizations—all of which have documented ties to the Open Society network associated with U.S. oligarch George Soros—have been assigned key roles in the Hungarian administration of the civil society grant program linked to this system.
The grant system provides funding to Hungary through several programs, such as those in the areas of local development, healthcare, the green transition, institutional cooperation, and Roma integration. However, the funds are not always disbursed through the same channel. While Hungarian government agencies participate in the implementation of programs announced in the Hungarian Official Gazette, the civil society grant fund within the system operates under its own, separate framework.
The EEA and Norway Grants are financed by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, three countries that are members of the European Economic Area (EEA) but not the European Union. The funding is linked to the EEA Agreement, which gives these countries access to the EU single market. The grants are intended to reduce social and economic disparities across Europe and strengthen bilateral relations between the donor and recipient countries. Norway provides approximately 97% of the total funding.
The money comes from public resources in the three donor countries. Their contributions are financed through national budgets, which draw on tax revenues and other sources of state income. In Norway, oil and gas revenues have also played a major role in building the country’s public wealth, much of which is managed through its sovereign wealth fund.
The scheme is not politically neutral in its stated objectives: the Norwegian government openly presents the grants as a means of promoting democracy, the rule of law and LGBTQ+ rights, while also supporting Norway’s broader engagement in Europe.
This raises a question about how donor countries use publicly funded assistance to promote their policy priorities abroad.
The Hungarian allocation of the Norwegian Civil Fund is 22.9 million euros, Magyar Nemzetreports. A significant portion of this is available as grants that civil society organizations can apply for directly. No single government agency has been given an exclusive role in the distribution of these funds in Hungary.
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— Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary (@MFAHungary) October 26, 2026
A consortium consisting of the Ökotárs Foundation, the Autonómia Foundation, and the Carpathian Foundation–Hungary was selected to administer the Civil Fund.
The three organizations’ responsibilities extend beyond the technical administration of grant applications: they also participate in selecting projects for funding, concluding grant agreements, and monitoring the implementation of programs.
All three of the organizations have documented financial or support ties to the Open Society system linked to George Soros. In the case of the Autonómia Foundation, this is not merely a matter of past collaboration with Open Society. According to the organization’s own reports, Open Society has funded several of its programs. For example, in a 2012 public benefit report, the Open Society Foundations is listed as a funder of a Roma integration program with a total budget of more than $373,000. The connection is even clearer in a later report, which states that the Autonómia Foundation received 21 million forints in funding from OSIFE—that is, the Open Society Foundation Europe—between 2019 and 2021.
In the case of the Ökotárs Foundation, a relationship dating back several decades can also be documented. According to one of the foundation’s own reports from 2003, the organization participated jointly with the Hungarian Soros Foundation and other civil society organizations in efforts aimed at developing the civil society sector. The Carpathian Foundation–Hungary, meanwhile, lists the Open Society Institute–Budapest and the Soros Foundations Network by name on its website, on the page listing its main supporters.
In the context of the current agreements, therefore, it is not only the amount that matters, but also who controls the funds and under what conditions they can be accessed.
In the case of major government programs, Hungarian institutions also participate in their implementation, while donor countries continue to play a role in the design and oversight of individual programs. The situation is different, however, with the civil society support fund: there, a three-member consortium has been given a decisive role in the administration and selection of projects, and all three members have documented prior ties to the Open Society network associated with George Soros.
The EAA funding arrangement has been the subject of a long-running dispute between Hungary’s previous government and the donor countries. In 2014, the Orbán government challenged the independence of the organizations administering the civil society fund, and launched investigations into their activities. Norway and the other donor countries insisted that the fund be managed independently of the Hungarian authorities, as required under the grant agreements, and suspended payments amid the dispute.
In 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled against Hungary over legislation imposing registration, declaration and publication requirements on civil society organizations receiving significant foreign funding.
He did not realise he was being overheard by a local BAC police officer who was in the shop buying his lunch. According to a report by Europe 1, a man was arrested on Tuesday for glorifying terrorism and making death threats on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality or religion. The incident took place at around 1 pm at the Intermarché on Rue de Charenton in Paris (12th arrondissement). The police officer, who was on duty with the local anti-crime squad (BAC), was alerted by an individual who was addressing the security guard, shouting: “We’re going to take revenge on this country of racists in the name of Allah!” He continued: “Country of filthy white people, we’re not going to let this continue, we’re going to kill them all.”
According to a source close to the investigation, a police officer also overheard the suspect saying, “We’re going to slit the throats of those filthy white people”. The officer, assisted by colleagues who had arrived as reinforcements, checked the suspect’s identity and then arrested him as he left the shop.
When questioned by the criminal investigation officer, he admitted to having a problem with Israel and France, stating, “You are accomplices and a country of fascists.” He was taken into custody at the 12th arrondissement police station. An investigation has been launched.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider O.R.C. celebrating Traditional Latin Mass in Tallinn, Estonia.Wikimedia Commons, Marko Tervaportti, CC-BY-3.0
During an interview published Saturday after the 2026 Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage, Bishop Athanasius Schneider reiterated that the mass migration of Muslims into Europe is an “invasion” and called out the Vatican’s support for the “Dechristianization” of the continent.
During the interview with the Remnant’s Michael Matt that aired October 24, Bishop Schneider discussed the ongoing riots in France, Italy, and across Europe that are the result of an Islamist “invasion” of the continent and are meant to frighten and intimidate the Christian population.
The bishop emphasized that not only are the European “elites” complicit in allowing this “invasion” and ultimately the “Dechristianization” of Europe but so is the Vatican, which gives spiritual credibility to the invasion.
Riots serve as ‘intimidation’ of Christians, Europeans
“But (the riots are) ultimately partly a complicit act … of this government in France or … in other European countries to simply scare us: the Europeans, the Christians to be silent. You are scared, ‘if you open your mouth, we will burn your house, we will burn the churches,’ as now they are doing in France,” he told Matt.
“They are doing an exercise for us; I think it’s a very cunning method also partly tolerated … by some responsible politicians in Europe to simply threaten us and scare us … a massive intimidation of Catholics or Christians in Europe,’” he added. “And this we may recognize, and even people of goodwill even who are not Catholics, who still have some sense of ‘I am a European, I am French or a German, (or) Italian to unite all these good forces to peacefully resist this intimidation and to issue stricter laws to protect the European population and to restrict really the so-called ‘immigration,’ which is not immigration; it is an invasion.”
Bishop Schneider calls out the Vatican for collaborating with European elites who want to "de-Christianize Europe." pic.twitter.com/O1Y2BMRa4R
In recent weeks, riots, attributed to a third-world “invasion” have occurred across France and other European countries.
Images posted across social media from Toulouse last week showed an unidentified masked man, who appears to be African, standing on the bronze statue located on Place Jeanne d’Arc after placing a yellow vest on the saint’s head in the shape of a hijab and the Palestinian flag on the statue’s side.
WATCH: A young patriot has scaled the statue of Joan of Arc in France and removed Palestinian and Antifa flags pic.twitter.com/U5oAXBiIPV
Separate video from Paris shows another unidentified reportedly foreign rioter being cheered on by a mob after climbing on and placing political stickers on the statue of the country’s patron saint in the Place des Pyramides.
Vatican complicit in migrant ‘dechristianization’ of Europe
Asked by Matt if the Vatican restoring its “Catholic sense” could help Europe return to the faith and destroy the ancient foe of Islam, His Excellency stressed that he suspects the Vatican is collaborating with the “European political elites” in aiding this invasion.
“I am suspecting … that unfortunately (those) responsible in the Vatican are simply collaborating with the … European political elites (whose) … first priority (is) ‘immigration’ so-called and asking the Vatican to in some way ‘bless’ it because the Vatican is a spiritual power and therefore they need … spiritual support and now they have it,” Schneider said.
The bishop added that European powers have unfortunately been able to approach the Holy See and twist Sacred Scripture, as the devil does, and say, “‘Oh, we … remind you of love for the neighbor, the love for the poor. This is the Gospel.’”
“And, unfortunately, many responsible people in the Vatican are allowing themselves to be deceived or (are) partly agreeing with the process of Dechristianizing Europe,” he said. “Maybe there are several factors, but ultimately, unfortunately, the Holy See is supporting this process, which will be a huge damage to the Christian presence.”
Pope Leo XIV’s praise of migrants
Indeed, Pope Leo XIV, following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Pope Francis, has repeatedly focused on migrants’ rights while largely ignoring the dangers of mass migration to Europe and around the world.
In June remarks during his visit to Spain, the 267th pontiff praised migration into Europe and stressed that the Church must not treat the reception of migrants as a secondary moral issue.
“The Church must also allow itself to be questioned. The reception of migrants cannot be anything secondary, nor can it be delegated only to a few volunteers. We kneel before the altar to worship Christ present in the Eucharist, from whom we receive the strength and motivation to live charity: for this reason we cannot then ‘pass over’ before cayucas and pateras, since from prayer every service flows and to it all commitment returns,” he said at the time.
While Catholic social teaching indeed affirms that immigrants should be treated with dignity and respect, it also notes that a country has a right to secure its borders. In the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB’s) “Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration and the Movement of Peoples,” the conference clearly states that countries have no obligation to accept everyone who wishes to enter.
In another egregious statement last fall, Leo falsely equated the “mistreatment of migrants” with abortion, the murder of unborn children. The Holy Father made these remarks last fall while appearing to defend heterodox Cardinal Blase Cupich’s decision to honor radically pro-abortion U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin with a lifetime achievement award.
“Someone who says I’m against abortion, but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life,” the pontiff said at the time.
Other prelate’s statements against mass migration to Europe
Other prelates have echoed Schneider’s critiques of mass migration into Europe over the years. In 2017, Cardinal Robert Sarah, in remarks at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Poland, called out the “outside forces” who try to impose on Poland and other European nations without assimilating.
“In what manner is it possible to remove the rights of the nation to distinguish between a political or religious refugee, who must flee from his homeland, and the economic migrant, who wants to change his address without adapting himself, identifying with, and accepting the culture of the country in which he will live?” Cardinal Sarah asked.
The Guinean cardinal also underscored the importance of rebuilding nations that have suffered from war and other injustices without uprooting the people of other countries and called out those who “exploit the word of God” to justify the promotion of multiculturalism.
“I say again that we must work together to rebuild the nations that have fallen victim to war, corruption and injustice, but this does not mean encouraging the uprooting of peoples and the destruction of nations,” he said. “Some people exploit the Word of God to justify the promotion of multiculturalism and gaily take advantage of the excuse of hospitality to justify the admission of immigrants.”
Nothing to see here. Just one of those misunderstandings that seem to happen with people from a society and a belief system that says raping women is okay as long as they’re not Muslims and not wearing hijabs or burkas.
Meet Dahir Ibrahim: the UK’s most prominent Somali Muslim figure.
A convicted Somalian rapist who managed to overturn a deportation order went on to rape two more women in Birmingham, with his lawyer arguing ‘he had a lack of understanding of what is acceptable in the UK’.
This made for a total of 5 women he had raped.
Jabeen Akhtar, defending, said Ibrahim had come from a country where he had witnessed many atrocities and that he had a lack of understanding of what is acceptable in the UK.
“It was more opportunistic then pre-planned,” he claimed. “No long term physical injury was sustained by the victims.”
After raping 5 women, going to jail, overturning a deportation order, Dahir Ibrahim sued, accusing the system of Islamophobia.
A Somali rapist has won a court battle against the NHS after painkillers were prescribed to him in prison during Ramadan.
Now, the 41-year-old has won his case against Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust after he claimed its policy of only dispensing the opiate-based painkiller codeine at HMP Birmingham in the morning or afternoon during Ramadan breached his human rights.
Luckily, Judge Mohammed was on his side.
During the County Court hearing, Judge Mohammed Shakil Najib ruled the dispensing policy amounted to “indirect” religious discrimination under Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
No word on whether raping non-Muslims qualifies as religious discrimination.
A dramatic development in the exit polls for Israel’s 26th Knesset elections: Channel 14 released an updated projection early Wednesday morning showing that Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party had fallen below the electoral threshold.
As a result, Netanyahu’s bloc rose to 62 seats, giving it the parliamentary majority needed to form a government, according to the updated poll.
The revision marked a significant change from Channel 14’s initial projection, which had given Yisrael Beytenu four seats and Netanyahu’s bloc just 60.
The update highlighted the substantial differences among the six exit polls released when voting ended. While Channel 14 now projects a 61-seat majority for Netanyahu’s bloc, Channel 12 News, Channel 13 News, and Kan 11 News each give the bloc just 50 seats. The i24NEWS poll projects 55 seats, while Channel 16 gives Netanyahu’s bloc 53.
All six exit polls show Likud as the largest party, with between 24 and 30 seats, while Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party is projected to win between 19 and 23 seats.
