Terrorism & Homeland Security

By Todd Bensman as published May 7 by The New York Post As President Biden considers bringing Gaza war refugees into the United States, he would do well to recall what happened when other good-hearted people took a similar chance – and paid with their blood. Before the October 7 Hamas attack, Israeli citizens sponsored work permits for thousands of security-vetted Palestinians … [Read more...] about Why Biden’s Gaza refugee plan is a hard hell no

As published May 7, 2024 by The Daily Wire The revered Columbia Journalism School issues this year’s Pulitzer Prizes on its New York campus this week, with an unaddressed problem next door in its own hallowed “Pulitzer Hall.” Prominently displayed inside the lobby, Columbia Journalism School has allowed a memorial shrine to fallen Gazan “journalists” who were anything but … [Read more...] about Debunking The Argument For Columbia Journalism School’s Terrorist Propagandist Memorial

By Todd Bensman A version of this article ran May 1, 2023 in The Daily Mail America’s paragon of journalism education – the 120-year-old Columbia Journalism School in New York proposed by Joseph Pulitzer, namesake of the Pulitzer Prizes issued annually – has quietly erected in its main lobby an expansive photo memorial to some 100 “journalists” killed in Israel’s retaliatory war against the … [Read more...] about Columbia University’s prestigious journalism school memorializes dead Hamas propagandists and alleged terrorists

Chronic counterterrorism lapses at the border demand investigation and congressional intervention By Todd Bensman as published August 22, 2024 by The American Mind magazine The latest release into the American interior of an FBI terrorist suspect who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border—a twice-freed Afghan national man free to roam America for 11 months until his capture—demands that … [Read more...] about Terrorists Welcome

Only after Awet Hagos was arrested on assault and weapons charges in North Carolina did ICE run fingerprints and find that he was on the terror watch list. By Todd Bensman as published March 20,2024 in The Federalist AUSTIN, Texas — With an immigrant terrorism scare far from the U.S.-Mexico border amid the worst mass migration crisis in American history, North Carolina now officially joins … [Read more...] about How Did A Migrant On The FBI’s Terrorist Watch List Get To North Carolina?

AUSTIN, Texas – The New York Post brings us yet more news in an overly familiar new genre: a Lebanese immigrant caught at the El Paso-Juarez border admitted he was a member of the terrorist group Hezbollah and entered with plans to build a bomb in New York. It’s important to note that no US government agent forced this confession out of Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, as part of any well-worn … [Read more...] about Biden knows terrorists are crossing the border — why doesn’t he stop it?

By Todd Bensman as published February 25, 2024 by The New York Post AUSTIN, Texas — In the Trump administration’s final three years, a dedicated FBI effort, the China Initiative, nabbed dozens of Chinese Communist Party spies who, posing as scholars, relieved top American research institutions and their naïve professors of sensitive and prized national-defense research. Those spies had flown … [Read more...] about NY Post: China likely exploiting Biden’s lax border policies — imperiling US security

By Todd Bensman as published February 12, 2024 by The New York Post A terrorist plot to smuggle an ISIS assassin team from Iraq across our southern border is wrapping up just in time to remind Americans the worst mass-migration crisis in US history comes with a high price: an elevated national-security threat. The obscure federal prosecution of an Ohio Iraqi, Shihab Ahmed Shihab, for his … [Read more...] about New York Post: ISIS plot to assassinate George Bush reminds us the border crisis security threat is real

By Todd Bensman as published January 23, 2024 in The American Mind magazine SARAJEVO, Bosnia -- While driving 100 kmh past a highway-side gas station on the outskirts of Sarajevo, I spied and accurately identified a human smuggling scene unfolding in the station parking lot: several Caucasian men, no doubt local smugglers, shepherded some 30 young Middle Eastern male immigrants and their … [Read more...] about Europe in Crisis: The Road from Damascus

By Todd Bensman as published November 3, 2023 by the New York Post AUSTIN, Texas — Is the US-designated terrorist group Hamas active in the United States? Of course it is, as it has been since the early 1990s, albeit limiting its activities mainly to influencing the media and therefore government policy toward Israel, and potentially still illegally fundraising in ways the FBI has … [Read more...] about ‘Attachment A’ is a roadmap to Hamas in the US — is the FBI paying attention?