Terrorism

Israel should gain full administrative authority over Gaza, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said in an interview with WPR’s “Central Time,” with Arab states absorbing more Palestinian refugees. “I think at some point in time, Israel is just going to have to basically dictate and have jurisdiction over these lands, if they ever expect to have…

While expressing support for Israel and Ukraine, Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson also cautioned against “massive, ill-defined” aid packages that combine separate conflicts and stand to balloon the national debt. Johnson on Thursday joined Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Morning Show,” where he said he wants to listen to what Israel needs in its fight against…

Wisconsinites gathered Monday to remember the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial and Education Center in Kewaskum. The third annual event focused on the importance of volunteer rescue workers. According to the National Volunteer Fire Council, 3,000 of the firefighters who responded to Ground Zero and the Pentagon were…

Reports of antisemitism in Wisconsin remain near record-high levels in a trend advocates call “very concerning.” An annual audit released Thursday by the Milwaukee Jewish Community Relations Council found 95 reported incidents of antisemitism in 2021, just a 4 percent decrease from 2020’s record-high of 99. “This is all very concerning because whenever we see…

Leave it to Wisconsinites to fight autocracy one can of beer at a time. Starting this weekend, Milwaukee’s Lakefront Brewery is selling 32-ounce take-home crowlers that come with a new label featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin. The words, “Putin is a dick” are scrawled across the autocrat’s forehead while a tank takes aim at his…

Every day Yuliya Morozova hears the sounds of missiles overhead. She lives with her family in Brovary, Ukraine, about 15 kilometers east of Kyiv. For the past week, they’ve been running into their basement anytime their phones ding with an emergency alert. “Usually it’s happening at night so you just wake up shaking and running,”…

As she counted down the final hours of her stay at Fort McCoy, a 60,000-acre Army base in rural Monroe County, Wisconsin, Lamha Nabizada searched for an interesting place to pose for a photo at this reporter’s request. The task wasn’t easy. “Everywhere is the same thing, same barrack — white, white barrack,” the 27-year-old…

Sher Khan and his family arrived at Fort McCoy in western Wisconsin at the beginning of September. They were part of the roughly 120,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan in August of 2021 as the U.S. military withdrew and the Taliban, an armed Islamist group, took control of the country. Many of those evacuees ended up…

A year after the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Wisconsin and national-level experts on domestic terrorism spoke at an event in McFarland on causes and responses to the problem. The event, sponsored by the nonpartisan, nonprofit Wisconsin group We Are Many-United Against Hate, included discussions on the effects of domestic terrorism. Masood…

Johnny finally heard from his parents in Afghanistan after two weeks of not being able to reach them. “Johnny 5” is the nickname U.S. Marines in Afghanistan gave him while he was working as an interpreter between 2010 and 2013. He came to the U.S. in 2014, and now lives in Fitchburg. WPR isn’t using…