Authorities said Joseph Czuba targeted his tenants because they were Muslim and in response to the war between Israel and ...

A jury on Friday convicted an Illinois landlord in a 2023 stabbing that claimed the life of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy, Wadee Alfayoumi, and left his mother critically injured.

testified Czuba had ordered the family to move out because they were Muslim An Illinois landlord who fatally stabbed his 6-year-old Palestinian-American tenant soon after the Oct. 7, 2023 ...

He could have received a sentence of life in prison. The attack left many members of Illinois’s large Palestinian American and Muslim communities frightened and angry. Some leaders connected the ...

(AP) — An Illinois landlord who killed a 6-year-old ... He was targeted because of who he was—Muslim, Palestinian, and loved.” Czuba did not speak during the sentencing.

An Illinois landlord convicted of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy in a hate-fueled attack days after the Israel-Hamas war broke out will spend 53 years in prison ...

Advocates say Trump administration appears to be following Project Esther’s recommendations to crackdown on activism.

CHICAGO — While protests against the war in Gaza continued outside the Democratic National Convention, Illinois' lone Palestinian American state lawmaker said organizers' refusal to allow a pro ...

A growing number of state lawmakers are moving to repeal a 2015 Illinois law penalizing companies that boycott Israel to protest its policies toward Palestinians.

An Illinois landlord who fatally stabbed his 6-year-old Palestinian-American tenant soon after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison on Friday, May 2. At trial ...

Joseph Czuba, 73, fatally stabbed Wadee Alfayoumi in the Chicago suburb of Plainfield Township in 2023. NBC News' Shaq Brewster reports on the sentencing.May 2, 2025 Harvard professor Laurence Tri ...