White House confirms Trump plans to designate Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terror organization

By Jacob Magid

You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page

You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page

24 November 2025, 8:10 pm

Edit

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

The White House confirms that US President Donald Trump plans to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization.

The White House’s social media account on X posts, “TRUMP VOWS TO DESIGNATE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” above a screenshot of an identically-worded New York Post headline.

Yesterday, the conservative outlet Just the News had quoted Trump as having said that the move would “be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” and that “final documents are being drawn” up.

Yesterday’s report was quickly welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who indicated that he could follow suit. Netanyahu’s declaration was taken as a hint that he could ban the Islamist Ra’am party in Israel, which has denied links with the Muslim Brotherhood and decried the premier’s statement.

Netanyahu sought to bring Ra’am into his coalition several years ago before talks broke down and the party, led by Mansour Abbas, decided to join the Bennett-Lapid government in 2021.