Amnesty International

October 23, 2023 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Real Gaza Hospital Crisis

The media firestorm over whether Israel attacked the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza is over. It was an errant rocket shot by the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad group that exploded near the compound. But another media...

August 23, 2023 | David May, Natalie Ecanow

Australian Government Bows to Far-Left Pressure on Israel

Earlier this month, Australia upended nearly a decade of precedent when the government announced that it will start referring to the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem, and Gaza as “occupied Palestinian territories”...

November 21, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

How to Assess Changes in Morningstar Sustainalytics ESG Ratings

November 6, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

Jew-Free Investing

How the BDS campaign infiltrated ESG

July 20, 2022 | Orde Kittrie |

Building on Biden’s Israel Commitments Before It’s Too Late

During President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel last week, he and Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed a landmark declaration that contains several important U.S. commitments, including on preventing Iran from...

June 17, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

How to Curb Anti-Israel Bias Inside ESG Risk Ratings

April 13, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Bad neighbors

Russia is not the only nation threatening the existence of nearby nations

April 1, 2022 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: April

March 12, 2022 | David May |

Israel’s rescue of Arabs from Ukraine undermines oppression narrative

Israel has done what it can to help its Arab citizens and other Arabs to whom it owes nothing to find safety in the conflict.

February 22, 2022 | Shany Mor |

On Amnesty’s car-crash interview in Israel

When the two most senior Amnesty officials presented their new report in Israel they struggled to answer the most basic questions. Their responses, writes Shany Mor, were ‘a mix of exasperation, ignorance, self-contradiction, and conspiratorial magical thinking’.

February 18, 2022 | Toby Dershowitz, Orde Kittrie

Biden Can Reset the UN’s Discriminatory Approach to Israel

The United States led when it persuaded the General Assembly to repeal its 1975 vote declaring Zionism to be racism. It should now actively and decisively lead the effort to end the Commission of Inquiry, which the UNHRC created to conclude essentially the same thing.

February 17, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer, Richard Goldberg, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Taiwan 194

Emulating the Palestinians to Advocate Internationally for Taiwan and to Counter China

February 16, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The coalition of the unwilling

Western elites prefer not to fight authoritarianism

February 9, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Amnesty spreads the virus of antisemitism

It defames, demonizes, and attempts to delegitimize the Jewish state

November 15, 2021 | Alireza Nader, Benjamin Weinthal

Iranian Professor At US College Complicit In Crimes Against Humanity

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Iran’s former ambassador to the UN, is complicit in crimes against humanity by using his position as an Iranian diplomat to cover up the 1988 executions of 5,000 dissidents in...

November 4, 2021 | David May, Jonathan Schanzer

American NGOs Rally Behind Groups Accused by Israel of Terrorism

A battle is raging over Israel’s declaration that six Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGO) are fronts for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated terrorist...

September 30, 2021 | Alireza Nader, Navid Mohebbi

Tehran views the rise of the Taliban with both glee and suspicion

The regime in Iran initially welcomed the triumph of the Taliban over the central government in Kabul, celebrating the humiliation of the U.S., their common foe. While Shiite Iran and the Sunni Taliban...

August 4, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iranian athletes at Tokyo Olympics remember murdered wrestler Navid Afkari

A defector from the Islamic Republic displayed a picture of Afkari attached to a flag: 'We’ll always commemorate him'

June 25, 2021 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

In Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s clerics have groomed and promoted their ruthless enforcer

This month, Iran held the most boring — and most consequential — presidential election in its history. Boring because the election was rigged virtually from the start. What made it consequential is...

April 30, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Alireza Nader

An Oberlin Professor Is Under Fire for His Past

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Iran's former ambassador to the U.N., has been accused of trying to cover up a 1988 massacre of political prisoners.