anti-Western sentiment

November 24, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir |

Getting Erdogan’s Turkey Right: Reflections on Ambassador Jeffrey’s Exit Interview

In a recent exit interview with Defense One, Ambassador James F. Jeffrey, the outgoing special representative for Syria engagement, asserted that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey poses challenges...

October 28, 2020 | Jonathan Spyer, Benjamin Weinthal

America Should Not Sell F-35 Fighter Planes to the Qatari Regime

Israeli energy minister Yuval Steinitz, speaking to the Ynet website on Sunday, expressed concern that despite Jerusalem’s objections, Qatar will eventually acquire state-of-the-art Lockheed Martin...

June 12, 2020 | Alireza Nader, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Iranians desperately need a better Voice of America

After more than a year of delay, the Senate confirmed Michael Pack as the new chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the Voice of America and other government-funded news...

April 2, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkey’s leak of Istanbul killing shows unlikely marriage with Iran under strain

Senior Turkish officials last week implicated two Iranian diplomats for instigating the November 2019 assassination of Iranian dissident Masoud Molavi Vardanjani in Istanbul. Until recently, Turkish and...

March 31, 2020 | Varsha Koduvayur |

It Is Time for Al Jazeera to Register Under FARA

The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) registered as a foreign agent this month, after the Department of Justice (DOJ) determined that the network engages in political activities to advance...

September 14, 2019 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Iran’s dual threat

Tehran is violating nuclear accords and menacing our oil supplies

June 18, 2019 | David Adesnik, LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Burning Bridge: The Iranian Land Corridor to the Mediterranean

June 4, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Pompeo Urges Germany To Follow Britain’s Lead in Outlawing Hezbollah

The German government ignored an urgent plea from the country’s Jewish community.

May 31, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Merkel Refuses to Outlaw Hezbollah, Snubbing German Jews After Kippah Row

When asked on Wednesday by The Jerusalem Post numerous times if the German government plans to ban the Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist organization, Merkel and Seehofer refused to answer.

October 6, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Jews Cut Ties With Local Turkish Group Due to Antisemitism

The Jewish community in the city of Mannheim broke off talks and exchanges with the Turkish Ditib religious association because its headquarters in Ankara spreads antisemitism, the Mannheimer Mor...

September 26, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Calls To End Iranian Center’s German City Contract Due To Israel Hate

A leading politician from the city of Hamburg urged on Monday the cancellation of the city’s contract with an Iranian-regime controlled institution because it participates in the annual al-...

July 12, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Is it wrong to prefer the West to the rest?

On various occasions and beginning decades before he was elected president, Ronald Reagan warned that “freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.” He understood, and h...

May 30, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Trump, Germany’s Merkel clash over trade, NATO and ‘Western values’

Germany and the U.S. emerged from Memorial Day weekend in a war of words, as Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition partners attacked America’s reliability as a world power and Presiden...

May 25, 2017 | Eric S. Edelman, Merve Tahiroglu

It’s Time for NATO to Call Turkey’s Bluff

Thursday's NATO Summit provides an opportunity for the alliance to get tough on its putative Turkish ally. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's destabilizing polici...

May 24, 2017 | Tzvi Kahn |

Iran’s Religious War against the Baha’i

May 14 marked the ninth anniversary of Iran’s imprisonment of seven Baha’i leaders for the crime of practicing their...

March 23, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

What’s Really Behind Trump’s Laptop Ban

More than 15 years after the September 11 hijackings, the U.S. government has issued yet another warning about airline security. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced ne...

March 16, 2017 |

Ecuador, Iran, and Latin America’s Pink Tide

Ecuador will elect a new leader on April 2 to replace its left-wing, populist president Rafael Correa. Washington should pay close attention. Correa’s vice-president Lenin Moreno is a close...

February 27, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Future of Counterterrorism: Addressing the Evolving Threat to Domestic Security

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October 28, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Muslims in America

One of the most striking features of the British cemetery at Gallipoli is the attention given to honoring the diversity of the dead. Final farewells from loved ones carved upon stone plaques line...

October 5, 2016 | Merve Tahiroglu, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Erdogan Must Avoid the Iran Trap

“The world is bigger than five.” This phrase, referring to the permanent members of the UN Security Council, is among Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's favorite platitudes...