A fake genocide meets a real one
The obsession with Jews and Israel diverts column inches and airtime away from humanitarian crises that are far more dire than Gaza and far more intractable.
Black Lives Matter
FDD Identifies 19 Websites as Part of an Iranian Global Influence Operation
FDD researchers have uncovered the Iranian role in creating a network of at least 19 websites that present themselves as independent sources of opinion and analysis for audiences across the globe. Other...
Policy Briefs
Russia and China are fueling web wars to divide Americans
American adversaries not only hack our computers, but they also hack our minds. As Russian oligarch and Vladimir Putin confidant Yevgeny Prigozhin openly stated in early November regarding US elections,...
Op-eds
Russia seeking to poison American political discourse leading up to midterm elections
Right now, the eyes of the world are focused on Russian aggression in Ukraine and escalating threats from Vladimir Putin. But Russia’s playbook goes well beyond Ukraine, including retaliation against...
Insights
Gaza 2021: How Biden Handled His Far-Left Hamas Caucus Problem
In Gaza Conflict 2021, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Senior Vice President for Research Jonathan Schanzer provides the first in-depth look at the May 2021 war initiated by Hamas against Israel,...
Op-eds
The death of an African warrior
With a bit of history, a few memories, and some lessons
Op-eds
The end of the rules-based order?
China’s rulers have a new and unimproved version
Op-eds
Hassan Rouhani wants the US to surrender, but the pressure is on Tehran
“Surrender.” That’s the only option Iranian President Hassan Rouhani offered America during his (now forgotten) virtual address to the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)...
Op-eds
Black lives in Africa
No nation in Africa is receiving more attention right now than Wakanda. And why not since, as Anthony Lane writes in The New Yorker, Wakanda is “a model of serenity,” that also is &ld...
Op-eds
Europe’s Silence
It’s tempting to say that Europe’s leaders lack the courage of their convictions. But that would imply that they have convictions. The evidence suggests those days are gone....
Op-eds
American values are not the cause of racism
More than 35 years ago, I went to Africa for the first time, the junior member of a group of American writers. We were visiting The Gambia and, at a stop in the interior, I purchased a small wood...