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April 12, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Obama aides vexed by visa crackdown

Last December, as the world reeled from the deadly attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, President Barack Obama fully backed lawmakers who passed legislation aimed at keeping out terro...

March 22, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Giving Hope To Evil

As President Barack Obama was expressing his gratitude for Cuban criticism of the United States, terrorists were killing innocents at the Brussels airport and at subway stations, including one ve...

March 21, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Guilt and the Immigrants

Angela Merkel took a shellacking in German regional elections a week ago, but she’s not about to get tougher on immigration, which is what provoked her bad results. She’s sticking wit...

March 3, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

European Affairs: BDS spreading like wildfire in Europe?

To fathom the potency (or lack thereof) of the BDS movement targeting Israel, the diverging and converging paths of its activity in the US and EU can be quite telling. First, the diverge...

February 16, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How the United States Mislabels Israel

Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky In a move uncharacteristic of U.S. policy as it has been carried out for decades, the Obama administration recently endorsed Europe’s version...

February 8, 2016 | Michael Ledeen |

What Makes A Great President?

We moved to Washington from Rome early in 1977, and I worked at CSIS, then home to many luminaries of the Republican Establishment. There was a lot of talk about Ronald Reagan, running for the Re...

January 27, 2016 | Michael Ledeen |

Hostages, Hostages, and Other Deals

Ransoming hostages is nothing new, indeed it’s routine for most countries and happens with increasing frequency for the U.S. government and American corporations. The current minifuror over...

December 14, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer

Here’s What All Those Terror Terms Actually Mean

After the attacks in Paris and California, the debate in America has again erupted over the appropriate lexicon for discussing terrorism. Here’s an extremely abridged, alphabetized list of...

December 14, 2015 |

A Backlash Builds Against Saudi Salafism

The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino have once again put Saudi Arabia's brand of Salafi Islam, known as Wahhabism, under the microscope. In both Europe and the United Sta...

December 11, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn |

More of the Same

On December 6, Barack Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office for just the third time in his tenure. The president sought to reassure the American people that he has a strategy for defeat...

December 9, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Divided We Fall?

“Divide and conquer” describes an age-old military concept: If your enemies are fighting among themselves, they can’t effectively battle you. Phillip II of Macedon, Julius Caesa...

June 29, 2015 |

New TV Show Highlights Egypt’s Jewish Problem

A new television series is shaking up the lucrative Ramadan viewing season in Egypt. The program – titled “The Jewish Quarter” and set in the late 1940s and early 50s – de...

May 27, 2015 | Clifford D. May

The Longest Hatred

Robert S. Wistrich, who died suddenly last week, was considered the foremost scholar of anti-Semitism, which he called “the longest hatred,” one that appears to be metastasizing in th...

January 23, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

Americans as Hostages and Targets

There are several American hostages in Iran, and the Tehran regime uses them very cruelly and relentlessly in its dealings with the U.S. government, as The Washington Post angr...

January 7, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross New York Daily News

Reaction to the Charlie Hebdo Massacre Shows How We’ve Lost Our Free-Speech Spine

A backward slide since the clarity that followed a fatwa against Salman Rushdie

January 6, 2015 | Claudia Rosett The Tower |

How Iran and North Korea Became Cyber-Terror Buddies

In late November 2014, cyber-warfare burst into the American public consciousness when Sony Pictures Entertainment was the victim of a massive cyber-attack. Hackers leaked Sony’s corporate...

December 29, 2014 | Oren Kessler

“Rapprochement” Aside, Egypt and Qatar Remain Rivals

Egypt and Qatar want the world to know they’re friends...

December 12, 2014 | |

North Korea and Iran: Partners in Cyber Warfare?

North Korea has denied any involvement in the massive hacking attack last month on Sony Pictures Entertainment, and absent evidence c...

July 22, 2014 |

FDD Welcomes House Approval of Bill Targeting Hezbollah’s Global Threat Network

WASHINGTON – In a strong sign of bipartisan support for intensified pressure on Hezbollah and its global terrorist network, the House of Representatives voted 404 to 0 to a...

July 1, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Financing Terrorism

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- I pay lots of taxes. Some of my money supports U.S. Special Forces, and that pleases me. I have no problem helping fund the U.S. Park Service or the Centers for Disease Cont...