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June 14, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. and U.K. Bands Boycott Berlin Event Due to Israeli Embassy Donation

US singer John Maus announced his withdrawal from the Berlin Pop-Kultur music festival due to pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. He is the fourth musical act t...

November 13, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Mayor Slams BDS Rally On Kristallnacht Remembrance Day

Berlin Mayor Michael Müller issued a scathing condemnation of the anti-Israel boycott campaign because of its protest against the Jewish state on Friday, the memorial day for the Kristallnac...

October 6, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iranian Mosques in Austria, Germany Slam Women and Israel

Iranian regime-controlled mosque probed by the Austrian Integration Fund doesn't recognize Israel — regardless of its boundaries. Iranian regime-controlled mosques in Vienna a...

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 3, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Criminal Complaint Filed Against BDS Activists For Disrupting MK’s Talk

The German-Israel Society branch in Berlin has lodged a criminal complaint against three BDS activists for disrupting a talk at the city’s Humboldt University in late June. The pan...

June 26, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Mayor Allows Hezbollah to March in ‘Zionists out of Israel’ Rally

Posters with anti-Israel slogans and Israeli flags with crossed out Stars of David blanketed the streets of Berlin on Friday. Mayor Michael Müller permitted nearly 600 Hezbollah sup...

February 15, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Anti-Israel BDS Motions Stopped at UK/Northern Ireland Universities

The City University in London and Ulster University in Northern Ireland rejected in February motions to boycott the Jewish state. A spokesman for the City University sent The Jerusalem P...

October 28, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Iraq’s Grim Prospects Post ISIL

Co-written by Sterling Jensen.  In the coming months, and possibly weeks, the Iraqi Security Forces, with the help of a diverse group of fighters spanning the Iraqi politic...

May 10, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Jews call for dismissal of self-declared Jew-hating pastor

The city of Bremen’s Jewish community blasted the local Evangelical Church for its failure to fire a pastor who openly declares himself an anti-Semite and plays a key role in stoking hatred...

March 18, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Obama and the daylight between US and Israel

This week’s AIPAC conference will place the fractured Israel-US relationship front and center in the American public’s focus. Of all the promises that the Obama White House h...

February 23, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Neither Remaining Nor Expanding: The Islamic State’s Global Expansion Struggles

Co-written with Nathaniel Barr Judging from the Islamic State’s propaganda, it would appear the group is rapidly overtaking the Muslim world. The Islamic State has declare...

January 28, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Berlin grapples with Islamists, ISIS vets amid refugee wave

Hundreds of potentially violent Islamic radicals, including at least 50 who have traveled to and from the Islamic State where they took up arms for ISIS, now live in Berlin, a top German law enfo...

December 9, 2015 | John Hannah |

Can the Pentagon Still Save the U.S. from Obama’s ISIS Failure?

It's about time. More than three weeks after the massacres in Paris, four days after the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11, and only after he’d completed a foreign jau...

June 16, 2015 |

A Global Perspective on Cyber Threats

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May 28, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Jews in Frankfurt Reject Religious Panel for Hatred of Israel

The Jewish community of Frankfurt rejected a re-affiliation with the Council of Religions in the city because of anti-Israel comments from the group’s Muslim members. “The co...

February 26, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

New Report by FDD Scholar Outlines Civil War in Libya

WASHINGTON- A new report authored by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, outlines how Libya’s civil war between the Dignity and Dawn campaig...

February 18, 2015 | Clifford D. May

The Ideology Whose Name Presidents Dare Not Speak

Is there a “Bush/Obama approach” to talking about what drives and justifies terrorism? Michael Gerson says there is. I think he’s right. He argues that this approach is preferab...

January 20, 2015 | |

Alberto Nisman’s Warning About Iran

Beyond puzzling over the circumstances, is there any response the U.S. can make to the sudden death this past weekend of Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman? Nisman spent the pas...

July 29, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal

Why Anti-Zionism Is Modern Anti-Semitism

Israel’s defensive Operation Protective Edge against Hamas rocket fire revealed that it took a military conflict to show that anti-Zionism cannot be decouple...

July 18, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Global al Qaeda: Affiliates, Objectives, and Future Challenges

Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Sherman and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by al Qaeda. We have been asked to “examine the nature of...