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December 14, 2023 | |

Hamas Terror Plot Foiled in Europe

Danish, Dutch, and German authorities made several arrests on December 14 in what Israel described as a Hamas-linked terrorist plot on European soil. Danish police announced during...

January 9, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Death of Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, a Machiavellian Prince

Co-written by Ali Alfoneh. Last week Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the principal architect of the Islamic Republic, died of a heart attack at 82. The former parliamentary speake...

December 16, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

One way to push back in Syria? Target Iranian airlines.

Iran's commercial fleet is helping the Bashar Assad regime and its allies commit vast-scale atrocities in Syria. The Obama administration should have punished Tehran's war crim...

December 16, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

One way to push back in Syria? Target Iranian airlines.

Iran's commercial fleet is helping the Bashar Assad regime and its allies commit vast-scale atrocities in Syria. The Obama administration should have punished Tehran's war crim...

September 16, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

Syrian Refugees: Ankara’s Trump Card Against Europe

The Cipher Brief: What is the current situation of the displaced Syrians in Turkey? How has the Syrian refugee crisis shaped Turkish politics and society over the past five years? Aykan...

March 7, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

EU Refugee Crisis: Turkey as an Effective Partner?

Numbers alone are sufficient to convey the grim reality of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Of the 4.3 million displaced Syrians who have been registered as persons of concern by the UNHCR, 2.2 million...

December 10, 2015 | |

The Twisted Tehran-Moscow Axis

When Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani addressed the participants at the October 15 Valdai Club (the topic was “War and Peace”) he was wearing black, as is traditional among...

November 11, 2015 | |

Tehran-Moscow Axis: Tactical or Strategic?

Co-authored by Flemming Splidsboel Hansen Ali Larijani wore black as a sign of mourning the Ashoura days of Shiite passion, as he addressed the participants at the October 2015...

February 20, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Jews Hide Jewish Magazine for Fear of anti-Semitic Attacks

Berlin - Germany's largest Jewish community in the capital city removed its logo on envelopes containing its monthly magazine to protect members from anti-Semitic attacks. In...

February 16, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

Denmark Terror: Making Sense of the Continuation of European Lethal Anti-Semitism

BERLIN - The specter of lethal anti-Semitism has once again engulfed Europe, with the latest murder of the Danish Jew Dan Uzan who was guarding the Copenhagen synagogue. His death along with anot...

December 1, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

St. Andrew of Arabia

General Mattis?  General Suleimani?  James Bond? No, it’s a man of the cloth, Canon Andrew White, an Anglican who tended to Christians (and Jews, too, it turns out) in Ba...

October 27, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

The Italian Exception: Defeating the Anti-Semites

The headlines from Europe are all grim. Synagogues assaulted in France, Jews murdered at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and savagely beaten in the streets of Great Britain and Scandinavia, mobs of...

October 16, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

‘Moderate’ Islamist Leader in Tunisia Strategizes with al Qaeda-Linked Salafists

The leader of the supposedly moderate Ennahda political party in Tunisia has been caught on tape strategizing with Salafists to gain control of the country. In the video, he also acknowledged con...

August 14, 2012 | James Kirchick Tablet

Free-Speech Hypocrisy in Europe

A Danish art exhibit attacks public figures who ‘insult’ but not those who issue death threats in response

September 22, 2011 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

The Shuttered White House and Its Fantasies

I know exactly what is going on inside the Obama White House; the outside world has been banned and only the true believers are welcome. This has very little to do with the many unique f...

June 13, 2011 | National Review Online

At the Scene of Reconciliation

The Iraqis come to Denmark

January 21, 2011 | Michael Ledeen Pajamas Media

“Islamophobia”

  If you haven’t discovered him yet, you should start paying attention to Pascal Bruckner, a French philosopher deeply involved in our current struggles.  His recent book...

September 21, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Pajamas Media

If Ahmadinejad Loves the UN So Much, Just Keep Him There

Oh how Mahmoud loves that UN stage. And four sets of binding UN sanctions on Iran since 2006 are no bar to the UN podium. Right now, for the sixth time in six years, Iran's Bloviator-in-Chie...

July 23, 2010 | |

Iran’s Mini-Empire At The U.N.

The United Nations has just created a new "entity" on women's rights, called U.N. Women. Elections to its governing board are now being organized. How long before Iran wins a seat?...

June 23, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Obama’ s Teachable Moment: Getting to Know the General

Rolling Stone’s piece on The Runaway General hit the web, and presto! before the print edition was even on the newsstands, Gen. Stanley McChrystal was ordered back to Washington for a sitdo...