Daniel Pipes

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Israel SitRep: July 1, 2024

Today’s Issue: | IDF Drone Strike Kills PIJ Commander in Nur Shams Refugee Camp in West Bank | IDF Continues Raid in Gaza City’s Shejaiya Neighborhood, IAF Airstrikes Eliminate Dozens of Terrorists...

August 24, 2016 | Clifford D. May

George Soros should put his mouth where his money is

Washington is not an easy-going town. You come here to argue policy with the big boys — you should expect some rough-and...

March 11, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Envoys Work to End UN’s Palestinian Refugee Status

At a small conference at the Harvard Club in Manhattan on Thursday, a host of dignitaries and experts, including Israel’s envoy to the UN Ron Prosor, addressed the UN’s classification...

January 9, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer

A Nasty Neologism

The term Islamophobia treats political ideology as akin to race.

August 20, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Tunisia Honors Convicted Murderer Samir Kuntar

The city of Bizerte in Tunisia last week honored convicted murderer Samir Kuntar, who carried out a brutal 1979 attack in Nahariya that killed Israeli policeman Eliyahu Shahar, and Danny Haran an...

April 24, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Middle East Quarterly |

Gary Sick, Discredited but Honored

The so-called "October Surprise" plot that briefly enthralled the American public twenty years ago is one of the most influential political conspiracy theories in U.S. history. As the story goes,...

February 29, 2012 | Robert Barnidge ASMEA

“Islamophobia” and the Silencing of Dissent

In recent years, much has been written on and discussed about “Islamophobia,” that contrived prejudice that is said to attach to those who question, however sincerely, prevailing unde...

October 20, 2011 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

The “Moderates” Celebrate the Shalit Swap

Well, spring is certainly in the air today as the Middle East’s ubiquitous moderate Muslim groups mark Israel’s profoundly self-defeating exch...

August 3, 2011 | Clifford D. May

Who’s to Blame for Terrorism in Norway?

Not bloggers. Maybe Reuters.

June 10, 2011 | Daily Standard

Inverse False Alarms

THE FBI'S NATIONAL SPOKESMAN was already prepared to dismiss a connection to terrorism the day after ricin was found in a Las Vegas hotel room. Special Agent Richard Kolko told the press on...

March 24, 2011 | Middle East Quarterly

Review: Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans

Schanzer and Moosa of Duke University and Kurzman of the University of North Carolina have garnered a fair amount of media attention for their study despite its complete methodological failure. A...

March 10, 2011 |

Libya Commentary

In this morning’s column, I argue against intervention in Libya’s internal strife — a battle proponents of intervention portray as the incorrigibly terrorist anti-American Qadda...

March 10, 2011 | City Journal

The Prophet, Represented

On the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 25th Street stands the Manhattan Appellate Courthouse, a Corinthian-columned marble palace built in 1900 by architect James Brown Lord. Gracing the r...

October 20, 2010 |

Who Says Islam Is Totalitarian?

Who says Islam is a totalitarian doctrine? Well, Geert Wilders does, of course. As the editors point out in Monday’s superb National Review Online editorial, the Dutch parliamentarian has e...

October 12, 2010 |

Geert Wilders: A Free-Speech Litmus Test

Berlin - Holland's judicial campaign to strip Geert Wilders of his right to engage in ruthless polemical and intellectual criticism of Islam...

June 23, 2010 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Times Square Bomber Discusses Taliban Ties at Plea Hearing

During a plea hearing in New York on Monday, Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square on May 1, pled guilty to all of the charges levied against him and discussed his...

November 12, 2009 | Clifford D. May

Media Mush

Imagine if, in 1942, the son of German immigrants from the Sudetenland had yelled "Heil Hitler!" and then gunned down several dozen of his fellow soldiers on an American military base. Most repor...

June 18, 2009 | |

The Green Rebellion

With great courage, Iranians have been rising up against the tyranny of their 30-year-old Islamic Republic. This is a weak moment for Iran's terror-based regime, and democracies such as the...

March 12, 2008 |

Inverse False Alarms

THE FBI'S NATIONAL SPOKESMAN was already prepared to dismiss a connection to terrorism the day after ricin was found in a Las Vegas hotel room. Special Agent Richard Kolko told the...

January 2, 2007 |

Singing CAIR’s Tune, On Your Dime

On a weekend when the Bush administration achieved a new CAIR-friendly low, a prominent Democrat, following the lead of other prominent Democrats, distanced herself very publicly from the unsavor...