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August 25, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Merkel party politician: Green Party minister ignored anti-Semitism at university

A leading state politician from the Christian Democratic Union, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, slammed a Green Party minister in the state of Lower Saxony for failing to rope in an allege...

August 22, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

After the Coup: Backlash Against Turkey’s Minorities

Turkey’s July 15 abortive coup has produced a show of cross-party support for the country’s elected government. All three major opposition parties explicitly denounced the attempt, an...

April 14, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

US Senator: Investigate German bank for anti-Semitic BDS support

A leading US Senator called on Wednesday for an investigation into Germany’s second largest bank, Commerzbank, because of possible violations of the Illinois State anti-BDS law that seeks t...

March 4, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Politicians in Albert Einstein’s German hometown fund anti-Semitic lecture

A municipally funded adult education center in Ulm – the birthplace of Albert Einstein – is slated to host next Wednesday a speaker accused of stoking anti-Semitism and hatred of Isra...

February 3, 2016 | Merve Tahiroglu, Jonathan Schanzer

Ankara’nın Başarısızlığı: Türkiye Arap Baharını nasıl kaybetti

Translation by Merve Tahiroglu, view original article here. Bundan beş yıl önce h...

November 25, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Memo to Presidential Campaign Advisers

This memorandum is addressed to the brave souls advising presidential candidates. As you know, the recent terrorist attacks in France – and in Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Lebanon, Turke...

November 10, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: The Mood in Germany: Kristallnacht ‘Nein,’ BDS ‘Ja’

Each year on November 9, Berlin remembers the lethal anti-Semitic pogroms carried out by Germans against Jews and synagogues in 1938 – the so-called Kristallnacht anniversary. The comm...

September 9, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

The Not Quite Done Iran Deal

The debate over the deal President Obama has cut with Iran’s rulers is supposed to end this week. The New York Times, the AP and others in the media are reporting that the White House has a...

August 3, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Business As Usual: Austria to Sell Iran Cranes for Possible Use in Hangings

BERLIN – Traditionally, Austrian governments have been the least critical of the Islamic Republic’s human rights violations. Now, Austria’s government plans to rekindle a busine...

June 17, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

The Road to ‘Entropy on a Scale Not Seen in Centuries’

Lt. Gen Michael T. Flynn (ret.) served 33 years in the U.S. Army. Being named President Obama’s director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012 was the culmination of his career. He tho...

June 2, 2015 | Merve Tahiroglu FDD Research |

2015 Turkish Parliamentary Elections

FDD Research

May 28, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Party Lifts Requirement for Muslim Students to Visit Concentration Camps

The governing Christian Social Union party in Bavaria’s state government sparked a row over excluding Muslim students and other immigrant pupils from visiting concentration camps as part of...

May 14, 2015 | John Hannah

Veteran National Security Expert John Hannah Joins FDD as Senior Counselor

WASHINGTON - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies announced that John Hannah, former non-resident senior fellow with FDD and national security advisor to the Vice President, joined the organ...

April 14, 2015 | Mark Dubowitz |

Putin Boosts Congress’s Case for Role in Iran Deal

Demands from Congress that it should get to review President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran have received a boost from an unlikely source: Vladimir Putin. On Tuesday, just 24...

April 8, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

The Win-Win delusion

“The West Capitulates.” That was the headline on an article by Ibrahim al-Amin, editor of the Lebanese daily al-Akbar.  He elaborated: “Victors and vanquished. This is the...

March 25, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

What Netanyahu didn’t say

What is it about Israel in general and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular that leads to so much careless reporting and tendentious commentary? Start with The New York Times,...

March 10, 2015 | FDD Press Release

New Report Documents Saudi Rights Abuses That Harm U.S. Interests

FDD Senior Fellow Urges Washington to Push for Reforms

February 5, 2015 | |

Obama and the U.S. Interfere in Israeli Politics Far More Than the Other Way Around

The commentariat is buzzing over whether House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s to address a joint meeting of Congress in March represe...

January 12, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht The Washington Examiner

CIA Bides its Time

The CIA’s Directorate of Operations doesn’t have an acute memory. But it does have durable institutional sentiments. So here’s a guess: In a few years, few operatives in the cla...

December 10, 2014 |

New FDD Report Reveals Depth of Qatar’s Terror Financing

WASHINGTON - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance today released Part One of a three-part series revealing Qatar’s shocking record of ne...