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July 1, 2025 | Max Lesser |

FDD Connects Anti-Israel Network on Social Media to Iranian Website, Pro-Regime Actor

The “Iran Hayom” network posts anti-Israel propaganda, in Hebrew and English, across X, Instagram, TikTok, Telegram, and YouTube. Its name is a play on the widely read Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom,...

June 26, 2025 | Craig Singleton |

Where Was Xi Jinping in Iran’s Hour of Need?

Tehran expected a bulwark from Beijing. Instead it got a bystander.

June 20, 2025 | Craig Singleton, Jack Burnham, Miles Kershner

8 Things to Know About China’s Response to Israel-Iran Conflict

Israel’s military campaign against Iran has exposed the chasm between China’s great power rhetoric and its ability to meaningfully shape events in the Middle East. To be sure, Beijing backs Tehran...

June 19, 2025 | Tzvi Kahn |

Iranian and Iranian-Backed Attacks Against Americans (1979-Present)

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the clerical regime in Tehran and its proxies have committed a range of attacks against Americans. This memorandum provides select documentation of these assaults. While...

June 18, 2025 | Bridget Toomey, Toby Dershowitz

10 Things to Know About Tehran’s Propaganda Network, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

Israel struck the Tehran headquarters of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on June 16, damaging a key regime media organ. IRIB is far from an independent news channel. Rather, it is a tool...

June 17, 2025 | Max Lesser |

Tehran Is Fabricating Data Leaks About Israeli Pilots

An alleged hack-and-leak that claims to reveal the names — along with other biographical and professional data — of about 40 Israeli Air Force (IAF) pilots has spread on social media since June 14....

June 16, 2025 | Craig Singleton, Jack Burnham

China Sides With Tehran but Wields Little Influence in Iran-Israel War

Beijing condemned Israel’s sweeping strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites shortly after they began as a violation of “Iran’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity,” according...

May 29, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Charles Corcoran

We’re training Ukraine’s brave F-16 pilots — here’s what they need to keep fighting

After years of delay, Ukraine’s Air Force is flying the F-16 fighter jets it’s received from NATO — and, during a training visit this month, we saw for ourselves how these “Vipers”...

May 22, 2025 | Mariam Wahba

My Friend Yaron

Yaron Lischinsky was murdered Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., by an anti-Israel militant. I knew him. Let me tell you who he was.

May 22, 2025 | Lilia Gaufberg |

They Came for Peace. Hate Was Waiting Outside.

Last night’s gathering at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC was about peace.

May 22, 2025 | Joe Truzman |

Two Israeli embassy employees murdered in DC shooting attack

On May 21, two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, were fatally shot outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a diplomatic event...

May 21, 2025 | Max Lesser, Chih-Yun Huang

FDD and TeamT5 Reveal That ‘Smiao Network’ Chinese Recruiting Scheme Expands to Target Taiwan

Beijing is using the same online recruiting scheme to target both the United States and Taiwan. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) exposed a likely Chinese intelligence operation earlier this...

May 16, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

The ‘nakba’ is not our problem

There is no reason why Jews should be troubled by the neurosis it projects. Their defeat was our liberation, and we should rejoice in that fact.

May 2, 2025 | Ben Cohen

Kneecap get kneecapped

This is the game the band decided to play. If it didn’t know that spectacle can be your undoing, as well as your ticket to a golden future, they do now.

April 17, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh, Navid Mohebbi

Time to Reform VOA and Its Iran Programming: Trim the Fat, Keep the Mission

The Trump administration’s decision to eliminate funding for Voice of America (VOA) represents a missed opportunity to reform and enhance the outlet’s capacity to counter adversarial propaganda.

February 5, 2025 | Max Lesser, Mariam Davlashelidze

America’s Adversaries Use AI for Malign Influence, But Not to Great Effect … Yet

Iran, China, and Russia all used Google’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool Gemini to accelerate their influence operations (IO), Google warned in a new report published on January 29. At...

February 4, 2025 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Drone attack targets gas field in northern Iraq

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) targeted the Khor Mor gas field in northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region on February 2, 2025. It is the latest kamikaze drone attack on the gas field run by Dana Gas.

January 31, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

The right to exist

Out of more than 200 states in the international system, the survival of only one of them—the State of Israel—seems to be up for debate.

January 31, 2025 | Max Lesser, Saman Nazari

Russian Malign Influence Campaigns Expand Onto Bluesky

The Russian influence operation known as Doppelganger has expanded onto the social media platform Bluesky to spread anti-Ukraine and antisemitic messages, according to a report released by Alliance4Europe...

January 29, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow |

Qatar Seeks Nobel Peace Prize for Gaza Mediation Despite Enabling Hamas

A Qatari diplomat recently suggested that the emir of Qatar deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the war in Gaza that Doha effectively abetted. In a statement to The Jerusalem Post, Qatar’s...