Progress on ‘the Jewish question’
Anti-Semites suffer defeats in the U.K. and the U.S.
First Amendment to the United States Constitution
Replacing patriotism with tribalism
Just after last week’s terrorist attack in Barcelona, a pro-Islamic State website posted video from the scene along with a message in Arabic saying, “Terror is filling the hearts of t...
Op-eds
War on Campus
Don’t look to college “leaders” to defend free speech and shut down the rioters. It doesn’t work that way. Universities almost always collapse in the face of student prote...
Op-eds
The “ideals of 1776”
Andrew Roberts, one of the world’s great historians, took America to task last week. Let me rephrase that: He took Americans to task for what they — or rather we — are doing to...
Op-eds
Terrorism and economic warfare
Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market bills itself as the “heartbeat of Israeli culinary art.” Dozens of small restaurants and shops offer cheese, wine, bread, fish, olives, pasta, burgers &...
Op-eds
When universities become day care centers
Back in 1993, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York Democrat, warned against “defining deviancy down.” He was talking specifically about crime, about our getting used to it and not...
Op-eds
Apple, the FBI and free speech: Column
It would be one thing if Apple could carry out a court order that it unlock an iPhone used by the San Bernardino terrorists simply by waving a magic wand. But encryption isn’t magic; the or...
Op-eds
The Fine Line Between Free Speech and Provocation
Rights are like muscles. If not exercised, they atrophy. Freedom of speech, a right guaranteed by the First Amendment, is the most fundamental of rights. Without it, how do you even defend your o...
Op-eds
Judge Rules in Favor of FDD’s Jonathan Schanzer in Defamation Suit Filed by the Son of Mahmoud Abbas
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC -- United States District Judge Emmet Sullivan last week struck down a libel suit against Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for rese...
Press Releases
Al Jazeera at the Newseum
Bankrolled by the oil and gas wealth of Qatar, now hiring 800 staff members and opening 12 news bureaus across the United States, Al Jazeera will soon be coming to a television near you. From its...
Op-eds
How Dangerous Is a Terrorist with a Twitter Handle?
Sensational reports in the Guardian and...
Op-eds
Mona Eltahawy’s Illiberal Liberalism
The Egyptian activist's position on free speech and protest is troubling
Op-eds
How Orientalism Shaped Obama
The White House’s response to the anti-Islam video is proof of the enduring influence of Edward Said’s ideas
Op-eds
Islam Blasphemy Riots Now Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The United States is the world’s undisputed king of culture. No country’s film industry can rival Hollywood; no nation’s musical artists sell more records worldwide than America...
Op-eds
Free Speech and Political Violence
I find the number of people willing to censor offensive speech in the wake of the anti-Islam film, and the reaction that it has provoked, disturbing. One example is...
Op-eds
CAIR Strikes Out
It’s always a happy day when would-be censors fail to silence voices they don’t agree with, and it’s particularly satisfying when the losers are a well-known crowd of politicall...
Op-eds
Let Syria Be
‘We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.” That’s the concluding rally cry of the U.S. Department of Defense’s newly issue...
Op-eds
The Deceits of Seymour Hersh
Last June, the distinguished American journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker entitled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real Is the Nuclear Threat?” His answer...
Op-eds
The Sharia Court of Pennsylvania — the Transcript
I have made a transcript of the Pennsylvania case in which state judge Mark Martin, a Muslim convert and U.S. Army reservist who served in Iraq, relied on a sharia law defense (as well as some ev...
Op-eds
Of Mafiosi and Mullahs
Intelligence is how you take down organized crime and organized terror.