Imagining the Islamic Republic
Last week, the European Union issued a statement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the nuclear weapons deal concluded with Iran’s rulers, from which President Trump withdrew three...
Harvard University
Came the revolution
My political orientation has evolved slowly over decades. With one exception: I became anti-Soviet and anti-Communist overnight. More quickly than that, actually. The year was 1972. I wa...
Op-eds
Follow the Money: The Israel-Boycott Movement and Its Accomplices
Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky. U.S. banking giant Comerica’s closure of an account earlier this year held by an organization that wages legal and economic warfare against...
Op-eds
Former Treasury Official: Qatar’s Terror Ties Make it a Questionable U.S. Ally
The ongoing terror ties of Qatar, most recently evidenced by its hosting of Hamas’s release of the terror organization’s new political document, make it a problematic ally for...
Op-eds
Exclusive: Texas Bank Shuts Out Israel Haters
The giant Dallas-based bank Comerica announced on Friday that it will close a bank account held by an anti-Israel organization that promotes boycotting the Jewish state. “Comerica...
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
Dershowitz Calls on Banks to Close Accounts that Boycott Israel
Renowned Harvard University jurist Alan Dershowitz told The Jerusalem Post on Friday: “The organization [IADL] was founded as a communist front and supported financially by the Soviet Union...
Op-eds
Erdogan’s Weathervane Foreign Policy
On June 27, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey would be normalizing relations with ...
Op-eds
How much ruin is there in a nation?
People think early European immigrants to America were seeking religious freedom. In fact, they sought escape from religious persecution. Not quite the same thing. The policy not to mole...
Op-eds
Turkey: An Unreliable Ally?
As Turkey continues to face a deteriorating security environment, The Cipher Brief sat down with Aykan Erdemir, a former member of the Turkish parliament and a Senior Fellow at the Foundation...
Op-eds
How Will We Know?
One might think that after the last Iraq war Democrats would be wary of allowing intelligence to dictate policy. Yet that is effectively what Barack Obama has done with the Joint Comprehensive Pl...
Op-eds
Former Turkish Parliamentarian Joins FDD as Non-Resident Fellow
WASHINGTON — Dr. Aykan Erdemir, a former member of the Turkish Parliament from 2011 to 2015, has joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) as a non-resident fellow. Based in An...
Press Releases
FDD Names Board of Advisors to Help Guide Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance
WASHINGTON – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies today announced 18 experts who will serve as members of the Board of Advisors for its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance (CSIF)....
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BOOK REVIEW: Was Lawrence Gay in Arabia?
Among the innumerable highly regarded T.E. Lawrence biographies, Anthony Sattin’s new work, “The Young T.E. Lawrence,” is noteworthy in deftly capturing the pre-World War I inte...
Op-eds
Extending Extensions
Predictably, President Barack Obama and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have decided to extend again the Joint Plan of Action, the interim nuclear deal they concluded in November 2013. Unlike...
Op-eds
How Did We Get Here?
Not so long ago, it was decidedly taboo to speak badly about Jews. Today, from tenured professors at major universities to mobs trying to burn down synagogues in Paris, people openly speak and wr...
Op-eds
The Man And The Myth
Urbi et Orbi, the city and the world, Tehran and the globe. In his turban and clerical robe, softly speaking of peace, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, resembles a spiritual guide mor...
Op-eds
Academic Dishonors
Remember when colleges prided themselves on the diligence and depth of their research? Frederick Lawrence, president of Brandeis University, apparently does not. He offered an honorary degr...
Op-eds
Jesus of Palestine?
The members of the American Studies Association care deeply about historical truth, which is why they protested so strenuously when, over Christmas, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas...
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Iran’s Chief Negotiator
Along with President Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is yet another arrow in the quiver of the Islamic Republic’s charm offensive. The chief negotiator at...