In Iran, Behavior Changes Only When The Regime Does
An Islamist system built on anti-Americanism and export of terrorism will not abandon the very tools that sustain it.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Iranian and Iranian-Backed Attacks Against Americans (1979-Present)
Armed conflict between the United States and Iran did not begin in 2026, but instead has deep roots that extend back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. For nearly five decades, the clerical regime in Tehran...
Insights
Iran Drops the Façade of Tolerance Toward Persian Jews
Without consequences or outside pressure, the regime could revert to the same violent persecution that marked the early years of the Islamic Revolution.
Op-eds
Tehran’s Crisis is Iran’s Reckoning
The city of Tehran is collapsing under the weight of multiple environmental crises. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned in October that moving Iran’s capital out of Tehran is “not...
Op-eds
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...
Insights
Most Israelis Want Out of Post-War Gaza Governance, Poll Shows
Latest Developments A significant majority of Israelis do not want to permanently retake the Gaza Strip, a poll found on December 17. The poll published by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that...
Flash Briefs
Breaking a leg in Jerusalem: How Arab-Israeli kindness challenged my assumptions
The kindness of one stranger from the West Bank doesn’t change the challenges associated with the two-state solution, but it certainly feels like the right time to question some of my assumptions.
Op-eds
Palestinian Elections
Parties, Polling, and Implications for U.S. Policy
Memos
Boykott
Germany’s Battle Against the Delegitimization of Israel
Monographs
Berlin Jewish rep against antisemitism rebukes diplomat for BDS support
Im Tirzu slams Israeli and Jewish academics for urging the discharge of the German government’s antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein.
Op-eds
Stop Iran funding? Hezbollah’s Financial Activities Should be Israel’s Top Priority
The radical Shi’ite organization’s criminal networks in Latin America generate hundreds of millions of dollars of annual revenue, with near impunity. Israel must commit more diplomatic, law enforcement,...
Op-eds
Exclusive: PayPal Closes Nazi Party Account Linked to Hezbollah, Assad, BDS
A range of German and American politicians over the years have urged PayPal to terminate the The Third Way account.
Op-eds
Wiesenthal’s top ten list of antisemites includes Pittsburgh shooter
Swedish hospital, UK singer Roger Waters and German bank make the list.
Op-eds
European Affairs: BDS spreading like wildfire in Europe?
To fathom the potency (or lack thereof) of the BDS movement targeting Israel, the diverging and converging paths of its activity in the US and EU can be quite telling. First, the diverge...
Op-eds
New Report Details Options for the U.S. to Shape Palestinian Succession after Mahmoud Abbas
FDD Press Release
Press Releases
Analysis: German-Iran Business Ties Complicate Relations With Israel
With the adoption of the Iran nuclear deal by world powers – including Germany – on Tuesday, Chancellor Angela’s Merkel administration issued a full-throated endorsement of the...
Op-eds
‘German Magazine Manufactured Diplomatic Crisis with Israel’
Israel’s embassy in Berlin and the Foreign Ministry vehemently denied a German Der Spiegel article alleging that Israel’s air traffic authority denied German Foreign Minister Frank-Wa...
Op-eds
Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Seeks Help from Hamas
Last week, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the Muslim Brotherhood’s wing in Jordan, wrote an open...
Policy Briefs
FDD Welcomes Palestinian Politics Analyst Grant Rumley
WASHINGTON – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies proudly welcomed Grant Rumley this week as its newest research analyst. Rumley will focus on Palestinian politics and other developmen...
Press Releases
Germany Backs Blacklisting Hezbollah Military Wing
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle decided Wednesday to support listing Hezbollah's military wing as a terrorist organization in the European Union, according to German diplomatic sou...