Hebrew University of Jerusalem

March 6, 2026 | Tzvi Kahn |

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...

November 22, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

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.

November 10, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

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...

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...

December 17, 2023 | |

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...

July 10, 2023 | Jonathan Schanzer |

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.

April 23, 2021 | David May |

Palestinian Elections

Parties, Polling, and Implications for U.S. Policy

August 21, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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Germany’s Battle Against the Delegitimization of Israel

May 11, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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.

February 6, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

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,...

January 7, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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.

December 25, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Wiesenthal’s top ten list of antisemites includes Pittsburgh shooter

Swedish hospital, UK singer Roger Waters and German bank make the list.

March 3, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

September 3, 2015 | |

New Report Details Options for the U.S. to Shape Palestinian Succession after Mahmoud Abbas

FDD Press Release

July 16, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

June 4, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘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...

October 21, 2014 | FDD Policy Brief |

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...

June 25, 2014 |

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...

May 22, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

October 8, 2012 | James Kirchick Tablet

The Professor’s Shoddy History

Berlin’s Jewish Museum gave Judith Butler and Germans permission to indulge dangerous political impulses.