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March 24, 2025 | Ahmad Sharawi, Joe Truzman

Gaza doctor widely quoted by major media outlets has deep Hamas ties

A Gaza-based doctor who is frequently quoted by major media outlets on the impacts of Hamas’s war with Israel has close familial ties to the terrorist group. Numerous family members of orthopedic surgeon...

March 20, 2025 | |

Turkey Cracks Down on Demonstrators Protesting Arrest of Istanbul Mayor

Arrests of Demonstrators: Turkish authorities arrested more than 100 protesters after thousands of Turkish citizens demonstrated throughout March 19 and March 20 against the politically...

March 11, 2025 | Janatan Sayeh |

Iran cracks down on armed nationalist group

In a rare escalation, four Iranian men took up arms against the Islamic Republic’s security forces during a standoff the dissents broadcast live on Instagram on March 8. The footage captures...

December 18, 2024 | Ari Ben Am |

Meta Dismantles Iranian and Hezbollah Influence Operations Targeting Israel

Meta’s Threat Disruption Center two weeks ago exposed influence operations backed by Iran and Hezbollah that targeted Israel, taking down several accounts on the company’s Instagram and Facebook platforms....

October 31, 2024 | Janatan Sayeh |

Spy surge: Tehran’s espionage strategy against Israel

The Islamic Republic has accelerated its intelligence operations in Israel, with at least five spy rings uncovered by Israel in October alone. Between October 14 and 31, authorities arrested some 20 individuals...

September 23, 2024 | Max Lesser, Mason Krusch

Meta Bans Russian State Media

Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads — banned several Russian state media outlets last week, including RT and Rossiya Segodnya, as part of its ongoing efforts to...

September 16, 2024 | David Adesnik |

How Israel Lost a Battle to Al Jazeera — and How It Must Do Better Next Time

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September 4, 2024 | |

Iran Summons Australian Ambassador for Instagram Post Celebrating LGBTQ+ Awareness Day

Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Australia’s ambassador to Tehran over an Instagram post by his embassy celebrating an LGBTQ+ awareness day, Iranian state media reported on September...

August 30, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

The Nazification of anti-Zionism

It’s designed to make audiences, aided by the ubiquitousness of social media, despise all Jews.

August 26, 2024 | |

Iranian Cyber-Spying Group Posed as Tech Support to Target U.S. Political Officials’ WhatsApp Accounts

Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, reported on August 23 that it blocked a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts used by Iranian cyber-attackers to target officials...

August 9, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi, Sophia Epley

Pro-Hamas Protesters in Turkey Call for Military Strikes Against Israel

Thousands of protestors took to the streets of Istanbul on August 3 to express their anger over the death of senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran on July 31. Emboldened by President...

August 2, 2024 | |

Turkey Holds ‘Day of Mourning’ to Commemorate Assassinated Hamas Leader

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz summoned the deputy ambassador of Turkey for a severe reprimand on August 2, after the Turkish flag at the country’s embassy in Tel Aviv was...

August 2, 2024 | |

Malaysian Prime Minister Slams Facebook for Removing Post Praising Haniyeh

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim strongly criticized Meta Platforms — the parent company of Instagram and Facebook — after his Facebook post mourning the assassination...

July 19, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

An ‘abject, squalid, shameless’ debate at the Oxford Union

An Israeli professor strikes back at the Union's disgraceful attempt to paint Israel as a genocidal, apartheid state.

April 2, 2024 | Janatan Sayeh, Behnam Ben Taleblu, Saeed Ghasseminejad

EU Would Aid Tehran’s Repression by Lifting Sanctions on Iranian Tech Firm

The European Union (EU) is reportedly contemplating the removal of sanctions on ArvanCloud, an Iranian internet technology company accused of facilitating regime censorship. This would enable ArvanCloud...

March 22, 2024 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Congress Is Right to Call for the Strategic Divestment of TikTok

The Chinese Communist Party in Beijing is nervous — and it ought to be. The U.S. Congress has targeted a significant tool the CCP uses to spread disinformation among Americans, and the rulers in Beijing...

March 7, 2024 | David May, Sabrina Soffer

Anti-Israel faculty group adds fuel to a raging fire

“It’s not safe to be a Jewish student at UC Berkeley.” That was the message a Jewish student delivered before the House of Representatives’ Education and the Workforce Committee last...

February 12, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: Feb. 12, 2024

Israel SitRep: Feb. 12, 2024 Two Israeli Hostages Rescued in Overnight Raid in Rafah Early Monday morning, the IDF announced the rescue of hostages Fernando Simon Marman (60) and Louis Har (70),...

February 10, 2024 | |

Meta Removes Khamenei’s Instagram and Facebook Accounts

Meta announced on February 8 that it removed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Facebook and Instagram accounts for violating its content policy. “We have removed these accounts...

February 2, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

This man is Israel’s face and voice to the Arabic-speaking world

Avichay Adraee is Israel’s face to the Arab world, as the country seeks to confront Hamas lies with truth.