US Treasury sanctions entities for supporting Hamas
The United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on January 21 that it sanctioned a network of organizations it says are covertly controlled by Hamas. The...
Islamism
Erdogan chooses the ayatollahs over the Iranian people
While Iranian protesters are being beaten, imprisoned, and killed by the Islamic Republic, Turkey’s government is busy running diplomatic interference for the mullahs. Ankara’s...
Op-eds
The enemies of America’s enemies
Iran, Venezuela, and Ukraine are very different countries, but most Iranians, Venezuelans and Ukrainians want the same thing: to not be ruled by tyrants. They look to America for support – which...
Op-eds
The U.S. Designation of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Needs To Be Strengthened
Following the U.S. designation of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), Jordan has accelerated its crackdown on the Islamist group. The U.S. decision is...
Policy Briefs
U.S. Issues Its First-Ever Designations of Muslim Brotherhood Branches as Terrorists
For more than a decade, Washington avoided a definitive judgment about the Muslim Brotherhood. That changed on January 13 when the U.S. State and Treasury departments designated three Muslim Brotherhood...
Policy Briefs
Ukrainian Intelligence Claims Chechen Leader Was Hospitalized, Creating Risk of Destabilizing Succession
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has been hospitalized due to kidney failure and is reportedly undergoing dialysis, according to a report sourced from Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence and published January...
Policy Briefs
Soccer Dispute Reveals Extent of Islamist Control in UK’s Second Largest City
Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the UK opposition Conservative Party, called on January 6 for the resignation of Craig Guildford, the Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police, for having banned Israeli...
Policy Briefs
After Khamanei: What the Fall of Iran’s Regime Would Mean for the Region
The fall of Iran’s Islamist regime would mark one of the most seismic shifts in Middle Eastern geopolitics since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought it to power. As massive protests grip the...
Op-eds
The persistence of Israel’s ‘Periphery Doctrine’
The burgeoning relationship between Somaliland and Israel proves that the Jewish state is not hated and isolated in the region, despite the neighboring cluster of authoritarian states insisting otherwise.
Op-eds
Israeli Foreign Minister Follows up Recognition of Somaliland With Historic Visit
Latest Developments Sa’ar in Somaliland: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar traveled to Somaliland on January 6, the first official diplomatic visit since Israel recognized the East African...
Flash Briefs
Iran’s Protests Reach Day Four. Washington Should Heed the Streets.
Swelling waves of dissatisfaction are sweeping the Islamic Republic of Iran into the new year. What began on December 28 as demonstrations in downtown Tehran has crossed the country to Malard, Isfahan,...
Policy Briefs
People of Iran keep rising up against tyranny, and we should help them
Iranians have once again taken to the streets in defiance of their Islamist and authoritarian government. What began as demonstrations triggered by economic grievances — with the rial plummeting...
Op-eds
Why was Sharaa Invited to Washington, but not Aoun?
For all his efforts, Joseph Aoun deserves Washington’s active support to enable him to accomplish even more. Until late 2024, Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa was a U.S.-designated terrorist with...
Op-eds
Beyond the U.S.-Israel MOU: The Case for a Strategic Partnership Agreement
In one’s personal life and in the life of a nation, it is good to have friends. It is even better to have capable and motivated friends, especially when one confronts increasingly formidable enemies...
Insights
Palestine Action’s bid for martyrdom
What members of this violent organization hunger for are extreme measures that make waves against Israel and make headlines worldwide.
Op-eds
Europe is sleepwalking into the Muslim Brotherhood’s long game
The Muslim Brotherhood’s long-term strategy exploits democracy itself, and Europe is still refusing to confront the threat.
Op-eds
Mostly quiet on the Gazan front
Kinetic operations have wound down, but the cognitive war continues
Op-eds
Australian Leaders Criticized Over Lack of Police Presence at Site of Bondi Beach Hanukkah Massacre
‘Could Have Been a Different Scenario’: Chris Minns, the Premier of the state of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia, is under fire over the reported lack of a significant police...
Flash Briefs
Hamas acknowledges the killing of senior commander Raed Saad
Hamas stated that senior military figure Raed Saad, along with several other members of the Islamist group, were killed in an Israeli military operation on December 13. “The martyred commander...
Op-eds
The real war is Islamism’s infiltration of Western democracies
Born in Jerusalem and raised in Malmö, Sweden, I watched firsthand the quiet surrender of a liberal Western city to Islamist intimidation.