The ‘First Amendment’ Dodge at UC Berkeley
The issues on campus and elsewhere extend beyond free-speech protections.
Islamophobia
Coming to America
It’s not just mass illegal immigration that poses a threat
Op-eds
Erdogan’s Turkey: Diminished and Marginalized
Under the president’s watch, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to describe any foreign policy portfolio that has furthered the country’s national interest.
Op-eds
Turkey’s ‘Islamic’ offensive against Israel grows as Gaza war rages
Turkey's President Erdogan is using the October 7 attack to rally Muslim countries diplomatically against Israel, seeking regional leadership.
Op-eds
Risking New Rift With Western Allies, Turkey Pursues Membership of BRICS Bloc
A spokesman for Turkey’s ruling Islamist AKP Party said on September 3 that there had been no “concrete development” in its application to join the BRICS alliance of emerging...
Flash Briefs
Don’t buy Rashida Tlaib & Co.’s lie: ‘From the river to the sea’ has always meant erasing Israel
In English, protesters call for Palestine to be free. But when their chants shift to Arabic, they often call for the whole of Palestine to be Arab — an explicit call to dismantle the Jewish state...
Op-eds
Muslim countries meeting in Gambia condemn Israel ‘genocide’
Iran tried to use OIC meeting against Israel and wording in the final declaration may reflect Iran’s success.
Op-eds
The White House partnered with CAIR to fight antisemitism — despite its antisemitism
The Biden administration was consulting with violent antisemites on the best ways to counter antisemitism. Nihad Awad, the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, delivered a speech last...
Op-eds
What Happens When a Quran Is Burned Demonstrates a Government’s Capacity for Liberty
Current Iraqi rage against the burning of a Quran in Sweden and in Denmark violates both liberty and Islamic teachings — and shows that freedom of expression is sometimes globally curtailed for...
Op-eds
The Post-Post-JCPOA World
Is a nuclear Iran something Republicans must now simply accept?
Op-eds
The death threat to free speech in France
Islamists are using violence to command silence
Op-eds
Iran can cause a new Holocaust, warns Islam expert in Austrian Parliament
"If there is going to be a repeat of the Holocaust, it will not be in Europe - here people have matured - but in the Middle East."
Op-eds
German center for antisemitism research hires alleged ‘antisemite’
“You would imagine something like this would be done in Iran. Set up an institute to study antisemitism and invite antisemites to work there.”
Op-eds
A Historian in Full
The university flag at Princeton is flying at half-mast. It’s an appropriate tribute to Bernard Lewis, who died on May 19, less than a fortnight from his 102nd birthday. Professor Lewis was...
Op-eds
In tactical turnaround, Erdogan rediscovers ‘old friends’ in Europe
Just a few months ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan compared European leaders to Nazis and condemned them as Islamophobes but when he recently talked about his EU colleag...
Op-eds
We’ll always have Paris
Europeans seem to have an increasingly bizarre and perhaps self-destructive view of the world and their place in it. Last week’s most creative illustration: The Irish postal service issued...
Op-eds
The American Press Is Afraid to Report on Anti-Semitism When It Comes from Muslims
Responding to Israel’s installation of metal detectors on the Temple Mount, the California imam Ammar Shahin gave a sermon in which he explained the duty of Muslims everywhere—“...
Op-eds
Preaching violence from the pulpit
Imagine if a priest, minister or rabbi were to call for Muslims to be annihilated. It would be a scandal and it would spark a nation-wide controversy over Islamophobia, hate speech and incitement...
Op-eds
The battles of Britain and Egypt
The slaughter of 22 concertgoers in Manchester last week was followed four days later by the murder of 29 Christians traveling by bus to a monastery in the desert south of Cairo. The Is...
Op-eds
The end of Turkey’s democratic experiment
On the grounds of the Turkish Embassy facing Massachusetts Ave. in Washington, D.C. is a statue of Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, father of the Republic of Turkey, the nation-state he built from the rubb...