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July 13, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘No Jew in Germany’: German police assault Israeli professor

The police in the West German city of Bonn allegedly mistakenly beat an Israeli philosophy professor after a German of Palestinian origin attacked him because he was wearing kippah. Acco...

October 3, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Sandstorm

The great medieval historian Ibn Khaldun centered his understanding of history on asabiyya, which is perhaps best translated as esprit de corps mixed with the will to power. In his maste...

September 29, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Barbarism of Iranian Militias Based in Iraq, Syria Being Seriously Overlooked

The US’s deadly strike on the al-Qaida-linked Khorasan group leader Mohsin al-Fadhli...

December 2, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Watchdog Says Syria Most Dangerous Country for Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Tuesday that the civil war in Syria posed the greatest danger for working reporters in conflict areas. “Syria remains the m...

October 31, 2013 | Bill Roggio, Clifford D. May

Drone Drama

In 1996, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden issued a formal declaration of war against the United State...

June 21, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Meet the New Mullah

Iranians aren’t wrong to celebrate the presidential victory of Hassan Rouhani. It is a (small) thumb in the eye of the country’s clerical ruler, Ali Khamenei. Leaving aside foreign af...

August 17, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Pragati - India

The Al Qaeda Factor, and the Fate of a Jihadi Group

The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West by Mitchell D. Silber. One reason terrorism watchers have often been wrong about some of the critical...

July 23, 2012 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Interrogating Terror

How tough justice keeps us free.

December 27, 2011 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

Why Tyrants Fall

What spells the doom of dictators?  Nobody really knows, and there are so many “whats” that the whole subject defies quantification.  Coups and assassinations, revolutions,...

December 19, 2011 | |

Despite Criticism of Israel, Hitchens was Ardent Foe of Anti-Semitism

Not long ago, I told an older colleague of my admiration for Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American author, journalist and public intellectual who finally succumbed to esophageal cancer Thursda...

November 28, 2011 |

The Xinjiang Procedure

Beijing’s ‘New Frontier’ is ground zero for the organ harvesting of political prisoners.

May 18, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Analysis: Al Qaeda’s Interim Emir and Iran

Saif al Adel has been named the interim emir of al Qaeda in the wake of Osama bin Laden's demise, according to multiple press reports. Al Adel is a longtime member of al Qaeda's militar...

February 22, 2011 |

Who Attacked Lara Logan, and Why?

For the world’s billion-plus Sunni Muslims, al-Azhar University in Cairo is the center of the theological universe, its faculty and scholars the most authoritative voice on the meaning of I...

August 3, 2010 | Thomas Joscelyn Weekly Standard

The Taliban’s Savagery

When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced the massive leak of more than 90,000 classified documents, he claimed that he was exposing “thousands” of possible American war crimes....