Mark Kirk

April 11, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

MSCI ESG Ratings May Violate State Anti-BDS Laws

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 17 other state attorneys general sent a letter on March 28 to financial analytics firm MSCI Inc. following a report the firm may be imposing punitive environmental,...

November 15, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Congress Should Take Away Iran’s $10 Billion Sanctions Relief 

Just five weeks after the Hamas October 7 massacre, the State Department re-issued a sanctions waiver on November 14 enabling Hamas’s terror sponsor, Iran, to use more than $10 billion in previously inaccessible funds held in Iraq. ...

August 15, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

The Disastrous Implications of the $6 Billion Iran Hostage Deal

President Joe Biden’s decision to trade $6 billion for five American citizens unlawfully detained in Tehran isn’t just the largest hostage ransom payment in American history—it’s...

July 27, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

American Military Aid to Israel Serves Both Countries Well

A response to a dangerous proposal

June 15, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Don’t Stop Digging Into Iran’s Nuclear Secrets

Few Americans have probably heard of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog. Last week, the IAEA’s board of governors convened in Vienna to hear from its director...

May 3, 2023 | Andrea Stricker, Anthony Ruggiero, Richard Goldberg

Iran’s Meaningless Concession Ahead of Key Nuclear Meeting

Iran has begun reinstalling surveillance cameras and monitoring technologies at key nuclear sites ahead of a June International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting, according to a reporter for The Wall...

April 24, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Morningstar Blacklist May Violate State Anti-BDS Laws

The Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) this week reported that Sustainalytics — the environmental, social, governance (ESG) ratings arm of Morningstar, Inc. — imposes negative “controversy” ratings on...

February 24, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Israel Must Prepare to Save the World from a Nuclear Iran

This month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Europe “identifies more with the Israeli position” on Iran’s nuclear program, a conclusion he reached after meeting with French...

February 13, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

The Iran Nuclear Deal Isn’t Dead

The State Department is fighting to keep it alive, even if an agreement benefits Russia and China.

February 7, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Morningstar Misleads Investors on Its Anti-Israel Bias — Again

The investment research firm Morningstar, Inc. committed last October to making changes to its Sustainalytics environmental, social, and governance (ESG) subsidiary’s research in response to FDD’s ongoing...

January 13, 2023 | Richard Goldberg, Rebeccah Heinrichs

Let Ukraine Defeat the Russia-Iranian War Machine

Biden’s chronic risk aversion is prolonging the war and making it more costly

December 7, 2022 | Richard Goldberg, Will Kielm

How Biden, Congress can stop the UN from legitimizing antisemitism

United Nations officials urged countries in October and November to reject the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, the global benchmark for identifying...

December 5, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

No, Iran didn’t ban morality police — it duped press, and Biden administration

For a few hours this past weekend, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism pulled off a global disinformation operation to undermine a popular revolt, falsely suggesting the regime in Tehran had...

November 6, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

Jew-Free Investing

How the BDS campaign infiltrated ESG

July 13, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

Biden needs to share intel, get out of the way and let Israel end Iran nuclear threat

President Biden’s private meeting Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid will likely become one of the most consequential conversations of his presidency. After 18 months of failed diplomacy...

March 21, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

Vandenberg Coalition Afghanistan Working Group Report

Executive Summary The Vandenberg Coalition Afghanistan Working Group convened a diverse group of national security professionals to develop policy recommendations for the Biden administration and Congress...

March 4, 2022 | Richard Goldberg |

Biden on verge of making worst deal ever with Iran

As the civilian death toll mounts in Ukraine and the world prepares for unspeakable crimes against humanity yet to come, the Biden administration said Friday it’s close to announcing a Russian-brokered...

November 23, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

How America Lost Its Leverage on Iran

Ten years ago, two senators, one Republican and one Democrat, joined together to force America to sanction Iran. In the years since, the leverage they built has dissipated. Why?

February 3, 2021 | Richard Goldberg, Jonathan Schanzer

The U.N. Refugee Agency With Few Actual Refugees

Less than 5% of five million people deemed ‘Palestinian refugees’ meet the criteria for this status.

November 27, 2020 | Richard Goldberg |

Let this be a warning to Biden: Iran has been cheating this whole time

Friday’s apparent assassination of the founder of Iran’s nuclear weapons program wasn’t just a setback for the regime’s nuclear ambitions — it was a timely reminder that the Iran nuclear deal...