Iran Supporting and Funding Pro-Hamas Protests in the U.S.
Following several months of often violent pro-Hamas protests across the United States, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, stated on July 9 that the Islamic...
Maryland
Maryland Court Issues Restraining Order Against U.S.-Based Iranian Diplomat
A Maryland court issued a temporary restraining order on May 28 against an employee of Iran’s Interests Section in Washington — the Islamic Republic’s de facto consular office...
Flash Briefs
Antisemitism in Schools Shows Need for Stronger Enforcement of Title VI and Accountability Policies
A Jewish teacher hid in a locked classroom on May 16 when 400 anti-Israel student protesters rampaged through a Bronx high school campus, just one week after the House convened a hearing on K-12 antisemitism....
Policy Briefs
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
Russia’s Biowarfare Lies Can’t Go Unanswered
The Russian disinformation machine has spun its latest web of lies. Last week, the Russian Defense Ministry accused the U.S. of preparing to target Russian troops with drones carrying malaria-bearing...
Op-eds
Biden’s State Department ignores Iranian death plots inside America
It took quite a bit longer than it should have, but the State Department finally released its 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism. As ever, the document covers the countries that experienced attacks, those...
Op-eds
Soldiers of Misfortune
The Wagner Group isn’t playing
Op-eds
Time to integrate State Partnership Program in Pentagon planning
As currently used, the program is a missed opportunity, especially when America needs to be strengthening its relationships abroad.
Op-eds
Does Big Tech Have an Anti-Semitism Problem?
Employees at Google and Amazon launched a petition drive this week to persuade both companies to end their contracts with the world’s only Jewish state. Google and Amazon can send a powerful...
Op-eds
Biden needs to get China to cooperate with the pandemic’s origins investigation
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, acknowledged in mid-June that there was a “premature push” to dismiss the theory that COVID-19 initially spread from...
Op-eds
Only the Chinese Communist Party Knows the Origins of the COVID Pandemic
And it has been withholding, deflecting, and obfuscating the entire time.
Op-eds
What Red Line Tells Us About Syria’s Chemical Weapons
Book review: Joby Warrick’s book brings to life the history and reaction to Syria’s chemical weapons program and the difficulty in eliminating it.
Op-eds
What the National Guard Deployment to D.C. Tells Us
The failure to protect the U.S. Capitol from an insurrectionist attack on January 6 is understandably dominating headlines. Leaders and investigators are right to ask how such a horrible breach of security...
Op-eds
The Emerging Sino-Russian Alliance
How the 'great powers' are reconfiguring their partnerships for a new era. Plus, why it matters that al-Qaeda’s media chief was killed in Taliban country.
Op-eds
Modernize The National Guard’s State Partnership Program
Low-key deployments by citizen-soldiers have strengthened ties with 89 nations – but some crucial partners are missing.
Op-eds
American actor James Woods urges Congress to pass anti-BDS resolution
He seeks resolution based on Austria's anti-BDS measure.
Op-eds
Bringing the Middle East Back Home
The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas
Op-eds
America’s military goes to war against the coronavirus
U.S. service members and Department of Defense (DOD) civilians take an oath to defend America “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” As America fights to defeat the novel coronavirus, U.S. soldiers,...
Op-eds
Israel Renegotiates COVID-19 Testing Lab Deal With China
Amidst the severe economic downturn stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, countries are desperate to increase the availability of testing kits, a prerequisite for lifting stay at home orders. China, whose...
Policy Briefs
IS Using Front Companies to Support Terrorism
As the Islamic State (IS) has been beaten back in Iraq and ...