Natan Sharansky

June 21, 2023 | Orde Kittrie, David May

UN Report Ignores Palestinian Terrorism, Blasts U.S. Supporters Of Israel

A 27-nation coalition led by the United States today rightly condemned the United Nations commission of inquiry (COI) investigating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

March 14, 2022 | Orde Kittrie |

Lifting Human Rights Sanctions on Iran Would Be a Mistake

Lifting pressure on human rights abusers is not necessary to negotiate effective arms control agreements.

October 15, 2021 | Richard Goldberg, David May

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...

November 4, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Sharansky’s journeys

From prison to politics to an exodus from Africa

August 12, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The tyrants’ reach

Despots now threaten free speech even in free countries

January 4, 2018 | Sheryl Saperia |

How Canada should respond to the Iranian protests

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians are protesting in cities across the country. At the time of writing, Iranian security forces have killed at least 21 protesters, and hundreds have been arrested....

October 8, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Report Card on 50 Years of German-Israel Relations

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s cancellation of Thursday’s sixth joint cabinet consultation between Israel and Germany because of the domestic security situation comes at the end phase of...

January 20, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

The Citizen’s Guide to Regime Change

All of a sudden, it’s OK to talk seriously about regime change in Iran and even elsewhere.  It had been a taboo subject since the final years of the G.W. Bush administration, aside fro...

January 15, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal The Philadelphia Inquirer

Are Jews Safe in Europe?

Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky Last week's terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris underscored a fear that has been growing in recent years: Europe is n...

October 27, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

The Italian Exception: Defeating the Anti-Semites

The headlines from Europe are all grim. Synagogues assaulted in France, Jews murdered at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and savagely beaten in the streets of Great Britain and Scandinavia, mobs of...

August 22, 2014 | |

The U.N.’s Grotesque Gaza Inquiry

Bias against Israel is the most glaring problem with the new Gaza inquiry that the United Nations Human Rights Council launched last month. The council has appointed as its chief inv...

May 10, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

When Hatred Turns Lethal

One of the most neglected stories in the Middle East – the ubiquitous Jew-hatred in the Arab and Muslim world – was suddenly catapulted into the mainstream media spotlight when Egypt&...

September 14, 2012 | John Hannah |

Good Friends are Hard to Find: Why the US Should Support Mithal Alusi and Kurdistan

I know. Foreign policy has been largely an afterthought in the presidential campaign. Iraq, for all intents and purposes, is off the radar screen entirely -- except as a Democratic talking point,...

June 7, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Neo-Nazis Praise German Mayor for Israel Boycott

The local branch of the neo-Nazi party (NPD) expressed solidarity for the campaign calling for a boycott of Israeli products that is supported by the German city of Jena’s Social Democratic...

April 4, 2012 | |

The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

Debunking the transformational power of internet freedom.

February 29, 2012 | Robert Barnidge ASMEA

“Islamophobia” and the Silencing of Dissent

In recent years, much has been written on and discussed about “Islamophobia,” that contrived prejudice that is said to attach to those who question, however sincerely, prevailing unde...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online |

No More Illusions

Michael Ledeen's tour de force shows the war with Iran is already on, whether we choose fight it or not.

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online |

Destination: Durban II

'Tis the season to bankroll hatred of Israel and America.

June 13, 2011 | Joshua Goodman World Defense Review |

Re-Thinking Iran Policy

By Joshua Goodman The January 31 cover of The Economist asked an ominous question, "Has Iran Won?" The question certainly has merit. The release of the National Intelli...

April 23, 2009 | |

The U.N.’s Durban II Debacle

GENEVA -- As I write this, the United Nations Durban Review Conference on "racism" is still officially in session, stumbling toward the close, on Friday, of its five-day run at the U.N.'s pa...