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August 3, 2021 | Richard Goldberg, Orde Kittrie, David May

Analysis of Unilever Letter on Ben & Jerry’s BDS Activity

Unilever CEO Alan Jope sent a letter to major Jewish organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom on July 27, 2021, in an effort to defend the company’s decision earlier last month to terminate...

July 22, 2021 | David May, Richard Goldberg, Orde Kittrie

Double Scoops and Double Standards Courtesy of Ben & Jerry’s

In addition to its classic double scoops, Vermont-based ice cream producer Ben & Jerry’s is now offering a calorie-rich serving of double standards, too. The Ben & Jerry’s brand, owned...

July 15, 2021 | Dylan Gresik, Toby Dershowitz

ICAO’s Authoritarian Test

When Belarus’ authoritarian strongman, Aleksandr Lukashenko, personally dispatched a fully armed MiG-29 fighter jet to intercept Ryanair Flight FR4978 in order to arrest a journalist and regime critic,...

July 2, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, Seth J. Frantzman, Ryan Brobst

Add Egypt and the UAE to the Noble Dina Exercise

During the conflict between Hamas and Israel last May, the terror group attempted to use rockets and an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to attack Israel’s maritime assets in the Eastern Mediterranean....

June 11, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

How States Can Respond If Biden Lifts Iran Sanctions

Republican governors and legislatures have some effective tools at their disposal.

May 10, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

How Governors and State Legislatures Can Mitigate the White House’s Iran Strategy

A few months ago it seemed that the Biden administration would pursue a more moderate version of Obama’s Iran strategy. Now it’s poised to make even greater concessions.

March 15, 2021 | Mathew Ha |

Ahead of U.S.-ROK Meeting, Unresolved Policy Disputes Still Trouble the Alliance

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will meet with their South Korean counterparts in Seoul on March 17, at which point the U.S. secretaries will likely share preliminary...

November 12, 2020 | Orde Kittrie, Varsha Koduvayur

Biden Must Act to Make Sure Sudan-Israel Peace Lasts

Unless appropriately bolstered, progress towards Sudan-Israel peace risks stalling or worse. History shows that steps towards peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors can collapse in the absence of sufficient traction.

September 27, 2020 | Orde Kittrie |

UAE-Israel Treaty Is Far Larger Step Towards Peace Than Critics Allege

No deal is perfect, but any improvement should not be downplayed when it makes the volatile Middle East more peaceful and win-win.

June 10, 2020 | Richard Goldberg |

Europeans Pushing to Boycott Israel Over Annexation Should Think Twice

Calls for economic sanctions against Israel risk a costly collision with U.S. anti-boycott laws, as companies such as Airbnb can attest.

May 13, 2020 | Jonathan Schanzer |

How to Decouple Key Supply Chains from China

The great power competition between Washington and Beijing is heating up. The U.S. effort to contain China’s rise is now on full display, as the Trump administration (rightly) blames China for failing...

April 24, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Philip Kowalski

Erdogan’s COVID-19 Cover-up Hampers Turkey’s Coronavirus Response

Turkey has overtaken China as the country with the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases outside the United States and European Union, reporting more than 100,000 cases as of April 23. Despite Turkish...

December 26, 2019 | Clifford D. May

The war against Christians

It hit a peak in the last century but it's ongoing in the Middle East, Africa and Asia

December 18, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Progress on ‘the Jewish question’

Anti-Semites suffer defeats in the U.K. and the U.S.

September 25, 2019 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

New Indictment Adds to Evidence of Hezbollah Terrorist Activities in the U.S.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced the indictment last week of U.S. citizen Ali Hassan Saab, a resident of Morristown, New Jersey, and suspected Hezbollah agent....

September 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Report: Britain slated to outlaw the entire terrorist entity Hezbollah

Britain banned Hezbollah’s military wing in 2008 because the Lebanese militia attacked UK soldiers in Iraq.

May 25, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

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...

April 2, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austrian bank in Iran freezes business fearing U.S. sanctions

Austria’s Oberbank, which, as a result of the 2015 nuclear deal became the first European bank to enter Iran’s financial system, announced it has not moved forward with business trans...

March 12, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Israel Urges Irish Bank to Shut Accounts of Boycott Group

The Israeli government is pushing for the closure of scores of bank accounts provided by the Irish banking giant Allied Irish Bank (AIB) that fund the promotion of anti-Israel boycotts....

January 2, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

New Jersey Divests From Top Danish Bank after It Boycotts Israeli Companies

New Jersey announced that it will divest from Danske Bank, Denmark’s largest bank, after the bank announced that it would not invest in two Israeli companies, Benjamin Weinthal&nbsp...