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May 14, 2024 | Antonette Bowman |

Some Campus Protesters Despise America as Much as They Do Israel

The epicenter of campus protests has recently shifted from occupation of buildings and quads, to the disruption of commencement ceremonies as students prepare to leave campus. This provides an opportunity...

April 25, 2024 | David May, Antonette Bowman

How Universities Can Take Back the Quad

They have student codes of conduct, they just need to enforce them.

March 7, 2024 | David May, Sabrina Soffer

Anti-Israel faculty group adds fuel to a raging fire

“It’s not safe to be a Jewish student at UC Berkeley.” That was the message a Jewish student delivered before the House of Representatives’ Education and the Workforce Committee last...

October 13, 2023 | David May |

The BDS Campaign Embraces Hamas’ Massacre — and the World Will Remember

The brutality of Hamas’ slaughter of Israeli civilians has put anti-Israel activists in a bind: Should they condemn atrocities against Israel, or should they defend Palestinian actions as extreme as killing...

May 6, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

Moscow Proxies Stand for Regional Election in Moldova

Russian efforts to increase its influence within Moldova may take another step forward in a forthcoming regional election.

September 8, 2021 | Sardar Pashaei, Benjamin Weinthal, Alireza Nader

Why The Iranian Regime’s Murder Of A Champion Wrestler Matters

This Sunday, September 12, will mark one year since Iran’s clerical regime executed the champion Greco-Roman wrestler Navid Afkari for expressing opposition to the religious dictatorship in Iran. His...

July 29, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Mercedes-Benz Must Crack Down on Antisemitism and Support for Iran

Political leaders in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg have shown no desire to end their promotion of BDS and support for the clerical regime in Tehran.

December 21, 2020 | Hossein Khosrov Ali Vaziri, Benjamin Weinthal, Alireza Nader

The Olympics must ban Iran

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and United World Wrestling (UWW) — the global governing body for amateur wrestling—squandered a chance to save the life of Navid Afkari, the Iranian champion put...

May 1, 2020 | Asaf Romirowsky, Benjamin Weinthal

New York’s universities stand up against BDS and anti-Semitism

One has to be unusually callous to revel publicly in the coronavirus-related death of an 88-year old Holocaust survivor, yet Leen Dweik did not hesitate. A 2019 graduate of New York University,...

April 4, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Give anti-globalism a chance

“Globalism” is one of those Humpty Dumpty words that seems to mean whatever those using it “choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”...

May 11, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

Obama’s ‘boy wonder’

Among the most serious charges that President Obama and his supporters have leveled against President Bush and Vice President Cheney: They “cherry-picked intelligence.” The phrase sug...

February 23, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Neither Remaining Nor Expanding: The Islamic State’s Global Expansion Struggles

Co-written with Nathaniel Barr Judging from the Islamic State’s propaganda, it would appear the group is rapidly overtaking the Muslim world. The Islamic State has declare...

January 19, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Hard Line

Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, the senior fellow at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University (NYU) joins Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, on...

May 6, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Dr. Zarif or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Iranian bomb

Tehran’s largest cemetery,...

December 20, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet

Pollard Defenders Vindicated

After 25 years, the CIA has declassified documents that show Jonathan Pollard never spied on the U.S. for Israel

June 14, 2011 | Claudia Rosett The Journal of International Security Affairs |

Bad Faith Actor

In the pantheon of United Nations causes, Africa by many measures occupies a preeminent role. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has described “the African challenge” as “the highest...

May 20, 2010 | Tony Badran Jerusalem Post

The Flight of the Intellectuals

Paul Berman is someone who takes ideas - especially pernicious and toxic ones - very seriously. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Berman wrote a penetrating work, Terror and Liberalism...

April 26, 2007 | Tony Badran Middle East Quarterly

Middle East Strongmen, Ancient and Modern

The war in Iraq has exposed fissures in the structure of that modern Middle Eastern state earlier camouflaged by Arab nationalism and Saddam's brutal rule. While Arab leaders speak of unity,...

January 31, 2006 | Mideast Monitor |

Saudi-Syrian Relations after Hariri

Tony Badran is a PhD candidate in Ancient Near Eastern studies at New York University. He is also a Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, with a particular focus on Lebanes...

February 10, 2005 | |

Russia and U.S. National Interests

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