Nobel Peace Prize

February 4, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow |

With Qatar, the Biden Administration Left Cards on the Table. Trump Should Play Them.

No Qataris were visible in the chilling footage of the October 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities that President Trump saw this week for the first time. But figuratively, they were right there. Qatar is not...

January 29, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow |

Qatar Seeks Nobel Peace Prize for Gaza Mediation Despite Enabling Hamas

A Qatari diplomat recently suggested that the emir of Qatar deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the war in Gaza that Doha effectively abetted. In a statement to The Jerusalem Post, Qatar’s...

December 5, 2024 | |

‘Women, Life, Freedom!’ Iran Temporarily Releases Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Iran Frees Prominent Human Right Activist for 21 Days: The authorities in Tehran released prominent human rights activist Narges Mohammadi on December 4 after she underwent surgery...

November 20, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

The legacy of President Trump 2.0

Now is the time to think about what needs to be achieved

November 5, 2024 | |

A ‘Shameful Phenomenon’: Iran Arrests Female Protester After She Disrobes at University

Iranian Student Protests Mandatory Dress Code: Ahoo Daryaeistripped to her underwear at Tehran’sIslamic Azad University on November 2 after members of the Basij militia, which...

September 16, 2024 | |

Iranians Commemorate Mahsa Amini on Second Anniversary of Her Murder

The second anniversary of the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was marked in Iran and around the world on September 16 amid a media blackout ordered by Iran’s rulers. The young...

January 31, 2024 | |

Iran Executes Four Men Falsely Accused of Mossad Ties

Iran on January 29 hanged four prisoners accused of planning to sabotage a Defense Ministry factory and having links with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Iranian state media...

October 18, 2023 | Matt Pottinger |

Remarks by Matt Pottinger at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s China Forum 2023

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September 20, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Martyrs – and newsmen – for freedom

Jimmy Lai and Dmitry Muratov put their lives on the line

June 13, 2022 | Eric S. Edelman |

What Erdoğan Has Wrought?

Seeking concessions to support Finland and Sweden joining NATO has done damage to Turkey’s standing in Europe and its long-term security interests.

March 16, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The fall of the Golden Arch Theory

Enriching tyrants doesn’t prevent wars after all

October 2, 2021 | Michael Rubin, Aykan Erdemir

Give Osman Kavala the Nobel Peace Prize

Kavala is a philanthropist who, for decades, has stood up to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and to authoritarians of every stripe inside Turkey.

September 23, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

A separate peace in the Middle East

How it was achieved and what the “Palestinian cause” now requires

August 14, 2020 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Strategic Defense of Democracy

Hong Kong police on Monday arrested Jimmy Lai, the 71-year-old pro-democracy founder of Hong Kong media company Next Digital and its newspaper, Apple Daily, on charges of violating China’s new national...

March 7, 2020 | |

Torture TV: New FDD Report Makes the Case for Sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s State-Run Media

New Report Chronicles State TV’s Forced Confessions

April 29, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal

Wiesenthal Center Urges Antisemitic Finnish MP To Resign

Al-Taee also compared Israel to the Islamic State and denigrated Sunni Muslims, gays, Somalis and other groups.

February 22, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Foundation Under Fire for Awarding Prize to Antisemitic BDS Group

The group is called Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East and is an energetic supporter of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting the Jewish state.

December 19, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

A modest Middle East detente

Arab states take a friendlier approach toward the enemy of their enemy.

October 29, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, Rose Parris Richter, Prof. Irwin Cotler

Profiles of Iranian Repression

Architects of Human Rights Abuse in the Islamic Republic

July 11, 2018 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Richard Goldberg

U.S. Should Re-impose Sanctions on Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

President Trump this week must decide whether the State Department will continue waiving congressional sanctions against the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the primary pr...