Nobel Peace Prize

May 17, 2018 | David Adesnik |

In Korea, the Same Old Tricks from a Brand New Kim

North Korea long ago mastered the art of playing hard to get with American diplomats eager—or even desperate—to make a deal. Pyongyang’s ...

April 12, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn |

U.S. Should Sanction Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)

In an interview last week with Bloomberg’s Eli Lake, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi...

April 2, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

NGO Monitor urges Germany to halt antisemitic aid arm in Gaza, West Bank

The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor called on the German government on Friday to immediately halt the activities and funding of its Corporation for International Cooperation operating in Jordan, the...

March 29, 2018 | David Adesnik |

US-North Korea summit: How Trump can score a major deal

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Wednesd...

October 12, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The problem with peace processes

When peace-loving people sit down together in a spirit of compromise they can find ways to resolve their conflicts. Does it follow that negotiations with those who don’t care a fig about pe...

October 4, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Bank of Ireland shuts down anti-Israel BDS accounts

The Bank of Ireland- the country’s oldest financial institution—shut down the accounts of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). The termination of the pro-BDS group’s...

April 18, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Tear down Iran’s anti-democracy wall

Is there anything to say about bringing about a democratic political and social order in Iran? A lively panel titled “Anti-democratic Regimes: Confrontation or Coexistence?” at the Fo...

December 21, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Five Years Later: How the US and EU Failed the Arab Spring

Thursday marked the five-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Arab Spring when a young Tunisian, Muhammad Bouazizi, set himself ablaze in 2010 to protest the regime’s seizure of his vege...

December 1, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

The Iran Deal’s Slow Death

Back when the negotiations were still under way for The Deal between Iran and the P5+1, I accurately forecast the outcome would be a “No Deal Deal.” I described it this way:...

May 26, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Why Iran’s Failure to Protect Religious Minorities Doesn’t Bode Well For Nuclear Deal

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s tenure has been marked by intensified persecution and incarceration of Baha’is, Jews, Christians and Sunni Muslims, according to a new report from t...

May 20, 2015 | Clifford D. May

The Summit That Wasn’t

I’d venture to guess that most of what you heard about President Obama’s summit last week was wrong. To start, it wasn’t a “summit.” That term, coined by Winston Chu...

December 1, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Europe retreats from pressing Iran on human rights progress

Since the world powers reached an interim agreement to slow down Iran’s nuclear weapons program last year, there has been an astonishingly fast-paced change by some European countries and i...

October 14, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: If Iran Can’t Hold Human Rights Pledges, How Can it Abide by Nuke Deal?

BERLIN – The award of this week’s Nobel Peace Prize to Taliban victim...

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 29, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer, Merve Tahiroglu

If All Else Fails, Blame The Israelis

An eleventh-hour Turkish lawfare initiative may prevent Ankara's long-awaited rapprochement with Israel. Days shy of the four-year anniversary of the 2010 Mavi Marmara raid, the Istanbul Hig...

March 7, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

A Baleful Peace Process

To be outrageously iconoclastic among the Washington foreign-policy crowd is easy: Just suggest that the Israeli-Arab peace process is not merely pointless but actually damaging to America’...

November 19, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran: Still Hostile to Gays

Co-authored by Stuart Appelbaum The expectation that the election of new Iranian President Hass...

October 15, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Did Assad Just Win the Nobel Peace Prize?

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today to the Organizatio...

October 15, 2013 | |

Nobel Peace Charade

Surely the Norwegian Nobel Committee meant well in awarding this year’s Peace Prize to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). But for all the courage of OPCW inspe...

September 3, 2013 | Claudia Rosett |

Next on Syria: Leading From Russia?

Having failed to obtain a United Nations resolution on Syria, or assemble a robust coalition of the willing, or provide the American public with any clear strategy surrounding his plans for a lim...