Nobel Prize

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...

July 12, 2024 | Mark Dubowitz, Jacob Nagel

2040: The year Iran predicts Israel will be destroyed. Now is the time to prepare

The Islamic Republic is developing a comprehensive strategy to bring about Israel’s elimination as a sovereign state.

February 29, 2024 | |

Iran to Hold Parliamentary Elections but May Face Low Turnout

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28 called for mass turnout in Iran’s elections on March 1. Yet even government polling indicates that the majority of...

May 28, 2022 | James Brooke |

Ukraine: Peace Through Victory

Russia’s modern day foreign ministry seems to follow the old Soviet negotiating precept: What is mine is mine, what is yours is up for negotiation.

October 20, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Border security is national security

The crisis Biden has sparked will do lasting damage

July 14, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

The return of antisemitism

Germany after World War I provides a distant mirror

September 9, 2020 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Biden Agenda: Why ‘Outside-In’ Diplomacy Could Be the Key to Middle East Peace

Would Joe Biden be willing or able to take advantage of the progress made with the Israel-UAE deal?

December 25, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Wiesenthal’s top ten list of antisemites includes Pittsburgh shooter

Swedish hospital, UK singer Roger Waters and German bank make the list.

June 19, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Jews urge Firing of ‘Antisemitic’ Green Party Ramallah Office Head

A prominent German Jewish organization – Values Initiative – called on Friday for the German Green Party’s think tank to discharge the head of its Ramallah-based office because...

May 10, 2018 | |

Hold the Nobel Prize: Kim Is Setting a Trap for Trump

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ...

December 22, 2017 | Tzvi Kahn |

Tehran Upholds Death Sentence Against Iranian Academic

A group of United Nations human rights experts on Wednesday called on Iran to annul its deat...

January 19, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Anti-Israel reporter loses case at German Press Council

The Suddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) newspaper falsely claimed that tens of thousands of Israelis fled to Germany because of the policies of the Netanyahu administration, the German Press Council confirm...

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...

June 24, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

How to Worsen the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

The “peace process” between Israelis and Palestinians has ground to a halt. What should American and European leaders do? Try not to make the situation worse. That will be a...

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...

May 7, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Legal Scholar Dershowitz Wants Honorary Israeli Citizenship to Counter BDS

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said on Friday that he would like to become an honorary citizen of Israel to fight the boycott movement. “I think the good answer to the BDS m...

May 1, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

Controversial ‘Tin Drum’ Author Grass Dies at 87

German novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-should...

March 17, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Palestine’s Plan for When Peace Talks Fail

Co-authored by Grant Rumley Despite the unshakable and quixotic optimism of John Kerry’s Middle East negotiating team, the prevailing prognosis in Jerusalem and Ramallah i...

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...

July 18, 2013 | Clifford D. May

The New Muslim Generation

A month ago, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was asked whether the Taliba...