Kneecap get kneecapped
This is the game the band decided to play. If it didn’t know that spectacle can be your undoing, as well as your ticket to a golden future, they do now.
Northern Ireland
The Queen’s speech
Her Majesty Rania Al Abdullah misses an opportunity
Op-eds
Only America Can Resolve the Cyprus Question
Without a viable solution to the Cyprus dispute, Western security will remain in a perpetual state of fragility.
Op-eds
Rock, Paper, Scissors in the Middle East
Trump’s is the latest play in a decadeslong game of trying to counter previous ‘peace process’ moves by each new American administration
Op-eds
Belfast’s power vacuum leads to Titanic BDS troubles
The Belfast city council, which should be focused on local municipal issues, may embarrass Northern Ireland with its foray into Mideast conflicts
Op-eds
Trump’s Iran Policy Hasn’t Failed—Yet
Maximum pressure could still deliver strategic outcomes.
Op-eds
Anti-Israel BDS Motions Stopped at UK/Northern Ireland Universities
The City University in London and Ulster University in Northern Ireland rejected in February motions to boycott the Jewish state. A spokesman for the City University sent The Jerusalem P...
Op-eds
US-based BDS group seeks to lobby Congress
A campaign by a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions organization called “The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation” to lobby members of Congress against Israel on Capitol Hill has rais...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
FDD Names Board of Advisors to Help Guide Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance
WASHINGTON – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies today announced 18 experts who will serve as members of the Board of Advisors for its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance (CSIF)....
Press Releases
Giving Peace a Chance
Rarely do so many distinguished members of the foreign policy community gather in a single room. But this was the Great Hall of the United States Institute of Peace: a Washington “instituti...
Op-eds
British Lessons
I imagine James Bond is relieved. After all, one can’t very well be “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” if one is no lon...
Op-eds
Faith, Fanaticism and Fantasy in the Middle East
“God created war,” theorized Mark Twain, “so that Americans would learn geography.” That’s as true today as it was two centuries ago. How many of us would be able to...
Op-eds
A Muslim Identity Crisis
The massive sexual abuse case in Rotherham, England, has revealed again how awkward and self-defeating the Western response often is to matters that touch on religious identity. Although the inde...
Op-eds
The Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act
Honourable senators, I am so pleased to be here today to discuss the justice for victims of terrorism act, a legislative initiative that the Canadian Coalition Against Terror has been working on...
Congressional Testimonies
The Disinformation Age
Walter Cronkite, the great CBS anchorman from 1962 to 1981, was called “the most trusted man in America” — and polling supported that claim. He’d conclude his CBS Even...
Op-eds
History of the World, Winged Camels, and an Israel-Palestine Peace
Tel Aviv, Israel — Israel’s military is unusual in many ways, but start with this: A patch on Captain Omri Levy’s sleeve alludes to a Mel Brooks j...
Op-eds
Focus on Chemical Weapons in Syria
Two and half years into the Syrian civil war, with 93,000 confirmed deaths and counting, more than 5 million displaced civilians (that’s 25 percent of the entire population) and evidence of...
Op-eds
St. Patrick’s Day with Edmund Burke
What Burke and Conor Cruise O’Brien can teach us about preventing the triumph of evil.
Op-eds
Letter from Ireland
The Troubles ended in a “peace of sorts,” but it’s no model for the Middle East.