Northern Ireland

March 6, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

The Queen’s speech

Her Majesty Rania Al Abdullah misses an opportunity

January 28, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

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.

February 2, 2020 | Tony Badran |

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

February 15, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

October 17, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

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...

January 23, 2015 | FDD Press Release

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)....

December 10, 2014 | Clifford D. May

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...

September 23, 2014 | Clifford D. May

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...

September 16, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

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...

September 5, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

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...

March 4, 2014 | Sheryl Saperia

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...

December 12, 2013 | Clifford D. May

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...

July 4, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

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...

June 18, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

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...

March 14, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

St. Patrick’s Day with Edmund Burke

What Burke and Conor Cruise O’Brien can teach us about preventing the triumph of evil.

September 27, 2012 | Clifford D. May

Letter from Ireland

The Troubles ended in a “peace of sorts,” but it’s no model for the Middle East.

July 19, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iranian Terror and Obama’s Misguided Terror Forum

Iran and its terror subsidiary, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, appear to be responsible for a...

June 14, 2011 | The American Thinker

Be Wise on Kosovo

Over the past few months a number of Western leaders, including senior United States figures, have lent their support to separating the province of Kosovo from the Republic of Serbia, based on th...

May 20, 2011 |

Obama Not Well Prepared For Test

President Barack Obama appointed former senator George Mitchell as his special envoy for Middle East peace within days of taking office, in January 2009. The appointment of a high-profile America...