Olympic Games

Distrust and verify  

The Beijing summit was pageantry; Xi’s ambitions are not

Why won’t US activists speak up for the tortured Iran women’s soccer team?

An athlete’s silent act of dissent can turn both her and her family into targets of intimidation under the rule of Iran’s radical Islamist regime. After refusing to sing the Islamic Republic’s anthem...

Russia Should End It’s War To Attend the Next Olympics

While the Milano Olympic Games have now reached their end, Putin is celebrating the acquisition of countless new victims in his international influence campaigns. The Kremlin has taken advantage of the...

Marking Four Years of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

X’s Location Feature Exposes a Real Problem, but Does Not Fix It

A new location transparency feature on X is revealing foreign influence on American discourse just as federal agencies designed to deal with such threats are being dismantled. Toward the end...

A Year of Meming Dangerously: Iranian Influence Operations Targeting Israel Since October 7

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The Shadow War

A review of Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar, “Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination—and Secret Diplomacy—to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East” (Simon & Schuster, 2023).

The legacy of President Trump 2.0

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

Qatar’s Sportswashing Strategy: What the Latest Headlines on European Soccer Didn’t Tell You

Paris’ Stade de France stadium appeared more like a fortress than a soccer arena ahead of the UEFA Nations League match between France and Israel on November 14. French authorities increased security...

Foreign Malign Election Meddling Persists but Struggles to Gain Traction

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Iranian Cyber Operations Raise Fears of Attacks on Military Personnel

“You and your children … are our legitimate targets around the world,” an X account called @idfleaks threatened in December 2023, addressing service members from the Israel Defense Forces...

Mr. Abbas goes to Moscow and Ankara

In his jaunts abroad, the 88-year-old leader of the Palestinian Authority reinforced the very message he hoped to undermine—that there are no credible, trustworthy leaders on the Palestinian side.

Iranian Cyber Warfare Targeting Israel Seeks to Exploit Fears of Military Attack

A malicious email sent to Israeli citizens on August 4 purporting to contain “citizen safety” guidelines drawn up by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has highlighted attempts...

Israeli Delegation Faces Threats and Abuse at Paris Olympics

French authorities opened an investigation into spectators who carried a banner declaring “Genocide Olympics,” chanted “Heil Hitler,” performed Nazi salutes, and otherwise...

Russia Is Not the Champion of Christian and Traditional Values

For years, Putin has sought to present Russia as the champion of Christian and traditional values. He portrays the West as a dystopia of decadence, where elites push “strange and trendy ideas like...

The new – or perhaps renewed – Cold War

You can’t win it if you don’t know you’re in it

The US should insist that Russian and Belarusian athletes be banned from the 2024 Olympics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) needs to get off the sidelines on the question of whether Russian athletes will participate in the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. Instead, it appears the...

Possible Futures for Russia’s CEEW Playbook

Knocking anti-Israel bias to the mat

Three years, two nationalities and one pandemic later, Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei finally faced his Israeli opponent — and now best friend — Sagi Muki, on the mat. Their unlikely friendship, the...

Turkistan Islamic Party leader celebrates Eid in Afghanistan

Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the head of the Al Qaeda and Taliban-linked Turkistan Islamic Party, celebrated the Eid al-Fitr holiday in Afghanistan. Abdul Haq’s public presence in Afghanistan directly contradicts...