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The French Republic Is Under Attack

France’s radical left wants its followers to believe they are fighting tyranny. But burning city halls and terrorizing public servants is an assault on democracy, not a defense of it.

Treasury Sanctioned a Hamas Crowdfunding Network. Its French Front Should Be Next.

U.S. and French authorities have moved against a Hamas fundraising network that allegedly raised more than $600,000 from American donors. The harder task is keeping it from rebuilding. On October 2,...

Britain’s Greens and the Jews: Belonging on Condition

On October 4, at their Brighton conference, members of the Green Party of England and Wales adopted a motion equating Zionism with racism and refused to protect members affiliated with a synagogue. This development raises questions for the entire European Green political family, including France’s Les Écologistes.

Why France Is Burning

What began as a protest over poor schools has become a nationwide wave of blockades, fires, and clashes with police. Behind the chaos is a calculated strategy from the far-left’s presidential hopeful.

The UK Sanctions Hezbollah’s Shadow Bank. Lebanon Should Shut It Down.

The United Kingdom has put Hezbollah’s shadow bank in its crosshairs. On September 8, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced sanctions on “Lebanese Hezbollah’s financing arm, al-Qard al-Hassan...

The legacy of Carlos the Jackal 

He instructed revolutionary leftists to march behind Islamists – and they’re marching

Joby Warrick resurrects Carlos the Jackal

When Paris Celebrates the Bankruptcy of Human Rights

On Monday, July 27, at the United Nations Security Council, American diplomats stood up and walked out as the French ambassador began to speak. Ukraine was the item on the agenda that day. In Moscow and...

US Treasury sanctions Turkish Hamas financiers as Erdogan presses for F-35s

On July 23, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated a Turkey-based Hamas money exchange alongside a senior Muslim Brotherhood official. Treasury said...

The forgotten history of Muslim socialism 

A century of failed experiments before the rise of Mamdani and friends

Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: July

Trend Overview Welcome back to the Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines...

The Mamdanisation of the Democratic Party or the risk of a Corbyn-like scenario

*This article was originally published in French On October 8, 2023, the blood had barely dried in the kibbutzim of southern Israel when, in Times Square, part of New York’s radical left was already...

Deploying Syrian Troops in Lebanon Would Help, Not Hurt, Hezbollah

“I told Israel it should let Syria handle Hezbollah because, frankly, I think Syria would do a better job,” President Donald Trump said during the G7 summit in Paris. Trump’s comment was the second...

Trading Away Lebanon: Washington’s Bargains at Beirut’s Expense

For the fifth time since 1958, the U.S. has placed Lebanon on the bargaining table, this time ready to sacrifice the country’s interests in pursuit of a deal with Iran.

Turkey Escalates Tensions in Cyprus

Turkey’s increasingly confrontational posture in the Eastern Mediterranean was on display this week when aircraft carrying European defense ministers to Cyprus were reportedly harassed by Turkish fighter...

Amid security threats, Syria attempts to cement stability, international ties

On May 19, a car bomb exploded near a Ministry of Defense building in central Damascus’s Bab Sharqi area. One Syrian soldier was killed, and 23 civilians were wounded, the official Syrian Arab...

Hezbollah Is Using FPV Drones Attached to Fiber Optic Cables That Are Impossible to Jam to Attack Israeli Soldiers

The Israeli Air Force struck a Hezbollah drone launch position in Lebanon on May 9. Hezbollah is using First Person View (FPV) drones attached to fiber optic cables to attack Israeli soldiers. Fiber-optic...

Palestinian Authority Double-Speak on Payments to Terrorists Places French and EU Aid Under the Spotlight

French President Emmanuel Macron could not have been clearer.  Standing alongside Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas at a press conference following their meeting in Paris last...

The law that devoured itself

International law, between universalist fiction and organized impotence

600 Euros and a Lighter

Iran’s Low-Cost Terror War on European Soil