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Lawsuit Alleges Hamas Coordinated With Campus Protestors and Media in U.S.
U.S. Nonprofit Coordinated with Hamas: Three Israelis who were held as hostages by Hamas filed a lawsuit on February 21 against an American tax-exempt organization, People Media...
Flash Briefs
U.S., Canada Designate Samidoun a Sham Charity Front for the PFLP Terrorist Group
The U.S. Department of the Treasury, in a joint action with the Canadian government, designated the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and Khaled Barakat on October 15 for raising funds on...
Policy Briefs
Crack Down on Anti-Semitic K–12 Curricula
It’s not just on campus: even in primary and secondary education, Jews are often portrayed as privileged whites and Zionist colonial oppressors.
Op-eds
It’s Time to Talk About the Shortcomings of Cybersecurity in the Water Industry
In the United States, there are 16 “critical infrastructure” sectors so vital for the fundamental health, safety, and prosperity of the country that their incapacitation or destruction would have catastrophic...
Op-eds
How China Is Trying to Turn the U.S. against Itself
Across the country, Beijing has worked to cultivate relationships with state and local governments and private businesses in an effort to advance its agenda.
Op-eds
New Research Shows Extent of China’s Cover-Up of COVID-19’s Origins
An American research scientist reported on Tuesday that Chinese researchers deleted genetic sequencing data for COVID-19 samples from a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) database. The deletions highlight...
Policy Briefs
America in 2020: “Insurrection” or “Incipient Insurgency”?
In the two weeks of disorder that followed the death of George Floyd, 200 cities imposed curfews; 31 states and the District of Columbia called out the National Guard; active-duty U.S. troops deployed in...
Insights
The Revolutionary Potential of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Picture Europe in the mid-15th century. The continent was recovering from the bubonic plague. Elites controlled access to information, with monks laboriously copying books letter by letter. Recovery from...
Insights
Homegrown Terror is Real, But You Won’t Find It Online
Homegrown terrorism has become a topic of discussion in both Canada and the United States. A study by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service...
Op-eds
Under Fire
An Israeli city in Hamas’ crosshairs.
Op-eds
Jihad in Seattle
By LWJ Staff Last week, Michael D. McCright, a.k.a. Mikhial Jihad, a previously convicted felon from the north Seattle suburb of Lynnwood, pled guilty to lesser charges in a cas...
Op-eds
The Fallacy of the ‘Pinkwashing’ Argument
On March 16, a group of gay Israeli teenagers was set to meet with the Seattle LGBT Commission, a body representing the interests of the gay community before the city government. The students wer...
Op-eds
India Revives Energy Ties with Iran
New Delhi: In a visible attempt to re-engage with Iran's energy sector, India has submitted a reworked master development plan for Iran's Farsi natural gas block. A consortium led by ONGC Vi...
Op-eds
Review: Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans
Schanzer and Moosa of Duke University and Kurzman of the University of North Carolina have garnered a fair amount of media attention for their study despite its complete methodological failure. A...
Op-eds
Somali Piracy Hits America: Some Questions in Need of Answers
The murder earlier this week by their captors of four United States citizens aboard the SV Quest, a yacht hijacked last Friday off the coast of Oman, brought home to America the increasing toll o...
Op-eds
New report: ‘Domestic Intelligence: New Powers, New Risks’
Today I was a panelist at the rollout event for a new report published by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, Emily Berman's Domestic Int...
Op-eds
Obstructed “View”
An African-American woman who affects a Jewish-sounding surname as a running joke storms off the stage in response to what she regards as the slander of Muslims. Only in America. But let me back...
Op-eds
There Oughtn’t Be a Law
République française has banned the burqa. Along with the face-covering veil (the niqab), the burqa is the garment with which Muslim women conceal their bodies from head to toe. Mor...
Op-eds
Religion of Peace Alert: FBI Advises ‘Draw Muhammad’ Cartoonist to Disappear
Fox News reports that, at the urging of the FBI, Molly Norris, the "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" cartoonis...