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April 1, 2023 | David May |

Indonesia scores own goal with hostility to Israel

Attempting to ban Israeli athletes proved to be a costly own goal for Indonesia. On Wednesday, FIFA stripped Indonesia of hosting duties for the under-20 soccer World Cup due to Jakarta’s inability...

May 10, 2022 | David Maxwell, Chung Kyung-young

It’s time for a new U.S.-Korea alliance for a free, unified peninsula

A small group of civil society stakeholders from the Republic of Korea (South Korea), North Korea, the United States, Japan and China recently convened in the mountains of Virginia to address the security...

November 24, 2020 | Craig Singleton |

Follow the Money: Exposing China’s Influence Operations at Academic Institutions and Think Tanks

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo issued an ultimatum last month to think tanks and academic institutions around the country: Publicly disclose funding received from foreign governments or risk losing access...

February 18, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin’s commissioner to fight antisemitism slams university for BDS event

“If anti-Israeli boycott and delegitimization campaigns are directly supported, the line regarding Israel-related antisemitism was crossed."

July 26, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Does Al Jazeera deserve to die?

The Gulf Cooperation Council comprises six nations, all of them Arab, Muslim, ruled by royals, and fabulously wealthy thanks to vast reserves of petroleum. With so much in common, you might expec...

January 4, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

ISIL’s Virtual Planners: A Critical Terrorist Innovation

On December 19, Anis Amri plowed a hijacked truck through the Christm...

August 30, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: BDS initiatives and their counter-efforts play out across Europe

Europe's Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement has long percolated down through many layers of society. However, this month saw a range of countervailing forces designed to blunt the mo...

March 11, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Who’s A Fascist? Not Donald Trump

No, Donald Trump isn’t a fascist. And the efforts of a considerable number of columnists, reporters, and even university professors to make him out to be a second Hitler or Mussolini testif...

September 29, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Barbarism of Iranian Militias Based in Iraq, Syria Being Seriously Overlooked

The US’s deadly strike on the al-Qaida-linked Khorasan group leader Mohsin al-Fadhli...

September 25, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

ISIS as a Common Enemy not Enough to Make US, Iran Allies, say Critics

The U.S. effort to stem Islamic State’s reign of terror in Syria and Iraq has America and one of its most bitter enemies - Iran - in the same camp, which some experts warn could be a recipe...

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...

August 29, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Qatar Journalism

Al Jazeera America launched last week. The new television station features such broadcast luminaries as Soledad O’Brien, Joie Chen, Sheila MacVicar, John Seigentha...

May 16, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy Ordered Liberty

Moderation Happens To Islam, Not In Islam

“If you want meaningful moderation in Islam, then turn for more lessons to the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, Indonesia.” I imagine my colleague Irshad Manji is having...

January 23, 2012 | |

‘Islam Is Islam, And That’s It’

The Arab Spring was not hijacked

December 29, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal

Bloggers Drag US Think Tank Into Scandal

A group of bloggers affiliated with the Center for American Progress think tank has sparked sharp criticism because of an anti- Israel agenda that spilled over into modern anti-Semitism, accordin...

February 2, 2011 |

Mubarak v. the Brotherhood

 It is simply delirious to suggest that we can work with the Muslim Brotherhood, that the Brotherhood has renounced violence, or that a Brotherhood-led government will ultimately be better f...

January 17, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

Fatal Intersection

Although many Americans and Europeans would like to believe that contemporary Islamic fundamentalism is an exclusive subsidiary of the Koran, the sharia, and other things tribal and Islamic, the...

November 13, 2010 | |

Obama Knocks Israel in a Budding Sharia State

In fine Alinskyite tradition, Pres. Barack Obama is ready to say anything at any moment if it seems expedient. So it was that he spoke some months back of the “unbreakable bond of friendshi...

October 20, 2010 |

Who Says Islam Is Totalitarian?

Who says Islam is a totalitarian doctrine? Well, Geert Wilders does, of course. As the editors point out in Monday’s superb National Review Online editorial, the Dutch parliamentarian has e...

August 14, 2006 | National Review Online |

Who Wins?

In the wake of Friday night's vote on a ceasefire resolution at the United Nations on the crisis in the Middle East, are there any winners in the thirty-some days' war? National Review...