University of Michigan
China’s Influence Operation in US Education Was Supposed To Be Shut Down, But Did Closing the Confucius Institutes Only Make It Stronger?
The Chinese government has quietly altered its methods as President Donald Trump announces plans to double the Chinese student population in the US
Op-eds
U.S. Authorities Charge Chinese Nationals With Smuggling Biological Samples
The U.S. government has uncovered efforts by Chinese researchers to smuggle biological samples into the United States.
Policy Briefs
U.S. Professors Flocking to Terrorist-Run Turkish Think Tank
The United States banished former University of South Florida professor Sami al-Arian for supporting terrorism. But some U.S. academics have flocked to him, like flies to manure. Since his deportation...
Op-eds
The vast majority of US Jews support Israel. Let’s act on that knowledge.
It’s past time for the rest to retort, “You don’t represent us,” and reflect that sentiment in the manner in which we run our communities.
Op-eds
Some Campus Protesters Despise America as Much as They Do Israel
The epicenter of campus protests has recently shifted from occupation of buildings and quads, to the disruption of commencement ceremonies as students prepare to leave campus. This provides an opportunity...
Op-eds
What Would a Third Intifada Mean for Palestinians?
“I was a senior U.S. diplomat 20 years ago during the Second Intifada…a lot of what we’re seeing today has a very unhappy resemblance,” CIA Director Bill Burns said recently. Middle...
Op-eds
Xi’s struggle
China’s Communist ruler isn’t just playing games
Op-eds
The Middle Kingdom Meets Higher Education
How U.S. Universities Support China’s Military-Industrial Complex
Monographs
All Over the Map
The Chinese Communist Party’s Subnational Interests in the United States
Monographs
Universities Maintain Ties to Malign Chinese Entities Following Confucius Institute Closures
The University of Central Arkansas (UCA) announced the closure of its Confucius Institute (CI) in early July, ending the university’s 14-year involvement in a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) program aimed...
Policy Briefs
War by Other Means
A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS
Monographs
Outrage over German university’s dismissal of anti-Semitism expert
“It is a scandal! It shows that critical research on right-wing radicalism/anti-Semitism is not desired in Germany," Julius Schoeps, a leading German Jewish historian and a descendant of th...
Op-eds
Modern Jihadists
A secret CIA plot was revealed last week: Beginning almost ten years ago, the agency set in motion a plan to make Osama bin Laden...
Op-eds
For Iran, the Holocaust is Just Another Tragedy – If It Ever Happened
On Monday, I invited Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi to visit Berlin's Holocaust Memorial....
Op-eds
Is ‘The Dictator’ Racist?
Even before it hit theaters, Sacha Baron Cohen's "The Dictator" - a gross-out parody of autocrats and the Western leftists who romanticize them - was met with cries that it's...
Op-eds
We Are All Persian Grammarians Now
Co-authored by Sohrab Ahmari As the Iranian mullahs’ nuclearization drive reaches its end goal, Western policymakers face a narrowing ra...
Op-eds
Iran’s Missing Nuclear Fatwa
Has Iran’s Supreme Leader issued a fatwa prohibiting the manufacture and use of nuclear weapons? U.S. policymakers, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, seem to think so. They...
Op-eds
Despite Criticism of Israel, Hitchens was Ardent Foe of Anti-Semitism
Not long ago, I told an older colleague of my admiration for Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American author, journalist and public intellectual who finally succumbed to esophageal cancer Thursda...
Op-eds
U.S. Engagement of Africa in the National Interest
Earlier this year, citing an array of new initiatives including the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and the President's Emergency Plan for...