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Turkey Running Covert Ops in U.S., Canada, and Europe

The Islamist regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sanctioned a covert operation in a number of Western countries in Europe and North America, aiming to locate former police chiefs who had in the past investigated...

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Congressman Challenges USAID on Funding Jihadist-Tied Charity; MEF Uncovered Ties

The newly elected chair of a powerful committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has taken the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to task for failing to conduct proper oversight of a recipient of...

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Tehran Expands Military Presence in Latin America, Challenging the U.S.

The United States is tracking warlike announcements by Iran's regime that it deployed two military ships to Brazil that are also headed for the Panama Canal, where Tehran declared it will establish a military presence. A U.S...

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Turkey's Twisted Anti-NATO Tango

Cliff Smith and Jonathan Spyer: "So long as Erdoğan is in power, Ankara ... will care little for vital NATO interests or for strengthening the alliance in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine."

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For Israel to Win, the Justice System Must Be Reformed

The American Declaration of Independence famously guarantees the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Over the last 250 years, people have tended to focus on "liberty and the pursuit of happiness," but it is no...

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Likud MP Demands Inquiry into Germany's Foreign Ministry's Anti-Zionism

The heated debate over the widening scandal involving Germany's foreign ministry and its NGO German-Israel Friendship Association's alleged boycott of the Israeli Zionist organization Im Tirtzu prompted Likud MK Ariel Kallner to...

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The Iran Revolt Has Sustainable Momentum: What Happens Next?

Mass protests in Iran aren't likely to dissipate anytime soon. But mounting external pressure on Iran's regime may be needed for the protestors to produce a necessary revolutionary ingredient: leadership. From Benjamin Weinthal.

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Iran's IRGC Is Under the Western Spotlight

In a reflection of hardening Western attitudes toward the Iranian regime, a number of countries have begun in recent weeks to consider banning the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in its entirety. The 125,000-strong IRGC...

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Spotlight: Republicans and Islamism

28% of Muslim Americans say they voted Republican in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, an increase of 11% over 2018. While this trend may reflect a genuine convergence of interests around economic and socio-cultural issues, some Republicans are increasingly willing to coordinate with Islamists and even support government policies advantageous to them.

Sam Westrop, the head of MEF’s Islamist watch project, has covered this issue closely. See the selections at right

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A Conservative-Islamist Alliance; Part 1: Trouble in Dearborn
by Sam Westrop (Oct 25, 2022)
A Conservative-Islamist Alliance; Part 2: The Changing Politics of American Islam
by Sam Westrop (Oct 25, 2022)
A Conservative-Islamist Alliance; Part 3: Islamists Throw Off Their Progressivist Shackles
by Sam Westrop (Oct 25, 2022)
A Conservative-Islamist Alliance; Part 4: The Right Inches Closer to Islamism
by Sam Westrop (Oct 25, 2022)
Islamists Playing Central Role in Michigan's 'LGBTQ' Textbook Controversy
by Sam Westrop (Oct 14, 2022)
Islamists and Neo-Nazis Flirting
by Sam Westrop (Mar 21, 2022)
Trump's Curious Pro-Islamist Legacy
by Sam Westrop (Jan 29, 2021)
Violence-Supporting Islamists Given Federal COVID Grants
by Sam Westrop (Dec 7, 2020)
American Islamism Flourishes under Trump
by Sam Westrop (Winter 2020)

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