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Congress Investigates Tehran-Tied Princeton 'Academic'

Shortly before Thanksgiving, twelve members of Congress's House Education and Workforce Committee opened an investigation into former Islamic Republic of Iran diplomat, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, who now works as an academic at...

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Chinese Communists Enlist Islamists in War Against the West

This past summer, communist China, which is engaged in a campaign of cultural genocide against the Uyghur Muslims in the country's Xinjiang region, used the controversy over Qur'an burnings in Scandinavia to fuel Islamist...

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Iran's Quds Force mentored Turkish Jihadist Killed by Israeli Drone in Lebanon, Confidential Documents Reveal

Yakup Erdal, a 41-year-old Turkish jihadist killed in Lebanon on November 21 by an Israeli drone strike, was groomed by a high-ranking operative with longstanding ties to Iranian intelligence, according to confidential documents...

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U.K. Officials Help Islamists Force Young Girls into Veils

Public officials in the UK are currently allowing Islamists to control what Muslim girls will wear in schools. They have portrayed the Islamic veil as an "empowering" marker of Muslim identity. With such rhetoric, they have...

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Professor Under Fire for Abandoning Kidnapped Princeton Scholars

Princeton's Hossein Mousavian has been drawn out of the shadows by a congressional probe into his alleged failure to help rescue Xiyue Wang from captivity in Iran. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce announced on...

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'The Islamic Resistance in Iraq'- A Brief Overview and Analysis

Prior to the current war between Israel and Hamas, various 'new groups' in Iraq were claiming attacks on U.S. forces both in Iraq and Syria as part of a bid to force them out of both countries. These groups, normally operating...

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Swedish Lawmakers Call on European Union to Sanction Sale of Spy Tech to Iran

On November 8th, five Swedish parliamentarians published a statement calling on "the European Union and governments around the world to implement strict export controls that prohibit the sale of surveillance equipment and...

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Iran's Controlled Escalation Against Israel, U.S.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a research group associated with the Syrian opposition, this week reported that 700 pro-Iranian fighters have been deployed in the area adjoining the Golan Heights. The fighters, according to the SOHR report, are of "Syrian, Iraqi, Palestinian, and other nationalities."

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Spotlight: Turkey and Hamas

While Israeli forces methodically dismantle the Hamas military in Gaza, state actors that enabled this Islamist death cult to massacre more than 1,200 Israelis last month are coming under increased scrutiny.

Turkey, a longtime NATO ally of the United States that has veered increasingly against U.S. interests under Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been a leading state sponsor of Hamas and defiantly intends to remain so. MEF has closely tracked this relationship. See the selections at right (and note the late MEF writing fellow Burak Bekdil's enormorous contribution to this effort).

Turkey must change direction on its support for Hamas – and violent Palestinian Islamism more generally – or face serious consequences in its relations with the United States.

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Top Muslim Brotherhood Operative Intensifies Lobbying Campaign in Turkey for Hamas
by Abdullah Bozkurt (Nov 12, 2023)
Hamas Campaign Raises Concerns of Increased Radicalization in Turkey
by Abdullah Bozkurt (Nov 9, 2023)
Turkish Company Launders Funds for Hamas, Defies U.S. Sanctions
by Abdullah Bozkurt (Feb 22, 2023)
Hamas Operatives Granted Turkish Citizenship, Assumed Turkish Names to Avoid Global Scrutiny
by Abdullah Bozkurt (Jun 6, 2022)
Turkey's Erdogan Hosts Large Hamas Delegation with Wanted Terrorist
by Seth J. Frantzman (Aug 23, 2020)
I Criticised Hamas and My Life in Turkey Became a Nightmare
by Burak Bekdil (Apr 2, 2017)
Hamas "Humanitarian" Work in Turkey: An Open Secret
by Burak Bekdil (Mar 6, 2015)
Why Hamas Feels So at Home in Turkey
by Burak Bekdil (Jan 1, 2015)
Turkey's Love Affair with Hamas
by Burak Bekdil (Oct 19, 2014)

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