Last week, another firefight broke out over migration from Islamic countries to the U.S. southern border. This one was over President Trump's rather casual Twitter observation that, sort of interestingly, a media report said...
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Vehbi Kara is just another Islamist columnist who would not surprise you. He writes for this columnist's favourite Islamist daily, Yeni Şafak. His column on January 11th did not offer readers a revolutionary view –nor was it...
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"Islamophobia" is an idea recently invented and defused by advocates and apologists for Islam for the purpose of silencing criticism of Islam. The term "phobia" indicates an irrational fear, which is how users of the term hope...
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Turkey vowed to create a "safe zone" along the Syrian-Turkish border after a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday. The news of the zone comes a month after Trump and...
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This article was originally published in The Algemeiner under the title "BDS Is Contemptible, But Academic Boycotts Have Their Place". Academic boycotts, rightly understood and employed, are an effective means of isolating and...
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Spotlight: The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
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On January 16, the Trump administration announced that it was withholding more than half of a scheduled $125 million installment of its annual contribution to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) until it makes unspecified reforms. Unfortunately, the problem of UNRWA is not so easily solved – Belgium has already pledged $23 million to make up for the shortfall, and others are sure to follow.
The Middle East Forum's staff and fellows have closely studied the pernicious impact of UNRWA on prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace, with particular attention to its automatic extension of "refugee" status to descendants of Palestinians displaced in the 1948 war, residents of the West Bank and Gaza already living in their purported homeland, and those who have long since emigrated and assumed citizenship in other countries. See the selections at right for an introduction to the Forum's work on the issue.
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by Asaf Romirowsky & Alexander H. Joffe (Jan 22, 2018)
by Daniel Pipes (Jan 10, 2018)
by Gregg Roman (Jan 7, 2018)
by Asaf Romirowsky & Alexander H. Joffe (Jun 12, 2017)
by Clifford Smith (Sep 7, 2016)
by Asaf Romirowsky (Winter 2014-2015)
by Steven J. Rosen (Winter 2014-2015)
by Steven J. Rosen (Fall 2012)
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