All the Offers of ‘Peace’ to Islamic Terrorism Will Not Save the Western Skin
If Turkey Acts by Terrorist Proxy—and That Is What Hamas Effectively Is—Then Turkey Essentially Fired the First Shot, and Israel Is Right to Respond
The Explosions That Shattered the Morning Calm in Doha’s Katara District on September 9, 2025, Marked a Restoration of Moral Clarity in Warfare
From the Comfort of Its Control Center in Doha, Hamas Rejected Proposals to Free All the Hostages and Rejected Deals to End the War with Israel
The New Regime Promises Reform and Moderation When Engaging with the West, but Its Real Policy Is to Eliminate Syria’s Diversity
The Islamic Republic Is Muddling Through the Most Serious Crisis of Its Forty-Six-Year History, Weakened at Home and Regionally
There Are Real and Present Islamist Threats Across America, but the Muslim Brotherhood Is No Longer One of Them
Islamists Will Manage Loan Fund
The University of Rochester in Upstate New York Denies That Students for Justice in Palestine Exists on Its Campus
Spotlight: Turkey’s Turn Toward Terrorism
Why is Turkey—a NATO member and ostensible U.S. ally—supporting and hosting terrorists? Why are Hamas’s leaders—joined by hundreds of Hamas terrorists, including those wounded in Gaza fighting U.S. ally Israel—safely ensconced in a “friendly” country? Why did Turkey sponsor Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorists who, having toppled Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, now slaughter ethnic and religious minorities?
NATO—the West’s strategic alliance of democracies—exists to defend its members against the kind of regime Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan leads. It is time for the U.S. and its Western allies to demand that Turkey either cease its sponsorship of terrorism or face sanctions and ostracization from the civilized world.
NATO—the West’s strategic alliance of democracies—exists to defend its members against the kind of regime Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan leads. It is time for the U.S. and its Western allies to demand that Turkey either cease its sponsorship of terrorism or face sanctions and ostracization from the civilized world.
The Case Against Turkey Is Not a Matter of Conjecture or Partisan Polemics; It Is a Matter of Open Record
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Fall 2025 Volume 32: Number 4
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Antisemitism
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The New Policy Was Widely Interpreted as a Direct Warning to Turkish Jewish Citizens Who Enlist in the Israeli Army -
The Conversation Surrounding Foreign Influence in Education Must Shift From Passive Concern to Active Resistance Before It Is Too Late. -
The ICRC’s Willingness to Sacrifice Its Mission Upon Its Antipathy Toward Jews Is Not a One-Time Occurrence
Gaza
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Trump May Believe Transferring Palestinians from Gaza Will Bring Peace, but the History of Population Transfer Suggests Such Expectations Are Unrealistic -
New Ideas Are Needed, and This Might Spark More Viable Solutions
Islam
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: ‘The West’s Progress, Built on Blood, Tears, Massacres, and Exploitation, Has Temporarily Overtaken the Human-Centered Civilization of the East.’ -
Critics of Islam in 2024 Europe Face Repression Akin to the Treatment of Anti-soviet Writers in the 1950s—Silenced with Fear and Police at the Door. -
A Joint Podcast Series by the Middle East Forum and the American Jewish University
Muslims in the US
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PHILADELPHIA – August 20, 2024 – A member of Maryland’s “Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention” is out of a job. Ayman Nassar, the second Islamist commissioner to get tossed from the hate crimes board within three months, resigned on August 19 amid public outrage over his role in terror-linked organizations and his history of anti-American, antisemitic, and homophobic hate speech.
Nassar has accused Israel of harvesting the organs of living Palestinians and shared posts referring to Gaza as a “Holocaust.” He is chairman of the Aafia Foundation, a “terrorist support group” that seeks to free “Lady Al Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui and other convicted terrorists from prison.
