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Campus Watch

Campus Watch demands academic integrity in North American Middle East studies (MES) programs. It reviews and critiques MES bias with the aim of improving education – keeping watch on scores of professors at hundreds of universities. Our campus networks, research specialists and advocates confront the anti-Western politicization of scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, and apologetics for Islamism. Campus Watch respects free speech for all – but insists upon reciprocity.

Impact: Victor Davis Hanson, The Hoover Institution – “Campus Watch sheds light on often volatile and intemperate proclamations.” New York Times – Campus Watch monitoring is responsible for “damaging open inquiry and expression.” Ruth Wisse, Harvard – “[MES] benefit[s] from the presence of Campus Watch.”

Recent Campus Watch Articles

Shin Bet Says Prominent Author's Claim of Border Interrogation is Not True [on Reza Aslan]
Tamar Pileggi | Times of Israel

Shin Bet: U.S. Author Reza Aslan Was Questioned, Not Threatened, At Border
Jeremy Sharon | Jerusalem Post

Reza Aslan Tells Haaretz His Interrogation Was Political; Israel Denies, Says He 'Behaved Suspiciously'
Amir Tibon | Haaretz

New Course At Tufts University Advances Palestinian Narrative [incl. Thomas Abowd, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin]
Jackson Richman | Jewish Journal - Sun Sentinal

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Daniel Pipes

Danielpipes.org is one of the most accessed sources of specialized information on the Middle East and Muslim history, with over 69 million page views. Daniel Pipes is founder and president of the Middle East Forum – he has served in five presidential administrations and authored sixteen books on the Middle East, Islamism and related topics. The site offers an archive of his writings, along with video and audio of his latest media appearances, and translations of his works in 38 languages.

Impact: Washington Post – Daniel Pipes is “perhaps the most prominent U.S. scholar on radical Islam.” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof – called Mr. Pipes a “smart conservative,” two days after Mr. Kristof endorsed the Southern Poverty Law Center, which lists Mr. Pipes as an “anti-Muslim extremist.”

Recent Articles by Daniel Pipes

Hungary: Not "Submitting to Islam"
Date: 8/13/2018

Who Are Europe's Most Important Politicians?
Date: 8/1/2018

Israel Victory Gains Strength
Date: 7/3/2018

Poland's Muslim Ban
Date: 7/1/2018

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Islamist Watch

Islamist Watch unveils and combats internal Islamist forces that exploit the freedoms of Western democracy to undermine from within. Lawful Islamists – in the media, courts, schools, public squares, and ballot boxes – seek the spread of Shari’a as governing law, although it is incompatible with Western democracy. Islamist Watch aims to make Islamists in suits and ties no more acceptable than ones wearing suicide vests – by countering corporate and governmental support, tracking tainted campaign contributions, and enhancing the presence and influence of anti-Islamist Muslims.

Impact: Donald Trump – “Hillary Clinton tops Middle East Forum’s ‘Islamist Money List.’” Keith Ellison – withdrew from the Islamist MAS-ICNA annual convention, after Islamist Watch publicized the extremism of fellow participants.

Recent Islamist Watch Articles

Manchester mosque sermon 'called for armed jihad', say scholars
Ed Thomas and Noel Titheradge | BBC News

Jewish Democratic group refuses to endorse Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar over anti-Israel statements
| JNS

Victory offers Muslim candidate new platform to oppose Trump
Steve Karnowski | Associated Press

Whittington Hospital apologises for mistakenly selling non-halal chicken in canteen
Tom Foot | Camden New Journal

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The Israel Victory Project

The Israel Victory Project steers U.S. policy toward backing an Israel victory over the Palestinians to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Decades of what insiders call “peace processing” have left matters worse than when they started. The time has come for a new approach, a complete re-thinking of the problem that draws on Israel’s earlier and successful strategy of deterrence. Stop pressuring Jerusalem to compromise and make “painful concessions.” Instead, support Israeli victory, convincing Palestinians and others that the Jewish state will endure.

Impact: Launched the bipartisan Congressional Israel Victory Caucus (CIVC) and the Knesset Israel Victory Caucus (KIVC), with 32 and 26 members respectively; influenced President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and order the U.S. embassy moved there (according to The Guardian, Al-Monitor, and NPR).
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Jihad Intel

Jihad Intel provides local law enforcement with tools to detect and prevent Islamist terrorism. At the behest of Islamists and leftists, references to Islam have been removed from law enforcement and national security training materials. Law enforcement needs to know what to look for while searching apartments, cars, computer hard-drives and personal effects of prisoners. Jihad Intel’s gratis database provides them with background, image identifiers and intelligence for over 150 Islamic terror groups, including 87 image identifiers for ISIS.

Impact: Jihad Intel research fellow Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – quoted 242 times in the media over the last year, including in the New York Times, the Jerusalem Post and the Los Angeles Times, and on CNN.

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The Legal Project

The Legal Project protects the public discussion of Islam and related topics – if Islamism can not be discussed, it can not be reformed. The project provides a lifeline to the growing number of individuals whose livelihood and freedom are threatened by predatory Islamist lawsuits and malign government policies. It maintains a legal defense fund and a database of pro-bono/reduced-rate attorneys; raises public awareness of the issue; and educates policy-makers on how they can protect this vital speech.

Impact: Djemila Benhabib, author – “From now on freedom of expression will be better off in our democratic society. In helping me, the Middle East Forum's Legal Project has played such an important part in that matter.”
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The Washington Project

The Washington Project works to translate the Forum’s ideas into U.S. policy. It identifies American interests toward the Middle East, Israel and Islamism, and influences policy-makers through intensive educational efforts in the capital. The project currently focuses on reforming UNRWA by re-defining a “Palestine refugee”; designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization; and finding support for an Israel victory over the Palestinians.

Impact: Held 157 separate meetings in the last year with members of Congress of their staff – impacting UNRWA’s policies, countering Muslim Brotherhood infiltration, and helping to prevent unilateral Palestinian statehood in Obama’s final days.
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Activities
Events

The Forum sponsors webinars, in-person briefings, and conference calls featuring its staff and fellows, former government officials, scholars, journalists, and others with insights into the Middle East and Islamism. Speakers delve deep into critical issues, surpassing what is found in mass media – and always with an eye toward American interests. Most briefings occur along the New York-Philadelphia-Washington, D.C. corridor.

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Education Fund

The Education Fund is a project of the Forum established in 2008 that disburses about $2 million annually in separately earmarked funds to researchers, writers, anti-Islamist Muslims, investigators and activists who work to further the Forum’s mission – promoting American interests in the Middle East and protecting Western values from Middle Eastern threats.

Funds go to some 80 recipients, individuals and organization alike, in the United States and around the world, including: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom. Some of their efforts are kept confidential to prevent their being exposed to danger.
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Educational Outreach

The Forum supplements its writings with in-depth webinars, briefings and conference calls. Non-partisan specialists take on the Middle East's most controversial and difficult issues with an eye toward American interests – questioning assumptions, provoking thought, and offering new solutions.
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MEF Accomplishments

The Forum’s activism gets things done – in Congress, on campus, in court, in corporate boardrooms, and beyond. Forum activists have held 157 meetings with members of Congress or their staff, impacting UNRWA’s policies and Muslim Brotherhood infiltration, and promoting Israel victory. It has also won legal victories over Islamists; exposed Islamist-tainted politicians; persuaded corporations to end funding of Islamist groups; and uncovered San Francisco State University’s malign relationship with a Hamas-linked West Bank university.
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Campaigns

Middle East Forum activists launch public campaigns to expose, embarrass and pressure Islamist-tainted politicians and corporations, and biased educational institutions, after friendly educational entreaties are refused.

Impact: We were twice attacked by one of the world’s largest charities after we launched a campaign against the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to stop its donations to Islamist groups. Our evidence shows SVCF supporting organizations that “regularly give platforms to speakers who incite hatred against women, Jews, Christians, and the LGBTQ community.”
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Blog

The Forum Blog brings experts together, virtually, at one convenient blog-like site – a daily must-read for folks seriously interested in the Middle East, and the go-to gathering place when major events occur. A diverse range of specialists participate as members. They review, analyze and debate a wide array of issues, from major regional developments to boutique issues. Entries are short, interesting and controversial, educating policy-makers and the general public.
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Middle East Quarterly
Summer 2018

Palestinian refugees, the U.S. role in historic Middle East crises, Turkey's treatment of Christians and revisiting the role of the West in the Shah's overthrow.

Current Issue's Contents

The Privileged Palestinian "Refugees"
Efraim Karsh

Revisiting the U.S. Role in Three Middle East Crises
George L. Simpson, Jr.

Turkey Turns On Its Christians
Anne-Christine Hoff

The West’s Role in the Shah’s Overthrow
Ardavan Khoshnood and Arvin Khoshnood

A Radical Romance with the Palestinians
Keith P. Feldman

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Full-text of every Quarterly issue since its founding in 1994. A valuable resource for historians and researchers. Read an interview with Charles Krauthammer from 1994; an article by Bernard Lewis from 1998; and commentary by Michael Rubin from 2007.

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About the MEQ

The Middle East Quarterly, founded in 1994, has become America's most authoritative journal of Middle Eastern affairs. Policymakers, opinion-makers, academics, and journalists turn first to the Quarterly, for in-depth analysis of the rapidly-changing landscape of the world's most volatile region.
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Submit Manuscript

The Quarterly, a peer-reviewed publication, welcomes submissions of original articles, and will consider pre-publication of chapters from forthcoming books. Priority is given to timely articles impacting today's critical issues. Detailed guidelines are provided.
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Board of Editors

Daniel Pipes is founder and publisher of the Quarterly; Efraim Karsh is its editor. They lead the Quarterly’s 17-member Board of Editors, which includes professors, think-tank experts, and former government officials.
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Contact Editor

Questions, comments and submissions are directed to Judy Goodrobb, the Quarterly’s managing editor.
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Press Releases

News involving the Forum itself – including our activist successes, new initiatives and offerings, and staff hirings. Recent topics include a major Legal Project victory in court; 15 ‘useful infidels’ who enable Islamists; our role in Keith Ellison withdrawing from an Islamist event; and Hillary Clinton topping our 2015-16 Islamist money list.

Press Release Listing

NDAA Requires Al Jazeera to Register as Foreign Agent: MEF Applauds
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Tommy Robinson Free – MEF Heavily Involved
News from the Middle East Forum

Islamic Relief Fails to Disprove Terror Links
News from the Middle East Forum

MEF Organizes 25,000 Strong Protest in Support of Tommy Robinson; Plans Additional Rallies
News from the Middle East Forum

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MEF in the Media

Over the past year, Forum experts were quoted 1,226 times by 93 publications, from Agence France Press to The Washington Post. President Daniel Pipes was mentioned in The Economist; and interviewed by media in France, Germany, Italy and Russia; director Gregg Roman and fellow Raymond Stock appeared on Al-Jazeera; fellow Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi was quoted in the New York Times, the Jerusalem Post and the Washington Post, and on CNN; Campus Watch director Winfield Myers was quoted in the Los Angeles Times.

Recent Media Citations

Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi: Russia Puts Military Police on Israel-Syria Frontier
DW Akademie

Jonathan Spyer: Iran warns KRG after heavy clashes with Kurds along border
Kurdistan 24

Jonathan Spyer: In world first, Air India crosses Saudi airspace to Israel
i24News

Daniel Pipes: I "Emphatically Like" Most of Trump's Mideast Policy
L'Informale (Italy)

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MEF Wires

Migration to Europe Becomes a Crisis
MEF Wire

The Israel Victory Project: “25 Years Since Oslo, Time for New Thinking”
MEF Wire

Israel’s Gaza Policy
MEF Wire

What Just Happened to the Iran Deal?
MEF Wire

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MEF TV

Middle East Forum: 20th Anniversary Lunch
| 6/26/2014

Speech on Nazis, Islamists, and the Modern Middle East
Washington Instiute for Near East Policy | 5/19/2014

The Quakers and Palestinian Refugee Relief
Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy | 6/29/2014

UNRWA - Providing Humanitarian Relief or Prolonging the Palestinian Refugee Problem
United Nations | 6/18/2014

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Terreur Aanslagen in Europa Door Radicale Moslims
Emerson Vermaat

The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez

A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East
Heather J. Sharkey

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Sam Westrop

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Islamists, Apologists, and Fellow Travelers: Middle East Studies Faculty at Georgetown University
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The Forum has been led by Daniel Pipes since its founding in 1994. Its global staff – working 24/7/365 from Philadelphia, as well as Atlanta, Boston, Jerusalem, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, and Washington, D.C. – includes scholars, authors, former government officials, political activists, attorneys, editors, and development professionals.
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The Forum’s writing fellows shine a light on controversial and difficult issues others avoid – questioning assumptions, provoking thought, and offering new solutions for policy-makers. These experts expand the Forum’s research and writing on counter-terrorism, demographics, economics, energy, literature, moderate Muslims, terrorist groups, theology and women’s issues.
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January 01, 0001|Alon PeledMiddle East Quarterly

Debunking the Internet Myth

An impressive array of analysts are predicting that Internet-based technologies will change Middle Eastern politics. Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times asserts that Middle Easterners today are by-passing government surveillance via the free...