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The Numbers Game

Here is my one regret from the last two years of commentary on the 7th October War: we let ourselves get sucked into arguing the running death toll coming out of Hamas's Health Ministry in Gaza. In some ways, it was inevitable. Global outlets put those...
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Will Palestine Be Liberated "From the River to the Sea"?

In the last two years, the most ubiquitous chant heard at anti-Israel demonstrations in the United States is "Free, Free Palestine. From the River to the Sea". To those who were chanting this phrase, there was no doubt that they were calling for the...
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Yes - Take Mamdani At His Word

Make no mistake. Patriotic, reform minded, anti-Islamist Muslims like myself and others in our Muslim Reform Movement have been warning the West on every one of our platforms for decades that as Islamists radicalized Muslims across the planet they will...
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Call It October 7

Over the last two years, writers have struggled with the best way to identify what Hamas did in Israel on October 7, 2023. In my own writing, I have used the words "attack," "assault," "massacre," "slaughter," and "pogrom." Others have opted for...
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Banning SJP Won't Erase SJP

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) say they want to "disrupt" campus life. On April 20, 2024, the steering committee of the National SJP (NSJP) threatened to "reclaim our universities until administrators comply with our demands." The next day, it...
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Who Was Really Behind the Recognition of Palestine

This past week, Canada, the UK and Australia have formally recognised the State of Palestine. There is now a decent possibility that the declaration of Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank is likely to follow. Hamas is now further from agreeing to a...
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The West's Blind Spot on the Muslim Brotherhood

Most of today's activist class in the West either have no knowledge of — or choose to forget — one of the bloodiest internal conflicts in the modern Arab world: Algeria's war against the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), an offshoot of the Muslim...
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The Execution of Hussam Saraya

On July 14 at 6:15AM, armed members of the Syrian Security Directorate surrounded the Saraya family home in the predominantly Druze province of Sweida. They began shooting wildly into the house where the large Saraya family members were sleeping...
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