The destruction of Kurdish autonomy and the systematic persecution of Syria's religious minorities did not occur in a vacuum. They unfolded within a permissive international environment shaped by Western diplomacy that substituted engagement for...
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"The Jihad Against Syria's Minorities: A Documentary Call to Act" is a 4-minute mini-doc that chronicles the harrowing systemic persecution of vulnerable minority religious populations by the new Islamist leader of Syrian regime, "former" terrorist...
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Click here to read Part 1: The Betrayal of the Kurds. The collapse of Kurdish autonomy did not inaugurate Syria's current phase of violence; it confirmed a pattern already in motion. Long before Kurdish towns were pressured into surrender, Syria's...
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The collapse of Kurdish self-rule in northeastern Syria did not come through diplomacy or reconciliation. It arrived through force—preceded by siege, intimidation, and calculated violence, and followed by a coerced agreement that formalized surrender.
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On WABC Radio, Steven Emerson told host John Castimatidis that Syria's so-called new leader remains a radical Islamist waging jihad against the country's minorities, including violently displacing Kurds and betraying the U.S.-allied SDF that helped...
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On April 20, 2024, during the semester of encampments, the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) posted perhaps its first ever factual statement on Instagram. The full text reads: "Jewish Voice for Peace stands in solidarity with students as they establish the...
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IPT Executive Director Steven Emerson was interviewed on December 29 by WABC Radio's John Catsimatidis and James Flippin about the threat of Islamic terrorism and how 2025 has been one of the bloodiest years in terms of worldwide terrorism. Emerson...
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On May 11, 2023, Hatem Bazian, founder of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), tweeted a retort to CNN anchor Jake Tapper, whining that Tapper's "report on Rashida Tlaib's Nakba 75 event was racist and anti-Palestinian." Bazian must have thought he...
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In the two years since October 7, the anti-Israel campus group known as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has dwindled from a force to a farce. From occupying buildings, disrupting classes, and setting up encampments, it now resorts to hunger...
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For decades, Israeli—and Western policymakers as well—clung to the belief that improving Palestinian economic conditions would restrain terrorism. The logic was simple: prosperity would temper radicalism. This belief led Israel to accept Qatari cash infusions into Gaza, imagining that financial stability would pacify Hamas.
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"Water water, every where, Nor any drop to drink," from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is a suitable motto for the Islamic Republic of Iran. With the Persian Gulf in the Southwest, the Sea of Oman in the South, and the Caspian Sea...
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Before Zohran Mamdani began wearing a white shirt and tie in his campaign for NYC mayor, he routinely appeared at some of the most antisemitic and anti-American demonstrations held on New York streets. We have unearthed videos of several of those events...
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