In 2021, after the Biden Department of Justice indicted Boston University professor Kaveh Afrasiabi for acting as an unregistered agent of the Iranian government, alleging that he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars "to create and disseminate...
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By platforming Ussama Makdisi as a moral voice on Israel, America's newspaper of record handed its op-ed page to a man who publicly said he wished he had been among those who massacred 1,200 Israelis on October 7. There are editorial decisions that make...
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As the U.S. and Israel are attempting to eradicate the nuclear threat of Iran's Islamist regime with Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion, usual suspect Turkey -a nominal NATO ally of the US- undermines their efforts. Turkey has been a close...
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The Trump administration announced on March 20 that it is suing Harvard University for failing to curb its rampant antisemitism. In a 44-page complaint, the DOJ's Civil Rights Division lays out in painstaking detail how, after October 7, "Harvard...
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Tehran's Outpost in Maida Vale In the heart of Maida Vale, the Islamic Centre of England has, for years, operated as one of Tehran's most visible outposts in the UK. Critics have argued for years that it functions as more than a place of worship—serving...
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In spite of its agreement with the Trump administration and its promise to combat antisemitism on campus, Columbia University is preparing to hire yet another credentialed, Israel-hating, BDS activist for a very high-profile job. Doing so should be...
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Who could forget the Washington Post's foolish unforced error in 2019 when its obituary for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed Caliph of ISIS, called him an "austere religious scholar"? Apparently, the editors at the Washington Post forgot,...
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When The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that up to 20,000 ISIS-affiliated detainees had disappeared from Syria's al-Hol camp, it wasn't describing a routine breach. It was describing the possible unraveling of one of the most consequential...
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Editorial Note: The following is a guest post by Tzlil Berko, a very talented writer from Israel who is also an IPT Fellow. This article was first published by Ms. Berko on Substack. Ms. Berko makes a compelling argument about her work being censored by...
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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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