Daily Archives: January 31, 2015

North African Fighters in the Syrian and Iraqi Conflict: The Reality and Implications

Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation Vol. 15, No. 1       January 13, 2015 Syria and Iraq have become the epicenter of the global jihad. Thousands of jihadists originating from...

‘Lone soldiers’ from Kansas City serve in Israel’s army

It started as a vacation: Israel. Jake Fichman had never been there. Though Jewish, the former Barstow School and Park University graduate from south Kansas City concedes that, other than being bar mitzvahed and attending...

Hizbullah Rotates Thousands In Syria

The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah has rotated thousands of fighters in Syria, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserted that Hizbullah was rotating 5,000 fighters to defend the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. In a...

The ideological roots of media bias against Israel

On 26 January 2015 the former AP reporter Matti Friedman delivered the keynote speech at BICOM’s annual dinner in London. Expanding on a widely-noted argument first set out in Tablet and The Atlantic, Friedman...