Monthly Archives: January 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...

Media Induced Israeli Complacency

The attack which took place on Wednesday morning where two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven were injured occurred on a normal Israeli road in northern Israel where thousands of vehicles travel  by every...
Kurdish peshmerga prepare to combat IS forces south of the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq on January 21.

Research on the Islamic State

Middle East Forum Shillman/Ginsburg Fellow Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi is one of world's leading researchers on the Islamic State (IS) group terrorizing Iraq and Syria. The overwhelming majority of his writings and translations are too...

10,000 Palestinian teens graduate Hamas terror camp

While their senior counterparts have been testing new homemade rockets and rebuilding the terror tunnel infrastructure, more than 10,000 teenagers arrived at an Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades training compound. Under the guise of a program...

Oprah Interviews Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz

Oprah talks to Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel on the grounds of Auschwitz, the very place where he experienced and witnessed unimaginable horrors. "I still don't know the meaning of it all," Wiesel repeats...

EDITOR’S REPORT: FOLLOWING KOSHER SUPERMARKET ATTACK, NETANYA, ISRAEL READIES ITSELF FOR INFLUX OF FRENCH...

This past July in Netanya during the Israel-Hamas war, I spoke with Jacques, a middle aged Jew who had immigrated from France a few years ago, as he was taking his poodle out for...
Funds intended for the Palestinian people can’t be used for terrorism. (Photo: Kevin Frayer / AP)

Keep U.S. dollars away from terrorists

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is pushing a bill that would immediately halt U.S. aid to the Palestinians until they stop their effort to join the International Criminal Court to pursue war-crimes charges...