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Iranians sift through the rubble of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, Iran, destroyed by a missile strike on the first day of the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Feb. 28, 2026. Credit: Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency/Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons.

From Sderot to Tehran: Unmasking the architects of the ‘double war crime’

Countless pieces of evidence from the current conflict show Iranian ballistic missiles being launched from within or immediately adjacent to schools and hospitals. Satellite...

An Israeli Survivor Addresses Mamdani’s Wife’s Claim About Israel’s ‘Rape Hoax’

Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, has labeled the claims about Hamas members committing rapes on October 7, 2023 as a “mass hoax.” Someone who...

Korach, Not Amalek: A Better Archetype for the Anti-Zionist “Wicked Son”

Robert Goldberg’s recent essay at the Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism Substack, adapted from his book The Haggadah: Zionism’s Drama of Destiny, makes a powerful...
While Iran negotiates an agreement with the West on its nuclear program, it holds naval exercises near the Straits of Hormuz, sinking a mock-up of the USS Nimitz, an American aircraft carrier. (AFP Photo/Fars News/Hamed Jafarnejad)

Not the end of the story: why Iran is far from collapse despite ongoing...

Three weeks into the war between Israel and the United States and Iran, the need for caution in assessing the situation has sharpened amid...

Iran’s Ayatollah Writes Islamist Version Of ‘Mein Kampf’

Iran Deal: Not to be outdone by the Fuhrer, the Ayatollah Khamenei has penned a 416-page guide on how to rid Israel of the Jews....

Why Did the US Just Lift Sanctions on Iranian Oil?

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,370, March 22, 2026 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On March 20, 2026, the US announced a temporary 30-day lifting of sanctions on the sale and...

‘All about deception,’ says NJ Republican, who can’t get X to remove handle spoofing...

Look up Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, and you see his picture and his letterhead....
The settlement of Yitzhar in Samaria, near Shechem, off Route 60, north of the Tapuach Junction.

False Flags and Real Agendas

In recent years, and not coincidentally, the concept of “settler violence” has begun to seep into the discourse in Israel and around the world....

Israel didn’t drag the US into war with Iran — they enabled us to...

A dangerous lie has taken hold in Washington: that Israel somehow pressured the United States into war with Iran. It’s wrong. And both President Trump...