Netanyahu Came Under Enormous Pressure to Negotiate with Hamas for the Release of Israeli Hostages, and Thereby Implicitly to Permit the Jihadi Organization to Survive
The same day the ceasefire was announced, figures behind the CAIR-backed Abandon Biden campaign met with Kash Patel, Trump’s pick for FBI Director.
The United States Can Rally Action by Pointing to the Global Challenge with Economic, Security, and Humanitarian Aspects
The Terrorist Group’s October 7 Attack on Israel Was the Opening Salvo in a Move for Broader Palestinian Leadership
MEF Chief Editor Jim Hanson Explains This Deal Will Almost Certainly Fall Apart
Federal Way Mosque Supported Charity that Spent Funds in Hamas-Controlled Gaza
When Israel Conducts Counter-Terror Operations, Its Aim Should Be to Kill Rather than Capture Terrorists
Denying Iran a Nuclear Bomb and Freeing the Region from Tehran’s Grip Could Mitigate Any Negative Fallout from the Deal
Trump Should Be Prepared to Again Sanction Turkish President Erdoğan and Other Members of Turkey’s Government
Spotlight: Syria After Assad
After over half a century of slaughter and oppression, the Assad regime in Syria collapsed in the face of the advancing forces of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), a U.S.-designated terrorist group rooted in al Qaeda and ISIS. HTS leader Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, with a $10 million FBI bounty on his head, preaches religious moderation and promises liberty with the passion of a convert, but Western officials should not be deceived by mere words.
Major powers jockey to fill the vacuum left by Assad’s flight, with the Islamist Erdoğan regime in Turkey—HTF’s chief sponsor—ascendant, while Russia and Iran suffered significant losses. MEF’s analysts examine the current state of affairs in Syria and possible outcomes of these dramatic events.
Major powers jockey to fill the vacuum left by Assad’s flight, with the Islamist Erdoğan regime in Turkey—HTF’s chief sponsor—ascendant, while Russia and Iran suffered significant losses. MEF’s analysts examine the current state of affairs in Syria and possible outcomes of these dramatic events.
Iran’s decision to launch 181 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday night followed a similar pattern to the attacks of 14 April. Israeli and allied air defences appear to have performed extremely effectively. The damage to the military and civilian sites targeted is minor to non-existent. One Palestinian Arab man was killed in a village near Jericho, not from the Iranian missiles, it appears, but from interceptor debris.
The question now is what comes next. This time, the response is unlikely to be merely symbolic.
The question now is what comes next. This time, the response is unlikely to be merely symbolic.
Middle East Quarterly - Current Issue
Founded in 1994 by Daniel Pipes, MEQ is the Middle East Forum’s journal intended for both scholars and the educated public. Policymakers, opinion-makers, academics, and journalists write for and read the Quarterly, which is known for exclusive interviews, in-depth historical articles, and book reviews on subjects ranging from archaeology to politics and on countries from Morocco to Iran.
Winter 2025 Volume 32: Number 1
Winter 2025 Volume 32: Number 1
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MEF Chief Editor Jim Hanson Discusses the Possibilities with FOX News -
Daniel Pipes Talks with Capitol Report on NTD -
MEF Chief Editor discusses the end of the Assad regime and how the actions of Russia, Iran and Turkey will affect the outcome with FOX News. -
Plans to Shut Down Islamist Activity in America
Middle East Forum Observer
Founded in 2024, the Observer provides rapid analysis on leading Middle East developments, from Marrakech to Mashhad and the Bab el-Mandeb to the Black Sea.
Launched in 2006, Islamist Watch is a project of the Middle East Forum. We work to combat the ideas and institutions of lawful Islamism in the United States and throughout the West. Arguing that “radical Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution,” we seek to expose the Islamist organizations that currently dominate the debate, while identifying and promoting the work of moderate Muslims.
CAMPUS WATCH, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of speech of those it debates while insisting on its own freedom to comment on their words and deeds.
Antisemitism
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Haddad’s Schmooze Fest with Palestinian Islamic Jihad Financier and Islamist Operative Sami al-Arian Shows His Inability to Discern Scholarship from Activism -
Anti-Western Propaganda Destroys the Lives of Those It Holds Captive -
The Student Newspaper Has Not Published a Story About the Firing of an Islamic Studies Professor Accused of Sexual Misconduct -
Broad Implications for the United States from the First Accused Islamic Terrorist to Illegally Cross the Southern Border and Shoot an American for Jihad
Gaza
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Before and after October 7, Israeli authorities have permitted radical Hamas-aligned Western Islamist charities to enter Gaza and work openly with Hamas terror leaders, with some convoys even arriving from the Israeli side of the border. -
The World Often Rewards Those Who Shout the Loudest Rather than Those Who Anchor Their Claims on Solid Ground -
Hamas’s Penetration of UNRWA Means the Terror Group Hijacks Supplies the Aid Organization Says It Delivers -
The Incoming Trump Administration Should Suspend or Reprogram U.S. Military Assistance to Egypt
Islam
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White Women Were and Continue to Be Seen as Sexually Promiscuous by Nature — Essentially ‘Provoking’ Muslim Men Into Lusting After and Raping Them -
Last Year’s Sequence of Events Has Substantially Shifted the Strategic Balance of the Region -
ISIS’s January 2024 Call to Random Violence Explains the Deadly Logic Behind Recent Vehicular Terror Attacks in New Orleans and Germany.
Muslims in the US
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Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan Allegedly Plotted to Bomb Israeli Consulate in NYC -
How Might the Incoming Second Administration of Donald Trump Reduce the Threat of Attacks with Millions of Foreign Strangers Already Inside the U.S.? -
They Despise Celebrations Not Sanctioned by Islam and See Christmas as a Crime Against Allah -
The Lenny Zakim Fund gave $100,000 to an organization that later lionized a young man who immolated himself to protest American support for Israel
