Accomplishments

Middle East Forum’s Impact Highlights

Throughout 2023 and into 2024, the Middle East Forum continued to lead the fight against Middle Eastern threats. By combining rigorous investigative research, influential policy work, expert media engagement, and effective coalition-building, the Middle East Forum drives change with demonstrable impact across its four divisions.

Action Impact:

  • MEF Action’s #DivestFromQatar campaign resulted in more than 26,000 emails and tweets targeting top American investors. This action campaign was intended to persuade the CEOs of a dozen private equity firms and hedge funds to stop receiving investments from the Qatar Investment Authority.
  • Started a new legal initiative bringing RICO and Anti-Klan Act charges against Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for their alleged coordinated harassment and intimidation of Jewish and Israeli students.
  • Spearheaded 6 grassroots campaign grassroots campaigns in 2024 so far, with 6 more to launch before the end of the year.

Publishing Impact:

  • Successfully launched the Middle East Forum Observer, broadening our rapid reaction analysis and coverage.
  • Published more than 1,000 articles in 2023 and the first half of 2024 across our publishing platforms and hosted more than 150 podcasts and webinars.

Investigations Impact:

  • Uncovered USAID’s ties to Islamist organizations in Southeast Asia, leading several U.S. senators to condemn the agency.
  • Revealed the plans by Young Democrat Socialists for America to launch a national strike in support of Palestine
  • Exposed that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) violated its own neutrality mandate more than 250 times since the Hamas attacks of October 2023.
  • Grew Middle East Forum’s database of Islamist individuals, funders, and organizations to encompass over 4,000,000 data points.

Statecraft Impact:

  • Played a pivotal role shaping discourse after the October 7 attacks, providing strategic guidance to Israeli authorities and successfully promoting the Middle East Forum plan for Israel victory.
  • Held nearly 200 Congressional meetings and shaped 17 Congressional letters, bills, and resolutions in the last year.


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