Tag: Terrorism
Republican lawmakers introduce bill to designate Muslim Brotherhood as terror group
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) have reintroduced legislation that urges the U.S. State Department to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization.
The measure, which was introduced in the Senate by...
Russian ambassador to Syria: Israeli airstrikes undermine stability
Russian Ambassador to Syria Alexander Yefimov on Thursday harshly criticized the recent string of alleged Israeli airstrikes in Syria, saying that they undermine joint Kremlin-Damascus efforts to stabilize the country, and even pose a threat to...
The ‘human rights’ scam at the heart of the NGO controversy
To listen to the U.S. State Department and many in the international human-rights community, Israel has done it again. The outrage over the decision by Defense Minister Benny Gantz to designate six Palestinian non-governmental organizations as...
Bereaved families to Blinken: ‘US consulate for Palestinians will encourage terrorism’
More than 150 Israeli families who have lost loved ones to Palestinian terrorism are reaching out to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to demand that he stop the planned reopening of a U.S....
Murderous Immortalities: Taliban Victory, Palestinian “Resistance” and Jihadi Terrorism
“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.”-Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000)
Taliban Victory and Jihadi Terror: Strategic and Legal Connections
At the surface, there are no clear connections between Taliban victory in Afghanistan and wider...
Bennett calls Cyprus plot ‘Iranian act of terror,’ rules out Israeli tycoon as sole...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday that a recently foiled plot in Cyprus reportedly targeting Israeli tycoon Teddy Sagi was in fact a much wider Iranian attempt to kill Israelis residing in...
Israel’s (personal) arms race
In May, when tensions in Israel’s mixed cities erupted with unprecedented force during “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” Tamar, a resident of Gush Etzion in Samaria, felt—like many other Israelis nationwide—that she had been...
Understanding the enemy: An interview with Dr. Anat Berko
Israel Defense Forces Lt. Col. (ret.) Dr. Anat Berko is a criminologist and a world-renowned expert on terrorism whose research focuses on suicide bombers and their handlers. Over the course of 20 years, she...
Israel and region continue to feel reverberations of 9/11 two decades later
As the world marks 20 years since Al-Qaeda’s terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the unprecedented events and their aftereffects continue to reverberate throughout the region and beyond.
The events in the two decades that...
Looking back and ahead: Analyzing US, Jewish communal security concerns post-9/11
As Americans gather this year to remember the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, they do so amid a landscape that is increasingly divided domestically, where hate crimes are at a record high,...