The recent U.S. unrest focused on police violence and racism jump-started anti-Israel campaigning by the BDS movement, Islamists, the far-Right, and the far-Left. Synagogues, cemeteries and Jewish businesses have been targeted from Los Angeles to Virginia, while social media have been saturated with accusations against Jews and Israel. What does this phenomenon amount to, how does it affect U.S.-Israel relations, and what can be done to combat it?

Textbooks are a powerful tool in shaping children’s minds. In the Middle East, however, they all too often promote Islamism and other extremist ideas. What tools are available to make positive change, what is the record of efforts so far, and how do the authorities respond to pressure?

Denmark, like many other Western countries, has a growing number of Islamists who reject freedom of speech, demanding that any criticism of Islam and related topics be silenced via hate speech laws. They are getting their way thanks to censorship on social media, legislation, an increase in antisemitic incidents, and a stifling culture of political correctness. What does this mean for Denmark, historically a leader of free-speech, and beyond?

Interview with Ambassador (ret.) Robert Pearson on Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean.

When the European Union in 2019 added a clause to grant contracts with NGOs that prohibits the transfer of its funds to designated terrorist organizations, this elicited howls of protest from the Palestinian NGO Network, an umbrella organization of 135 Palestinian NGOs (PNGO). On March 30, 2020, the EU sent a “clarification letter” to PNGO that appears to give into Palestinian pressure and effectively annul EU anti-terror regulations. In response to uproar over this capitulation, the EU has promised an investigation. What are the stakes and what lies ahead?

Greek-Turkish relations are going from bad to worse. The Erdoğan regime wages “no war–no peace" operations in the Aegean Sea by constantly violating Greek sovereignty. It encourages illegal migrants to cross into Greek territory. It just unilaterally annexed a large tract of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea as its exclusive economic zone to explore for natural gas. What are the dangers of a conflagration? How can this be avoided? What policies should the Trump administration adopt?

Israeli governments have always resisted the idea of defense treaty with the United States. But circumstances have changed and both sides would now benefit from a carefully crafted agreement. It would deter or mitigate a major Iran-led conflict, frontload the Obama MoU on defense assistance to Israel, replenish U.S. stockpiles of vital precision munitions in Israel, elevate Israel’s status as an official U.S. ally, and explore new R&D frontiers.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been called “an icon of the West's rapprochement with Islam,” but he’s actually an icon of the West’s submission to Islamism. Examples: Canada’s intelligence agency CSIS admits that dozens of known jihadis are walking free and authorities won’t charge them. A secret program that grants visas to war criminals, terrorists, and those who pose security threats was recently exposed. Hizballah’s external operations group, known as Unit 910, is reported to be “even more active” in Canada than it has been in the United States. What are the long-term consequences?

How does one confront the anti-Israel teachings and other problems that are entrenched in Middle East studies? Sarah Stern has worked this issue in the halls of Congress and the Department of Education for almost two decades. She will discuss changes for the better and worse in the attempt to ensure that federal grants are used in accordance with their legislative intent – to give American students a solid education about the regions.

Honor killings, the cold-blooded murder of mostly girls and women by relatives for allegedly dishonoring their families, have arrived in the West. Some claim that anti-racism, pluralism, and multi-cultural relativism demand we tolerate such crimes, but that is a deeply mistaken belief. We’ll review the sources of this behavior and how to combat it.