The Alarming Rise of Antisemitic Attacks: Why So Little Outrage? People hold swastika flags as the neo-Nazi groups Blood Tribe and Goyim Defense League hold a rally on Sept. 2,…
Will Turkey turn westward once again?
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, walks with U.S. President Joe Biden during the G20 leaders’ summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Nov. 15, 2022. Biden administration officials are toughening…
Webinar: America and Turkey at a Crossroads: The New Middle East Realignment
Dear MEPIN Readers,The American-Turkish-Israeli relationship is one of the most crucial and underemphasized relationships for stability in the Middle East, with U.S. attention focused on China and Ukraine.This talk was…
Why Has Oman Not Normalized Relations with Israel?
Photo: National Interest Published on June 7, 2023 by the National Interest. Situated between Iran and Saudi Arabia, who are not threatening one another for the moment, Oman tries hard…
FSU Jewry: American Jews are unaware of the impact of Russian immigrants
Published in the April 10, 2023 issue of The Jerusalem Report. Photos and captions from The Jerusalem Report. Prof. Jonathan Sarna of Brandeis University, the preeminent historian of American Jewry,…
Deepfakes, the media and the threat to democracy
Photo: New York Times building, source: Wikimedia Commons. Published on March 12, 2023 by JNS. A recent Wall Street Journal essay “The Deepfake Dangers Ahead” highlights the “dangers of AI-generated disinformation, especially…
Rudaw Interview: The Munich Security Conference, the “Davos of Defense” & Security
From Dr. Mandel: I was asked by Iraqi Kurdish TV (Rudaw) to speak about this weekend’s Munich Security Conference (MSC), the “Davos of Defense” and Security. This was the first…
Interviews on Rudaw and Kurdistan24
This week, Dr. Mandel was on two Iraqi media outlets, Rudaw and Kurdistan24. On Kurdistan24, he was asked to speak about the security, political, and energy concerns for Iraq and the greater…
Americans cannot look away from what’s happening in Iran
Photo: Iranian soldiers stand next to Iranian Shahab-3 and Kheibar missiles during a rally marking Jerusalem day in Tehran, on April 29. Source: AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Published in The Hill…
Pushing the Saudis into China’s & Russia’s arms
Published in the Jerusalem Post on October 30, 2022. Photo: US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) sits alongside a photo from the war in Ukraine during a committee…