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David Schenker is the Taube Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Program on Arab Politics. Confirmed by the Senate on June 5, 2019, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs through January…
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From the halls of Congress and college campuses to corporate board rooms and social and mainstream media, antisemitism from the left, right, the Black community and the Islamic community is metastasizing with no end in sight. On the heels of…
read moreThis webinar was held November 22, 2022 and led by Dr. Navras J. Aafreedi. He discussed his contribution on “Antisemitic Rhetoric in Urdu on YouTube” from the recently published “Antisemitism on Social Media” (London: Routledge, 2022). For his work on this chapter, Dr.…
read more This webinar was held October 20, 2022 and led by Neetu Arnold, Senior Research Associate at the National Association of Scholars (NAS). Middle East Studies Centers (MESC) have strayed from their mission to objectively study the Middle East and Islam, a new…
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An assessment of the factors triggering this fifth round of voting in the past three and a half years. Donna Robinson Divine is the Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Government, Emerita at Smith College where she…
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KC Johnson is professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Johnson is a trained historian who specializes in US political, diplomatic, and legal affairs.
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Samuel J. Abrams is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on questions of related civic and political culture and American ideologies. He is concurrently a professor of politics and social science at Sarah Lawrence…
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Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., author of six books, is President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). As a professor for the past 15 years, he has taught over 21 courses at 14 universities in Florida and…
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Israel is inextricably linked with the past, present and future of the Jewish people. Despite its profound centrality and importance to Jewish life, Israel remains a deeply divisive topic for American Jewry and beyond . Even as Israel is redefining…
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Sam Westrop has headed Islamist Watch since March 2017, when MEF absorbed the counter-extremism unit of Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), where he was the research director. Before that, he ran Stand for Peace, a London-based counter-extremism organization monitoring…
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