Daniel Pipes
President, Middle East Forum and Columnist at Freelance
Historian, MidEast, Islamism & US foreign policy analyst. @MEForum founder, @CIS_org senior fellow. Thatcher pic from 1996, Brunei 2018. Opinions personal.
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2 weeks ago |
danielpipes.org | Daniel Pipes
How best to undermine Israel's legitimacy as a country? Simple, argue that it came into existence through "the theft of Palestine" and the expulsion of its people. Thus does a learned book carry the title The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and the Palestinian Authority (PA) holds that "Zionist gangs stole Palestine and expelled its people," then "established their state upon the ruins of the Palestinian Arab people." In all, this caused a catastrophe "unprecedented in history," no less.
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2 weeks ago |
danielpipes.org | Daniel Pipes
It's no coincidence that President Trump's decision fully to restrict the entry of nationals from 12 countries, including six Muslim-majority ones, and review the screening practices of Egypt, immediately followed the June 1 antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colo. That day Mohamed Sabry Soliman—a migrant from Egypt who overstayed his visa—taped himself telling his family "Jihad for God's sake is more beloved to me than you," as translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Daniel Pipes
5 hours agoJERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli naval forces, far from the country’s shores, intercepted and seized a Gaza-bound ship carrying international activists, including Greta Thunberg, in an early morning raid Monday. The operation sparked accusations that Israel’s actions, apparently in the high seas, were a …
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3 weeks ago |
meforum.org | Daniel Pipes
No one knows how many unarmed Alawites were killed in Syria between March 6 and 10, 2025, but Joshua Landis of the University of Oklahoma estimates more than three thousand. While Alawites constitute but a small religious community, perhaps 10 percent of Syria’s 15 million resident population, they suffer from a position of unique prominence and vulnerability. In brief, throughout the centuries, the Alawites stood out as Syria’s most isolated, impoverished, despised, and oppressed ethnicity.
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3 weeks ago |
danielpipes.org | Daniel Pipes
Solid green indicates an Alawite majority and partial green a significant Alawite minority. No one knows how many unarmed Alawites were killed in Syria between March 6 and 10, 2025, but Joshua Landis of the University of Oklahoma estimates more than three thousand. While Alawites constitute but a small religious community, perhaps 10 percent of Syria's 15 million resident population, they suffer from a position of unique prominence and vulnerability.
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News headline: "Almost all of the #Fulbright board resigns, citing Trump administration interference." I served on the J. William Fulbright Fellowship Board from 1992 to 1994, including as its Vice President, so I have a perspective on this development: Board members must sign https://t.co/EMmOqzRHYb
Nice symbolism at the French ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C., being the Ukrainian flag wrapped around the Statue of Liberty. https://t.co/buOK2ilrVm
I published "Trump's Travel Ban Protects Jews" in @WSJOpinion. "By my count, this was the 23rd Muslim-on-Jewish attack, planned or realized, in the U.S. since 1977, making Muslim assaults the most constant source of violence against American Jews." https://t.co/61l1e7UeVN
