On November 24, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that begins the process of designating three Muslim Brotherhood chapters (in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon) as “foreign terrorist organizations” and “specially designated global terrorists” under US law. This decision marks a turning point in how the United States approaches the ideological landscape of the Middle […]

Jochen Hellbeck, World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews, Penguin Press, 2025 Legend has it that when the first chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer, crossed the Elbe River by train, he lowered the shades and remarked, “Here we go, Asia again.”  As a Rhinelander, Adenauer, who had […]

The Kurds and Israelis are natural geopolitical allies. Many Kurdish Jews in Israel feel deeply connected to their ethnic heritage and maintain cultural links; the Kurdistan regional government in northern Iraq also has made tentative efforts to maintain cultural ties. But translating these perceptions of mutual interests and shared cultural traditions into a political alliance […]