The Defense Witness Who Lied

June 1, 2026

On a July afternoon in 1995, in a federal courtroom in lower Manhattan, a 26-year-old medical student took the stand for the defense in the largest terrorism trial in American history. He greeted the defendant, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman — the Egyptian cleric whose followers had bombed the World Trade Center two years earlier — with the traditional "Asalam Alaykum," then sat down to face prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. More >

Academia’s Iran Lobby

May 28, 2026

In 2021, after the Biden DOJ indicted Boston U professor Kaveh Afrasiabi for acting as an unregistered agent of Iran, alleging he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars “to create and disseminate information favorable to the Iranian government,” I wrote that it was wasted money since so many academics in the U.S. are willing to promote the Islamic Republic for free. More >

What Were They Thinking? The New York Times Has Some Serious Explaining To Do

April 24, 2026

By platforming Ussama Makdisi as a moral voice on Israel, America's newspaper of record handed its op-ed page to a man who publicly said he wished he had been among those who massacred 1,200 Israelis on October 7. More >

Erdogan's Turkey Weaponizes Judicial Mechanisms Against Israel

April 15, 2026

As the U.S. and Israel are attempting to eradicate the nuclear threat of Iran’s Islamist regime with Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion, usual suspect Turkey -a nominal NATO ally of the US- undermines their efforts. More >