Webinars

Update on the War Facing the State of Israel on Several Fronts

  https://youtu.be/dpGqzBFs3C8     After approximately 80 days of intense fighting in Gaza, Brigadier General Amir Avivi of the IDF (ret.) will explain the many hardships young IDF soldiers have to overcome in an environment of urban warfare, where there is approximately a 300-mile “metro” system of deep, underground tunnels for Hamas rulers to live […]

Iran Steps Up Its Proxy War Against Israel and the U.S.

https://youtu.be/tB047rry64g     Iran has been at war with Israel and the U.S. for decades but October 7th began a multifront escalation that appears to be a turning point in its willingness to fund, train, and weaponize regional terrorism at an alarming rate and level. Iranian-backed terrorists across the region - Hamas and Palestinian Islamic […]

Antisemitism in Academia

https://youtu.be/nMcIhJnQF7I     This webinar was generously sponsored by Lorraine Pelosof While pervasive antisemitism on America’s college campuses is nothing new, the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th unleashed a storm of Jew-hatred not seen since Germany in the 1920s and 30s. The aggressive and violent encounters by Jewish students and faculty members on […]

What Must Not Happen in Gaza, After the War

https://youtu.be/s0yiVvtAvE0     From US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Director of the European Union, Ursula von der Leyen, to South African lawyer Adila Hassim, who is arguing before a panel of judges in the International Court of Justice in the Hague, many people are coming up with all sorts of notions about what […]

Turning the Victim into the Perpetrator: South Africa’s Case Against Israel

https://youtu.be/C0nJLF_lXDY     On December 29, 2023, South Africa brought charges against Israel to the International Court of Justice in the Hague for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention in its current military operations against Hamas. Following the barbaric attack on Israel by over 2,000 Hamas terrorists on October 7th, in which over 1,200 Israelis […]

Documenting the Enablers of Hamas War Crimes-UN agencies, NGO’s, and Governments

  https://youtu.be/JR6FuBdEy78     International attention has now been placed on UNRWA, because of the complicity and activities of many UNRWA employees during the October 7th massacre. However, UNRWA is just one of many so-called “humanitarian organizations” and UN agencies who have aided and abetted Hamas, diverting funding to its terrorist activities, providing indoctrination and […]

What They Are Actually Teaching Kids in UNRWA Schools and Summer Camps

https://youtu.be/Q8qgoGMa78k     The precursors for the October 7th massacres began 75 years ago. Beginning with approximately 700,000 Palestinian refugees from the original War of Independence of the state of Israel, refugee status has been passed down from generation to generation. Not only has this status been bequeathed, along with the “right of return” to […]

The Uncertain Fate of Israel’s Northern Border

https://youtu.be/cc4BmPjH8e0     Following the October 7th barbaric attacks on Israel, Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy that sits on Israel’s northern border, had begun lobbing Katusha rockets, mortar rockets, drones, and anti-tank missiles on Israel’s northern border. The Israeli government has evacuated 43 communities from Israel’s north, leaving approximately 61,000 Israelis as “internally displaced refugees.” Many […]

A Failure to Learn from Past Mistakes: The State Department’s Continuous Insistence on a Palestinian State

https://youtu.be/DT2AEfEDLSg     As this is being written, the State Department is busy submitting plans for a Palestinian State, to be erected after the war. National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan has spoken about a contiguous Palestinian state, stretching from Gaza through Judea and Samaria, (the West Bank). He has also spoken about a “revamped and […]

Russia, Israel, and the War with Hamas

https://youtu.be/MeHdOuz6SGw     The relationship between Moscow and Jerusalem has gone through many permutations. The Kremlin had initially allied itself with Yasser Arafat and other revolutionary groups, and during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Russia allied itself with the Arab states, with some Sovietologists even arguing that Moscow had encouraged and escalated tensions helping to provoke […]

A Potential Palestinian State: Will It Be an Ally or Enemy of the United States?

https://youtu.be/jfaVn8uuHK0     After the worst massacre of Jews on a single day since the Holocaust, many members of the international community have arrived at a single-factor conclusion of how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, combined with grandiose plans of how to finally bring peace to the Middle East: the rewarding of this violence with […]

The Israel/Hamas War: Regional and Domestic Implications and What it Means to Achieve Victory

Israeli diplomat Eitan Na’eh joins us for an in-depth discussion of the implications of the Israel/Hamas war on Israel’s relationships with the Abraham Accords countries and the Gulf nations more broadly including a potential normalization deal with Saudi Arabia. We will also discuss the impact of October 7th on Israel’s civil society and what it […]

Iranian Dominance Over the Middle East

  https://youtu.be/0pyfEsYWL6E     As the international perspective of the world has focused primarily on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, many have neglected to address the actual root cause of this war: The Islamic Republic of Iran. We know that Iran lacks the courage to directly engage itself in any conflict. Instead, it uses its […]

A World Without the Islamic Republic of Iran

https://youtu.be/BLg8K-nTEfA     While much of the international community focuses its attention on the Israel/Hamas war and the Houthis disruption of maritime traffic in the Red Sea, the head of the snake that is terrorizing the world, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is being ignored at the world’s peril. In a recent Middle East Forum […]

Why Must Israel Continue to Fight in Gaza

  https://youtu.be/G8XV8BMIhQE     Israel has faced mounting pressure from the international community as well as from the Biden administration not to finish the job it has begun in Gaza. On Thursday, while speaking over the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Biden said that “an immediate ceasefire is necessary to protect innocent civilians.” An […]

Emergency Briefing on Iran’s Attack on Israel

https://youtu.be/dH6jSPftNtk <p data-pm-slice="1 1 About the Speaker: Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. Behnam previously served as a research fellow and senior Iran analyst at FDD. Prior to his time at FDD, Behnam worked on non-proliferation issues at an arms […]

Russian Meddling in the Middle East: A View from Jerusalem

https://youtu.be/aBfJnYyuzps     Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the evolving dynamics of the Middle East conflict and its geopolitical implications. In this engaging session, we will delve into the shifting landscape of regional confrontations, moving beyond the traditional Arab-Israeli paradigm to a broader Western versus Iranian blocs confrontation. The recent Israeli military operations […]

The View from Israel: An Interview with Member of the Knesset Ohad Tal

https://youtu.be/_-z8DSdX3aU     Since its founding, Israel has been fighting enemies who have continually sought its annihilation but today’s wars – military, cognitive, and diplomatic – are presenting an existential threat unlike anything it has confronted since perhaps 1973. While the Islamic Republic of Iran has unleashed not just proxies in the form of Hamas’ […]

Special Yom HaShoah Conversation with Holocaust Historian, Rafael Medoff

https://youtu.be/WZalSEXQdgc     As antisemitism spirals out of control across the globe including on the streets of cities across the U.S., and college campuses are overrun with students and faculty shouting for the annihilation of Israel and the expulsion of Jews from the country, it is difficult not to recognize frightening parallels with Germany in […]

Normalization of Support for Terrorism

  https://youtu.be/aVSQFrpJ32U     Join us for an insightful webinar as we delve into one of the most controversial and complex issues in contemporary legal and political discourse: the decriminalization of support for terrorism. In recent years, there has been a growing debate surrounding the effectiveness of existing anti-terrorism laws, particularly in how they handle […]