https://youtu.be/dYPHU9xu-6k   Read Transcript Here   As the state of Israel was established, diverse populations flooded its shores and carried within them conflicting visions of what this new, young nation-state would prioritize. Would it be fundamentally a Jewish state or a democracy? Was its nature forged from the Western enlightenment or from the yeshivot in […]

https://youtu.be/3fJnWPy16is   Read Transcript Here   On May 14th, after 5 years of a contentious presidency, and 20 years of AKP (The Justice and Development Party) rule, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will finally be facing some challenging opposition. Erdogan’s tenure as president has been marked by steadily eroding Turkish democracy and a tightening grip […]

https://youtu.be/AMnAZeXTszE Sarah Stern, founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), explains why the passage of this bill is so important for protecting Jewish college students on the NEVER AGAIN IS NOW Podcast

https://youtu.be/KzYow7Sp5xE   Read Transcript Here   When Barack Obama entered office, he promised to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” What he didn’t mention was that his policies would also fundamentally transform the world and that such transformation would begin with the destruction of the Pax Americana that maintained relative stability and peace in […]

  https://youtu.be/xcJs21ib4uk   As Iran, according to IAEA Director Rafael Grossi, “is galloping toward a nuclear bomb”, we are watching a rapid realignment of loyalties within the Middle East. Beijing has brokered an agreement between Riyadh and Tehran, and many nations have renewed old alliances that we had thought, only a few short years ago, […]

https://youtu.be/ob3rKkfa8xc   Read Transcript Here   To what degree is antisemitism an inherent part of the ideology of the Palestinian Authority? Is the Palestinian antisemitism that we hear so frequently about coming from isolated, random remarks, or is it propagated from the top down? Is it only found in the Islamist fundamentalist groups such as […]

https://youtu.be/bP6N75KiAMU   Read Transcript Here   Numerous reports have been leaking out for several weeks now, that the administration is perilously close to agreeing to a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and that Seoul and Washington have been working together to release approximately 7 billion dollars in Iranian assets, in the event […]

Now that it has leaked that the Biden administration is pursuing a secret “deal” with Iran, as Richard Goldberg discussed on EMET’s last webinar, many questions arise. How did we get here? What motivated President Obama to sign the previous Iran deal (the JCPOA) and what is motivating President Biden to spend two-plus years working […]

https://youtu.be/tPxDK1tEkic   Read Transcript Here   The relationship between Israel and the United Nations has a long and complicated history. In the days of the founding of Israel, the UN served as a great platform for Zionism to obtain wide recognition of the Jewish people's right to self-determination. Yet, with time, various bodies of the […]

https://youtu.be/x4Yft-85NJw   Read Transcript Here   Join us for an engaging EMET webinar as we explore Russia's Role in the Middle East with the esteemed Dr. Stephen Blank. In this enlightening discussion, we will delve into the current status of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its impact on the region. Dr. Blank will shed […]

https://youtu.be/N9vHxMDl9xs   Read Transcript Here   Going back almost 30 years, on September 13, 1993, there was a tremendous amount of excitement in both the Israeli and the American Jewish populations. In a ceremony replete with lofty, inspiring speeches and the Marine Corps band band, Yasser Arafat, the grand-daddy of twentieth-century terrorism, airplane and bus […]

https://youtu.be/sJJ9vcguCq0   Read Transcript here   As Israeli streets continue to erupt in protest over proposed judicial reforms and the passage of a new law addressing the Supreme Court’s “reasonableness” standard, the Israeli and American left, including former Israeli Prime Ministers leading the protests, Democrats in Congress, American Jewish organizations, and international media are united […]