Webinars

Capitol Hill Webinar – Israel’s Critical Moment of Decision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E--ILbRwedU FEATURING: Alex Traiman - Managing director and Jerusalem Bureau Chief of the Jewish News Syndicate David Wurmser - Director of the Project on Global Anti-Semitism About This Webinar: On Wednesday, July 1st Israeli lawmakers will vote on  whether or not to extend Israeli sovereignty over certain communities in Judea and Samaria, and possibly, the […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – Anti-Semitism Within the Black Lives Matter Movement and The Arab/Muslim Trade in Black Slaves Today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evt7S4dmfWo&t=1s FEATURING: Caroline B. Glick - Author, Columnist, and Speaker Charles Jacobs - President of Americans for Peace and Tolerance About this webinar: Ever since the horrific murder of George Floyd in May,  many Jews have felt compelled to join in with  the demonstrations. Compassion for the underdog and the impulse for social justice is […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – Examining the Mysterious Spate of Attacks in Iran 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNjgTStq094&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Efraim Inbar - President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security David Albright - Director of the Institute for Science and International Security About this webinar: As Iran has been racing towards nuclear breakout, a mysterious spate of attacks has occurred in three nuclear sites within the past several weeks, which are thought to […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – Talking Turkey: What Exactly are Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Ambitions in the Middle East?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdhv8BteHhw&feature=youtu.be FEATURING:  Dr. Aykan Erdemir - Former Member of the Turkish Parliament and FDD Scholar About this webinar: Last week, the world was stunned to watch Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s move to convert the Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque, reversing the 1934 decision by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – Israel’s Northern Border Heats Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M4gSY_iwjM&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Brigadier General (IDF, ret.) Michael Herzog - International Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Seth Frantzman - Middle East Affairs Correspondent, The Jerusalem Post About this webinar: On Tuesday, July 21st, a high ranking Hezbollah terrorist official, Ali Kamel Mohsen, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria. Following that attack, […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – The Iranian-Chinese Pact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSv8gMwgcDg FEATURING: David P. Goldman - Author of "You Will Be Assimilated: China's Plan to Sino-Form the World" (2020) and "How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying, Too" (2011) About this webinar: Earlier this summer, Iran and China signed a joint economic and military pact, clearing the way for billions of dollars to enter […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – The Trump Peace Plan: Aiming Not to Make a Deal, But to Make a Deal Possible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJOweZ417F4&lc=UgxQ9IQyfDD0UPUdN2d4AaABAg FEATURING: Douglas J. Feith - Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute and author  About this webinar: The Trump Peace plan makes a profound departure from peace plans in the past, all of which have failed, and all of which were met with a continuous pattern of Palestinian intransigence and terrorism. This plan realistically states that […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – Recovering Lebanon from The Ruins of Destruction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTVbUP4bHc&t FEATURING: Tony Badran - Lebanese Expert at Foundation for Defense of Democracies About this webinar: Lebanon which was once called “the Paris of the Middle East” has been suffering from decade upon decade of corruption, mismanagement and hyperinflation. Even before the explosion of August 4th, which rocked the entire city of Beirut, and left […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – A Conversation with Kenneth L. Marcus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkOYkK0jUbo&feature=emb_title FEATURING: Kenneth L. Marcus – Former Assistant Secretary For Civil Rights With The Department of Education About this webinar: This webinar will ask the question, “What is the state of civil rights for Jews, among other minorities, in our nation’s educational institutions?” Kenneth L. Marcus has a long and illustrious history of advocating for the rights […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – The Rapidly Shifting Sand Dunes of the Middle East

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1dXV6lAlF0 FEATURING: Mordechai Kedar - Director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam About this webinar: Tune into EMET's webinar featuring Dr. Kedar who will examine the recent Israel-UAE deal, the Beirut Port explosion and other dramatic events taking place recently in the Middle East. Mordechai Kedar is the Director […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – The Tectonic Shifting of Forces Within the Middle East

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzm2b36Fnmw&feature=youtu.be   FEATURING: Behnam Ben Taleblu - Senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies Johnnie Moore - Founder and CEO of The KAIROS Company Aykan Erdemir - Senior director of Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Turkey program About this webinar: The new peace accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates has brought to […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – Reflections on the Opening Session of the United Nations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj1nrefYAco&t=2s   FEATURING: Ambassador Richard Schifter - Chairman of the Board of the American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI) About this webinar: As the UN General Assembly opens this week for its 75th Session, we are honored to hear the remarks of Ambassador Richard Schifter, long-term expert on the workings of the United Nations and […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – Systemic Anti-Semitism on College Campuses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsnHwhYxSNI&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Sarah Stern - President and Founder of EMET Dr. Asaf Romirowsky - Executive Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) Alyza Lewin - President and General Counsel of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (“LDB”) Moderated by Lauri B. Regan About this webinar: With anti-Semitism, often […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – The Warming of Relations Between Israel and Some of the Sunni States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVj1cWrVDvA&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Zuhdi Jasser - Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD)  Hussein Aboubakr Mansour - Director for Emerging Democratic Voice in the Middle East for EMET Hussein Aboubakr Mansour is the Director for Emerging Democratic Voice in the Middle East for EMET. Hussein is a native Egyptian who tried to […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – The Increasing Energy and Geopolitical Interests in the Mediterranean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5PMO5QKQrA&t=3s FEATURING: Major General (Res.) Eitan Dangot - President of the Association of Oil and Gas Exploration Industries in Israel Amir Foster - Executive Director of the Association of Oil and Gas Exploration Industries in Israel About this webinar: For decades, the economy and national interests of many Middle Eastern countries has been driven by energy […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – Who is in Control in Lebanon? The Compelling Story of Amer Fakhoury and His Daughters’ Fight for Justice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptcl0k9_qGM&t FEATURING: Guila Fakhoury, Macy Fakhoury, and Zoya Fakhoury of the Amer Fakhoury Foundation About this webinar: The Amer Fakhoury Foundation's goal is to provide financial and emotional support to families who are victimized by terrorist regimes. Amer Fakhoury was an American citizen who was born in Lebanon. He went back to Beirut to visit […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – An Examination of Qatar: Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_A1k2SjZsg&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Sam Westrop - Director of the Islamist Project of the Middle East Forum About this webinar: Qatar, a gas and petroleum rich nation on a peninsula in the Persian Gulf has recently put in a request to purchase American made F-35 missiles. For the last several years, this nation that supports the Muslim […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – An Examination of Qatar: Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vepLAfe5g0o&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Dr. Efraim Inbar - President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security  About this webinar: This is the second of a two-part series examining the small, yet intriguing  Sunni Gulf nation of Qatar, which is among the richest nations of the world due to their vast petroleum and natural gas reserves. Qatar […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – A Hero in the Battle to Defend Israel and Western Civilization on the American College Campus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVuykRXIJNE&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Professor Jason Hill - Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University About this webinar: In the spring semester of 2019 Professor Jason Hill,  professor of philosophy at DePaul University had the courage to write and publish an article for The Federalist arguing that Israel has the moral right to annex the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – Eye Witness to the Rise and Empowerment of the Sunni Islamist Dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J908kf1Yy0&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Burak Bekdil - Turkish Dissident, Journalist, Intellect and Scholar About this webinar: Although many foreign policy analysts have focused on the Shiite menace emerging out of the Islamic Republics of Iran, there is a Sunni menace who has emerged out of what was once considered the friendly, secular Muslim nation of Turkey. Under […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – An Eye Onto Palestinian Society and How They View the Presumptive Election of Joe Biden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obfn0tzEriw&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Itamar Marcus - Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch About this webinar: It has been abundantly clear from reports in major media outlets that the recent election of Joe Biden to the White House has been something that the Palestinian Authority has been banking on for some time. Despite the fact that the Palestinian […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – The View from Israel: What a Biden Presidency Will Mean for Israel’s National Security Concerns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaU9rjbWE18&ab_channel=emetonline FEATURING: Ambassador (Ret.) Yoram Ettinger - President of “America-Israel Opportunities, Ltd” Alex Traiman - Managing Director and Jerusalem Bureau Chief of the Jewish News Syndicate Ruthie Blum - American-Israeli journalist, columnist, and author About this webinar: The view from Israel about a potential Biden presidency appears to differ vastly than the view from the […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – Special EMET Webinar with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPMo76ZG3W0&feature=youtu.be Join a special EMET webinar as Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy discuss their new book, Never Alone: Prison, Politics and My People. FEATURING: Natan Sharansky - Israeli politician, author, and human rights activist Gil Troy - American presidential historian and a popular commentator About this webinar: In 1977, after serving as a leading activist […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M13bdfPx_ms&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Emmanuel Navon - International relations expert and author About this webinar: The first all-encompassing book on Israel’s foreign policy and the diplomatic history of the Jewish people, The Star and the Scepter retraces and explains the interactions of Jews with other nations from the ancient kingdoms of Israel to modernity. Starting with the Hebrew Bible, Emmanuel Navon […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – Fight House: Rivalries in the White House, from Truman to Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQfqT4d8utQ&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Tevi Troy - Best-selling presidential historian and former White House aide About this webinar: As we are about to enter into a new administration, Tevi Troy, with his vast knowledge and experience will be discussing what goes on “behind closed doors” in the White House. Has everything always gone as smoothly as has […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – The Multi-Front War and the Clash of Civilizations

FEATURING: Walid Phares - Renowned Scholar and author of four books Ken Abramowitz - Author and prior director of the Carlyle Group About this webinar: American represents the zenith of  Western civilization, yet, despite the fact that most Americans are oblivious to it, America is fighting for its very survival on many fronts, from Islamism to communism to […]

Capitol Hill Webinar – Is the International Criminal Court a Legal Body or Merely a Political Body?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyPn5S9VRAI&feature=youtu.be FEATURING: Avi Bell - Israeli Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law and at Bar-Ilan University's Faculty of Law About this webinar: At the request of the Palestinians, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, has opened up an investigation of Israel for supposed “war crimes” committed […]

Holocaust Education: Lessons Learned, Lessons Missed, and Their Application to Contemporary Manifestations of Antisemitism

EMET is proud to join The American Zionist Movement on Wednesday, April 7th at 12:00 ET to hear about Holocaust Education: Lessons Learned, Lessons Missed, and their Application to Contemporary Manifestations of Antisemitism. The event features Alvin Rosenfeld, Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at Indiana University, and David Patterson, Hillel A. Fienberg Distinguished Chair of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust […]

Celebrate Israel @ 73!

On April 14th and 15th, Israelis and Jews throughout the world will be celebrating the 73rd birthday of the State of Israel. We are honored to have been invited to commemorate Yom Ha’Atzmaut in a special online celebration with the Embassy of Israel, with remarks from H.E. Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan. Please be sure to join us […]

Operation Embrace Webinar with Heroes from the South

Thank you to those who were able to attend the LIVE Webinar that Operation Embrace hosted this past week with our heroes from Israel's South who have been directly impacted and traumatized by the recent barrage of 4,000 rockets. Sarah Stern, Founder and President of EMET (The Endowment for Middle East Truth) moderated the Webinar […]

A Further Probe into UNRWA: What Exactly Is Being Taught in the Palestinian Textbooks?

https://youtu.be/ETWFFqFkiyA After two years of extensive study, Marcus Sheff and IMPACT-SE have just come out with a new, groundbreaking, 200-page report exploring exactly what is being taught in the UNRWA schools from kindergarten through 12th grade. On June 11, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken stated that the Biden administration’s renewal of funding for UNWRA […]

Drones in Middle East Warfare & Beyond

https://youtu.be/UykRq9v8090 In light of the July 6th drone strike on an American military base in Iraq, Seth Frantzman provided a glimpse of how drone warfare will define future competition between the US, China, Israel, Iran, Turkey and other countries. Drones are everywhere today: Elon Musk has predicted the F-35 will become obsolete against a “drone […]

NO FEAR: Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People

On Sunday July 11 at 1pm ET in Washington, D.C, a diverse coalition of Jewish advocacy organizations are hosting “NO FEAR: A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People.” The event will take place on the National Mall by the west entrance of the US Capitol Building. It is time for the Jewish people and […]

The Biden Administration’s Middle East Policy

Regarding the Abraham Accords, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, “Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on arrival, we don’t think did anything constructive, really, to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in the Middle East.” That is not how Israel and her recently acquired Sunni Arab friends view […]

No Red Lines? America & the Iran Nuclear Talks

https://youtu.be/dRWxVtMiIBU On Tuesday, July 13, the Islamic Republic of Iran brazenly attempted to kidnap Iranian- American journalist Masih Alinejad from her home in Brooklyn and bolt back to Tehran via speedboats. An indictment unsealed from a federal court in New York indicates this plot was orchestrated directly by an Iranian intelligence network. This is on […]

Lebanon on the Brink of Collapse: What Should be Done?

https://youtu.be/8h-4yWyQg4g Lebanon is teetering on the brink of collapse. August 4th marks exactly one year since the deadly explosion in the Port of Beirut, which killed more than 200 people, wounded approximately 6,500 and caused the economy to plummet. The economic situation remains dire, with shortages in every field of life from food, medicine, baby […]

A Conversation With Middle East & Antisemitism Expert David Wurmser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdB3uFN78VA&t=1s About the speaker: Dr. David Wurmser is a senior analyst and director of the Project on Global anti-Semitism and the US-Israel Relationship at the Center for Security Policy, as well as being a senior fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum. He also is the executive and founding member of the Delphi Global Analysis Group, […]

Special Emergency Webinar: The Fall of Afghanistan

https://youtu.be/4LVenElKDGE About the speaker: Thomas Joscelyn is a senior fellow at FDD and is senior editor of FDD’s Long War Journal, a widely read publication on counterterrorism and related issues. Much of his research focuses on how al-Qaeda and the Islamic State operate around the globe. He has served as a consultant for the FBI’s Counterterrorism […]

The Afghanistan Withdrawal Vis-a-Vis Hezbollah on Israel’s Northern Border

https://youtu.be/6fN32FXfnBg Nothing happens in a vacuum.  Unfortunately, many leaders of terrorist organizations were emboldened by America’s muddled and haphazard withdrawal from Afghanistan and the rapid takeover of the Taliban. According to a Times of Israel article from Wednesday, August 18, 2021, Hezbollah leader, Sheik Nasrallah, called the American behavior in Afghanistan, “the moral downfall of […]

America’s International Credibility Post Afghanistan

https://youtu.be/ojNxuayme1Y We have examined how the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is perceived by our friends in the region, our enemies in the Middle East and throughout the world. But what do our Western allies think? Britain alone has lost at least 457 troops since entering Afghanistan in autumn 2001. Had the United States […]

9/11 Memorial Featuring Rep. Brian Mast

https://youtu.be/cQrCdYtO1KY About Rep. Brian Mast: Prior to his election to Congress, Brian followed in his father’s footsteps by serving in the U.S. Army for more than 12 years, earning medals including The Bronze Star Medal, The Army Commendation Medal for Valor, The Purple Heart Medal, and The Defense Meritorious Service Medal. While deployed in Afghanistan, […]