Webinars

Nazi Roots of Arab Antisemitism

Many people are aware of Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and his famous November 1941 meeting with Adolf Hitler, to which we can trace the roots of Arab antisemitism. However, a few other figures with strong ties to the Nazis who have been largely overlooked by historians, had equal or even greater impact in cementing lingering antisemitism in Arab society.

Deconstructing Apartheid Attacks Against Israel

https://youtu.be/MjuVoJt4nOI About the speaker: Anne Herzberg is the Legal Advisor of NGO Monitor. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and Columbia University Law School. Prior to joining NGO Monitor, […]

Current Challenges to US Leadership

https://youtu.be/VWZBJI5gJAA As Russia is poised to invade Ukraine, how does this affect the strategic relationship between Israel and her neighbors and Israel and the United States? About the speaker: Dr. […]

The Track Record of the Iranian Regime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnYwe90bVUg&t=1s As the administration is rushing headlong to clinch a deal with the Iranian regime, have we learned anything about their negotiating style and tactics since the Islamic Republic of […]

What on Earth is Putin Thinking?

https://youtu.be/iZmlddG0W2E About this webinar: As Russia invades Ukraine, the entire world is wondering what on earth is Vladimir Putin thinking? How does this affect the liberal world order as we […]

Biden’s Iran Deal: An Assessment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFDJryYjCSY About the speaker:  Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior fellow at FDD where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. Behnam previously served as a research fellow and […]

The Flawed Logic Behind the JCPOA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oni8OyeAdW4 As the entire world is focused on the humanitarian catastrophe resulting from the brutal war that Vladimir Putin has inflicted on Ukraine, we at EMET have not taken our […]

The Call to Stop the Iran Deal from Those Who Know the Regime Best

Many Iranians have witnessed loved ones and watched while tens of thousands of dissidents, human rights activists, members of religious minorities, and members of the LGBTQ community have faced “show trials. ” These usually last no more than a few moments and frequently result in torture and execution. 

Assessing the Strength of the Abraham Accords Today

https://youtu.be/EO-zwK5jcuo As word continues to leak out about greater concessions made to the Islamic Republic of Iran behind closed doors in Vienna, many of our newly-forged relationships with countries such […]

FDR, the Media and the Holocaust

https://youtu.be/kC-b0KGLCUY Dr. Rafael Medoff is the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the […]

Why I am a Zionist

Professor Gil Troy is an award-winning American presidential historian and a leading Zionist activist

An Expert Perspective from Israel on Global Affairs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbsSLbIBAIg Since President Biden took office in January 2021, the world has seen dramatic shifts in international affairs and alliances.  From the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan to the Russian invasion […]

The Campus War Against Israel

https://youtu.be/T0PmrO4If-Y Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., author of six books, including Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews, Jew Hatred Rising: The Perversities of the Campus War Against Israel […]

To Deal or Not to Deal? That is Biden’s Question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XMK0IIrivk Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor at FDD. From 2019-2020, Richard served as the Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council. […]

Results of the IDSF National Survey

In this webinar, panelists will discuss the results of the recent IDSF National Survey. One of the results of the survey that made the headlines in Israel is that 75% […]

Luncheon with Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi

Union Station One block from Union Station, Washington, DC

An advocate of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, Mayor Revivi will discuss his “bottom-up” approach, nurturing and deepening Efrat’s relationships with neighboring Palestinian villages. He brings new solutions to the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis and will discuss how the Abraham Accords helped change the trajectory of relations.

Status Update: Biden and the Iran Nuclear Deal

https://youtu.be/9Y1iL-4itSE   This week, International Atomic Energy Administration (IAEA) confirmed that Iran removed 27 cameras from its nuclear facilities. The 27 cameras were installed as part of the 2015 JCPOA, […]

The Tectonic Shift on Israel’s Northern Border

Israel has been conducting what is known as “The War Between the Wars” to reduce the Iranian presence in both Syria and Lebanon and has coordinated with the United States according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.

The View From Abu Dhabi

https://youtu.be/qIqC3ZHbLHI Our own Hussein Aboubakr Mansour just returned from an extensive trip to Abu Dhabi, where he had several meetings with high-level Emirati, Israeli and Saudi diplomats. He will address […]

President Biden’s Middle East Trip

https://youtu.be/wHu--zBXZhA As President Biden is about to make his maiden presidential voyage to the region, what can we realistically expect him to walk away with? What are the expectations in […]

The IRGC’s Expanding Presence in Latin America

What is the IRGC - which is supposed to be under international sanctions - doing on our doorstep in Latin America? Where is the Biden Administration in tackling this looming threat? Here to discuss this will be Emanuele Ottolenghi.

The Jerusalem Sbarro Bombing

  https://youtu.be/AduVvbRLGJw   Please consider sponsoring an EMET webinar featuring top experts offering critical insights impacting Israel and U.S. national security. Policymakers and the general public need to hear these […]

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad War Against Israel

https://youtu.be/nWYB5PZD7eA Editor, columnist and analyst Alex Traiman revealed how Israel’s skilled intelligence agencies were aware Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) was preparing fresh attacks on Israel, enabling Israel to strike preemptively. […]

Reviving a Dead Corpse: The Continuing Iran Negotiations

https://youtu.be/UvwLVjpQznE About the speaker: Shoshana Bryen is a leading specialist in U.S. defense policy and Middle East affairs. The former Executive Director and SeniorDirector for Security Policy at JINSA, Mrs. […]

Existential Challenges Facing Israel

https://youtu.be/TGwQ7RaTvxg An Iran with 60 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, who has denied inspection access to the International Atomic Energy Administration;  the rise and empowerment of an array of terrorist […]

Mind the Gap: The Divergence Between Israeli & American Jews

https://youtu.be/bu_TD6OymAI About the speaker: Jonathan S. Tobin is Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish News Syndicate — JNS.org — an international wire service covering the Jewish world and Israel. He’s also a senior […]

The Future of the Abraham Accords

https://youtu.be/Cm82lUl5Re4 This week, as we commemorated the second anniversary of the historic signing of the Abraham Accords on the White House Lawn, we will be examining the health and strength of […]

Why Foreign Policy Matters in the Midterms

https://youtu.be/NNqs4MwMiyw About the speaker: Morgan Ortega is the Founder of POLARIS National Security. She is an active U.S. Navy Reserve Officer and a business executive. During the Trump Administration, she […]

In the Path of the Abraham Accords

https://youtu.be/n1JwWnU9iXE About the speaker: Jason Greenblatt was appointed by President Trump in 2017 as an Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations. In his role, as the White […]

The Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Industry of Death

https://youtu.be/Q9O5jP7Oz44 About the speaker: Cynthia Farahat is an Egyptian-American author, columnist, political analyst, counterterrorism expert, and fellow at the Middle East Forum. She co-founded the Liberal Egyptian Party in Egypt, […]

The New Maritime Deal With Lebanon: Who Gains and Who Loses?

How successful were these negotiations for everyone involved, and will it actually help to bring peace and stability to the region, economic viability to the people of Lebanon, or simply strengthen Iranian-backed Hezbollah?

What is at Stake in Israel’s Nov. 1st Election

https://youtu.be/IaZ5Ob7SNcg On November 1st, Israelis will be heading back to the polls for the fifth time in four years. What are the major issues confronting them? Are the Israeli people […]

Making Sense of the Recent Israeli Election

https://youtu.be/Mh1bfE7fpqk On November 1st the citizens of Israel went to the polls and have spoken. They clearly elected a more right-wing government. Likud, together with other members of the right-wing […]

Is the Iranian Regime Finally Beginning to Crack?

https://youtu.be/olGe-tSN_H8 Iran has been confronted with the largest wave of mass protests since Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini first seized the reigns of power in 1979. These demonstrations followed the death […]

Speaking In Solidarity With the Brave Dissidents in Iran

  https://youtu.be/fpKkrfMibxg As we write these words, every single one of Iran’s 33 provinces and over 100 of the Islamic Republic’s cities has seen their streets roiling over in protests […]

The Incoming Israeli Government’s Policies and Challenges

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8APYHzzVX9I   As the new Israeli government begins its work, its challenges are as multiple as they are complex. Many critics outside of Israel have already threatened to cut […]

The Palestinian Authority: Guilty of Child Abuse

  https://youtu.be/MsIAQ1JP5qo Last weekend, a Palestinian child of merely 13 years of age, shot an Israeli father and son as they were eating in a Jerusalem restaurant. It is no […]

Israel’s Democracy is Just Fine

https://youtu.be/LcPS7LnBoeI In his recent column, historian Gil Troy wrote, “Caricaturing the Israeli government as worse than it is, and Israeli democracy as more fragile than it is, is a gift […]

Is it Too Late to Stop Iran from Getting the Bomb?

https://youtu.be/_-zsFNnvl00   Read Transcript Here Since this webinar had first been arranged the world had woken up, last Friday, to the surprise announcement that Beijing has brokered stronger ties between […]

The Multi-front War Against Israel

  https://youtu.be/m_kMFHMSa8Y   Read Transcript Here   On April 5th, the eve of Passover, Israel faced the most significant barrage of rocket attacks from Lebanon, 34, since the 2006 Lebanon […]

The Clash of Civilizations within Modern Israel

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 […]