Sarah Stern

Sarah Stern is the founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) an unabashedly pro-American and pro-Israel think and policy institute in Washington, D.C., founded in 2005. She has over four decades of experience working with policymakers on Capitol Hill as well as with members of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament.

Sarah has written for Newsweek, The New Republic, The Hill, The Jerusalem Post, JNS.org, Israel HaYom, The Times of Israel, The Algemeiner, The Washington Jewish Week, FrontPageMag.com and other outlets, and has appeared on Fox, NBC, and I24 News.

She is also the author of two books, Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011) and Cherished Illusions (Balfour Books, 2005). Read Sarah’s articles here and on our website.

Sarah has been involved with scores of legislative initiatives on Capitol Hill since the original Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act of 1995, The Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Act of 2003, The Koby Mandell Act of 2005, amendments to Title VI of the Higher Education Act in 2008 (having to do with the biases in our nation’s Middle Eastern Studies departments), the Taylor Force Act of 2017 and Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty Over the Golan Heights in 2019.

Today Sarah is focusing on the Iranian nuclear issue, the funding of UNIFIL, The Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025, S 556, which targets foreign entities that support Iran’s illicit export of petroleum and ensures that the Islamic Republic does not acquire nuclear weapons capability and the US-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025, S 554, which expands and deepens the defense partnership and cooperation between the United States and Israel, as well a the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which requires the Department of Education to utilize the International Holocaust Remembrance definition of antisemitism when enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

Prior to founding EMET in 2005, Sarah was the Director of Governmental and Legislative Affairs for the American Jewish Congress, after serving as National Policy Coordinator of the Zionist Organization of America.