During his remarks at the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “Dear friends, what a glorious day. Remember this moment. This is history. President Trump, by recognizing history, you have made history. All of us are deeply moved, all of us are deeply grateful.” By recognizing […]
Historian Pietrusza on Spencer’s History of Jihad: “Essential account of a millennium-old war on human freedom”
Bestselling author David Pietrusza has been called a “scholar, author, editor, and renaissance man” and “a 21st century Theodore White,” and “one of the most accomplished historians in the U.S.” He has written or edited over three dozen books, including the superb Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the […]
The lesson of Korea is not applied often enough
The world is in the midst of momentous change, brought about largely because of Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the conventional foreign policy wisdom that appeasement and accommodation of sinister forces such as North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran is the path to peace, when actually appeasement only increases the aggression and bellicosity […]
The Armenian and Greek Genocides: What the Turkish government is covering up
Recently three organizations, Human Rights Association (İHD) İstanbul Branch, Commission Against Racism and Discrimination, and the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement (EGAM) planned to hold a commemoration in Istanbul, honoring the victims of the Armenian Genocide of April 1915. The Turkish government, however, first demanded that the word “genocide” be removed from the statement that was […]
Video: Robert Spencer on The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS
Yesterday I appeared on Off the Cuff with John Cardillo on Rebel Media, discussing my upcoming book, which is the first and only comprehensive history of jihad activity worldwide, from Spain to India and Israel and Africa, in the English language. Preorder The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS here.
“Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance,” said Barack Obama. Let’s test his theory.
In his famous outreach speech to the Islamic world from Cairo on June 4, 2009, Barack Obama said: Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly […]
Is the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar really just an example of “Buddhist terror”?
Last year, the international media focused in horror upon the South Asian country of Myanmar (formerly Burma), which was, according to press reports, destroying the homes, exiling, and often massacring the nation’s Muslim community, known as the Rohingyas. According to news reports, this was entirely the fault of Buddhist leaders in Myanmar who were stirring […]
Why the Israeli/Palestinian conflict will never be solved by negotiations
The United Nations 1948 two-state solution, Camp David, Oslo, the Road Map to Peace, the withdrawal from Gaza, the West Bank settlement freeze and more — attempt after attempt to bring peace to Israel and the Palestinian Arab Muslims has ended in failure. Yet that doesn’t stop Washington policymakers and the international media from attempting […]
Robert Spencer video: EU top dog says Islam will always be part of Europe – or else
In this new video, discusses European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans’ statement, “The Commission is strongly committed to promoting diversity in Europe. Islam is part of our history, Islam is part of our present and Islam will be part of our future.” Preorder The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS here.
US response to 1979 Iran hostage crisis was hampered by an “American inability to understand” Khomeini
One of the biggest ongoing problems of U.S. foreign policy is a failure to understand what we’re really up against. This problem goes back decades. In Theodore H. White’s America In Search of Itself, there is this telling passage about the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979: Of the negotiating effort, the most biting summary was […]