Gaza is the one thing Kamala Harris and Donald Trump agree on
By James M. Dorsey US presidential candidates Kamal Harris and Donald J. Trump are at each other’s throats, but there is one thing they agree on: The Gaza war must…
The battle for Muslim education
By James M. Dorsey Lost in the Middle Eastern fog of war is a struggle that is as much about geopolitics as it is about shaping future generations in a…
UK’s election: the Gaza vote
In spite of Labour’s landslide success in the recent UK general election, analysis of the results reveals two surprising facts. First, despite appearances, there was no surge of popular support…
Saudi-UAE notions of Islam are at the core of Israeli thinking on post-war Gaza
By James M. Dorsey Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government is mulling a proposal for the post-war administration of Gaza that would put the battle to define moderate Islam in…
Gulf Investment in European Soccer Becomes a Hot Potato
By James M. Dorsey Gulf investment in European soccer threatens to become a hot potato. That is if the European Union’s competition authorities decide to investigate assertions by Spain’s top…
Will Labour pursue Britain’s ICC challenge?
It was on May 20, 2024 that Karim Khan KC, a British jurist and chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), applied to the…
Israel’s self-declared Gaza safe zones are Catch-22 death traps
I By James M. Dorsey Israel’s self-declared safe zones trap the Jewish state in the contradictions of its nine-month-long failed campaign to destroy Hamas. It’s one and one is two…
Ignoring ingrained anti-Semitism, Israel backs global far-right
By James M. Dorsey This year, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli hit the road. Not to shore up Diaspora Jewish support for Israel’s war on Gaza or reassure Jews…
Geopolitical Contest over ‘Moderate Islam’
The past few decades—since 9/11 in particular—have seen the increasing prominence of ‘moderate Islam’ in the public sphere. But who gets to define what this term means? How are these…
Tracing the roots of Israel’s Gaza war strategy
By James M. Dorsey The images of Israel’s reduction of Gaza to a pile of rubble and destructive West Bank raids speak as much about the Strip’s devastation and Israeli…