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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

Teneo's Propaganda Campaign and Subpoena Evasion: Shielding Saudi Arabia From Accountability

November 13, 2024

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Making Sense of a U.S.-Saudi Security Pact

November 8, 2024

Advocacy

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

Teneo's Propaganda Campaign and Subpoena Evasion: Shielding Saudi Arabia From Accountability

November 13, 2024

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Making Sense of a U.S.-Saudi Security Pact

November 8, 2024

A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers

December 2, 2024

Democracy In Exile

Who's Afraid of Political Cartoons?

November 25, 2024

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Pro-Palestine demonstrators gather at Freedom Plaza for a rally on January 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Officials are predicting at least 10,000 people will attend to protest the retaliatory actions taken by the Israeli government following the October 7th terrorist attacks by Hamas. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

On Yahia Lababidi's 'Palestine Wail' and the Poetry of Free Expression

November 22, 2024

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A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers

December 2, 2024

TOPSHOT - A fireball erupts from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the area of Tayouneh in Beirut's southern suburbs on November 25, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel conducted strikes against Hezbollah's Beirut stronghold on November 25 and battles raged in Lebanon's south after the Iran-backed militant group claimed 50 attacks on Israeli targets the day before. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S.: Following Lebanon ceasefire, investigate Israeli use of U.S. weapons to commit war crimes in Lebanon

November 27, 2024

WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES - JUNE 08: Demonstrators, wearing red clothes, hold banners and chant slogans in front of the White House as some of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators, gathered in front of the White House and called on the Joe Biden administration to 'red line', set up many tents in the area between the White House and the Washington Monument in the evening in Washington D.C, United States on June 08, 2024. (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

After Election, DAWN Reaffirms Commitment to Reforming U.S. Foreign Policy and Holding Abusive Regimes Accountable

November 26, 2024

U.S.: Following Lebanon ceasefire, investigate Israeli use of U.S. weapons to commit war crimes in Lebanon

DAWNNovember 27, 2024

After Election, DAWN Reaffirms Commitment to Reforming U.S. Foreign Policy and Holding Abusive Regimes Accountable

DAWNNovember 26, 2024

DAWN Statement on ICC Arrest Warrants for Israeli Officials

DAWNNovember 21, 2024

Former Army Intelligence Officer Harrison Mann Joins DAWN as Military Affairs Fellow

DAWNNovember 21, 2024

DAWN Statement in Response to Designation of Amana Settlement Organization to U.S. Sanctions List

DAWNNovember 19, 2024

A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers

Robin Yassin-Kassab

December 2, 2024

Saudi journalist and democracy advocate Jamal Khashoggi founded DAWN in 2018.

Help DAWN protect the lives and rights of Palestinians in Gaza.

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USA

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 30: A construction vehicle remains parked inside the recently drained capitol reflecting pool on September 30, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Select Congressional committees will return to the Capitol to continue impeachment proceedings throughout the week as Congress remains on recess. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

U.S. Congress: Pass the Fighting Foreign Influence Act

(Washington D.C., May 1, 2024) – Members of Congress should co-sponsor the Fighting Foreign Influence Act introduced this week as...

Saudi Arabia

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

(Washington, D.C. - November 13, 2024) - U.S. consulting firm Teneo has contributed to, and benefited from, human rights abuses...

Egypt

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 16: U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) exits Manhattan federal court on July 16, 2024 in New York City. Menendez and his wife Nadine are accused of taking bribes of gold bars, a luxury car, and cash in exchange for using Menendez's position to help the government of Egypt and other corrupt acts according to an indictment from the Southern District of New York. The jury found Menendez guilty on all counts. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images)

DAWN Calls for Broader Investigation Following Senator Menendez's Conviction for Bribery by Egyptian Government

In response to the jury verdict conviction of Senator Menedez in New York federal court for various crimes, including accepting...

UAE

Democracy In Exile

Reflections on the End of a Pause, as the U.S. Lifts Ban on Air-to-Ground Munitions to Saudi Arabia

August 13, 2024

I can look back and know that the two days I bought in December 2020 through a small act of...

Israel-Palestine

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 26: The Treasury Building on August 26, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

US: Sanction Amana Settlement Organization and Its Leadership for Promoting Settler Violence, Seizing Private Palestinian Land

November 7, 2024

(Washington, D.C., November 7, 2024) — The U.S. Departments of State and Treasury should impose sanctions on the Israeli settlement...

Jordan

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks alongside King of Jordan Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein after a meeting at the White House on February 12, 2024 in Washington, DC. The King of Jordan is visiting the Nation's capital as part of his yearly visit amidst ongoing hostage negotiations between Hamas and Israel and after a strike killed three U.S. soldiers at a military base in northeast Jordan. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

U.S.: End Hazardous Military Presence in Jordan

October 24, 2024

(Washington D.C., October 24 , 2024): The United States government should establish a timetable for withdrawing all of its 3,813...

A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers

Robin Yassin-Kassab

December 2, 2024

Anybody who knew Syria knew that the regime was widely hated, that it had utterly destroyed the Syrian economy, and...

Democracy In Exile

Who's Afraid of Political Cartoons?

November 25, 2024

Cartoonists suffer no more especially than anyone else, but as the work of cartoonists across the Middle East shows, they...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Pro-Palestine demonstrators gather at Freedom Plaza for a rally on January 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Officials are predicting at least 10,000 people will attend to protest the retaliatory actions taken by the Israeli government following the October 7th terrorist attacks by Hamas. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

On Yahia Lababidi's 'Palestine Wail' and the Poetry of Free Expression

November 22, 2024

Without freedom of expression, there would be no poems, no language, no words—and no new worlds.

Democracy In Exile

Redefining a U.S. Path in Yemen

November 21, 2024

What Yemen really needs is a strategy beyond rival power plays—a call for genuine partnership in the pursuit of peace...

Democracy In Exile

What Trump's Return Means for the Middle East: A Democracy in Exile Roundtable

Frederick Deknatel

November 14, 2024

DAWN's non-resident fellows take stock of how Donald Trump's reelection will reverberate in the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Making Sense of a U.S.-Saudi Security Pact

November 8, 2024

Donald Trump's reelection has reignited Saudi hopes that a sweeping security deal could be had with a more transactional president.

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Michael Omer-man, Director of Research for Israel-Palestine at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), a Washington-based nonprofit, told TNA that the kitot konenut began as something akin to armed civilian neighbourhood watch groups. However, since October 7, they have developed formal roles through the state where they are often paid, assigned to their home areas and given military uniforms. Omer-man characterised this shift as one from "state-backed militias to state militias.

"While the UK has finally submitted to the law and given up its occupation of the Chagos Islands, Israel continues to occupy Palestinian territories, despite the clear orders of the court to evacuate and remove its settlers and forces from them."

"The new policy of oversight on U.S. military assistance, crafted in collaboration with Democratic senators led by Chris Van Hollen (Md.), "Authorizing billions of dollars in new arms transfers effectively provides Israel a carte blanche to continue its atrocities in Gaza and to escalate the conflict to Lebanon,."

"Rather than asking for additional military aid to Israel, the Biden administration should immediately suspend all arms transfers to Israel and any other rogue government that has used US weapons to commit genocide and attack embassies of neighboring countries."

"What [is the Biden administration] going to do when Netanyahu does not listen to them and goes ahead with the attack on Rafah? … Are they going to continue the same failed policy, or are they going to switch to the only option that they should have considered all along, which is not aligning themselves with a genocidal maniac?"

"It's Time to Scrap the Abraham Accords" (Op-Ed)

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

DAWN Calls for Broader Investigation Following Senator Menendez's Conviction for Bribery by Egyptian Government

Democracy In Exile

Reflections on the End of a Pause, as the U.S. Lifts Ban on Air-to-Ground Munitions to Saudi Arabia

August 13, 2024

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