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Why New York Should Rethink Its Investments in Israel Bonds
New York State and City investments in so-called “Israel Bonds” are once again in the spotlight. Public officials, including candidates competing in the November election for State Comptroller, are debating
Can Democracy Survive Genocide and Dictatorship in the Middle East?
On May 29, DAWN Executive Director, Sarah Leah Whitson, gave a keynote address to the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) and Muslim Public Affairs Council’s (MPAC)
The Rise and Demise of America's Only Sanctions on Israel
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump terminated the first-ever U.S. sanctions program specifically designed to address Israeli abuses against Palestinians.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, if elected, are sure to produce vastly different outcomes on nearly every domestic issue in contention: women’s reproductive rights, taxation, public education, corporate regulation, the
The White House's Defense of Israel Is Undermining International Law
The United States’ U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield struck an aggressive blow against the rules-based international order at a Council on Foreign Relations talk last week. In response to my question
France's Shift on Western Sahara Comes With a Huge Cost
On July 31, with little fanfare or attention, France formally recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, abandoning its decades-long support for the United Nations-mandated referendum process to determine the territory’s
Perhaps we should be grateful that it took President Biden over four years to fully abandon his campaign pledge to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia, eroding the promise bit
A US Pivot Away from the Middle East: Fact or Fiction?
For the past several decades, one US administration after another has signaled big plans for a new foreign policy centered on a “pivot to Asia” made possible by a “withdrawal”
