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Political Islam in the News

UN adds dozens of companies to Israel blacklist

JNS · September 26, 2026

The database “was established solely to persecute the Jewish state, with no equivalent anywhere else in the world,” Jerusalem's mission to the world body in Geneva said.

The UN is still obsessed with Israel

JNS · September 25, 2026

CSPII Commentary: The UN’s fixation on Israel does not exist in a vacuum. It reflects and amplifies a much broader political and ideological obsession across the Islamic world. As CSPII explains in “The Islamic Obsession with Israel: Its Doctrinal Foundations and Strategic Functions” hostility toward Israel serves both doctrinal and strategic purposes—Political Islam created the local conflict in the first place and has since worked continuously to transform it into a permanent global cause.

Weaponized Charity

Middle East Forum · September 24, 2026

Islamist Nonprofit Electioneering in America